Frank Slide is still one of Canada’s deadliest landslide to date. It occurred on April 29, 1903, at 4:10 a.m. The town of Frank, which was situated at the base of the mountain was demolished by the landslide in about 100 seconds. Seventy to ninety people were killed in this massive landslide, and most of the bodies were not able to be recovered as they were under 82 million tons of rock. The formation of Turtle Mountain was the main cause of the landslide. It was formed with the weaker rock base on the bottom, and the stronger rock base forming on top, causing an unstable form of the mountain. Massive fissures and cracks were formed as the mountain was formed. Which only grew bigger as water and ice eroded the limestone, increasing the size of the fissure making the mountain more unstable. Records from 5,000 to 1,500 years ago written by the indigenous people living in the area, shows massive fissures along the summit ridge on …show more content…
The town of Frank was a mining town, they mined in the mountain. Mining was the main reason for the town of Frank to thrive, as they were mining for coal, which was in major demand. Many of the miners reported several months prior to the landslide, that the mountain was shifting. Many cracks were formed along the top of their mining tunnel, and much of the coal fell as if it “mined itself”. The reports of these events were ignored as many of the people, did not know it was a major signal for a landslide. On April 28, 1903, the temperature plummeted to -18 degrees Celsius, freezing the already melting snow in the fissures, in which started the deadliest landslide in Canadian history. The miners that were on the night shift were miraculously safer than those outside of the mountain. As the rock plummeted onto the town below, the entrance to the mine was blocked. They mined for 13 hours out of the rock, and as they emerged from the rubble, they only saw the remains on there once known
Serpico (1973) is a movie that reveals the true story of Frank Serpico who was the only honest cop in the New York police sector at his time. The film shows the realistic view of the corruption that was evidenced in the New York police and highlights the character of Frank as being honest and courageous. Although he started as an inexperienced cop, he later worked as an undercover officer and was determined to bust all the criminal activities especially the drug dealers and pushers. Unlike the other cops, Serpico refused to take any bribes from the wrongdoers. More so, he felt that the other officers were doing wrong by accepting bribes and wanted to expose the situation. The other officers were so corrupt that they collected more money through bribes than the salary they earned, a situation that did not please Serpico. His strong stand concerning corruption made his friends turn against him, placing his life in danger. The anti-corruption efforts of Serpico jeopardized his life at the hands of his colleagues. He was later transferred to the Narcotics Squad where he was shot by a drug dealer after his partners betrayed him by failing to support him. The cop was then rushed to hospital. The shooting made Frank deaf since it affected the brain, rendering
Stone Mountain is an igneous intrusion often referred to as a geological pluton. The granite pluton is part of the Piedmont Plateau region of the Appalachian Mountains and was formed along the same geological fault line that created the Blue Ridge Mountains but is not part of the Blue Ridge chain. Northern and Eastern Georgia have relatively frequent seismic activity with ten quakes recorded in 2013. These quakes occurred at an average depth of 9.6 km which make them less obvious and cause less property damage. This same seismic activity created Stone Mountain 300 million years ago during the last stages of the Alleghenian Orogeny when massive tectonic plate shifting allowed a large mass of magma from beneath the earth’s crust to well up . Flow structure markings on the mountain show the stone was formed underground after several eruption pulses failed to break through and then cooled to form, ultimately creating granite mass that rises 825 feet above ground, extends 9 miles underground and has a circumference of 5 miles at its base, making it the largest exposed dome in the world . Rising 1683 feet above sea level the summit of the dome is bare stone with rock pools and an unobstructed view that extends to Kennesaw Mountain, Amicacola Falls and Mt. Yonah state parks, including a breathtaking view of the Atlanta Skyline.
Allende lays heavy fault upon the government for not taking appropriate action, saying “geologists had set up their seismographs weeks before and knew that the mountain had awakened again”. She proceeds to say that the geologists knew the ice could be detached from the slopes, but no one would heed their warning. The f...
“How awful it is for that person which suffers this great wrath and infinite misery!”(Edwards 89-90). This is the best example of Edwards doing what he does best in his sermons; using literary devices to scare people. Why would anyone do this? Well, he uses fear for persuasion. How he does this is carefully and delicately layered in his words. Edwards uses loaded language, vivid imagery, and specific types of sentences in order to scare his audience into becoming better Puritans.
covers the area, causing people, animals, and structures to practically disintegrate. Even years afterwards people were still dying and having
In “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, the narrator attempts to understand the relationship between humans and nature and finds herself concluding that they are intertwined due to humans’ underlying need to take away from nature, whether through the act of poetic imagination or through the exploitation and contamination of nature. Bishop’s view of nature changes from one where it is an unknown, mysterious, and fearful presence that is antagonistic, to one that characterizes nature as being resilient when faced against harm and often victimized by people. Mary Oliver’s poem also titled “The Fish” offers a response to Bishop’s idea that people are harming nature, by providing another reason as to why people are harming nature, which is due to how people are unable to view nature as something that exists and goes beyond the purpose of serving human needs and offers a different interpretation of the relationship between man and nature. Oliver believes that nature serves as subsidence for humans, both physically and spiritually. Unlike Bishop who finds peace through understanding her role in nature’s plight and acceptance at the merging between the natural and human worlds, Oliver finds that through the literal act of consuming nature can she obtain a form of empowerment that allows her to become one with nature.
Ten million California residents who lived closely from the major fault lines could have been endangered in many extreme ways. (House, 56). A tragic thing was that after the earthquake a multitudes of fire followed right after. The situation led to the water mains being destroyed and the firefighter being left with no water to settle the growing fire which continued blazing. The bay water was planned on putting all of the dure out but it was to far in distance to be able to transport it (Earthquake of 1906, 2). The firefighters who were putting out the fire were either surrounded or being burned by the fire that was blazing in all directions (San Francisco Earthquake, 2). A resident who was present during the event mention that he/she saw men and women standing in a corner of a building praying, one person who became delirious by the horrific ways that were surrounding him while crying and screaming at the top of his lungs “the Lord sent it, the Lord”. Someone also mentioned that they experience themselves seeing Stones fall from the sky and crushing people to death. Reporters say there were 100 cannons going off (San Francisco Earthquake, 3). People who lived fifty miles away from the fire was able to “read the newspaper at
The glacier had many areas where there were crevasses. In fact, Simpson was the one who actually fell into one. Crevasse is a deep open crack in the thick ice on a mountain, which are caused by stress by the glacier flow, they maybe in a few feet long or sometimes miles long. According to Simpson, he felt that he fell about 150 feet into the crevasse. When Simpson fell into the crevasse, there it was like a deep hole that had no way out, except for the hole that he made when he fell into it. But when he
The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.
The last eruption of this massive volcano occurred more than 115 years ago in 1884. The eruptions of Mount Rainier produce lahar mudflows which are similar to pyroclastic flows except they contain more water. These mudflows carry debris of volcanic ash and boulders that produce lava flows and have the consistency of concrete flowing down a mountain (C.M. Riley. Lahars can flow up to 100 kilometers per hour and can extend to more than 300 kilometers in distance. Because they are hard to predict, give off little warning signs, and move so rapidly through valleys, lahar slides are considered to be one of the most deadly volcanic hazards.
Hard times were among everyone involved in the holocaust in Nineteen Thirty-Three. The cruel actions of Hitler ruined too many lives and tore a great amount of families apart. Frank Foley was a hero to say the least and everyone agreed. Along with many other heroes from the past, he muffled the cries of so many innocent people.
Later after the sea finally retreated occurred volcanic activity. Mountains rose through laccoliths, which also resemble volcanoes. These laccoliths differ in that they do not erupt. They shifted layers of rock upward in the shape of a dome. This specific piece of geologic morphology occurred at the end of the Cretaceous time. This marked the beginning of the Laramide Orogeny, which was a well-known period of mountain formation in western North America.
January 12, 1888, a blizzard covered the northwest part of North America that claimed many lives. This blizzard was considered to be the worst blizzard of all time, and was dubbed the “the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard”, for claiming the lives of so many school children on their way home. The death toll of this murderous blizzard rose, because of lack of preparation and being uninformed. During this time, many farmers and families were unprepared to survive a blizzard of this magnitude, by the lack of clothing they wore. Forecasters were not as accurate enough to inform people on the weather conditions. Also, shelter was a major factor in protecting themselves from the winter storms, but the shelter was not stable
“At 12:42 p.m. the air was perfectly calm for about one minute; the next minute the sky was completely overcast by heavy black clouds which, for a few minutes previous, had hung along the western and northwestern horizon, and the wind veered to the west and blew with such violence as to render the position of the observer on the roof unsafe. The air was immediately filled with snow as fine as sifted flour” (Potter). No one expected the blizzard that would soon come rolling over to create some of the unfortunate deaths. Now, the questions are what exactly happened during the storm, how are snowstorms created, and what damages it caused.
H.P. Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness contains elements of both horror and science fiction but not enough that it should exclusively be considered either. Instead, Lovecraft omits certain elements of both genres while incorporating other elements to create something uniquely Lovecraftian. This discussion will briefly outline horror and science fiction as literary genres before exploring At the Mountains of Madness as a possible work of both. The exploration will address arguments for and against classifying the novella into each genre before concluding with the suggestion that it is neither exclusively, rather something unique. It is important to acknowledge that genres often overlap and it is rare to find a work that is entirely