Final Essay
JULY 11 2014
2009311346 Oh SeungJin
There were many anymals on earth we
couldn't see anymore such as dinosaurs. Do you know why they were all extinct?
Among many reasons that they were died out, the most definite thing is natural
disaster.
Since I was young, I wondered why they did
not exist on reading dinosaur books. And I was shocked that the earth's collision
with a comet forced dinosaurs into extinction. After I knew the truth, I had a
certain fear of potential natural disaster. That’s why I chose these three
articles about natural disasters in the world to alert people to the dangers of
them. First article is "6.4 earthquake strikes Tonga", by
JungSangHoon. Second one is "Neoguri a Dangerous Typhoon With Japan a
Likely Target", by ChaSeungHun. The last one is "Solomon Islands
flood victims demand land", by Yu Hyuk.
The first article "6.4 earthquake
strikes Tonga" is in JungSangHoon's blog. I chose this article because the
number of earthquakes in the world has slightly increased as time goes by.
According to the article, a strong 6.4-magnitude quake struck off the Pacific
nation of Tonga in 30th June 2014, but no tsunami warning was issued. It also
said that Tonga sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a region of
frequent seismic activity due to collisions between continental plates.
JungSangHoon said the most dangerous and scary thing for human is natural
disaster. He also said that the Tonga government should react appropriately so
that the damage could be minimized. I agrree with his opinion because I know
the scary of earthquake based on my experience. I almost came close to lose my
friend who were in Tohoku because of Japan's deadly earthquake 2 years ago. By
that experience, I reallized that the earthquake do not far from me and the
preparation of it should be needed.
The second one is "Neoguri a Dangerous
Typhoon With Japan a Likely Target" from ChaSeungHun's blog. I chose this
article about Typhoon because the typhoon is the most familiar disaster in
Korea. According to the article, Typhoon Neoguri generated July 4 was going
north and more and more grew strong until last week. It also said Neoguri
approached to Japan and if it had delayed to go east, it affected to South
Korea with heavy rain and large waves. ChaSeungHun said the rainy season in
Korea began and typhoon would come. I agree with his opinion that the season of
typhoon has begun. Although we had known that 1~2 typhoon would come to Korea
every year, there had been much serius damages in not only crop but also loss
of lives. Therefore, we should prepare throughly to minimize the damage by
typhoon.
The last one is "Solomon Islands flood
victims demand land" from Yu Hyuk's blog. I chose this article about flood
victims because this article shows it is important to not only prepare for
misfortune but also restore after misfortune. Acoording to this article, more than
one thousand people lived in the centres after flash floods which killed at
least 21 people, and left thousands homeless from April which flasth had
occured to June. In the article, although the government closed by the end of
the June, Solomon Islands flood victims had said they won't leave evacuation
centres until the government came thorugh with its promise to resettle them.
YuHyuk said that the government must to keep the centres because victims have
no other refuge. I agree with his opinion because the first thing we should do
is compensation for victims and restoration if natural disaster happened. If
the compensation for victims and recovery of damage did not work thoroughly, we
would suffer same damages from it.
Those three articles are all related to
natural disaster. By looking all these articles, I realized that the numbers
and damages of natural disasters are increasing and why preparation and restoration are
important.
Earthquake occurence in first article,
Typhoon called Neoguri in second article, flood victims in third article.
Those are also warning that human could be
another victims of extinction like the movie "Tommorow". Therefore
the preparation for natural disaster should be thoroughly done to avoid loss of
lives.
- Sources
1a . JungSangHoon, "6.4 earthquake strikes Tonga", JungSangHon, 02.07.2014, Web 11.07.2014
1b. "6.4 earthquake strikes Tonga", TheNewZealandHerald, 30.06. 2014, Web 11.07.2014
2.a. ChaSeungHun, "Neoguri a Dangerous Typhoon With Japan a Likely Target", Hooon's Blog, 05.07.2014, Web 11.07.2014
2.b EricLeister, "Neoguri a Dangerous Typhoon With Japan a Likely Target", AccuWeather, AccuWeather.com, 05.07. 2014 , Web 11.07.2014
3.a YuHyuk, "Solomon Islands flood victims demand land", YuHyuk, 27.06.2014, Web 11.07.2014
3.b Brian Abbott, "Solomon Islands flood victims demand land", ABC Radio Austrailia, 17.06.2014, Web 11.07.2014
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