Essays on Disaster

James Mead once said, “In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils – mass unemployment and the threat of war”. The 1930s was a very devastating time for people. Many events caused pain and aggravation. There was mass unemployment and the constant threat...

Americans were fleeing economically demolished areas such as the Dust Bowl but as the saying goes, “ You can run but you can’t hide.” This goes for both individuals and businesses such as banks. The Great Depression impacted everyone. Banks were hit hard immediately after...

In his work, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930’s, Donald Worster primarily argues that capitalism is the cause of the environmental and economic disaster that was the Dust Bowl. Worster starts in his introduction discussing three ways in which capitalism was responsible for...

The Great Depression was an economic breakdown in the history of the United States during the years of 1929 to 1939. When the Dust Bowl occurred it was not much help to people with jobs in the Middle East. Their only option was to become...

A dam is a massive barrier built across rivers and streams to confine and utilize the flow of water. Dams are often used as a source for hydroelectricity generation and also for irrigation where it stop a river’s natural course so that water could be...

Donald Worster’s impeccable work, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, provides a detailed analysis of the American peoples’ attitude towards the environmental catastrophe during the thirties. The Dust Bowl is a well-researched disastrous combination of man and environmental dealings. “Black blizzards” of the...

Humans have been to blame for several unfortunate disasters which have occurred throughout our history – Chernobyl, oil spills into the ocean, and the Bhopal gas leak in India, to name a few. One such human disaster which lasted for almost a decade was an...

The Dust Bowl ravaged the southern and middle states of America during the 1930s. This event created so much strife in the United States and continues to impact society today. The Dust Bowl was known for the enormous dust clouds in the sky that lasted...

In the American Prairies, the Dust Bowl was a time with severe dust storms in the 1930s. The Dust Bowl was not only a natural disaster, as it impacted large regions of the United States, and it’s environment and culture by displacing multiple people. Nonetheless,...

Natural hazard refers to catastrophic events or phenomenon of atmospheric, geological, and hydrological origins that can cause fatalities, property damage, social environmental disruption and can indirectly cause social grievances and resource scarcities (Jiuping Xu, 2016). These includes earth quake, tornadoes, Volcanic eruption, tsunamis, floods, typhoons...