Explain in advance that this history course looks at responses to disasters in American History with an emphasis on research and writing over the semester but exam various disasters from various perspectives. First of all psychological and psychological problems. Disaster sermons in responses to fires, hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the donald party, and routes it in california. Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism, at the johns down flood of 1889 the impact of the triangle shirt waste factory fire in new york city and disaster that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing david osha skins book book polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted. And im really interested in this topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and, of course, thats when so much of this book takes place and i think just looking at polio really reveals so
And getting there isnt even that expensive. At least not compared with the early days of manned space flight masters Apollo Missions of the 960. 00 s. Cost nearly 330000000. 00 euros a shot a space x. Round trip cost, a mere 43000000. 00. The economic boom in space is our topic today. Here on made the business magazine on t. W. Now long before space was recognized as a higher dimension for investors. People saw the universe as a mysterious and often menacing realm. It was the origin of asteroids that frequently blaze across the sky and sometimes even 4 to earth causing huge destruction. Now we know that these celesio chunks of rock are incredibly rich in valuable resources that are difficult to mine here on our planet. Forward thinking, entrepreneurs are looking beyond earth because a lot of it out there. Heres chris color on Mining Metals in space. That on the 15th of april 2013, an asteroid entered earths atmosphere over russia. It created a fireball brighter than the sun hankie and
Soon apply for emergency use operation from the fda. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Its beautiful out here this time of year. In the past nine months, my administration has initiated the single greatest mobilization in u. S. History pioneering, developing, and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in record time. Numbers like nobody has seen before. No medical breakthrough of this scope and magnitude has ever been achieved this rapidly, this quickly. And we are very proud of it, and i had tremendous help from the military generals, admirals, and many of the great people at the white house. Operation warp speed is unequaled and unrivaled anywhere in the world, and leaders of other countries have called me to congratulate us on what we have been able to do, and we have helped many countries with their ventilators and all of the problems they were having. And i would like to congratulate everyone involved in this effort. It has been an incredible effort. As a result of operati
Available then the ioc would take these costs and cooperate with the National Olympic committees. The ioc would make every effort to have participants vaccinated even as people prioritize people who are most vulnerable. But competitions including an International Gymnastics meet show large scale events can be held safely even without a vaccine. Earlier in the day,back met the Prime Minister to agree on the symbolic power of the games. We again will make this Olympic Games a great symbol of solidarity and unity of humanity in this world, which by then will hopefully be a postcoronavirus world. Translator were determined to host the games as proof that humankind has defeated the coronavirus pandemic. We also want to show the world that regions affected by the great east japan earthquake are recovering. The ioc president said organizeers are discussing ways to protect both athletes and spectators. Japanese officials are on high alert over a rise in group infections. 130 coronavirus cluste
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