This is the well known photo of the red hotel building, one of the unfortunate victims of Typhoon Morokat in Taiwan :( What actually happened?What happened was, the raging waters from the flood caused by the typhoon kept smashing against the shore, making the soil soft, soggy, and unstable; all in very bad conditions for the hotel's foundations. Every wave crashing on the foundation weakened it, and eventually... that's what Morakat did to Taiwan's enviroment.
And you can guess that surely effected with the poor people trapped inside, but luckily, most people escaped, phew! The enviroment can really intefere with people, for example, if you lived right on the equater, you wouldn't have to worry about typhoons, that's why it's ok in Indonesia to have lots of sheds, and houses with foundations that might not be so strong, but if you lived north or south of the equater, those houses would be torn up, or swept away by those dreadful typhoons!
Xinyi, you chose a dramatic graphic, then addressed the problems quite well. The two learning standards we worked toward are not easy to see and you described them quite well. Keep up the good work-you are going to be a fine social studies student this year. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks! Ya, it wasn't easy writing about them, but social studies was always one of my favorite subjects in scool, I look forward to our next project :)
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