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…. Due to the fear of computer related failure of Y2K issues and earthquakes in foreign manufacturing countries that destroyed numerous of quantities of highly demanded hardware, the Dell Company was forced to lay off between 1000 – 2000 employees…

…dirt and layers of rocks the stone trees are exposed. The trees are now broken sections of logs because they are so brittle. The breaking up of the logs occurred in nature perhaps by earthquakes or the actual uplifting (Trees to Stone, p.3). This natural…

…in catastrophic earthquakes.…

…. Barton remained Red Cross president until 1904. During her tenure, she headed up relief work for disasters such as famines, floods, pestilence, and earthquakes in the United States and throughout the world. The last operation she personally directed was relief…

…failed. The Ampitheater has been partially ruined from earthquakes and a fire. The Colosseum is now used once a year by the Pope on Good Friday that honors all the hundreds of people that died with in its walls.…

…. Plate tectonics is the study of the folding and faulting of the earth's crust. When the earth’s plates move, they can create earthquakes or leave depressions in the earth that fill with sea water. The Pleistocene - The Age of Glaciers The Pleistocene Period…

…that the earth's solid crust is broken up into about a dozen semirigid plates. The boundaries of these plates are zones of tectonic activity, where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions tend to occur. Plate Tectonics also are the cause of major features that exist…

…at a slow rate, the crystals grow bigger than if they were exposed to the surface of the earth. As an earthquake disturbs the crust, the molten mass moves up to the surface. The crystals are then able to get caught up with fine-grained lava rock…

…with an earthquake many of its structures would fall into the Charles River or the harbor. In 1742, Faneuil hall was constructed on the soft sediment fill. Peter Faneuil, a wealthy Bostonian, donated the city’s first market place. Faneuil hall is one of the most…

…decisions. After the ten years were up, a new treaty was made in which China agreed to exclusion of Chinese laborers for ten years. In 1906, earthquake fires detroyed all family records, and the Chinese found a chance to use false names…