Here is a selected list of works consulted and utilized throughout the included essays.
BEDTIME STORY
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DEATH BY REFRIGERATOR
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DISPATCHES FROM THE DROWNINGS
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Trelawny, Edward. Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858.
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EPISTLE TO AN EMBRYO
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FIFTY WAYS OF LOOKING AT TORNADOES
Bernard-Donals, Michael. “The Rhetoric of Disaster and the Imperative of Writing.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 31, no. 1 (2001): 73–94.
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Cobb, Mark, and Katherine Lee. “Shelters, Clinics Take In Displaced Pets.” Tuscaloosa News, May 1, 2011, 11A.
Condra, G. E., and G. A. Loveland. “The Iowa-Nebraska Tornadoes of Easter Sunday, 1913.” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 46, no. 2 (1914): 100–107.
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Leighly, John. “An Early Drawing and Description of a Tornado.” Isis 65, no. 4 (1974): 474–486.
Lemons, Hoyt. “Physical Characteristics of Disasters: Historical and Statistical Review.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 309 (1957): 1–14.
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FORT WAYNE IS STILL SEVENTH ON HITLER’S LIST
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THE GIRL IN THE SURF
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HIROFUKUSKIMA
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A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
Morton, Jason. “West Ala. Suffers Death, Destruction.” Tuscaloosa News. April 28, 2011.
Taylor, Stephanie. “Tornado Devastates Tuscaloosa.” Tuscaloosa News, April 27, 2011.
Tuscaloosa News. “The Aftermath: Staff Accounts of the Tornado.” April 27, 2011.
——. “Survivors Crawl from the Rubble.” April 28, 2011.
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