storming

Examples of storming in the following topics:

• The Storming of the Bastille

• Stages of Team Development

  • The Forming–Storming–Norming–Performing model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965.
  • Bruce Tuckman identified four distinct phases of team development: forming, storming, norming, and performing.
  • During the storming stage members begin to share ideas about what to do and how to do it that compete for consideration.
  • Because storming can be contentious, members who are averse to conflict will find it unpleasant or even painful.
  • In some cases storming (i.e., disagreements) can be resolved quickly.

• Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender

  • Many of the televised images showed poor, African Americans, many who were women and their children, abandoned in the storm, without resources for several days and without basic necessities of food and water.
  • Though the storm displaced hundreds of people from all backgrounds, classes, colors and gender ‘equally,' all were not affected the same.

• Dust Bowl Migrants

  • The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American prairie lands in the 1930s.
  • The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.
  • These immense dust storms—given names such as "black blizzards" and "black rollers"—often reduced visibility to a few feet.
  • Over 350 houses had to be torn down after one storm alone.
  • In the 1930's, severe drought and dust storms caused agricultural and ecological damage, exacerbating the economic plight of farmers during the Great Depression.

• Hurricane Katrina

  • The hurricane caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge.
  • The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana.
  • On August 26, the state of Mississippi activated its National Guard in preparation for the storm's landfall.
  • By August 29, Katrina's storm surge caused 53 different levee breaches in greater New Orleans, submerging 8% of the city.
  • The effects of the storm were far-reaching.

• Anecdotal evidence

  • In February 2010, some media pundits cited one large snow storm as valid evidence against global warming.
  • As comedian Jon Stewart pointed out, "It's one storm, in one region, of one country

• Brainstorming

  • Think of a brainstorming session in terms of what happens during a real storm .
  • Good storms have lots of rain, and a good brainstorming session should generate lots of ideas.

• Satisfaction

  • Storms, earthquakes, erupting volcanoes, etc., can affect a person's attainments.

• The Human Toll

  • The dust storms caused major ecological and agricultural damage to American prairie lands, particularly in 1934 and 1936.
  • In 1934, an estimated 75% of the United States felt some effect from the storms, including New England, where red snow fell.
  • These immense dust storms – given names such as "black blizzards" and "black rollers" – often reduced visibility to a few feet.
  • Over 350 houses had to be torn down after one storm alone and more than 500,000 Americans were left homeless.
  • The sustained drought and storms damaged the land so badly that overall farm revenue fell by 50 percent in the Dust Bowl region.

• Romanticism

  • Romanticism was also inspired by the German Sturm und Drang movement (Storm and Stress), which prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism.
  • Sturm und Drang in the visual arts can be witnessed in paintings of storms and shipwrecks showing the terror and irrational destruction wrought by nature .