Category: disasters

Holyoke Range mountains in distance past Memorial Field

What We Talk About When We Talk About “Disasters”

An Analysis of the Use of “Disaster” Corpus in The Amherst Student, 1880-90 vs 1980-90 “It’s such a disaster!” We hear phrases like this every day. Depending on the contexts, we interpret what “disasters” might refer to, possibly from as trivial a poor exam performance to as significant a world war. Not unexpectedly, writers and…