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Disaster is defined in very similar ways in both the book American Disasters and the article Disaster: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis by describing them as events that are out the ordinary and indescribable. Something interesting that I can cross in the book was a mention of a plane disaster that was not covered by the media. This event was particularly interesting to me because of the reactions of the victims. These victims did not want the media in their faces but they also wanted them there to cover the disaster. When no media outlet showed up their reaction was an outrage because they wanted to be acknowledged for their sufferings. For example, one passage in the book mentioned “Later, the victims of “airborne toxic event” demand the media’s validation of their suffering and terror” (Biel 3). This explained how a disaster in modern times was really validated when media did a coverage on the event if not then it was not a real disaster and did not really happen. It also helped demonstrate what events were chosen to be public and which were not worthy to be covered. Another interesting point that I can came across in both the book and the article was the mention of these disaster were in fact catastrophic but also mentioned how these disasters affected the people differently. Also from these disaster grew a language in which was used to describe them properly and to also describe the effects that they had on the community. Disasters can be very hard to explain in its nature but its a very important to our history because it helps describe how our “communities” have changed ad survived those events.