The Hot Zone Reading Guide PART ONE: THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON Something in the forest: 1. Describe three ways the Kinshasa Highways quickened the spread of the HIV virus. a. Drivers were the carriers of this disease and spread it when they traveled from town to town b. Prostitues and truck stops c. Drivers often enter different towns 2. In what ways can a deadly virus be spread to humanity? AIrborne‚ in water‚ direct contact‚ through blood. Jumper: 3. Monet has "crashed" and
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Choosing a College Major Based on Your Personality What does the research say? Information and advice for students and adults returning to school‚ as well as parents‚ counselors‚ faculty advisors‚ and education policymakers. Lawrence K. Jones‚ Ph.D.‚ NCC © 2010 - 2013 by Career Key‚ Inc. www.careerkey.org Copyright holder is licensing this under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. You are free to copy‚ share‚ post on your blog‚ or email for non-commercial
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Kyle Duncan 12-7-11 Book Report (Deep Zone) 3rd Block Plot Summary The characters are Thane‚ Ty‚ Troy‚ Tate‚ and Agent Sutherland. Ty is this story’s main character. Thane is his older brother and an NFL star. Ty meets Troy and Tate in Miami at the football tournament. Agent Sutherland is an FBI agent protecting Ty from the mob while Thane is away. The setting is in Miami and in the swamp. At the beginning of the story‚ they are at a football game‚ when Thane is going up for a touchdown
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Biography (Life‚ Major Contribution and Legacy) of CLR James James was born on January 4‚ 1901 in Port of Spain‚ the largest city in colonial Trinidad. He spent most of his youth in the village of Tunapuna‚ eight miles outside the city. His father was a school teacher‚ a significant position in the colonial Caribbean‚ and his mother had been educated in a Weslyan convent. The status and education of his parents marked James as somewhat privileged in relation to the other residents of Tunapuna. As
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Three events that were the most responsible for changing life in colonial America will be listed below. One even was the economies. In the northern colonies‚ they based their economy on trading‚ shipbuilding‚ fishing‚ and very little on this‚ but they also sort of used farming as an economic resource. In the middle colonies‚ they based their economy on farming;(not a lot‚ but more than the northern colonies)‚ trading‚ and their industries. In the southern colonies‚ they based their economy mainly
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people don’t realize that the oceans are becoming more damaged? People don’t realize that the ocean is suffering from‚ pollution‚ overfishing‚ plastic‚ garbage‚ etc. Not a lot of people notice this is happening to the oceans. This is why we need to stand up and stop some of these things from damaging the earth’s oceans. The ocean is a place people enjoy traveling to every year‚ but most people don’t realize that the ocean and it’s wild-life is struggling. The ocean can no longer take the damage
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In the book “Major in Success”‚ author Patrick Combs illustrates through examples and motivates the reader to pursue his/her dreams. He aims to provide the morale support required to ooze the potential out of the reader. In fulfilling this task‚ he mentions the insignificance of a student’s grades and his choice of a major. Grades define the commencement of one’s career and not being able to maximize your GPA would mean loss of opportunity in terms of time. As far as a major is concerned‚ a student
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The Hot Zone: Assignment 1 What exactly is Ebola? A question I asked myself before beginning my assignment. Ebola is a virus disease that is caused by infection with certain virus species. This virus causes various symptoms such as high fevers‚ headaches‚ weakness‚ vomiting‚ muscle pain‚ rashes‚ and redness in the eyes. While reading “Something in the Forest‚” I found a couple of sections to be mysterious but that contained clues on to how Charles Monet may have obtained his deadly disease on his
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and researching on why we need to stop‚ major sea exploration. For in response to any who try to convince me otherwise for the exploration of the sea is no‚ for if you are to go the depths of the sea imagine the negatives of exploring the ocean like‚ the risks of illness‚ the wasting of resources with ‚the population of trash in our ocean expanding to a unfathomable size is too much. For I dream that our economy be fixed‚ for I dream‚ that our ocean be clean‚ for I dream that our children will
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Ocean acidification is the continuous reduction of the ocean’s pH‚ carbonate ion concentration‚ and saturation states of biological calcium carbonate minerals. Ocean acidification is caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. According to “Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem‚” after the industrial revolution‚ carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere has increased nearly 40%‚ primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation (Doney S. 2009). The increase of
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