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    Hot Zone Project

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    Hot Zone Project: “What I learned” Rubric | Excellent 10pts | Good 8pts | Fair 6pts | Poor 4pts | Due | Day of | 1 day late | 2 days late | 2 days late | Creativity/Maximum Effort | The project fully reflects the students’ creativity and maximum effort. | The project somewhat reflects the students’ creativity and maximum effort. | The project lacks evidence of the students’ creativity and maximum effort. | The project does not reflect the students’ creativity and maximum effort. |

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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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    In The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot‚ both authors suggest that globalization is both powerful and dangerous‚ so dangerous that it can sometimes cause irreplaceable damage‚ but can also do good things. The Hot Zone shows that Ebola can spread worldwide and have devastating effects. Preston states that if Ebola manages to spread beyond central Africa‚ then it will be all over the world‚ from New York to Paris‚ but “we never knew it.”(99)

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    Deep Zone Book Report

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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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    Part 1: The book was very interesting to me and I was amazed at how Richard Preston explained the feelings in detail. I felt as though I was going through all the pain and shock as everyone else in the book. I was very disgusted on what happened to Charles Monet and how he died by the Ebola virus. I think its very horrible on what people went through to have the Ebola virus and only live ten days. Not to mention the horrible death that comes with it. My reaction at first was that it was not a big

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    Michael Ciuffoletti   The Hot House              The Hot House tells the story of life inside Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.  It was named the hot house because of the lack of ventilation and its dangerous prison population.  There are many layers to the experiences inside the prison‚ but the reader is consistently reminded that there is a code of behavior that exists inside its walls and being labeled a snitch is the kiss of death.  A level of mental instability may have lead these inmates to commit

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    Virus--an enemy whom causes impenetrable death before the victim can even blink. The mere thought of a virus is already spine-chilling‚ and Richard Preston manages to write a book intensifying that feeling by tenfold. In The Hot Zone‚ author Richard Preston successfully establishes an overarching grim mood by using different types of figurative language‚ such as imagery and foreshadowing. A prime example of imagery is when Charles Monet was aboard a tightly packed and cramped plane. Days before

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    The Hot Zone Name _Kindra Morris__ By Richard Preston Date_9-27-2014__ Ch. 8 - CARDINAL 1. As the courier passed the sample of Peter Cardinal’s blood to Gene Johnson at the airport‚ think about how this would take place after 9/11. What would have been different? The airport security would of checked what was in the box and tried to see if it was a bomb related object or not and it most likely would not of been let on the plane. 2. How was the sample stored for safety handling? How

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    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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    INTRODUCTION HISTORY Endosulfan‚ a highly toxic organochlorine pesticide was sprayed in the cashew plantations in Kasargod District since 1978‚ till 2001 regularly three times every year. The aerial spraying of Endosulfan was undertaken to contain the menace of the tea mosquito bug. Endosulfan is a harmful insecticide. It causes several health hazards in human beings. The terrain was unsuitable for aerial spraying considering the relatively high rainfall and its geological structure. Unusual

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