The Hot Zone In the book the Hot Zone‚ by Richard Preston‚ the first few pages are introducing the reader into the world of contagious hot agents by going through the biosaftey procedures to access level 4. In part one‚ Charles Monet a fifty-six year old Frenchman living in western Kenya on the lands of the Nzoia Sugar Factory is introduced‚ but as his story continues he finds himself greatly ill by some unknown virus. It began shortly after a visit with a friend to Kitum Cave. Of course
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Within Richard Preston’s‚ The Hot Zone‚ the very real threats posed by the deadly viruses of Marburg and Ebola Reston is brought to attention through the “terrifying true story”. In the first chapter‚ Charles Monet is introduced as a man with a little too much free time and works at the pump house at the sugar factory within near the base of Mt. Elgon. One day in 1980‚ he takes a female friend to Kitum Cave‚ and it is believed that this is the day he caught the Marburg virus. The first symptoms include
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Jeffrey Boateng This more of an assignment then an essay to help people who are reading the Hot zone. Diction: choice of words Tone: The attitude of the speaker or writer as revealed in the choice of vocabulary. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston General Tones: Caution‚ fear‚ and uncertainty Example one: Once a virus hits the net‚ it can shoot anywhere in a day-Paris‚ Tokyo‚ New York‚ Los Angles‚ wherever planes fly. Charles Monet and the life form inside him had entered the net. Richard Preston
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throughout the entire book. The novel illustrates how the virus outbreaks had its outbursts‚ rapidly demolishing and destroying the human population gradually as there is no known cure and control over the destruction. Richard Preston discusses in The Hot Zone‚ the different factors that contribute to those outbreaks‚ such as hygiene and the lack of knowledge about the virus. Even a slight lack of hygiene can possibly contribute to the vital outbreaks in numerous ways. One of the major factors that contribute
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scale- magnitude ( measuring sesmic waves) What scale is used to measure earthquakes: Seismometer/ seismograph- record earthquakes Seismogram- a graph What are earthquakes? P s Violent shaking on the ground Tectonic drift theory: the continental drift theory is the theory that once all the continents were joined in a super-continent‚ which scientists call Pangaea. Over a vast period of time‚ the continents drifted apart to their current locations. Alfred Wegener first supported continental drift
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Primo Levi was captured at the age of 24 by the Fascist Militia on December 13‚ 1943. Although Levi was a chemist with a degree‚ graduating from Turin in 1941‚ summa cum laude‚ he was treated just like all the other prisoners until his skill was proven and gave him a longer chance to survive. Because he was a Jew‚ he was sent to a detention camp along with the other English and American prisoners-of-war who were also “people not approved of by the new-born Fascist Republic” (Levi‚ 14). Later‚ he
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stuck. This showed Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development‚ Dhanvi was able to solve a problem by himself. He always held onto the sides of the wagon and seemed a little nervous when the bike sped up‚ this signals Bandura’s Vicarious Reinforcement he may of observed another child fall off the wagon when it was going fast and has learned to be cautious. The friend stops the bike and Dhanvi
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Multivariate Analysis (56198) Assignment Answer all questions Question 1 The data set HPRICE.XLS contains data on house prices (in dollars)‚ house characteristics and location desirability. Let Y= house price be the dependent variable and consider the following potential explanatory variables: (a) Using the data the calculate‚ interpret and discuss the mean‚ standard deviation‚ minimum‚ maximum‚ skewness‚ kurtosis and of Y‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ and . (20 marks) (b) Estimate correlation
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A Bug’s Life – Text Analysis Synopsis: A Bug’s Life is a 1998 computer-animated Disney/Pixar movie. Inspired by the fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper" and the classic samurai film The Seven Samurai‚ it tells the story of an outcast inventor ant named Flick who recruits a group of circus bugs he mistakes for warriors when his colony is threatened by a gang of grasshoppers for their annual feast. The purpose of A Bug’s Life: The reason I have chosen this film text it because its purpose expresses
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