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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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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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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of the sick monkey in Reston escapes from its cage and Jerry spends days trying to catch it • similar is the potential rip in the space suits • Both Sammy Daniels and Jerry Jaax share a strong concern over his wife or ex-wife working with in the hot zone with the virus • Finally‚ the doctors in the book tried to help the villagers the best that they could‚ and eventually ended up leaving the village and the people behind. In the movie‚ the village‚ that had many people infected with the virus‚ was
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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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during this modern era‚ needs to be threatened of the consequence of their action instead of realizing what is right or wrong from the very start. In my very young career‚ I have come face to face with different situations which could destroy my ethics‚ very tempting offers wherein I can earn quite a large sum. “May 1‚000php per trip ka dito pre” “May baon ka na dito pare‚ order ka lang tapos kunin mo nalang sa katapusan ng buwan” During these situations‚ an image of my father and mother pops up
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Introduction To microbiology | The Hot Zone by Richard Preston | Tiffany Burgess | 5/29/2013 | A highly infectious‚ deadly virus from the central African rainforest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington‚ D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of it’s victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientist is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this “hot virus”. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story‚ giving detail accounts of this rare
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about the symptoms of this type of virus it already sounds like a nightmare. The virus is called Ebola and a man by the name of Richard Preston wrote a full length book about the discovery and the fight against this virus in the book entitled The Hot Zone. This book goes into an agglomeration of detail pertaining to this particular virus and it is shared through the eyes of two Doctors at the US Army Medical Research
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This is an Essay on the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Ebola is a hot virus‚ meaning it is very dangerous‚ and lethally hot. It gets into your body in numerous different ways‚ therefore making it extremely hard to fight against. The diseased virus gets into your body and immediately starts eating all of your tissue. This results in body functions ceasing to work. Your liver shuts down completely‚ leaving toxic wastes floating around in your blood stream. Your blood starts losing
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The McDonald’s hot coffee case occurred on February 27‚ 1992. Stella Liebeck‚ 79 year old woman‚ took McDonalds to court for being burned by hot coffee she purchased. While the car was not moving‚ but said to have been stopped at the time‚ Stella had the McDonalds cup of coffee between her legs and as she tried to open the lid the cup tipped over and burned her. This incident caused third degree burns on 16 percent of her body; she was hospitalized for eight days‚ had extensive skin treatment‚ skin
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