-. -"\ i I l.r "l \(t..: L_$J.{:; L1 ;: t‚{*J Bachelor’s Degree Programme (BDPy ASSIGNMENT 2012-13 (For July 2012 and January 2013 sessions) FOUNDATION COURSE IN ENGLISH.OI (FEG-O1) g6S9iignesu wlili‚lffi3i{; School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi‚ New Delhi- I 1 0 068 \\ FOUr\DATTON COURSE IN ENGLISH-I (FEG-01) Programme: BDP/2012-13 Course Code: FEG-01 Ilear Student‚ You are required to do one assignment for the Foundation Course in English-01. It is
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Jon Krakauer Krakauer has a multi-faceted role in this book. First and foremost‚ he is a character‚ the narrator of the story he tells. Secondly‚ he is the author of this book. Third‚ he is a mountain climber. At one time in his life‚ Krakauer was an avid climber. In recent years‚ however‚ he has given up the hobby. When Outside Magazine asks him to write an article about the commercialism on Everest‚ Krakauer knows immediately that he had to climb. Of course‚ Krakauer gets more than he has bargained
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Kieran McLaughlin‚ M.S. Ed. Physical Geography Land area – 145‚882 square miles‚ smaller than Montana Four Main Islands: Hokkaido‚ Honshu‚ Kyushu‚ and Shikoku Japan is mostly mountainous and the cities are located on the coast Mount Fuji is the highest point – elevation 12‚388 ft. Mild earthquakes are common and severe earthquakes occur every few years The Japanese experience all four seasons. The Location of Tokyo - 35 40 N 139 45 E • Located at the same latitude as Milwaukee
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Do you have a dream vacation that you would like to go on? I know I do. My dream vacation would be in Nepal on top of Mount Everest‚ the tallest mountain in the world. This is how I would prepare‚ and scale the mountain. A year before I take the climb I would start getting physically fit. I would run 50 miles a week‚ bike 50 miles‚ and lift a total of 10‚000 pounds of weights a week‚ and push my body to its limit. After‚ a few months of training I would go to my doctor to see if he thinks I could
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My Own Mt. Rushmore Mt. Rushmore is one of America’s most recognized national monuments‚ sporting the faces of 4 of our nation’s greatest presidents: Abraham Lincoln‚ George Washington‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ and Thomas Jefferson. If I were to reconstruct Mt. Rushmore with faces of my choosing‚ I would choose to put 4 of my favorite people in the whole world: Nicolas Cage‚ Ryan Seacrest‚ Ivan Doroschuk‚ and Alana “Honey Boo-Boo” Thompson. Nicolas Cage is one of my role models because he is a
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Dark Tourism Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites‚ attractions and exhibitions that have real or recreated death‚ suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme. Tourist visits to former battlefields‚ slavery-heritage attractions‚ prisons‚ cemeteries‚ particular museum exhibitions‚ Holocaust sites‚ or to disaster locations all constitute the broad realm of ‘dark tourism’. The Institute of Dark Tourism Research (iDTR) at the University of Lancashire in England in 2012 marks
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known as the cave‚ he lost interest to his sports and didn’t speak to any one. But now Toms is taking it rely well. He starting running and he’s now trying to put it behind him. The running has helped him communicate he’s going over seas to climb mount Everest with his gay uncle and he’s going well with his rugby Kylie Kylie is the one that is confuses the most she doesn’t know
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The climbing of everest is one of the most deadly sports and tasks available to the public today. The chance of dying on everest is 1 in 61.46 people this is a large amount due to the fact that over 200 people climb mount everest‚ each climbing season. Just last year over 16 people were killed in an avalanche caused by a large earthquake. Although things like avalanches and ice separating kill many people‚ the most dangerous part of the adventure is climbing down the mountain after reaching the summit
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destruction caused by the eruption. Historians must also keep in mind that the preservation techniques used have not always been completely successful‚ and excavation is still incomplete in Herculaneum. Although the sources relating to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius are all ancient‚ they may not necessarily be primary sources‚ already impacting on their reliability. And while some sources may be eye witness accounts of the eruption‚ they would not have been written at the exact time of the eruption‚ meaning
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The Four Holy Cities in Jewish tradition are the cities of Jerusalem‚ Hebron‚ Tiberias‚ and Safed: 1) Jerusalem‚ Solomon’s Temple‚ Solomon’s Temple was built in Jerusalem in the 10th century B.C.E by King Solomon. It was built using 3‚000 tons of gold and 30‚000 tons of silver. Solomon’s Temple is the centre of Israel’s religious and cultural life. The architecture and furniture are described in detail in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Bible‚ Solomon’s Temple was the only place of sacrificial
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