Edward Mai #22 01/21/05 HALO:The Flood By William C. Dietz Today I am going to tell you about a great book I read lately. It is called HALO:The Flood. The Flood is based on the award-winning Xbox game‚ Halo. This book was interesting because it tells the story through several different perspectives. Some of the perspectives include: the super-soldier‚ Master Chief‚ an alien‚ another alien‚ a sergeant‚ and a few soldiers. Although some new character perspectives are introduced
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FLOODS IS ASSAM ON 22nd JUNE 2012 Assam‚ the gateway to the north-eastern seven sister states of India‚ is facing the nature’s fury once again as the Brahmaputra and its tributaries (Kapili etc.‚) continued to flow above the danger mark due to heavy rainfalls since June 1st week. Around 116 people are killed and an estimated population of 22 lakh have been affected in the worst ever flood in recent years causing large-scale devastation in 2809 villages in 27 of the 28 districts of the state
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Compare Floods in LEDC and MEDC I am going to discuss two case studies regarding floods. One of my case studies is of Cocker mouth‚ this is a town in England exposed to floods this is my case study of an MEDC. My other case study is the LEDC in which I talk about Bangladesh. Cocker mouth is situated in the Lake District in England. England is an MEDC and this area experienced vast ranges of flooding during late November. The town lies among the confluence of two rivers that leave it prone to flooding
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The Johnstown Flood The Johnstown flood is tragic story. Almost a myth these days‚ thousands of lives were lost only hundreds saved. David McCullough artfully tells the story of the dam that broke‚ because of ignorance and neglect‚ and the individual lives that it affected‚ he crafts together the facts of the disaster with the emotion making you see and feel the pain and hurt. When the huge dam broke and hundreds of thousands of gallons of water went rushing down into the valley there was nothing
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Prologue - Dillard begins the story with imagery and vivid description of rivers from the north shore of Lake Erie to West Virginia. She includes a brief history of some sort involving Benjamin Franklin‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and George Washington. She then simply ends and jumps into a story about her father when she was ten. She described his dream to travel to New Orleans to hear the music he loved. She explains his occupation and the unfortunate location of his office‚ where he witnessed suicides
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injustice in our world. The fact that Dillard had to hesitate before helping a dying man because he was scared he would lose his job‚ this is a problem in itself. 2) Does this narrative serve to contrast idealism and reality? How does Dillard’s oath conflict with his final decision? Dillard story‚ sadly‚ doesn’t contrast reality in the slightest. This narrative depicts the sad truth of what could have happened to a man’s job in an attempt to save a life. Dillard took an oath after he graduated medical
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Dreams play a major role in deciphering subconscious psychological issues‚ such as fears‚ desires‚ and anxieties in Annie John. Dreams "have been interpreted as expressions of infantile desires or considered elaborations of the problems of waking hours". In Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John‚ Annie’s dreams become a significant element in the way she views herself and the world around her. Annie comments about her dreams: "I had been taught by my mother to take my dreams seriously. My dreams were not unreal
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Annie John: A Bildungsroman? Jamaica Kincaid’s story Annie John is often thought of as a “postcolonial coming-of-age novel.” To understand this‚ it must first be known what both terms‚ postcolonial and coming-of-age novel‚ mean. Postcolonial refers to the period of time after the establishment of independence in a colony. European countries‚ including England‚ France‚ Spain‚ Portugal‚ and the Netherlands‚ colonized other nations in order to benefit from things like resources or geographical locations
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Annie Oakley I am a woman. I am able to get an education if I so choose. As an adult I will be able to own property and vote. I am not spending my childhood learning how to become a wife and a mother. Whether she knew it or not Annie Oakley helped to give me the rights that I have today. Annie was a woman too‚ and famous sharpshooter. She could shoot better than any man of her time. She helped to show women that it was okay to do more “masculine” things. And‚ she helped women to realize that
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Response Paper of the Johnstown Flood “Johnstown flood” is a short story written by David McCullough. This story talks about the miraculous survival of a little girl named Gertrude. Gertrude’s sheer luck got her up the hill safely. Of course‚ with the help of several people she met along the way. I think that this is an extraordinary act of how worked together and some people put his/her life at risk to save a small child that they didn’t even knew. I fell that this is a great example of how
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