They Lucky Dragon No. 5 episode took place in 1954, the year after Nakamura-san started working for Suyama Chemical. In the ensuing fever of outrage in the country, the provision of adequate medical care for the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs finally became a political issue. Almost every year since 1946, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing a Peace Memorial Meeting had been held in a park that the city planners had set aside, during the city’s rebuilding, as a center of remembrance, and on August 6, 1955, delegates from all over the world gathered there for the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. On its second day, a number of hibakusha tearfully testified to the government’s neglect of their plight. Japanese political parties took up the cause, and in 1957 the Diet at last passed the A-Bombe Victims Medical Care Law. This law and its subsequence modifications defined four classes of people who would be eligible for support: those who had been in the city limits on the day of the bombing; those who had enter an area within two kilometers of the hypocenter in the first contact with bomb victims; in administering first aid or embryos in the wombs of women in any of the first three categories. These hibakusha were entitled to receive so-called health books, which would entitle them to free medical treatment. Later revisions of the law provided for monthly allowances to victims suffering from various after effects.(Pg.96-97)
Could this paragraph be divided into at least two smaller paragraphs? Leave a comment to address this question and explain your position.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Assignment 11 (A) - Paragraph
The Former head of the Nobori-cho Neighborhood Association to which the Catholic priests belonged was an energetic man named Yoshida. He had boasted, when he was in charge of the district air-raid defenses, that fire might eat away all of Hiroshima but it would never come to Nobori-cho. The bomb blew down his house, and a joist pinned him by the legs, in full view of the Jesuit mission house across the way and of the people hurrying along the street. In their confusion as they hurried past, Mrs. Nakamura, with her children, and Father Kleinsorge, with Mr. Fukai on his back, hardly saw him; he was just part of the general blur of misery trough which they moved. His cries for help brought no response from them; there were so many people shouting for help that they could not hear him separately. They and all the others went along. Nobori-cho became absolutely deserted, and the fire swept through it. Mr. Yoshida saw the wooden mission house-the only erect building in the area-go up in a lick of flame, and the heat was terrific on his face. Then flames came along his side of the street and entered his house. In a paroxysm of terrified strength, he freed himself and ran down the alleys of Nobori-cho, hemmed in by the fire he had said would never come. He began at once to behave like an old man; two months later his hair was white.(Pg.33-34)
Could this paragraph be divided into at least two smaller paragraphs? Leave a comment to address this question and explain your position.
Could this paragraph be divided into at least two smaller paragraphs? Leave a comment to address this question and explain your position.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Asssignment 10 (C) - "Help"
Consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:
A coyote, perhaps, brush wolf as they called them up north, or maybe a timber wolf, two wolves, one beginning from the other.
What is the sentence type here, and why?
This sentence is composed of one independent clause in where the subject is “they” and the verb is “called.” That’s why it is a simple sentence.
“Nope”
A coyote, perhaps, brush wolf as they called them up north, or maybe a timber wolf, two wolves, one beginning from the other.
What is the sentence type here, and why?
This sentence is composed of one independent clause in where the subject is “they” and the verb is “called.” That’s why it is a simple sentence.
“Nope”
“All assistance that contributes to revising this answer is greatly appreciated.”
Assignmet 10 (B)
Consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:
They had planes and guns and radios and GPS but in some ways they had no knowledge because they had all the gadgets; they missed the small things because they saw too big.
What is the situation here? What does the author mean when he writes “they saw too big”? Who is he talking about?
The author means here that most people living in big cities, get used to just material things, such as malls, cars, houses, etc. They don’t pay attention to things that can help you to grow in a mental, physical and spiritual way. Those things may don’t look much important, because in some cases they are not materials, such as education, family, love, etc.
Correction:
The situation here happens after the call that Susan did to the authorities when she found that her parents died. One of them asked Brian if he was the boy who survived after the plane crash. Then the same man asked to his partner if he was going to kill the bear who killed Susan’s parents, but the man said no because it was going to be very difficult to find the correct bear to kill.
When the author writes “they saw too big”, he means that the authorities would have all the necessary equipment but they didn’t understand anything about hunting, nor about hunting a wolf. They could be pay attention just in the weight, hair and color of the bear, but they could never know the bear.In this passage the author is talking about the authorities that went to help Susan. They were: the Canadian Mountie and the Natural Resources ranger.
They had planes and guns and radios and GPS but in some ways they had no knowledge because they had all the gadgets; they missed the small things because they saw too big.
What is the situation here? What does the author mean when he writes “they saw too big”? Who is he talking about?
The author means here that most people living in big cities, get used to just material things, such as malls, cars, houses, etc. They don’t pay attention to things that can help you to grow in a mental, physical and spiritual way. Those things may don’t look much important, because in some cases they are not materials, such as education, family, love, etc.
Correction:
The situation here happens after the call that Susan did to the authorities when she found that her parents died. One of them asked Brian if he was the boy who survived after the plane crash. Then the same man asked to his partner if he was going to kill the bear who killed Susan’s parents, but the man said no because it was going to be very difficult to find the correct bear to kill.
When the author writes “they saw too big”, he means that the authorities would have all the necessary equipment but they didn’t understand anything about hunting, nor about hunting a wolf. They could be pay attention just in the weight, hair and color of the bear, but they could never know the bear.In this passage the author is talking about the authorities that went to help Susan. They were: the Canadian Mountie and the Natural Resources ranger.
Assignment 10 (A)
Consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:
The Inuit would put a small piece of feather over the hole and stand with bone harpoon ready and when the seal came into the hole the air pushing ahead of its body would ruffle the feather and the hunter would lunge with the harpoon and bury the barbed head in the back of the seal.
Why do three verb forms in this passage occur with “would”? What does the use of “would” convey here?
Three different verb forms in this passage occur with “would” because “would” is a modal and makes the verbs function in a past that didn’t happened. The use of “would” conveys here because the author is trying to narrate actions that should pass but they didn’t.
Correction:
Three verb forms in this passage occur with “would” because the author is explaining what Inuits do to hunt a seal. The author is using an indirect speech which is a sentence reporting what someone has said or did. Even thought the indirect speech is almost always used in spoken English, the use of “would” conveys here because “will” is reported as would.
The Inuit would put a small piece of feather over the hole and stand with bone harpoon ready and when the seal came into the hole the air pushing ahead of its body would ruffle the feather and the hunter would lunge with the harpoon and bury the barbed head in the back of the seal.
Why do three verb forms in this passage occur with “would”? What does the use of “would” convey here?
Three different verb forms in this passage occur with “would” because “would” is a modal and makes the verbs function in a past that didn’t happened. The use of “would” conveys here because the author is trying to narrate actions that should pass but they didn’t.
Correction:
Three verb forms in this passage occur with “would” because the author is explaining what Inuits do to hunt a seal. The author is using an indirect speech which is a sentence reporting what someone has said or did. Even thought the indirect speech is almost always used in spoken English, the use of “would” conveys here because “will” is reported as would.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Assignment 9 - "Hiroshima" (Passage B)
“THE JESUITS took about fifty refugees into the exquisite chapel of the Novitiate. The rector gave them what medical care he could-mostly just the cleaning away of pus. Each of the Nakamuras was provided with a blanket and a mosquito net. Mrs. Nakamura and her younger daughter had no appetite and ate nothing; her son and other daughter ate, and lost, each meal they where offered. On August 10th, a friend, Mrs. Osaki, came to see them and told them that her son Hideo had been burned alive in the factory where he worked. This Hideo had been a kind of hero to Toshio, who had often gone to the plant to watch him run his machine. That night, Toshio woke up screaming. He had dreamed that he had seen Mrs. Osaki coming out of an opening in the ground with her family, and then he saw Hideo at his machine, a big one with a revolving belt, and he himself was standing beside Hideo, and for reason this was terrifying.”(Pg. 58)
This passage perplexes me because it is quite confusing for me. In sentence number four, the second clause says that Mrs. Nakamura’s son and daughter ate everything, and the last clauses says that they lost each meal they were offered. That’s confusing and I don’t understand it.
This passage perplexes me because it is quite confusing for me. In sentence number four, the second clause says that Mrs. Nakamura’s son and daughter ate everything, and the last clauses says that they lost each meal they were offered. That’s confusing and I don’t understand it.
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