Assignment 11B

"A new municipal government, set up under Allied Military Government direction, had gone to work at last in the city hall. Citizens who had recovered from various degrees of radiation sickness were coming back by the thousand-by November 1st, the population, mostly crowded into the outskirts, was already 137,000, more than a third of the wartime peak-and the government set in motion all kinds of projects to put them to work rebuilding the city. It hired men to clear the streets, and others to gather scrap iron, which they sorted and piled in mountains opposite the city hall. Some returning residents were putting up their own shanties and huts, and planting small squares of winter wheat beside them, but the city also authorized and built four hundred one-family "barracks." Utilities were repaired-electric lights shone again, trams started running, and employees of the waterworks fixed seventy thousand leaks in mains and plumbing. A Planning Conference, with an enthusiastic young Military Government officer, Lieutenant John D. Montgomery, of Kazamazoo, as its adviser, began to consider what sort of city the new Hiroshima should be. The ruined city had flourished-and had been an inviting target-mainly because it had been one of the most important military-command and communications centers in Japan, and would have become the Imperial headquarters had the islands been invaded and Tokyo been captured. Now there would be no huge military establishments to help revive the city. The Planning Conference, at a loss as to just what importance Hiroshima could have, fell back on rather vague cultural and paving projects. It drew maps with avenues a hundred yards wide and thought seriously of erecting a group of buildings as a monument to the disaster, and naming them the Institute of International Amity. Statistical workers gathered what figures they could on the effects of the bomb. They reported that 78,150 people had been killed, 13, 983 were missing, and 37,425 had been injured. No one in the city government pretended that these figures were accurate-through the Americans accepted them as official-and as the months went by and more and more hundreds of corpses were dug up from the ruins, and as the number of unclaimed urns of ashes at the Zempoji Temple in Koi rose into the thousands, the statisticians began to say that at least a hundred thousand people had lost their lives in the bombing. Since many people died of a combination of causes, it was impossible to figure exactly how many were killed by each cause, but the statisticians calculated that about twenty-five per cent had died of direct burns from the bomb, about fifty per cent as a result of radiation effects. The statisticians’ figures on property damage were more reliable: sixty-two thousand out of ninety thousand buildings destroyed, and six thousand more damaged beyond repair. In the heart of the city, they found only five modern buildings that could be used again without major repairs. This small number was by no means the fault of flimsy Japanese construction. In fact, since the 1923 earthquake, Japanese building regulations had required that the roof of each large building be able to bear a minimum load of seventy pounds per square foot, whereas American regulations do not normally specify more than forty pounds per square foot.” (80-81)

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Assignment 11A

"As the symptoms revealed themselves, it became clear that many of them resembled the effects of overdoses of X-ray, and the doctors based their therapy on that likeness. They gave victims liver extract, blood transfusions, and vitamins, especially B1. The shortage of supplies and instruments hampered them. Allied doctors who came in after the surrender found plasma and penicillun very effective. Since the blood disorders were, in the long run, the predominant factor in the disease, some of the Japanese doctors evolved a theory as to the seat of the delayed sickness. They thought that perhaps gamma rays, entering the body at the time of the explosion, made the phosphorus in the victims' bones radioactive, and that they in turn emitted beta particles, which, though they could not penetrate far through flesh, could enter the bone marrow, where blood is manufactured, and gradually tear it down. Whatever its source, the disease had some baffling quirks. Not all the patients exhabited all the main symptoms. People who suffered flash burns were protected, to a considerable extent, from radiation sickness. Those who has lain quietly for days or even hours after the bombing were much less liable to get sick than those who had been active. Gray hair seldom fell out. And, as if nature were protecting man againse his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped." (77-78)

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Assignment 10C-Help

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?

Original:

This situation happens when Brian think back to all the modern technology when people went hunting. He said it because they dependent on technologies so much that they forget the skill of hunting. This passage, he was talk to the people that are hunting.

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Assignment 10B

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 different verbs form in this passage occur with “would”? What does the use of “would” convey here?

Original:

The word “would” in this passage means that telling the plan and the trap which is telling a different action in the period so there is three different verb forms of past and present in the idea. The word “would” convey as a plan of a step in the hunting seal of the Inuit.

Revision:

The word “would” in this passage is the action verb because it describing what the Inuit was doing and when the seal came up for air. The word “would” transmit into an action that describes the hunting and how the Inuit attacks their prey.

Assignment 10A

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 begging from the other.

What is the sentence type here, and why?

Original:

This is a compound sentence because it has two independent clauses and it connected with a coordinator “or”. The first independent clause is “A coyote, perhaps, brush wolf as they called them up north,” and the second independent clause is “maybe a timber wolf, two wolves, one begging from the other.”

Revision:

This is a complex sentence because it has one independent clause and one dependent clause. The independent clause is “as they called them up north,” and the dependent clause is “one begging from the other.”

Assignment 9B

Dr. Maxhii said, "It was have been a Molotoffano banakago"-a Molotov flower basket, the delicate Japanese name the "bread basket," or self-scattering clusters of bomb.

I think that this passage confused me because it first talk about the flower basket then into a bread basket and it is also mean a self-scattering clusters of bomb. What does Dr. Maxhii mean in the passage that hard to understand.

Assignment 9A

After the overturn, Dr. Fuji was so stupefied and so tightly squeezed by the beams gripping his chest that he was unable to move at first, and he hung there about twenty minutes in the darkened morning. Then a thought which came to him_that soon the tide would be running in through the estuaries and his head would be submerged_inspired him to fearful activity; he wriggled and turned and exerted what strength he could (though his left arm, because of the pain in his shoulder, was useless), and before long he had freed himself from the vise. (p22-23)

I think that this passage doesn't tell me much about Dr.Fuji freed himself. I understand that he get caught in something and he tried to let himself freed. I want to know what happen in this passage and how did Dr.Fuji freed himself.