The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

The bomb exploded over Hiroshima…slightly northwest at the center of the city. Its impact left Hiroshima uniformly and extensively devastated. The surprise, the collapse of many buildings, and the conflagration contributed to an unprecedented casualty rate. A number of Seventy to eighty thousand people were killed, or missing and presumed dead. The impact of the bomb shattered the normal fabric of community life and disrupted the organizations for handling the disaster. However, within 24 hours, people were streaming back in search of relatives and friends and to determine the extent of their property loss. The exact number of dead and injured will never be known because of the confusion after the explosions. Most of death and injury were flash burns, secondary effects of blast and falling debris, and burns from blazing buildings. Some of the dead were said by survivors to have had their abdomens ruptured and intestines protruding.

Summary Exercise using ICT

The rediscovery of the Shang began with the discovery of … Turtle shells and large cattle bones inscribed with ancient Chinese characters. Inscriptions are about events that are important to the country. It also indicates natural disasters as well as insignificant events. According Legend Wang Yirong’s family bought the turtle shells to make medicine. Wang Yirong built up a collection of oracle bones that were found in Xiaotun. Shang fortune tellers foretold predictions about the future. Oracle bones were used to check about events that would occur. The bones were cleaned and thinned. The bones were applied with a hot object until the surface cracked. The cracked shell or bones were presented to the king. The King’s interpretation of the cracks was engraved onto the shell together with the original prediction. It was the first written texts that recorded the account of Shang. It is also a reference to historical personalities to prove their existence. It also dispels some misconceptions of Shang.

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Reality television, dominating the tube right now, is about the …real behavior of real people in real environment. Reality Television also shows people getting insulted or humiliated. The irony of reality shows is that key moments are staged. They are unscripted drama like sports. Reality shows are cheap to produce and popular with viewers, as a they are profitable. Humans are voyeurs therefore reality shows are popular amongst us as the erase the boundaries between publicity and privacy. However they can still be unpredictable and it is a new great way of writing a story as the themes are usually very relative to everyday life. Reality shows will always have a place on television. Even though the prospects are dim, reality show will still go on. However, it ruins the reputation of the network. As time goes by, producers will soon run out of ideas and viewers will get bored as well.

Summary Exercise using ICT

Reality television, dominating the tube right now, is about the real behaviors of real people in real environments. Reality Television also shows people getting insulted or humiliated. The irony of reality shows is that key moments are staged. They are unscripted drama like sports. Reality shows are cheap to produce and popular with viewers. People are nosy by nature thus; they tend to erase the boundaries between the public & private. Reality shows can be unpredictable, having great and new way of telling stories with ideas that grab us in some fundamental place. As a result, Reality shows are profitable. Reality shows will always have a place on television. However, the prospects are dim and it ruins the reputation of the network. As time goes by, producers will soon run out of ideas and viewers will get bored as well. As a result, competitions from other forms of programming will still be present.

Swiss Cottage Prelim Paper 2 - Environmentalism

Current approaches to environmentalism do not work because carbon emissions continue to grow after countless warning as the Kyoto Protocol tried to bring carbon emissions under control. A few western nations are doing well, but they have trouble meeting their reduction targets too. The world is now flooded with carbon dioxide. Environmentalism’s method of handling global warming is imperfect when failure is almost inevitable. Environmentalism cures the worst effects, as endless economic growth makes the job easier. Endless economic growth built on the use of cheap fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas which are compact, easily transportable, and cheap. The fuels that help us grow now threatened our civilization. Even so, the cheapest way to spur economic growth is by burning more fossil fuel. Benjamin Friedman, the Harvard economist, conceded that carbon dioxide is the major environmental contaminant. We need a kind of cultural environmentalism that asks deeper questions than we are used to asking.

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According to legend, an Ethiopian goatherd found his goats chewing on coffee cherries and soon joined them after trying one. In the past, coffees were only foods and drinks for African tribesmen. After many years, coffee became a global phenomenal with huge amount of proportion. It seemed amazing that a bean that small is able to become an international trade and drank by people everywhere. Frost hit southern Brazil twice in 1975 and 1979 and more than 15 million trees were destroyed. Price of coffee increased although Brazil actual lost was lower than what they expected. Producers and consumers came up with a solution to limit output to what the market can absorb, and sell at prices reasonable to both sides. Despite win-win solution and increase in living costs in the United States over the past years, coffee is still one of the least inflated prepared beverages: five cents a brew-it-yourself cup.

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Lukas family was worried because their child, Lukas, went missing. Families of Lukas searched and called for Lukas' name until night. Malie was shocked that they could not find Lukas' track. Before Lukas disappears, a child named Flip Lourens disappeared in the same kind of fog they did not found a trace of him. Elias lost his cool and said that bigfeet killed Flip as he knew the forest well himself. Anna and the men went back at midnight to continue the search. Martiens told Malie and Sofie to make a big fire in the middle of the Island so if the child were to see the glow, he would go back. However, it was in vain. Seven months later, in August 1865, a forester told Elias that parts of a skeleton that might have belonged to a child had been found but Elias said it could only be part of a baboon's skeleton.