The 21 Balloons
Text to Self: When Professor Sherman was taking off in his hot air balloon people started running down the streets to look. People were also running down the streets to get Ichiro bobble heads at a Mariners game.
Text to Text: When Mr. Sherman saw the mines full of diamonds it made me think about the book Treasure Island when Jim Hawkins finds all the treasure.
Text to World: As soon as Professor William Waterman Sherman started walking on Krakatoa he experienced earthquakes. The same thing happened to a lot of other countries.
Vocabulary word. Definition. A sentence including the vocabulary word.
Corinthian: a type of design used in some countries. The building was built in a Corinthian style.
Flotsam: goods or belongings lost in a shipwreck. There was not a lot of flotsam in the water at the time.
Tribune: the title of a newspaper. The New York Tribune covered every detail of Professor Sherman’s story.
Rousing: to be full with happiness or excitement. The whole city gave the firefighters a rousing cheer.
Cupola: a round, dome-like shape usually the top of a building. Many of the buildings in the city had a cupola for the top.
Convey: to take an item from one place to another. UPS has to convey a lot of letters and packages on a regular bases.
Aeronautical: a study of science that has to do with the air. There are some aeronautical scientists in the world.
Postillion: a mailman or paperboy. Being a postillion lets you earn some extra cash.
Ethics: to behave properly. Martha Stewart is suspected of having poor ethics.
Intrepid: not to be discouraged. Even though he lost the race, the boy was intrepid.
Chapters 6,7
Schema
Text to Self: When William Sherman woke up in the morning he hadn’t really realized how his room looked. That happened to me when I got a new bed and new stuff put in my room. Page 77
When Sherman sees and feels an earthquake happening I can relate because I have also experienced an earthquake. Page 79
Mr. Sherman was told that the I family made Italian food, I have eaten Italian food. Page 90
Text to World: When Mr. M started building houses on Krakatoa that was like when a missionary went to an island to help the inhabitants rebuild their small residential area and convince them to believe in God.
Vocabulary word. Definition. Sentence containing the word.
Delirious: in a state of delusion. She was delirious after she woke up from the anesthesia.
Page 1 paragraph 2 of Fred Hewitt’s account states,“I was within a stone’s throw of that city hall when the hand of an avenging God fell upon San Francisco.” This is quote also relates to Emma Burke’s account, which on page 1 paragraph 2 states,”No one can comprehend the calamity to San Francisco in its entirety. The individual experience can probably give the general public the clearest idea.” These quotes show that Emma Burke and Fred Hewitt both experienced the San Francisco earthquake and were majorly affected by it because Emma Burke says that her individual experience can help people understand the earth quake, which means that she experienced the earthquake. Emma’s experience relates to Fred’s because he says that he was in San Fransisco when the earthquake hit. Page 1 paragraph 10 of the,”Horrific Wreck of the City,” states,”The first portion of that shock was just a mild forerunning of what was to follow. The pause in the action of the earth’s surface couldn’t have been more than a
Ever since I was little I was amazed at the ability for a machine to fly. I have always wanted to explore ideas of flight and be able to actually fly. I think I may have found my childhood fantasy in the world of aeronautical engineering. The object of my paper is to give me more insight on my future career as an aeronautical engineer. This paper was also to give me ideas of the physics of flight and be to apply those physics of flight to compete in a high school competition.
Ten million California residents who lived closely from the major fault lines could have been endangered in many extreme ways. (House, 56). A tragic thing was that after the earthquake a multitudes of fire followed right after. The situation led to the water mains being destroyed and the firefighter being left with no water to settle the growing fire which continued blazing. The bay water was planned on putting all of the dure out but it was to far in distance to be able to transport it (Earthquake of 1906, 2). The firefighters who were putting out the fire were either surrounded or being burned by the fire that was blazing in all directions (San Francisco Earthquake, 2). A resident who was present during the event mention that he/she saw men and women standing in a corner of a building praying, one person who became delirious by the horrific ways that were surrounding him while crying and screaming at the top of his lungs “the Lord sent it, the Lord”. Someone also mentioned that they experience themselves seeing Stones fall from the sky and crushing people to death. Reporters say there were 100 cannons going off (San Francisco Earthquake, 3). People who lived fifty miles away from the fire was able to “read the newspaper at
Grecian architecture formed its own conventions in the ancient world, buildings in Greece were built with meticulous mathematic design. Great buildings were believed to be symmetrical, and perfectly proportioned [Document 7]. Another prominent aspect of ancient Greek architecture is the extensive use of columns. There were three basic types used, Doric which were plain capitals, ionic in which the capitals were fashioned after ram’s horns, and Corinthian which were made to mirror acanthus leaves.
Before examining the Northridge event, understanding the naturally occurring hazard that is an earthquake will help to better understand exactly what happened and why it was such an important geological event. With four distinct layers, two layers, the crust and upper portion of the mantle, compose the skin that is the surface layer of the Earth. The crust is not a single, continuous piece. It is actually several different pieces, or plates, that come together to form the puzzle that comprises the surface of the Earth. These plates are in constant motion rubbing against one another. These areas, known as fault lines, where the plates rub up against one another have spots where one plate ”gets stuck while the rest of the plate keeps moving. When the plate has moved far enough, the edges unstick and is how most of the earthquakes around the world occur” (Wald, 2012). The energy stored from the friction of the two plate...
“Chi la dura la vince.” This soft-spoken Italian proverb sums up the series of events that Italian immigrants endured on their journey in America. Between 1880 and 1920, more than four million Italian-Americans immigrated to the United States of America in hopes of temporarily escaping Southern Italy’s impoverished and overpopulated society. Once in America, these new Italian-American citizens started ‘Little Italys’ or ethnic enclaves of Italians. Some Little Italies were even large enough to support a full economic structure of their own, providing a plethora of job opportunities. These ‘small’ Italian communities shielded themselves from general stereotypes and provided a sense of belonging which helped Italians establish their roots. America’s attitude toward these new Italian-American citizens can be summed up in part by Congressman James McClintic, a Democrat Oklahoman: "I say the class of immigrants [Italians] coming to the shores of the United States at this time are not the kind of people we want as citizens in this country." Inplace of responding by aggressive human nature, America’s new Italian citizens viewed this as an opportunity to enrich family and community bonds. As for Italian traditions, they struggled to be accustomed between the two Italian generations as the already ‘Americanized’ Italian children clashed with their parents, which resulted in altered traditions. One major example is Italian-American food which chain restaurants have come to paint as a type of restaurant that specializes in spaghetti with meatballs, pizza, and has red checked tablecloths.
It is not common knowledge, but people can be genetically predisposed to develop depression during their lives. Depression runs in families. It can be passed d...
Through my extensive research on depression I have learned a lot of new things. I have learned about the many forms of depression and treatment for depression. I have also learned a little about what is believed to go on chemically in the brain of a clinically depressed person. I was also able to partially determine what sort of role genetics, chemicals and personal influences in the brain. Though I was unable to determine exactly how environmental and personal stress can cause a chemical imbalance in a person, I was even able to speculate about this issue and determine some theories of my own on why and how this may happen.
There is limited research conducted to assess the contribution of nature (genetic links) and nurture (parenting styles and home environment) factors to the onset of SAD in adolescents, despite the extensive amount of studies that established and support the nature/nurture link to SAD onsets.
In the story of The Island of “Kora”, the island had been devastated by a violent earthquake that had been triggered by a volcano eruption four years earlier. The island which had prior to the disaster been about twenty square miles in size and been reduced to less than a fourth that size to about four square miles. The island prior to the earthquakes had previously been able to support comfortably 850 to 900 people. It was a peaceful island where the inhabitants got along well. Because of the disasters the lives of the inhabitants had been changed forever.
The exact causes of depression seem to differ immensely, but there are some who believe that it maybe caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, or that it may even be hereditary. Still there are others who believe that it is a combination of social, biological, emotional, psychological, and economical influences that may cause someone who has no family history of depression to develop even a mild case of depression.
Delirium is a cognitive disorder that alters the patients’ level of consciousness, generally as an acute onset, impairs memory, fluctuations in behavior, produces disorganized thinking, and perceptual disturbances such as hallucinations (Downing, Caprio & Lyness, 2013). In order to diagnose and monitor Delirium a confusion assessment method (CAM) is used to measure the symptoms of ...
Biologists ignore the fact that depression can be due to nurture for instance psychodynamic psychologists believe that people who develop depression could have had a bad childhood therefore the bad childhood experiences influences the adulthood of the person.
Emile Durkheim is a French sociologist that is commonly labeled as the “father of sociology”. In his book Suicide, Durkheim studied the suicide rates in Catholic and Protestant communities. He argued that the suicide rates are higher in Protestant communities because Catholics have stronger social control over their community. His research concluded that even though men are more likely to commit suicide than women, women who are unmarried and childless are more likely to commit suicide then those who aren’t. Durkheim stated “the term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result”. (Pickering 2000) He theorized that there are four different types of suicide:
Villanueva, C. J. 2009. Force of Gravity [Online]. Available at: http://www.universetoday.com/34824/force-of-gravity/ [Accessed: 28th March 2014].