Monday, July 2, 2007

“Could this paragraph be divided into at least two smaller paragraphs? Leave a comment to address this question and explain your position.”

assignment#11b

The day before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the city, in fear of incendiary raids, had put hundreds of schoolgirls to work helping to tear down houses and clear fire lanes. They were out in the open when the suffered bad burns and later developed ugly keloids on their faces, arms, and hands. A month after Tanimoto returned from his second tip to the states, he stated, dozen of them. He bought three sewing machines and put the girls to work in a dressmaking workshop on the second floor of another of his projects, a warwidows’ home he had founded. He asked the city government for funds for plastic surgery for the keloids Girls. It turned him down. He then applied to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, which had been set up to study the radiation aftereffects of the bomb-aftereffects that those who made the decision to drop the bomb had utterly failed for foresee. The A.B.C.C. reminded him that it carried on research, not treatment. (The A.B.C.C. was keenly resented for this reason by hibakusha; they said that the Americans regarded them as a laboratory guinea pigs or rats.) p141

assignment#11a

In the village of Mukaira, he tried to be as inconspicuous-as Japanese-as he could. He sometimes wore Japanese clothes. Not wanting to seem high-living, he never bought meat in the local market, but sometimes he smuggled some out from the city. A Japanese priest who occasionally came to see him, father Hasegawa, admired his efforts to carry his naturalization through to perfection but found him in many ways unshakably German. He had a tendency when he was rebuffed in an undertaking to stubbornly push all the harder straight for it, whereas a Japanese would more tactfully look for some way around. Father Hasegawa noticed that when Father Takakura was hospitalized, he rigidly respected the hospital’s visiting hours, and if people came, even from far away, to see him, outside proper hours, he refused to receive them. Once, eating with his friend, Father Hasegawa declined his host’s offer of a bowl of rice; he was full. But then delicious pickles appeared, which caused a Japanese palate to cry out for rice, and he decide to have a bowl after all. Father Takakura was outraged (i.e. , in his guest’s view, German ): how could he eat rice plus pickle when he had been too full to eat rice alone?p.114

Thursday, June 21, 2007

assignment#10C

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 barber head in the seal.

Q: why do three different verb forms in this passage occur with “would”? What does the use of “would” convey here?

All assistance that contribute to revising this answer is greatly appreciate.

assignment#10B

A coyote perhaps, brush wolf as they called the up north, or maybe a timber wolf, two wolves, one begging from the other.

What is the sentence type her, and why?

OA: This sentence has one dependent clause with “they” as the subject and “called” as the verb. So it’s a fragment.

RA: “A coyote, perhaps, brush wolf as they called them up north” is the only clause in this sentence with “they called” as the subject verb combination. So with only one dependent clause we can conclude that this sentence is a fragment-complex sentence.

assignment#10A

Q: According to the story, what is a “grapnel,” and how does it work exactly?

OA: A “grapnel” is a more bigger peace than a bow. It releases the arrow very fast so it’s hard to miss your target. This is what David used to hunt with.

RA: A grapnel is a small anchor with four inches rounded point. In the book Brian would drop the hook and let it bite into the weeds and mud on the bottom and tie it off to the bow of the canoe to hold on to it.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

assignement 9b

the children had been sleeping nearly ten feets apart, but now their voices seemed to come from the same place p.19