Monday, July 2, 2007
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
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Sorry but I can't separate the paragraph because it can't be divided into two different paragraphs.
It�s alright! Don�t apologize. You might be right the peace is tight but I still think that we can find a way to divide this paragraph without it loosing its sense.
In my opinion, this paragraph would be divided three parts.
First of all, this is “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”. This part is about the schoolgirls in Hiroshima affected by bomb.
Secondly, the part is from “A month after Tanimoto returned from his second tip to the states, he stated, dozen of them” to “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.”, which talks about the first Tanimoto’s project to help schoolgirls.
Third part is from "He asked the city government for funds for plastic surgery for the keloids Girls.” to “The A.B.C.C. reminded him that it carried on research, not treatment.” It is about another Tanimoto’s project for funds for plastic surgery for the Keloid Girls.
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