Assignment #11B

At The Red Cross Hospital, Dr Sasake worked for three straight days with only one hour’s sleep. On the second day, he began to sew up the worst cuts, and right through the following night and all the next day he stitched. Many of the wounds were festered. Fortunately, someone had found intact a supply of narucopon, a Japanese sedative, and he gave it to many who were in pain. Word went around among the staff that there must have been something peculiar about the great bomb, because on the second day the vice-chief of the hospital went down in the basement to the vault where the X-ray plates were stored and found the whole stock exposed as they lay. That day, a fresh doctor and ten nurses came in from the city of Yamaguchi with extra bandages and antiseptics, and the third day another physician and a dozen more nurses arrived from Matsue yet there were still only eight doctors for ten thousand patients. In the afternoon of the third day, exhausted from his foul tailoring, Dr. Sasaki became obsessed with the idea that his mother though he was dead. He got permission to go to Mukaihar. He walked out to the first suburbs, beyond which the electric train service was still functioning, and reached home late in the evening. His mother said she had known he was all right all along; a wounded nurse had stopped by to tell her. He went to bed and slept for seventeen hous.(Hiroshima p56)
“Could this paragraph be divided into at least two smaller paragraphs? Leave a comment to address this question and explain your position.”

Assignment #11A

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.) (Hiroshima p141)

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

Assignment 10 (C) - Help

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 barded head in the back of the seal.

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

- Orginal answer : This condition is not real condition and the author uses “ would” to emphasize the verb.

“All assistance that contributes to revising this answer is greatly appreciated.”

Assignment 10 (B)”

"At first he though they were just gone, perhaps back to a town for He had the bow, a laminate straight, almost a longbow, that pulled forty-five pounds at twenty-six inches'draw.

In this case, what is “draw,” and what does “pounds” refer to here?

- Original answer: “draw” refers to bow’s size and “ponds” is the bow’s weight.

- Revised answer: In this scene, “draw” refers to the bow's length and “pounds” means the maximum strength when Brian draws the bow fully.

“Assignment 10(A)”

“They had planes and guns radios and GPS but in some ways they had no knowledge because they had all the gadgets; they missedt the small thinkgs 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 answer: The people of cities have a lot of equipment and high tecknowledge machines. However, they do not know the basic of nature.

- Revised answer: This situation is that after three authorities are arrived the wood to take Susan up, Brian asks them for killing bear which killed Susan’s parents brutally. In this scene, “they saw too big” means that the ranger thinks that it is too difficult to catch bear without detailed information of bear even though people have enough the equipments like radios or GPS.

"Assignment # 9 (A)"

The weapon was referred to in this word-of-mouth report as gensbi bakudan-the root characters of which can be translated as “original child bomb”
The weapon was referred to in this word-of-mouth report as gensbi bakudan-the root characters of which can be translated as “original child bomb” (p62 Hiroshima)
In this sentence, “original bomb” means that the weapon “B-29” is used for the first time in the world ; however, I can not exactly get that why people says "child bomb."

Assignment # 9 (B)

Then flames came along his side of the street and entered his house. In a paroxysm of terrifeid strengthm he freed himself and ran down the alleys of Nobori-cho, hemmed in by the fire he had said would never come. He began at once to behave like an old man; two months later his hair was white. (p34 Hiroshima)

In this passage, I could not get the meaning even though the author discribes well this situation. I just assume that why does this man' hair became white color.

“Assignment #8 (A)”

True, she was pretty and that was nice but he did not really know her, but he thought how she might laugh when he met her and told her how his thoughts were running. (Brian’s Hunt p7)

“Assignment #8 (B)”

She was four miles down the lake, on the east shore, dragging the canoe along the shallows on the lake edge so she could jump in and push out is she saw the bear. (Brian’s Hunt p82)

Assignment #5

Sentences Type from Other blogs

1. Simple- “I was discharged from the army after nearly four years, most of it spent at Fort Bliss, Texas, in May of 1962.”(Page 5)
(http://chin-yin.blogspot.com/)
: This sentence is simple sentence because there is only one independent clause.

2. Compound - “The salt in the wood makes it slow to burn, and it was difficult to light. (Page.6) (http://englishwitheuphrasie.blogspot.com/)
: This sentence is consisted with two independent clauses, and there is one coordinator like “and”.

3. Complex - “The Sea was there, deep cobalt, immense, rising like a great saucer to the blue horizon, where it was impossible to see a defining line between water and sky.”(p.1) (http://alexjudeng.blogspot.com/)
: In this sentence, one independent clause and one subordinator “where” is in here.

4. Compound & complex - “I had closed the companionway, but hundreds of gallons went down into the boat and I could hear the twelve-volt bilge pump working to get rid of the water, putting out a little half-inch stream while gallons poured in through the louvered doors of the companionway. (p. 100)
(http://tinhsekhongphai.blogspot.com/): There are two independent clauses and one coordinator “but “and subordinator “while”.

post assignment # 1

(Page 2~3 The plane crashed and broke in half near the ship, and the sharks that had been following the troopship moved to the women and children in the water, many of whom were bleeding into the water from injuries. The attack was fast, ripping savage. Some of the people were killed and many others left with terrible wounds that I would see later when they came aboard the ship from the lifeboats. ~ Terrible as it was, I found the attack not frightening but somehow natural, a part of what I was seeing for the first time. ~ screams and the sounds of people dying filled the air. But even so, I found myself looking out across the expanse of water on the other side of the ship, away from the sinking plane and struggling people.

In this paragraph, the author describes how does he is caught by the sea for the first time. I wonder about how does the boy who is only seventeen years old can be attracted the sea during people are dying; however, this scene also gives different view and image to me.

post assignment #2

Sentence Types
Simple
I set it up with the canoe tied to a dock on a lake in northern Minnesota.

(page 8)
Another such wave could easily be the end of us. (page 45)

-- In these sentences, there are only one independent claue.

Compound
Looking at it one way, I was working at destroying myself, and the boat worked equally hard at saving me. (page62)

I was working in Hollywood, learning to write, and the second thing happened that would change my life forever. (page6)

- Each sentence has coordinator like "And", and is consisted with two independents clauses.

Complex
I was living on less than four thousand dollars a year, so that pretty much wiped out the four million-dollar boats. (page 17)

I pulled on my clothes, and a jacket since it was fairly cool. (page32)

- In each sentence, there is subordinator such as "so that" or " since"; moreover, each sentece has only one independent clauses and one dependent cluase.

Compound- Complex
But I am sixty now, and I can’t imagine that I’ll die from eating an Oreo cookie since I didn’t die from all the crazy dangerous things I’ve done. (page 85)

It was hanked on, and for some reason I had difficulty figuring out how it worked, so I put I on and took it off several times as we rolled wildly, with no wind to steady the boat in the swells, hanging on to the stay with one hand while I worked with the other. (page 39)

- In each sentence, there are two independent sentences, and I can see coordinaotr and subordinator between two independent senteces.

(Unsure sentence type)
On the second day I ate the can of beans, but on the third day of lying there, with the sun cooking and dying everything out, a cautionary switch went off in my brain and I ate nothing but drank probably a gallon of water.
- I think this is simple sentence because there is only one complete clause.