...A storm Gathering. Write a summary of A storm Gathering: The story takes place in an underprivileged village in Sudan, where we follow the protagonist Malik. it all begins with Malik lying in his bed while thinking about the deterioration of his village, even though the USA promised that they wouldn’t allow another famine. An unnamed female doctor arrives but Malik gets quite disappointed discovering that she only carries medicine for a few people, even though she carries a lot of food. The female doctor visits the chief of the village, only to discover that he’s dead. When Malik hears about the chieftain died after he received medicine, he fears that the village people will blame him for the chieftain’s death. Just as the panic gets to both of their minds, a storm approaches and Malik sees this as their chance to escape. At last Malik, the female doctor are sheltered in a car. suddenly, Malik is hoping for the storm to last eternally. Characterize Malik: Malik is a master of science of Khartoum University, which is much respected. Despite his cleverness, Malik lives in a poor village, sleeps on a rush bed and the whole village depends on him. Malik seems very insecure and worried with the current circumstances, you can tell anxiousness penetrate his body: ‘’ He lay on his rush bed staring up through the darkness, nervous, slim, naked, wrapped only in silence’’. His body seems like it’s haunted as it seems like he’s used to living in the fear of the worst. And when the...
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...VESPASIAN ROME’?S EXECUTIONER Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and TV for twenty-five years. As an assistant director he has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His lifelong passion for ancient history –? especially the Roman Empire –? inspired the birth of the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin. First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd. Copyright ©? Robert Fabbri 2012. The moral right of Robert Fabbri to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’?s imagination or are used fictitiously. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-1-84887-912-6 (Hardback) ISBN: 978-1-84887-913-3 (Trade paperback) ISBN: 978-0-85789-676-6 (eBook) Printed in Great Britain. Corvus An imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd Ormond...
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...A Storm Gathering A Thursday night in Sudan Malik a Doctor educated from the university of Khartoum, is laying in his charpoy, feeling disembodied, as his bodily feelings has left him. We are told some of the things that has been happening throughout the week, mostly sad things such as the army accidentally killing nomads etc. Malik is unfortunately unable to pay his staff in cash, he has run out of medicine and is therefore unable to cure the people he promised to help and so it goes on. That night a female doctor arrives without much medicine, as she is just there to inspect the work that Malik is carrying out, and to inspect the nearby villages, when what they really need is Medicine and food. Malik is looked very badly upon as his effort is not helping, and he broke his promise. The next day the female doctor drives off to inspect the villages, while she is gone, Malik receives word that the village chief is dead, and is afraid of the locals retaliation as they assume the female doctor has killed him, they are saved by a sandstorm. Malik has a good heart he really wants to help the locals, his luck is sadly just not as good as his heart, most of of the time things seem to go against him. He is educated at the university of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, he feels humiliated by the female doctor probably because the African people isn´t used to women walking and talking as they wish, furthermore women´s rights in Islamic religion is very restricted, and therefore her...
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...hurricanes. They have destroyed houses, neighborhoods, cities, and families. These destructive stormsSo say have a season for when they pass but in reality they are very unpredictable. Believe it or not there several ways to prepare for these unpredictable storms bfore they become to close and to dangerous. With the technology we have these days we are alerted ahead of time when there’s a storm brewing in the golf. It is always a good idea use these alerts to start preparing, gathering, and buying supplies that may be essential to riding out these sometimes very long lasting storms. One of the key components in preparing for a hurricane is finding the correct shelter. Unfortunately in Louisiana we are not blessed with underground rooms or basements, which are the most ideal for these situations. Some thing we can do though is find a room with absolutely no windows. We go in a room with no windows Incase of the event of strong wind that blow debris into the window and break them in on us. Make sure the room you go in is build on a good firm structure. Most people suggest going into a bathroom!...
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...Kate Chopin was born in St.louis And was a daughter of an Irish immigrant. When her father died she was raised by her mother's family in Louisiana. After 1883, when her husband died she began to bring into American fiction of some of their hard-eye observations and their passion for telling the unpleasant truth (According to Revel Bibliography). “The Storm” by Kate took place in 1969, In southern Louisiana. The storm can be described as a central metaphor and is divided into a section to show how it progresses over time. In the time this short story is written women depended on men. In the beginning, one of the protagonists Named Calixta is left at home by her husband and son. As the son and husband wait at the store until the storm dies down her son worries about her. She also worries about them...
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...California Where she then became poor. Esperanza did the same as most immigrants which was having to move to the united states cause of tragedy. Although Esperanza had faced many challenges her hardest one’s were she did not know how to do daily chores because she always had servants, the dust storm caused her mama to become sick with valley fever, and she and other mexicans faced discrimination in the U.S. First, one of Esperanza’s main challenges was she did not no how to do daily chores because she had always had servants. On page 116 it said, “In her entire life Esperanza had never held a broom in her hand”. In this time rich landowners did not no how to do daily chores because they always had servants, like Esperanza. She decides she needs to pull her weight by sweeping and cleaning. On page 116 it had said,” onion jackets flew into the air instead of gathering into a neat pile like...
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...that would affect future cash flow. 2. What role does asymmetric information play in producing this problem? Asymmetric information exists in a game when a player does not know some relevant fact about another player. Game of this nature is called incomplete information game. In the principle-game, principle wants to induce some actions by agent. If principle cannot observe the behavior of agent, the information problem is the hidden action. If principle cannot observe some relevant characteristic of agent ( e.g. skill-level, or firm’s cost) , the problem is the hidden information. Thus asymmetric information may cause agency problem. 3. Briefly explain the main series of events that led to the collapse of Storm Financial. Firstly, Storm Financial encourages their investors to buy stock by borrowing against their home and using cash to raise more money to invest. Actually all these investors don’t have sufficient income to make the repayments. Secondly, some of the people with little or no income were loaded to the max with debt and persuaded to put their house and super on the line. If the stock market falls by 10%, they were told to put in more cash and more shares, because the shares were cheap. If market rose by 10%, they were told to borrow money to buy more shares to maximum their gains. Storm’s...
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...October. No symptoms of the disease were evident in any of the peacekeepers, but 75% of people infected with this disease may not show symptoms and can infect persons for a period of two weeks. These implications are serious with regards to the United Nations. Haiti was hit in 2004 by tropical storm Jeanne killing around 3006 people, in 2008 tropical storm Fay, Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna, and Ike devastated the island leaving untold count of Haitians dead. The country’s most severe earthquake in over 200 years stuck on January 12, 2010. All the above mentioned disasters are acts of God; the cholera epidemic, prior was the Beri-beri epidemic in Haiti’s penitentiary which reportedly was caused by the manufacturing process used in the United States processed rice and the traditional Haitian rice cooking method was killing the young men behind bars and leaving others morbidly ill. The latter are acts of mankind. When I was in my adolescent years, I was introduced to a woman, named “Haitian Marie” who was my aunt through marriage to my uncle. Weekly we would have family gatherings at another’s aunt’s house Haitian Marie occupied a floor with my uncle they were often present for the gathering. She would share many of horrific experiences that she endured in...
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...of them lost their lives, for no one in South Dade had been evacuated or even advised to evacuate. (Frankovich, 2001) Hurricane Andrew was a powerful category 4 hurricane, which made landfall in Dade County, Florida on August 24, 1992. The hurricane was later upgraded to a category 5 due to the storms extremely strong and damaging winds. When the storm made landfall it reportedly had sustained winds of 145 mph and wind gusts of 175 mph. In Dade County alone, the storm left 15 dead and approximately 250,000 residents homeless. According to (Rappaport, 1992) an additional 25 lives were lost due the after effects of the storm. No one knew exactly how big the storm would be and how much it would impact the southern part of Florida. Damage caused by the storm was estimated at $25 billion dollars. In Dade County alone, some 25,000 homes were destroyed and over 101,000 were damaged. In Homestead, Florida nearly all of the mobile homes were lost (1167 out of 1176). Even though the monetary damage caused by the storm was astronomical, in reality, casualties were very low. According to (Rappaport, 1992), over a million people were evacuated from southern Florida prior to the storm hitting land. This can be related to the fact that track forecast by the National Hurricane Center had...
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...Anu explained the purpose of the gathering and his disgust with the people and asked each of them to come up with ideas to improve Mesopotamia. Anu was very anxious to hear all their thoughts. Enki immediately stood up and spoke to the group. He insisted the people needed to have more responsibilities to keep them occupied while at the same time making improvements to the city. He suggested working on a new river branch to improve irrigation systems. Ea, God of Rivers, agreed and added this idea would greatly improve agriculture and that Mesopotamia would flourish with a surplus of crops. Anu was pleased with this idea as was all the other Gods, and soon they came up with plans for creating a new waterway using the Euphrates...
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...One observes that both texts demonstrate the loss of childhood innocence due to the destructive nature of war. In Spies, Stephen’s maturation and awakening views on adulthood and sexuality are manifested through Barbara’s intrusion upon the boy’s hideout, which was initially symbolic of their world of fantasy. By transforming the hideout to the place where Stephen encounters his first kiss, Frayn makes it a gataway to the adult world rather an escape from it. This is emphasised when Stephen overcomes his fear of “germs” as he finds the kiss: “quite nice”. References to the privet hedge as the biblical “Garden of Eden” portray Barbara as Stephen’s sexual temptress, as Eve, as her “girlish” behaviour no longer offends him. Yet, this also likens...
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...America stand for. The use of a semantic field of oceanic lexis demonstrates both a positive and negative pathetic fallacy towards these metaphors. Firstly, the pathetic fallacy appears more positive in the quotes ‘tides of prosperity’ and ‘still waters of peace’. The use of the post modifiers ‘prosperity’ and ‘peace’ denote awareness to the American history and presidents who have taken said presidential oath in good faith and in bad, which works favourably within this genre as this recognition is sometimes the reassurance an audience requires. The negative pathetic fallacy appears under ‘gathering clouds’ and ‘raging storms’, this time using pre modifiers ‘gathering’ – in conjunction with clouds – and ‘raging’ to illuminate the unsettled time, again stating his awareness of the American presidential history. These indications of pathetic fallacy also induce pragmatics, as the idea of ‘gathering clouds’ and ‘still waters of peace’ in reference to the history of America would require a shared understanding of the presidential history prior to Obama’s election. Another commonly used feature within this genre is the use of the triadic structure, usually enforced to repeat a point, or a quote, to emphasise it’s meaning to the audience. An example to be noted within...
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...Muhammad Abu Noyeem (1101567) Research and Critical Skills in Environmental Sciences (IE 5511) Research Proposal Research Title: Regional Poverty Disparity in Bangladesh for Climate Change Author: Muhammad Abu Noyeem Abstract Whilst Bangladesh is considered one of the most climates affected and vulnerable country in the world has made commendable progress in poverty reduction. But the proportion of poverty reduction is not equal everywhere in the country, particularly the coastal regions - having vicinity to the Bay of Bengal differs from the rest of the country in terms of highest vulnerability for climatic change impacts and highest poverty levels as well. It is predicted that frequent extreme events in coastal regions are the main impediment to attain national poverty levels. This research proposal aim is to establish a relationship between climate change impacts and change in poverty disparity by comparing coastal areas with other regions in Bangladesh over the last 20 years. The study will be based on year-wise comparative data analysis regarding affected areas, damages, development activities, socio-economic variables and poverty levels since 1991 to 2011. This research hypothetically foresees that higher extreme events affect and much damage will be created higher poverty gaps and disparity in coastal areas than the other parts of the country. Keywords: climate change, poverty disparity, coastal areas, Bangladesh. Proposed Supervisor: Dr. Ariana Zeka Lecturer...
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...Hurricane Sandy Research Paper Super storm Hurricane Sandy occurred from October 22, 2012 – October 31st, 2012. It was a storm that many people have never seen before and may never see again. Hurricane sandy destroyed homes, businesses, and took lives all in the process. When it comes to business continuity, what did the government, businesses/utilities, financial organizations and individuals do prior to the storm, during the storm, and after the storm. Hurricane sandy had an overall impact that will never be forgotten and taught us what we know today. The government played a role through FEMA in order to take actions prior to Hurricane Sandy. Government data forecasts were provided to the public. According to “Hurricane Sandy highlights role of government information in our everyday lives” by www.foreeffective.org, states that government satellites and airplanes collect the data on the storms strength and condition. The, the government scientists develop and apply the models that predict where the storm will go. Finally, a government agency, the national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service, provides that information to the public. New York, Maryland, Washington, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina declare state of emergency and people are told to evacuate. During the super storm FEMA provided an effective and efficient response to the damages caused by Hurricane Sandy. During the storm, housing for the thousands of people the hurricane displaced...
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...Charles Simic is a Serbian-American poet born on May 9, 1938 in Belgrade which was then a part of Yugoslavia. Simic’s early days passed under the effects of the Second World War and he witnessed the effects of Nazism on people. At a very young age, Simic’s father had been captured by the Nazi officials but he managed to escape in the year 1944. Many of his poems such Death List are strongly influenced by the time he spent under the Nazi regime and on the horrors of the holocaust survivors. One of the first poem that Simic published was “What the Grass Says”, this was when he was in high school in USA. Later in 1990 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his collection of prose poetry. If you read any one of the Simic’s poems you won’t be able to understand the clear meaning that he is trying to convey but as you read three or four of them, you will start to realize there is a strange sense of juxtapositions of objects in his works. The poems written by Charles Simic always have the sense of conflict within the poem itself. Simic is not afraid of exploring violence in his poems and this can be justified by his early days. His imagination has the scenes of what he witnessed during the Nazi regime and he seems to be scared of it. However Simic himself justifies his use of violence in the poems, he once said in the interviews, ““Violence is a kind of pathetic, perverted attempt to feel. The poems try to understand its origins, to see its consequences, to exorcise its demons”. (The...
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