...have positive influences in their lives in any form, such as books. This past summer for my AP English class, we read a book called Zeitoun, written by best-selling author, Dave Eggers. Eggers tells the true story of a Muslim American, Zeitoun, and how he and his family endure cruel treatment from racial prejudices post 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Eggers paints Zeitoun as a heroic and admirable man. However, after the book was released, it was revealed that Zeitoun was not really the man Eggers made him out to be. In an article written by Victoria Patterson, we learn that Zeitoun was arrested on charges of domestic violence, and even when he was in...
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...The nonfiction novel, Zeitoun, written by Dave Eggers, involves a Syrian American, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, who was determined to stay and aid survivors in New Orleans after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina. Zeitoun faced discrimination and was imprisoned after being accused of being a terrorist. Aside from the novel, the present day Zeitoun had been cleared of charges with the, “solicitation of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder of his ex-wife” (Martin). Even though the nonfiction novel was possibly not accurate, it should remain a summer reading book and be taught at Mills High School, due to the positive effects that the text have on students. This book could be used as an introduction of how to write rhetorical strategies....
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...“Welcome to planet Zeras! It is filled with many creatures, animals, plants, and well almost everything! Do you want to live here? I am going to assume you said yes and if you did, too bad. Remember this is a story and not an episode of Doctor Who.” Zeras was a peaceful place and every being had high spirits. War has broken out on the planet and everyone and everything was affected. Factories being built, towns invaded, and innocent lives lost. It was like a race, a race to out class each other. Inventing, designing, building, and powering all sorts of tools of destruction. In the land of Columbia, in the city of Midgar, one man had a life changing invention and that is turning people into weapons. Captured enemies were used as test subjects...
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...hero, his story has been made public displaying a superhero in reality. Zeitoun depicts a brave man who refuses to evacuate New Orleans in order to provide aid after the storm. Despite the possible horror the Hurricane would leave behind, Zeitoun channels his inner man and sticks out the storm in...
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...were ruined. David Egger’s Zeitoun tells the story of a family that survived this natural disaster. The main character, Abdulrahman Zeitoun decided to stay in New Orleans and help his community while his wife, Kathy, left for safety with their children. Although he had good intentions, Zeitoun makes a bad decision to stay in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina because he suffers tremendously and causes his entire family stress and despair. Zeitoun is arrested for no good reason and as a result, he suffers physically and mentally. Zeitoun suffers a few injuries while he is in jail and it could be the death of him. Zeitoun suffers a lot of physical pain during the hurricane. The book says, “Then he cut through to the dark object lodged inside, and after soaking his foot in blood he pried it out.”(Eggers 238). It shows what injuries he suffers. Zeitoun has a piece of metal stuck in his foot and has to remove it himself. He has to use shards of glass from a Tabasco bottle. Later after he is moved to another prison, Zeitoun suffers from a severe pain in his side. He does not know the cause, but he is in extreme pain. In the book it says, “The stabbing pain in his side, which Zeitoun had first felt at Greyhound, had now amplified...
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...It is often in times of disaster that we find out peoples true nature. After Hurricane Katrina many people in New Orleans got scared and worried about what would happen to them, their families and their friends. When scared, people do things they would never dream of during normal times. In the novel Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, this is shown to be true over and over again. If a natural disaster anywhere close to the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina hit my own small hometown of Yellville, Arkansas, there would be some similarities but many more differences. In the beginning of the novel, Abdulrahman Zeitoun is a hard working entrepreneur. He is very kind, always hiring people in need, taking on the most stressful of jobs and getting them done, in my opinion, he is very much like the southern gentlemen where I am from....
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...WBIS 188 008C October 31, 2011 Title “Moments later, another passing soldier looked at Zeitoun and muttered ‘Taliban.’” Zeitoun (213.) The soldier that called Zeitoun this name knew nothing about him other then the fact that he was Muslim. The soldier simply accused him of something that he is not. It seems as though this is a constant battle for the Zeitoun Family. Zeitoun and his wife Kathy are often criticized and treated poorly because of the religion that they belong too. We do not have to read far into the book to get our first of example where Zeitoun is criticized for being Muslim. His wife Kathy does all of the office work for her and her husbands business, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor. Every so often, would-be clients would call and ask where the name is from and also where is her husband from. Kathy would tell them that it is Syrian. Sometimes even that much was all it would take for the client to hang up. Kathy, an American converted Muslim, would also get negative reactions from people too. A teenage girl even went as far as trying to grab Kathy’s Hijab off of her head as she was walking in a parking lot. Kathy’s own mom would often make comments to Kathy that she can take that “thing” off of her head. Even though Kathy was white she was still subject to harassment because of her religion choice. Islamophbia is defined as: hatred or fear of Muslims or of their politics or culture. A study by Zogby International for The Arab American...
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...Chang Qu Essay #1 (Draft) Selected Option 1 Throughout part 1 of Zeitoun, the writer uses the writing technique of shifting time and place to express some ideas of this book and also, he covers the points of the two main characters by the flashbacks in some ways . It impacts the further story with the plots and influence the understanding of Zeitoun and Kathy's mysterious relationship. It makes reader feel unusual and curious about characters. The description of their live ways are not as the normal couples do, the views of regrading things are not the same thinking ways as people imagine in the first part, the conflict is elaborated by flashback exactly. The book focuses around the accounts of Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun during Hurricane Katrina. From the flashback way ,the writer describes about the characters' past before marriage. Kathy’s and Zeitoun’s pasts are revealed bit by bit through flashbacks. Zeitoun's family life and his business life ,the two very interconnected. He is a devout Muslim, before marriage, he lived in Jableh ,Syria with his dad and brothers and he has his own faith since he has awareness .He married Kathy who was one of nine children in a Christian family before meeting Zeitoun, as we can see, the two different of religions might influence their thinking ways of things , specially when they meet an emergency. “Zeitoun was too stunned to react. He had a hundred things on his mind, and a pipeat one of the rental properties just...
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...kids’ rooms. She LISTENS closely, praying silently for rest. Each | |morning there was a delicate period, between six and six-thirty, when there was a chance, however remote, that they could steal | |another ten or fifteen minutes of sleep. But now there was another thump, and the dog barked, and another thump followed. What | |was happening in this house? Kathy LOOKS to her husband. He was staring at the ceiling. […] | | | |The phone began ringing, today as always, before their feet hit the floor. Kathy and Zeitoun – most people CALLS him by his last | |name because they CANNOT pronounce his first – ran a company, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC, and every day their crews, | |their clients, everyone with a phone and their number, SEEMS to think that once the clock STRIKES six-thirty, it was appropriate| |to call. And they CALL. Usually there were so many calls at the stroke of six-thirty that the would send half of them straight | |to voicemail. | | | | ...
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...are important and necessary to understand the reading and to complete the chart below for each of the three words. Don’t use any Hawaiian or other language words. Sentence the word is found in. Please underline the vocabulary word | Page number and location | Meaning, as used in the sentence (explain in SIMPLE English) | Usage in sentence (noun, adjective, verb, etc.) and other notes | On the way to school, Kathy and her daughters listen to radio news about Katrina, which has now been upgraded to a Category 1 Hurricane | Page | Raise to a higher standard, in particular improve by adding or replacing components.EX. And an expensive hardware upgrade may not help either | (Verb) | Kathy also calls with her worries about Katrina, but Zeitoun remains unperturbed. His father Mahmoud, a sailor in his youth, always survived. | | Not perturbed or concerned.EX. Lara seems unperturbed by the news | (Adjective) | He is suspicious about the construction of the levees surrounding the city, which he is worried will break. Kathy tries to call her husband but is only able to get through briefly. | | Having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or...
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...Assessment Cover Sheet (Print all details and attach to front of assessment task/assignment before submitting) Name | ------------------------------------------------- Fatih Budak | Student ID | ------------------------------------------------- s1421411 | Phone number | ------------------------------------------------- 0412156758 | Email | ------------------------------------------------- s1421411@nmitstudent.vic.edu.au | Course code & name | ------------------------------------------------- Associate Degree of Accounting | Unit code & name | BACC202 - Risk management corporate governance and ethics - S1, 2015 | Name of assessment | ------------------------------------------------- Assignment 1 | Due Date | 27/03/2015 (Submission after the due date is subject to penalty) | Teacher name | ------------------------------------------------- Shirley Wong | Instructions | ------------------------------------------------- | Declaration: Read, tick and sign below * I declare that the attached assessment I have submitted is my own original work and any contributions from and references to other authors are clearly acknowledged and noted. * This document has been created for the purpose of this assessment only and has not been submitted as another form of assessment at Melbourne Polytechnic or any other tertiary institute. * I have retained a copy of this work for my reference in the event that this application is lost or damaged...
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...York Will Trim Common Core Exams After Many Students Skipped Them." that was featured in the September 16th 2015 edition of The New York Times. Harris Claims that the latest retooling of a group of exams that have grown so unpopular that 20 percent of eligible children sat them out this past spring. Harris’s findings help shed light to the generation of policy makers, that we as students a fed up with the ridiculous measuring stick that determines our level of education. As a student myself how can you blame the youth of America, I personally feel that Education Policy Makers are forcing me to know and do things specifically in one way. Near the middle of my Junior year of high school, we were reading a book in my English Three class- Zeitoun based on a man’s actions during relief effort of Katrina- and we assigned to debate one idea from the book. Now during the research I found information that was controversial, in the sense that it challenged the book's credibility of the book's protagonist. I brought this to my teacher's attention, which he simply told me Don’t use it, it’s not important to the relevancy of our assignment. Which is exactly what common core is doing to education as a whole it is telling students to learn within the parameters of the assignment. That setting these standards that only want students to stay within the lines, is just absurd, because we are humans not robots. Some see the implementation of Common Core as a useful tool, that helps construct better...
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...UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING ENCI790 RESEARCH PROPOSAL: “An evaluation and survey of methods available for converting biomass into fuels” Candidate: Surya Sappa Supervisors: Professor John Chen Doctor Robert Kirkpatrick ABSTRACT Biofuel technologies have become more and more prominent in addressing the need for a continuous supply of fuels. Biofuels are fuels that are produced through the biological process of converting biomass/biowaste into a fuel source to reduce the negative impacts faced by fossil fuels combustion (reduction in greenhouse gasses) and availability of supply. Biofuels can be derived from a wide variety of biomass, and are categorised into four generations: First generation biofuels are made from sugars, starches, oil, and animal fats that are converted into fuel using already-known processes or technologies. These fuels include biodiesel, bioalcohols, ethanol, and biogases, like methane captured from landfill decomposition. Second generation biofuels are made from non-food crops or agricultural waste, especially ligno-cellulosic biomass like switch-grass, willow, or wood chips. Third generation biofuels are made from algae or other quickly growing biomass sources. Fourth generation biofuels are made from specially engineered plants or biomass that may have higher energy yields or lower barriers to cellulosic breakdown or are able to be grown on non-agricultural land or bodies of water...
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...GENERAL ELECTRIC CANADA: PROGETTARE UNA NUOVA ORGANIZZAZIONE* Agli inizi degli anni '80 avevamo due sfide davanti a noi, una interna e l'altra esterna. Esternamente, avevamo di fronte un'economia mondiale che sarebbe stata caratterizzata da una crescita più lenta con forti concorrenti che cercavano di conquistare una "fetta della torta" sempre più piccola. Internamente, la nostra sfida era ancora maggiore. Dovevamo trovare un modo per combinare il potere, le risorse e le capacità di una grande azienda con l'agilità, lo spirito e la forza di una piccola società.1 (John F. Welch, Jr., Chairman e CEO General Electric Company) Ed Johnson, responsabile dei Servizi Finanziari Riuniti della General Electric Canada, analizzò i risultati del sondaggio sulle motivazioni degli impiegati della sua unità. Durante gli ultimi tre anni aveva diretto la riprogettazione dei servizi finanziari, amministrativi, servizi di supporto e di information technology da una struttura decentrata e gerarchica a una struttura centralizzata organizzata in team autoregolati. A fronte della eliminazione di due livelli organizzativi e di una riduzione degli impiegati del 40%, la produttività e la qualità del lavoro erano migliorati. L’obiettivo della riprogettazione era di sviluppare un’organizzazione che combinasse le economie di scala e le risorse di una grande azienda con la flessibilità, la creatività e la motivazione di una azienda piccola e imprenditoriale. Quando Johnson analizzò i risultati...
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...Advance Edited Version Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/12/48 15 September 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth session Agenda item 7 HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict ∗ ∗ Late submission A/HRC/12/48 page 2 Paragraphs Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PART ONE INTRODUCTION I. II. III. METHODOLOGY CONTEXT EVENTS OCCURRING BETWEEN THE “CEASEFIRE” OF 18 JUNE 2008 BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE GAZA AUTHORITIES AND THE START OF ISRAEL’S MILITARY OPERATIONS IN GAZA ON 27 DECEMBER 2008 IV. APPLICABLE LAW PART TWO OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY: THE GAZA STRIP Section A V. VI. THE BLOCKADE: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OVERVIEW OF MILITARY OPERATIONS CONDUCTED BY ISRAEL IN GAZA BETWEEN 27 DECEMBER 2008 AND 18 JANUARY 2009 AND DATA ON CASUALTIES ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND POLICE VIII. OBLIGATION ON PALESTINIAN ARMED GROUPS IN GAZA TO TAKE FEASIBLE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT THE CIVILIAN POPULATION VII. A/HRC/12/48 page 3 IX. OBLIGATION ON ISRAEL TO TAKE FEASIBLE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT CIVILIAN POPULATION AND CIVILIAN OBECTS IN GAZA X. INDISCRIMINATE ATTACKS BY ISRAELI ARMED FORCES RESULTING IN THE LOSS OF LIFE AND INJURY TO CIVILIANS XI. DELIBERATE ATTACKS AGAINST THE CIVILIAN POPULATION XII. THE USE OF CERTAIN WEAPONS XIII. ATTACKS ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF CIVILIAN LIFE IN GAZA: DESTRUCTION OF INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, FOOD PRODUCTION, WATER INSTALLATIONS, SEWAGE...
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