Part 1: The book was very interesting to me and I was amazed at how Richard Preston explained the feelings in detail. I felt as though I was going through all the pain and shock as everyone else in the book. I was very disgusted on what happened to Charles Monet and how he died by the Ebola virus. I think its very horrible on what people went through to have the Ebola virus and only live ten days. Not to mention the horrible death that comes with it. My reaction at first was that it was not a big
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The Hot Zone Name _Kindra Morris__ By Richard Preston Date_9-27-2014__ Ch. 8 - CARDINAL 1. As the courier passed the sample of Peter Cardinal’s blood to Gene Johnson at the airport‚ think about how this would take place after 9/11. What would have been different? The airport security would of checked what was in the box and tried to see if it was a bomb related object or not and it most likely would not of been let on the plane. 2. How was the sample stored for safety handling? How
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Virus--an enemy whom causes impenetrable death before the victim can even blink. The mere thought of a virus is already spine-chilling‚ and Richard Preston manages to write a book intensifying that feeling by tenfold. In The Hot Zone‚ author Richard Preston successfully establishes an overarching grim mood by using different types of figurative language‚ such as imagery and foreshadowing. A prime example of imagery is when Charles Monet was aboard a tightly packed and cramped plane. Days before
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of the sick monkey in Reston escapes from its cage and Jerry spends days trying to catch it • similar is the potential rip in the space suits • Both Sammy Daniels and Jerry Jaax share a strong concern over his wife or ex-wife working with in the hot zone with the virus • Finally‚ the doctors in the book tried to help the villagers the best that they could‚ and eventually ended up leaving the village and the people behind. In the movie‚ the village‚ that had many people infected with the virus‚ was
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Introduction To microbiology | The Hot Zone by Richard Preston | Tiffany Burgess | 5/29/2013 | A highly infectious‚ deadly virus from the central African rainforest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington‚ D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of it’s victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientist is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this “hot virus”. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story‚ giving detail accounts of this rare
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about the symptoms of this type of virus it already sounds like a nightmare. The virus is called Ebola and a man by the name of Richard Preston wrote a full length book about the discovery and the fight against this virus in the book entitled The Hot Zone. This book goes into an agglomeration of detail pertaining to this particular virus and it is shared through the eyes of two Doctors at the US Army Medical Research
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This is an Essay on the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Ebola is a hot virus‚ meaning it is very dangerous‚ and lethally hot. It gets into your body in numerous different ways‚ therefore making it extremely hard to fight against. The diseased virus gets into your body and immediately starts eating all of your tissue. This results in body functions ceasing to work. Your liver shuts down completely‚ leaving toxic wastes floating around in your blood stream. Your blood starts losing
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Book Report: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston In October of l989‚ Macaque monkeys‚ housed at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston‚ Virginia‚ began dying from a mysterious disease at an alarming rate. The monkeys‚ imported from the Philippines‚ were to be sold as laboratory animals. Twenty-nine of a shipment of one hundred died within a month. Dan Dalgard‚ the veterinarian who cared for the monkeys‚ feared they were dying from Simian Hemorrhagic Fever‚ a disease lethal to monkeys but harmless
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Hot or Not By: Jeane Khang Elegant - This word‚ once used to describe ladies with great refinement and taste in style‚ has been erased. Instead‚ our era’s boys have replaced it with words like “hot”‚ “sexy”‚ and the list goes on. The definition of “hot” has become universally known to translate as a nice “rack”‚ long legs‚ and flat stomachs. As a guy’s common vocabulary changes to express his attractions‚ a girl’s clothing choices will evolve to suit a guy’s attractions just the same. Therefore
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Why did relations between the soviet union and the US change in the years 1943-1956? The first reason is that Roosevelt’s death in April 1945 brought an end to any superficial unity that still existed at the end of World War 2 in 1943. Truman was now the American President‚ and relations between him and Stalin were deteriorating very quickly indeed‚ especially when Stalin was such a determined character and Truman was less willing to compromise‚ compared to Roosevelt. The second reason is
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