TED Talk of How to Live to be 100+‚ he teamed up with National Geographic and the National Institute of Aging to cover three main areas where he was able to find a large population of centenarians; he called these areas “Blue Zones” (Buettner‚ 0:33). In these three Blue Zones Buettner was able to come down to nine common denominators that have helped contribute to such a huge boost of longevity in the population. Of the nine the most important three and most commonly covered by Buettner are diets
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Sandra Alexander The Hot Zone: A Scary Truth Richard Preston weaves a true tale about a chilling story of an Ebola virus (A disease-causing agent smaller than a bacterium‚ consisting of a shell made of proteins and membranes and a core containing DNA or RNA. A virus depends on living cells in order to replicate.) outbreak that occurs in a suburban Washington‚ D.C. laboratory in 1989. In this laboratory‚ monkeys being used in scientific experiments quickly sicken and die due to a filovirus
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Escape the Friend Zone Oh no! You are in love. But the object of your affection thinks of you as more of a brother or sister than anything else. What should you do? Maybe the following points will help you. ------------------------------------------------- Break the nice guy or sweet girl stereotype. Most guys and girls who find themselves in the friend zone are usually susceptible to many of the characteristics of the nice guy or sweet girl stereotype. Where you are romantically attracted to
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Zone of Proximal Development Developed by Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky‚ the zone of proximal development (ZPD) refers to a metaphorical area between material a learner has mastered‚ and material that goes beyond a learner’s ability. This ‘middle-ground’ represents “potential learning” that can only occur through interactions with a ‘more advanced peer:’ teachers‚ parents‚ more capable classmates. Building upon a student’s previous knowledge‚ a teacher working within the ZPD uses scaffolding
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Jeffrey Boateng This more of an assignment then an essay to help people who are reading the Hot zone. Diction: choice of words Tone: The attitude of the speaker or writer as revealed in the choice of vocabulary. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston General Tones: Caution‚ fear‚ and uncertainty Example one: Once a virus hits the net‚ it can shoot anywhere in a day-Paris‚ Tokyo‚ New York‚ Los Angles‚ wherever planes fly. Charles Monet and the life form inside him had entered the net. Richard Preston
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The Hot Zone In the book the Hot Zone‚ by Richard Preston‚ the first few pages are introducing the reader into the world of contagious hot agents by going through the biosaftey procedures to access level 4. In part one‚ Charles Monet a fifty-six year old Frenchman living in western Kenya on the lands of the Nzoia Sugar Factory is introduced‚ but as his story continues he finds himself greatly ill by some unknown virus. It began shortly after a visit with a friend to Kitum Cave. Of course
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Within Richard Preston’s‚ The Hot Zone‚ the very real threats posed by the deadly viruses of Marburg and Ebola Reston is brought to attention through the “terrifying true story”. In the first chapter‚ Charles Monet is introduced as a man with a little too much free time and works at the pump house at the sugar factory within near the base of Mt. Elgon. One day in 1980‚ he takes a female friend to Kitum Cave‚ and it is believed that this is the day he caught the Marburg virus. The first symptoms include
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throughout the entire book. The novel illustrates how the virus outbreaks had its outbursts‚ rapidly demolishing and destroying the human population gradually as there is no known cure and control over the destruction. Richard Preston discusses in The Hot Zone‚ the different factors that contribute to those outbreaks‚ such as hygiene and the lack of knowledge about the virus. Even a slight lack of hygiene can possibly contribute to the vital outbreaks in numerous ways. One of the major factors that contribute
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scale- magnitude ( measuring sesmic waves) What scale is used to measure earthquakes: Seismometer/ seismograph- record earthquakes Seismogram- a graph What are earthquakes? P s Violent shaking on the ground Tectonic drift theory: the continental drift theory is the theory that once all the continents were joined in a super-continent‚ which scientists call Pangaea. Over a vast period of time‚ the continents drifted apart to their current locations. Alfred Wegener first supported continental drift
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Primo Levi was captured at the age of 24 by the Fascist Militia on December 13‚ 1943. Although Levi was a chemist with a degree‚ graduating from Turin in 1941‚ summa cum laude‚ he was treated just like all the other prisoners until his skill was proven and gave him a longer chance to survive. Because he was a Jew‚ he was sent to a detention camp along with the other English and American prisoners-of-war who were also “people not approved of by the new-born Fascist Republic” (Levi‚ 14). Later‚ he
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