Assignment#11B

" It would be impossible to say what horrors were embeded in the minds of the children who lived through the day of bombing in Hiroshima. On the surface, their recollections, months after the disaster, were of an exhilarating adventure. Toshio Nakamura, who was ten at the time of the bombing, was soon able to talk freely, even gaily, about the experience, and a few weeks before the aniversary he wrote the following matter -of-fact essay for his teacher at Nobori-cho Primary School: "The day before the bomb, I went for a swim. In the morning, I was eating peanuts. I saw a light. I was knocked to little sister's sleeping place. When we were saved, I could only see as far as the tram. My mother and I started to pack our things. The neighbors were walking around burned and bleeding. Hataya-san told me to run away from her. I said I wanted to wait for my mother. We went to the park. I whirlwind came. At night a gas tank burned and I saw the reflection in the river. We stayed in the park one night. Next day I went to Taiko Bridge and met my girl friends Nikuki and Murakami. They were looking for their mothers. But Kikuki's mother was wounded and Murakami's mother, alas was dead." ( Hiroshima pg. 90)

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Assignment#11A

"In, 1915, Dr. Sasaki decided to quit working for the hospital, with its awful memories, and to set himself up, as his father had done, in a private clinic in Mukaihara. He was ambitious. He had had an older brother , who, according to the custom of Japanese medical families, had been expected to succeed to the father's practice; the second son would have to make his own way, and in 1939, urged by the propaganda of the time to seek a fortune in the vast undeveloped reaches of China, Terufumi Sasaki had gone there and had studied at the Japanese Estern Medical University, in Tsingtao. He had graduated and returned to Hiroshima shortly before the bombing. His brother had been killed in the war, so the way was clear for him--not only to start a practice in his fatherr's town but also to withdraw from Hiroshima and, in effect, from being a hibakusha. For the next four decades, he also never spoke to anymore about the hours and days after the bombing." ( Hiroshima, pg.103)
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Assignment # 10 C

" 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" refers to here?

In this cause, the word " draw" mean long. It is also mean wide. The word " pounds" mean the weight os it. It is also mean how heavy is the bow.

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Assignment # 10 B

" 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 hold the air pushing ahead of its body would ruffle the feather and the hunter would lunge with harpoon and bury the barded head in the back of the seal."

Original:

The three different verb forms in this passage because it show that they would do it. It is showing that the Inuit would do all these things if they were there. The verb " would" is convey that it would happens if they do it.

Revision:

The three different verb forms in this passage because it show that they would do it. It is showing that the Inuit would do all these things if they were there. The verb " would" is convey of something that Inuit it going to do. The three verb forms is " would put, would ruffle, would lunge." It is follow by the action verb. It is telling us what is going to happens next.

Assignment # 10 A

" A coyote, perhaps, brush wolf as they called them up north, or maybe a timber wolf, two wolves, one begging from the other."

What is the sentence type here, and why?

Original:
This is a compound sentence because it hs two independent clauses. The first independent is " They called them up north." The subject is " they" and "called" is the verb. The second independent caluse is " one begging from the other." The suject is " one" and "begging" is the verb.

Revision:

This is a complete sentence.

Assignment#9B

" Dr. Machii said ," It must have bean a molotoffano hanakago"---a Molotov flower basket, the delicate Japanese name for the " bread basket." or self-scattering cluster of bombs." (pg.23)

What is Molotov flower basket? I don't understand.

Assignment#9A

" The roar of approaching planes was heard about this time. Someone in the crowd near the Nakamura family shouted, " It's some Grummans coming to strafe us!". A baker named Nakashima stoop up and commanded, " Everyone who is wearing anything white, take it off." ( pg. 38)


I don't understand the part that Nakashima commanded. If the people who is wearing white they have to take it off.