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industry lost 75% of its workers while the number of commercial fishing boats went from 185,465 to 153,034. Fukushima Prefecture’s infrastructure was greatly affected by the earthquake’s force, with parts of Hama-dori region experiencing more than 6.0 magnitude and Fukushima City, in Naka-dori region, measuring more than 5.0. The tsunami that followed shortly thereafter hit the eastern coast of Fukushima, causing widespread damage and death. A recorded 1,900 people died and another 1,600 suffered significant

failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting behavior”(Ross, 628). The follower problem, a book written by David brooks makes the statement “these days many Americans seem incapable of thinking for themselves”(Brooks, 650). Doris Lessing a claim “how often we'd say black was white because other people were saying it”(Lessing 652).So why do people react act like this. Outside influences have a huge impact on how people react and make their decisions. If you are by yourself and

In both Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, the protagonists exhibit a kind of selfishness. Although they share this similarity, they present their selfishness in different ways, and ultimately make very different life decisions based upon this. The Rawling family had “everything right, appropriate, and what everyone would wish for, if they could choose.” The husband and wife, Matthew and Susan, had a picture-perfect marriage, “…people to whom others came for

with the public. After having fully explained the scope of this project and more details of this research, I hope to ask response provoking questions that allow the interviewee to open up about the duties and work life of a librarian. Dr. Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall in the Biller and Scovel video (2008, July 2) stated: The goal is to get the most honest and open information that you can from people and if

Doris Lessing: To Room Nineteen “To Room Nineteen” was first published in 1963 in Doris Lessing’s collection of short stories, A Man and Two Women. As Glenna Bell has suggested it ” is a story of repression, alienation and suicide”¹. The story is about a middle-aged woman, Susan, who has a lovely family with a husband, Matthew, and four children. Everybody thinks they are a perfect couple but when the youngest children go off to school, Susan thinks “...there must be something wrong with me”2 (316)

On Wednesday March……….during lunch Joanne Svec in passing said that she had seen Mary Herrick when she was delivering the mail and explained that Tim came into the office earlier that morning very agitated and complaining. He told her he was going to “blow”. She indicated to us that she was, “very afraid” and that he has an arsenal of weapons. She also indicated that Jane Hayes, who was eating lunch with us as well, felt the same way although Jane was not in the office when this exchange occurred

(protection from deportation) and work authorization to certain young unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children, have pursued an education, and have not committed serious crimes or pose no national security threat (Hipsman, Faye, and Doris Meissner, 2014). Individuals who are granted DACA status are considered as being "lawful presence," regardless of their citizenship which makes individuals eligible for driver's licenses and other state-determined benefits where states choose to grant

"Things are not quite so simple always as black and white."― Doris Lessing. (Doris Lessing quotes). Choices are more than black and white, so is a person’s conscious. Few peoples exist on the two ends of the spectrum, always right, always wrong. In the book, Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, the author truly challenges what reader consider a good guy versus a bad guy. The book follows a family during the Soviet Genocide of the Baltic regions where one young Soviet soldier made the readers

The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence's story of The Stone Angel is about the life Hagar Currie an emotionless, stubborn and proud woman. Margaret Laurence uses this stone angel, originally bought by Hagar's father, to embody the qualities of Hagar. These virtues are often identical to those one assumes are possessed by the stone angel and are paralleled many times by Laurence. Throughout the novel, Hagar relives her life through her memories. Over the course of the novel, one realizes that

About eleven o 'clock, Lucille Henderson, observing that her party was soaring at the proper height, and just having been smiled at by Jack Delroy, forced herself to glance over in the direction of Edna Phillips, who since eight o 'clock had been sitting in the big red chair, smoking cigarettes and yodeling hellos and wearing a very bright eye which young men were not bothering to catch. Edna 's direction still the same, Lucille Henderson sighed as heavily as her dress would allow, and then, knitting