Ray Lawler

On 26 December 2004, massive Sumatra – Andaman earthquake achieved a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale. Its epicentre was located off the West coast of Northern Sumatra and was responsible for the tsunami.3,4 The Tsunami brought serious damage to people, properties, communities and natural resources not only in Thailand but also in many other countries around the Indian, Bengal and Andaman oceans.5 It was responsible for more than 280,000 deaths in thirteen countries. Thailand recorded 5,395

English 4 October 29,2015 Radiologist What is a Radiologist? A Radiologist is a specialized medical doctor who has had specific postgraduate training in performing and interpreting diagnostic imaging test and treatments that involve the use of X- Rays, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging equipment (InsideRadiology) A Radiologist has a very hard job. This essay will talk about the basic job responsibilities, required steps necessary to secure employment, The average salary/ statistics, interesting

On August 23, 2005 through August 31, 2005 a tragic moment occurred in New Orleans. People 's lives changed by losing everything they had due to this storm. It damaged a majority of the coast leading to massive flooded houses, everything underwater, and families not able to find their loved ones. A band of storm clouds wrapped around the north side circulation center early the morning of August 24th. The wind was blowing about 40 mph. The storm was originally called Tropical Katrina. Hurricane Katrina

Censorship is monitoring or withholding information. The information can come from a book, drama, media, or any other form of entertainment; but it is usually considered a threat to the consumer. Yet the consumer is not always the audience. Sometimes the threat is to a politician or government official. The debate over topics in the realm of what is acceptable and what should be banned only continues to rise as more taboo topics become acceptable. Some argue that keeping certain things behind closed

Utopia and dystopia: Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian” Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian” is a dramatic illustration of the dangers of living in a world where contact with nature is deemed so abnormal that even walking alone at night is a crime. The dystopian story revolves around the tale of a man named Leonard Mead, living during a time period not so far away from our own, in 2053 CE. In the story, a robotic police car is so suspicious of Mead’s walking behavior during

Truffaut’s treatment of the Nazi regime in comparison to the firemen in his film shows the type of government he desired to depict, one that “succinctly and successfully institutionalized mass schizophrenia,” a government founded on the “murderous ideologies” of “Communism and Nazism” (Gonzalez 1), a totalitarian society mirroring the world in Bradbury’s novel among other dystopian novels of the time. His society fits the idea of totalitarianism in the fact that it is a “form of government that theoretically

Nuclear Medicine Nuclear medicine has been around for more than 50 years now and stems from the discovery of x-rays and artificial radioactivity. In 1946, nuclear medicine made a monumental breakthrough when radioactive iodine led to the complete disappearance of cancer in a patient’s thyroid. Nuclear medicine became widely used in the 1950’s to measure the function of the thyroid, to diagnose thyroid disease, and for the treatment of patients with hyperthyroidism. By the 1970’s nuclear medicine

Fear and Tension in The Whole Towns Sleeping and A Terribly Strange Bed The essay i have written is a comparison of two short stories. One written by Ray Bradbury in 1950's and titled "The Whole Towns Sleeping". The other was written by Wilkie Collins in 1856 and entitled "A Terribly Strange Bed". "The Whole Towns Sleeping" is about a middle-aged spinster called "Lavinia" 37, who goes to the cinema with her friends while a mysterious killer, is at large. She is fully

at sea level. Radioactive waves are also transmitted through some fabricated technology, soil, and rocks. The majority of people pose the question why do doctors or nurses where aprons when giving an x-ray. This is to protect them from radioactive waves. Nurses give countless numbers of x-rays a day. While you

The book that will be reviewed is Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury. The author used the effect of parallelism extremely well by showing the similarities of both then and now. In the following paragraphs we're going to encounter these parallelisms, we will compare the book to the time period in which it was written, and our own time period post September 11. Before we can do this we must first get to know the author and the era in which it was based off of just a bit. To get a clear