Mount Elgon

1) Mount Elgon was created from a leftover shield volcano. 2) Mount Elgon is located on the border between Uganda and Kenya. It’s in an island of rain forest in the center of Africa and it is the widest mountain in Africa. 3) Because the author wanted to show Monet’s relationship with the environment around him. 4) Not very far, because once the hot virus is on the plane, it can infect everyone on the plane, and go anywhere else to infect those places. I think this is important, because that means viruses can spread very easily and can also cause a lot of trouble. 5) Diffusion is the spreading of something more widely, which relates to geography because of how geographic features spread overtime. 6) Most diseases are named from when they are discovered. 7) The spread of Marburg is a example of…

Part One:In the shadow of Mount Elgon In part one “In the shadow of Mount Elgon” we are first introduced to Mr. Charles Monet. Charles is fifty six years old and takes care of a sugar factory’s water pumping machinery. Monet lives at the base of Mount Elgon in western Kenya. Monet decided to go on a camping trip for his winter holiday. The place where he wanted to camp was at a national park on Mount Elgon. On day two of Monet’s trip he decided to visit Kitum Cave. Kitum cave was a popular…

The Hot Zone part 1 is about the Ebola Virus, a deadly virus that is highly contagious and kills 90% of people that contract it. There is no cure, and no vaccine for this deadly infectious virus. The only known source of the virus is Kitum Cave, on Mount Elgon in Africa, deep in the tall rain forest. The first known case is of Charles Monnet, a researcher living in Africa, he spreads it by getting on a plane and going to a hospital. There he infects a doctor named Dr. Musoke, who then gets a…

QUESTIONS for The Hot Zone by Richard Preston PART ONE: “THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON” 1. Charles monet was a loner who lived by himself in a little wooden cabin on the private lands of Nzoia sugar factory. He was fifty-six years old and his job was to take care of the sugar factory’s water pumping machinery. 2.Mount Elgon is a volcano located on the border Uganda and Kenya, Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano. 3.Monet gave the virus many opportunities to accumulate a new host, For…

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was a notorious writer that influenced and gave light to many events, life subjects, and even other writings. Byron was known for writing poems that could be viewed In many different ways. A perfect example of his art can be the short poem titled “Darkness”. According to an article, “7 Real Natural Events that Inspired Works of Science Fiction” written by Lauren Davis, Byron was in a small group that included other writers such as: Mother of Frankenstein, Mary Shelly and author of the poem The…

expressed a pre-Darwinian skepticism, and although the two men presented their feelings differently, both adopted Biblical language to express a religious uncertainty. In canto 96 of “In Memoriam” Tennyson relates the story of God commanding the law to Moses on Mount Sinai, from Exodus 19 to 32, and "although the trumpet blew so loud," the Israelites still worshipped false idols (Black 228). In Exodus, God instructs Moses in direct, final statements, closed to interpretation. The worship…