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Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine. By Jasper Becker. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 1998. 416 pp.

Introduction: Hungry Ghosts is an intense book. Even though recent articles and books have disclosed that it was the Great Leap Forward that caused the famine that engulfed China, however, Jasper Becker clarifies the entire destruction of the time through his alluring interviews and graphic stories.
Becker places the blame for the horrors directly and uncompromising on Mao Zedong’s shoulders. After all, these events took place during Mao’s watch. However, Becker does not stop there; he proceeds to argue that ...

Fagan, Brian. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850. 1st ed. New York: Basic Books, 2001. Print.
In The Little Ice Age, Brian Fagan, who an archeology professor at the University of California, argues that a chill was developed by the climate of the Earth, eight centuries ago, and it sent “rippling” effects through Europe over 500 significant years of history. Those events are deeply important because they helped shape the modern world, but are easily ignored in terms of the unparalleled global warming today. However, at the same time, an example is provided by them while ...

Book Review: John Quincy Wolf, Life in the Leatherwoods

Life in the Leatherwoods by John Quincy Wolf (originally published in 1974) is a very rare memoir about the lives, society and culture of the ‘plain folk’ of the Upper South during the late-19th Century, specifically the white small farmers of the Ozark Mountains in northern Arkansas. There are very few primary sources about this subject, such as diaries, letters or newspapers, especially from rural areas in this period, compared to the middle and upper classes, persons prominent in political and economic life or large slaveholders like Mary Chestnut. Those few records that may once have existed have largely been ...

This book is an amalgamation of three stories; in the beginning of the story, it familiarizes us to the people majorly from Swiss German, Norwegian and Ukrainian who were immigrants who settled the prairie for reasons: They were in search of religious freedom and prosperity for their children, farmers escaping poverty and many others. Subsequentstory was that of the weather forecasters who were concerned with the study of the weather patterns as they claimed that they will no longer be thrilled by the abrupt weather changes and it happened that the immigrants’ weather location was under their jurisdiction. Moreover, ...

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the book “The Sorrows of Young Werther” in 1774. Originally, the book is in German language, and it was initially published in the year 1774. In English language, it was initially published in 1779.

Summary of the Book

The Sorrows of Young Werther has a number of letters by the main character, Werther, who is an artist having a passionate and sensitive temperament, to Wilhelm, one of the friends of Werther. Those letters of Werther help in telling about his life, his finding of love and losing it in a village known as Wahlheim, whose people captivate him ...

Introduction

Change in the climate is happening rapidly as well as severely. As a result, there is the destruction of the world. The effects of change in the climate are more shocking since disasters caused by this change grows continuously at a higher frequency and intensity. There is much impact on the earth’s surface, thus threatening nature as well as the human system with a severe damage that cannot be reversed. For instance, as the increase in global warming persists, the result will be the rise in depletion of the natural resources, polar ice caps melting, the rise of ...

Isaac’s storm: A man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history

Book Review
Introduction
About The Book And Author:
The fiction based history book of Isaac’s storm is written by Erik Larson. The author has outlined the details of the biggest hurricane of American History. The book is about a proud nation of Galveston and also about a meteorologist- Isaac Cline, who overlooked the symptoms of a hurricane due to their life’s success and festivities. Nature proved them completely wrong (Lohmann, 2008). The novel is written by Columbia University journalist and non-fiction author, with a work history with ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘Time Magazine’ and several other publications, ...

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler, is a story about a private detective, Philip Marlowe, who was tasked to help figure the problems of a wealthy family, the Sternwood family. In his role as detective, Marlowe becomes entrenched in an intricate web of problems troubling the Sternwoods. Although the initial issue focuses on the disappearance of one of General Sternwood’s employees, Marlowe realizes that as he uncovers one problem after another, each one is directly related to the other. Each character has a story to tell and various angles arise that contribute to the thickening plot. In addition, the novel presents various ...

Whenever we face loss, we always experience grief. Our reactions are unique and no one experience grief in the same way. The setting of Richard Ford’s novel The Sportswriter shows us the grief and pain that Frank feels, who main character in this novel is. Frank is a 38-year-old sports writer, divorced man, and also he is the father of two children. The pain and misery that Frank feels is because of his son’s death. This novel shows how Frank deals with death and grief that made him have difficulty connecting with other people.
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1.) Of all the energy that could be used to meet global energy demands, what percentage of it are we currently able to capture

The percentage of the energy that we are able to capture is 4%.

2.) What three things have impacted lake trout populations?

The three things have impacted lake trout populations are the following

- Toxic discharges: This has a lot to do with metals, organic chemicals, and deferred sediments typically established in municipal and industrial wastes that are cleared straight into water bodies. Toxic discharges can contrariwise influence the biota which is the living organisms in an environment by slaying them, making them weak, or affecting their aptitude to carry out vital biological purposes (feeding, reproducing, etc.).
- Bacterial ...

Northern ladies civil war Fashions is a book by Sarah E. Mitchell that highlights on the clothing that was worn by women in the south during the civil wars. The civil wars lasted a period of four years from 1861-1865. This is a historical analysis of how far the ladies fashion has come from. It serves as a reminder that there were times when ladies were limited in terms of what to wear and the design to adopt. Womanhood was not only displayed by nature but also the clothing the women adopted. The book also highlights the fact that just like today where ...