1. Google, Using devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)Example: "physician assisted suicide" depression "terminally ill" search statement found 3,200 Web sites on October 2, 2004.
Answer: “Holocaust history”search statement found 5,900,000 Web site on January 30, 1933.
2. Using Google, devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses a title field search in addition to a domain search. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)Example: intitle:"physician assisted suicide" site:org found 236 Web sites on October 2, 2004.
Answer: “history of the Holocaust- An Introduction”site:org found 5,900,000 Web site on January 30, 1933.
3. Did one search retrieve more relevant information than the other? If so, why? (1 point)
Answer: Yes! It’s because there are so many words that are meanningfull.
4. Did the searches retrieve other than HTML Web sites? i.e., Word or pdf documents? (1 point)
Answer: Yes!
5. Which key terms from your thesis statement retrieved the most relevant information? (1 point)
Answer: “The Holocaust”
6. Discuss the relative merits of phrase searching, Boolean AND searching and field searching. (1 point)
Answer:
7. Select one of the following Meta Search Engines. Devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the Meta Search Engine used, the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
Example: In iBoogie, "physician assisted suicide" depression "terminally ill" retrieved 107 Web sites on October 2, 2004.
Answer:
8. Were some of the same sites retrieved by Google and the Meta Search Engine? (1 point
answer:base on my searching I notice that holocaust have a many discription.
9. What differences did you notice between the results of this search and the results of the Google searches? (1 point)
answer:there are so many diff. for example the meanig of the words.
10. What impact might this have on the validity of the search results? (1 point)
answer:as for me it is verry hard, it's because there are someworsd that i can't understand.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Project in ITE5
ALEXA:
Alexa Internet is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website (www.alexa.com) that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. Alexa collects information from users who have installed an Alexa Toolbar, allowing them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as lists of related links.
LYCOS:
Lycos has one of the greatest global impacts of the search engines. Its merger with Terra Networks in 2000 has made it one of the worlds leading search engines. Lycos searches several other major databases when it provides a search result. For this reason, Lycos is an extensive search engine capable to finding a vast array of information.
DOGPILE:
htttp://dogpile.com
Dogpile has changed a lot since the first time I used it (I guess for the better), now it's becoming more and more like google. It used to be pretty unique and would have a listing of popular searches related to your search (example: if you searched "ford car," in the listing it might have "ford mustang car")
So what do you think of dogpile.com? It would be better if you reviewed it byitself, and then reviewed it comparing with others, because I don't want to hear "that search engine sucks, yahoo.com for life."
BTW, does anybody have any information about google charging people for higher ranks and/or top spots in search results? My dad said you could buy your rank and pay money to google to be at the top spot for a search, and that you could find it through goggle's advertising options... But I couldn't find anything.
• The similarities and Contrast between ALEXA, DOGPILE, and LYCOS include proximity searching, case sensitivity, fields searching, and sorting. Proximity searching refers to how close words should be when searching phrases. All of these search engines use phrase matching, which looks for phrases in the exact order that they are entered in the search. Case sensitivity refers to the ability of the search engine to search all cases in both topic entry and search results. All of these search engines are case insensitive. Fields searching is the ability to define from where a search comes from instead of searching the entire Internet. All of these search engines allow for field searching. Sorting is the ability to organize the results of the search. All of these entire search engines sort by relevance to the search topic.
• For my search, I chose to look for information on VAN HELSING” was a shortened form of “Abraham,” a name Stoker shared with his father. That he selected this name for one of his leading characters suggests a degree of identification with that fictional person. “Abraham” also has biblical resonance, echoing the name of the patriarch and leader of the ancient Israelites.
As for the surname “Van Helsing,” a number of possibilities have been suggested. It may derive from Dr Hesselius, the fictional narrator of Sheridan Le Fanu’s famous vampire tale “Carmilla” (1872). Given Stoker’s familiarity with Shakespearean plays as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, the origin is possibly “Helsingor the Danish town in which Hamlets’ castle is located. A third consideration is Van Helmont, an ancient alchemist mentioned briefly in T J Pettigrew’s On Superstitions Connected with the History and Nature of Medicine and Surgery (1844), one of Stokers known source-texts for Dracula.
CONCLUSION:
In the end, however, search engines are all useful to navigating the Internet. As to which search engine to use, I believe that it is up to the user to decide which one they like best. I tend to find successes using Google, however, someone else may find that another search engine provides them with what they are looking for. Thus, it is the responsibility of the user to research and try different search engines and methods while trying to find information on the Internet. As the Internet continues to grow, search engines will have to adapt and continually update their databases or become outdated. As such, todays search engines could be replaced in the future with better, more efficient ones in the near future.
Alexa Internet is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website (www.alexa.com) that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. Alexa collects information from users who have installed an Alexa Toolbar, allowing them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as lists of related links.
LYCOS:
Lycos has one of the greatest global impacts of the search engines. Its merger with Terra Networks in 2000 has made it one of the worlds leading search engines. Lycos searches several other major databases when it provides a search result. For this reason, Lycos is an extensive search engine capable to finding a vast array of information.
DOGPILE:
htttp://dogpile.com
Dogpile has changed a lot since the first time I used it (I guess for the better), now it's becoming more and more like google. It used to be pretty unique and would have a listing of popular searches related to your search (example: if you searched "ford car," in the listing it might have "ford mustang car")
So what do you think of dogpile.com? It would be better if you reviewed it byitself, and then reviewed it comparing with others, because I don't want to hear "that search engine sucks, yahoo.com for life."
BTW, does anybody have any information about google charging people for higher ranks and/or top spots in search results? My dad said you could buy your rank and pay money to google to be at the top spot for a search, and that you could find it through goggle's advertising options... But I couldn't find anything.
• The similarities and Contrast between ALEXA, DOGPILE, and LYCOS include proximity searching, case sensitivity, fields searching, and sorting. Proximity searching refers to how close words should be when searching phrases. All of these search engines use phrase matching, which looks for phrases in the exact order that they are entered in the search. Case sensitivity refers to the ability of the search engine to search all cases in both topic entry and search results. All of these search engines are case insensitive. Fields searching is the ability to define from where a search comes from instead of searching the entire Internet. All of these search engines allow for field searching. Sorting is the ability to organize the results of the search. All of these entire search engines sort by relevance to the search topic.
• For my search, I chose to look for information on VAN HELSING” was a shortened form of “Abraham,” a name Stoker shared with his father. That he selected this name for one of his leading characters suggests a degree of identification with that fictional person. “Abraham” also has biblical resonance, echoing the name of the patriarch and leader of the ancient Israelites.
As for the surname “Van Helsing,” a number of possibilities have been suggested. It may derive from Dr Hesselius, the fictional narrator of Sheridan Le Fanu’s famous vampire tale “Carmilla” (1872). Given Stoker’s familiarity with Shakespearean plays as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, the origin is possibly “Helsingor the Danish town in which Hamlets’ castle is located. A third consideration is Van Helmont, an ancient alchemist mentioned briefly in T J Pettigrew’s On Superstitions Connected with the History and Nature of Medicine and Surgery (1844), one of Stokers known source-texts for Dracula.
CONCLUSION:
In the end, however, search engines are all useful to navigating the Internet. As to which search engine to use, I believe that it is up to the user to decide which one they like best. I tend to find successes using Google, however, someone else may find that another search engine provides them with what they are looking for. Thus, it is the responsibility of the user to research and try different search engines and methods while trying to find information on the Internet. As the Internet continues to grow, search engines will have to adapt and continually update their databases or become outdated. As such, todays search engines could be replaced in the future with better, more efficient ones in the near future.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
8. Where can you join an association of rabbit breeders?
source:yahoo.com
Home
The Nutmeg Rabbit Breeders Association has been a American Rabbit Breeders Association charted club since 1979.
The goals of the association are to educate and assist in the promotion of responsible rabbit and cavy raising . We actively encourage youth membership and the opportunity to learn from experienced breeders. It is through education that we can help to increase the level of quality of rabbit and cavy raisers.
Rabbit and cavy raisers of all levels are welcome to join. From the beginner interested in keeping a rabbit or cavy as a pet to commercial breeders, we all have information that we can share with one another. Many times there are questions that an individual will ask that we will research and provide the answer back to the group so that many benefit.
The Nutmeg Rabbit Breeder's Association is the sponsor of the annual Nutmeg Rabbit Show held at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen Connecticut. There are opportunities for all members to participate and to help with the tasks required to produce a successful show. It is through this participation that the show has continued to grow in interest.
9.Who was the highes paid athlete in the year 2000 and how much did he or she make?
source: ASK.COM
Yankee Doodle United ... Those of you wondering why the New York Yankees would "deign" to partner with Manchester United in their recently announced joint marketing deal might consider the bottom line: the Yanks are the junior partner in almost every category. The Yanks are worth approximately $500-600 million, according to industry observers; the Red Devils’ market value is estimated by most analysts at at least $1 billion. The Yanks have a lucrative local TV deal; United has its own television channel (MUTV) and its games are viewed around the world. The Yanks have won four of the past five World Series; Man Utd has won the English Premier League title six times in the past eight years. Shortstop Derek Jeter is a heartthrob; United's David Beckham married Posh Spice. Only in the category of player salaries do the Yanks win: Jeter just signed for $189 million over 10 years; the highest paid Manchester player, captain Roy Keane, reportedly makes "only" $3-plus million per year. Manchester United the junior partner? Not bloody likely.
10.Where can you purchase a Durian?
source: CNN.COM
It's durian season and throughout the archipelago, even in elite areas of big cities, durian vendors are offering their wares in bamboo baskets and supermarkets are selling neatly packaged, pre-sliced durian.In more rural areas durian seems to be omnipresent along the road. Heaps of durian are offered from the many durian regions in Indonesia. There are small ones and there are big ones.Lots of people are encircling the tengkulak duren, or vendors who sell durian in large quantities.For some people durian has a special place in their hearts. When one is going to northern Sumatra and happens to pass along the way to Tapanuli, people's love for durian is expressed in a statue and in the name of their home city.Tarutung, for example, in local Tapanuli dialect, means durian, and so they named the town Tarutung. All along the region durian grows abundantly, providing very sweet and succulent fruit flesh which has become an important item to mix into their much liked alcoholic brew tuak.Many people, on the contrary, are definitely against durian and even have allergic reactions when smelling the cloyingly sweet fruit flesh. For them it is torture to be near people eating durian.An aroma of rotten cheese, is one description I once heard of durian. But many people throughout Asia love it and are willing to go far out of their way to purchase the variety and quality of durian they like.For durain novices it is a bit risky to just buy from the store because a palatable durian is revealed upon opening it. If a durian is bland and tasteless you can do nothing about it.Durians deteriorate quickly, therefore one should go with somebody with experience picking the good ones, meaning having sweet flesh. Or buy in places where they sell visible durian fruit flesh which should be rather creamy looking.But in many rural areas they ignore the rather bland fruit flesh and take the pits which can be made into many foodstuffs.To obtain a very fine texture the pits are thoroughly washed, sliced finely and then sundried. They are then put in a traditional mortar which is called a lumpang and alu. But in more developed areas, an electric grinder is used.The sweets made from the durian meal exist in many varieties and the most renown is the dodol durian, which differs in preparation and texture.In the southern regions of Kalimantan and Sumatra dodol durian is made from the pit's meal, whereas in other regions, for example in southern Java, it is made from the durian fruit flesh. For people keen on nutritional value: durian pits contain calcium, iron, protein, fat and carbohydrates.Near the village I live in south of Jakarta, the durian market is in full swing this rainy season and one can hear various languages from around the archipelago. But the most dominant of the durian bosses originate from Lampung.I was told an interesting story about the durian orchards there where elephants roam around looking for ripe durians fallen to the ground. The elephants are very choosy I heard and they never are mistaken in judging delectable durians with creamy and sweet yellowish fruit flesh, and with one step they crush it and enjoy the durian!Another story: in most rural areas the person who hears a durian fall from the tree and runs toward it is the one who may get it even though it was his neighbor's tree. That is why my durian trees are always empty because durians mostly fall in the deep of the night, and my family does not have a sharp ear for falling durians.
source:yahoo.com
Home
The Nutmeg Rabbit Breeders Association has been a American Rabbit Breeders Association charted club since 1979.
The goals of the association are to educate and assist in the promotion of responsible rabbit and cavy raising . We actively encourage youth membership and the opportunity to learn from experienced breeders. It is through education that we can help to increase the level of quality of rabbit and cavy raisers.
Rabbit and cavy raisers of all levels are welcome to join. From the beginner interested in keeping a rabbit or cavy as a pet to commercial breeders, we all have information that we can share with one another. Many times there are questions that an individual will ask that we will research and provide the answer back to the group so that many benefit.
The Nutmeg Rabbit Breeder's Association is the sponsor of the annual Nutmeg Rabbit Show held at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen Connecticut. There are opportunities for all members to participate and to help with the tasks required to produce a successful show. It is through this participation that the show has continued to grow in interest.
9.Who was the highes paid athlete in the year 2000 and how much did he or she make?
source: ASK.COM
Yankee Doodle United ... Those of you wondering why the New York Yankees would "deign" to partner with Manchester United in their recently announced joint marketing deal might consider the bottom line: the Yanks are the junior partner in almost every category. The Yanks are worth approximately $500-600 million, according to industry observers; the Red Devils’ market value is estimated by most analysts at at least $1 billion. The Yanks have a lucrative local TV deal; United has its own television channel (MUTV) and its games are viewed around the world. The Yanks have won four of the past five World Series; Man Utd has won the English Premier League title six times in the past eight years. Shortstop Derek Jeter is a heartthrob; United's David Beckham married Posh Spice. Only in the category of player salaries do the Yanks win: Jeter just signed for $189 million over 10 years; the highest paid Manchester player, captain Roy Keane, reportedly makes "only" $3-plus million per year. Manchester United the junior partner? Not bloody likely.
10.Where can you purchase a Durian?
source: CNN.COM
It's durian season and throughout the archipelago, even in elite areas of big cities, durian vendors are offering their wares in bamboo baskets and supermarkets are selling neatly packaged, pre-sliced durian.In more rural areas durian seems to be omnipresent along the road. Heaps of durian are offered from the many durian regions in Indonesia. There are small ones and there are big ones.Lots of people are encircling the tengkulak duren, or vendors who sell durian in large quantities.For some people durian has a special place in their hearts. When one is going to northern Sumatra and happens to pass along the way to Tapanuli, people's love for durian is expressed in a statue and in the name of their home city.Tarutung, for example, in local Tapanuli dialect, means durian, and so they named the town Tarutung. All along the region durian grows abundantly, providing very sweet and succulent fruit flesh which has become an important item to mix into their much liked alcoholic brew tuak.Many people, on the contrary, are definitely against durian and even have allergic reactions when smelling the cloyingly sweet fruit flesh. For them it is torture to be near people eating durian.An aroma of rotten cheese, is one description I once heard of durian. But many people throughout Asia love it and are willing to go far out of their way to purchase the variety and quality of durian they like.For durain novices it is a bit risky to just buy from the store because a palatable durian is revealed upon opening it. If a durian is bland and tasteless you can do nothing about it.Durians deteriorate quickly, therefore one should go with somebody with experience picking the good ones, meaning having sweet flesh. Or buy in places where they sell visible durian fruit flesh which should be rather creamy looking.But in many rural areas they ignore the rather bland fruit flesh and take the pits which can be made into many foodstuffs.To obtain a very fine texture the pits are thoroughly washed, sliced finely and then sundried. They are then put in a traditional mortar which is called a lumpang and alu. But in more developed areas, an electric grinder is used.The sweets made from the durian meal exist in many varieties and the most renown is the dodol durian, which differs in preparation and texture.In the southern regions of Kalimantan and Sumatra dodol durian is made from the pit's meal, whereas in other regions, for example in southern Java, it is made from the durian fruit flesh. For people keen on nutritional value: durian pits contain calcium, iron, protein, fat and carbohydrates.Near the village I live in south of Jakarta, the durian market is in full swing this rainy season and one can hear various languages from around the archipelago. But the most dominant of the durian bosses originate from Lampung.I was told an interesting story about the durian orchards there where elephants roam around looking for ripe durians fallen to the ground. The elephants are very choosy I heard and they never are mistaken in judging delectable durians with creamy and sweet yellowish fruit flesh, and with one step they crush it and enjoy the durian!Another story: in most rural areas the person who hears a durian fall from the tree and runs toward it is the one who may get it even though it was his neighbor's tree. That is why my durian trees are always empty because durians mostly fall in the deep of the night, and my family does not have a sharp ear for falling durians.
7. What is the title of a story written by Andrei Codrescu?
source:
urnal Article Excerpt
Andrei Codrescu's Mioritic Space
by Richard Collins
It's through that hole, I thought, that I am returning to my birthplace.
--Andrei Codrescu, The Hole in the Flag
In the Romanian folk poem Miorita, a shepherd boy is warned by his beloved ewe, Miorita, that his fellow shepherds plan to murder him and take his flock. Instead of resisting, he accepts his fate, asking only that Miorita go in search of his mother and tell her the story not of how he was betrayed, but of how he was married to the daughter of a powerful King. Thereafter, wherever the ewe wanders, she tells the story--not the true, unadorned facts of death and betrayal, but a beautiful fiction of a transcendent wedding.
This simple story, told and retold in countless versions, is Romania's most enduring cultural text.(1) The popularity of the Miorita can be attributed to the power and simplicity of its poetry, but even more to its mythic structure. The myth has been used to define the Romanian character by several authors, including Mircea Eliade, who has called the "cosmic marriage" of the Miorita an example of "cosmic Christianity"--part pagan, part Christian, but in any case wholly Romanian--"dominated by a nostalgia for nature sanctified by the presence of Jesus."(2) But the most controversial concept of Romanian identity to be derived from the poem is the concept of "mioritic space" defined by the Transylvanian poet and philosopher Lucian Blaga.
For Blaga, the path of Miorita's wandering delineates what he calls "mioritic space," a geography of the Romanian poetic imagination, or, as one recent historian of the Romanians describes it, "a philosophical attempt to explain the Romanian spirit through the Romanian landscape, which [Blaga] saw as the stylistic matrix of Romanian culture" (Georgescu 205). Blaga's critics have charged that this concept has become a liability, nationalistic, escapist and fatalistic. For political analysts, Blaga has been criticized as a romantic aesthete, self-absorbed and disengaged from political realities, while pursuing a mystical communion with nature.(3) In this view, mioritic space is an escapist dream of a romantic nationalist that encourages political apathy. For ethnographers, it is a romantic distortion of the Romanian peasantry's connection to the land that ignores political and historical reality. These critics suggest that it may even account for the tendency of the Romanian people to suffer oppression passively: "one 'cause' of the seeming passivity of the Romanian population may be the fatalistic Weltanschaaung implicit in the Miorita" (Kligman 356). But to Blaga, mioritic space was simply a way of locating the Romanian poetic spirit.
All these theories and criticisms may seem like much ado about a boy and his sheep,...
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source:
urnal Article Excerpt
Andrei Codrescu's Mioritic Space
by Richard Collins
It's through that hole, I thought, that I am returning to my birthplace.
--Andrei Codrescu, The Hole in the Flag
In the Romanian folk poem Miorita, a shepherd boy is warned by his beloved ewe, Miorita, that his fellow shepherds plan to murder him and take his flock. Instead of resisting, he accepts his fate, asking only that Miorita go in search of his mother and tell her the story not of how he was betrayed, but of how he was married to the daughter of a powerful King. Thereafter, wherever the ewe wanders, she tells the story--not the true, unadorned facts of death and betrayal, but a beautiful fiction of a transcendent wedding.
This simple story, told and retold in countless versions, is Romania's most enduring cultural text.(1) The popularity of the Miorita can be attributed to the power and simplicity of its poetry, but even more to its mythic structure. The myth has been used to define the Romanian character by several authors, including Mircea Eliade, who has called the "cosmic marriage" of the Miorita an example of "cosmic Christianity"--part pagan, part Christian, but in any case wholly Romanian--"dominated by a nostalgia for nature sanctified by the presence of Jesus."(2) But the most controversial concept of Romanian identity to be derived from the poem is the concept of "mioritic space" defined by the Transylvanian poet and philosopher Lucian Blaga.
For Blaga, the path of Miorita's wandering delineates what he calls "mioritic space," a geography of the Romanian poetic imagination, or, as one recent historian of the Romanians describes it, "a philosophical attempt to explain the Romanian spirit through the Romanian landscape, which [Blaga] saw as the stylistic matrix of Romanian culture" (Georgescu 205). Blaga's critics have charged that this concept has become a liability, nationalistic, escapist and fatalistic. For political analysts, Blaga has been criticized as a romantic aesthete, self-absorbed and disengaged from political realities, while pursuing a mystical communion with nature.(3) In this view, mioritic space is an escapist dream of a romantic nationalist that encourages political apathy. For ethnographers, it is a romantic distortion of the Romanian peasantry's connection to the land that ignores political and historical reality. These critics suggest that it may even account for the tendency of the Romanian people to suffer oppression passively: "one 'cause' of the seeming passivity of the Romanian population may be the fatalistic Weltanschaaung implicit in the Miorita" (Kligman 356). But to Blaga, mioritic space was simply a way of locating the Romanian poetic spirit.
All these theories and criticisms may seem like much ado about a boy and his sheep,...
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6. How did the great Chicago fire start:
source:altavista.com
The Great Chicago Fire
by Horace White
October 14, 1871
Horace White, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune, wrote this eyewitness account of the most destructive fire in American history in a letter to Murat Halstead, the editor of the Cincinnati Commercial. The Chicago fire raged for two days and nights, covering over 2,100 acres, causing 200 deaths, destroying 17,450 buildings and leaving 70,000 homeless (out of a population of 324,000).
As a slight acknowledgment of your thoughtful kindness in forwarding to us, without orders, a complete outfit of type and cases, when you heard that we had been burned out, I send you a hastily written sketch of what I saw at the great fire...
The history of the great fire in Chicago, which rises to the dignity of a national event, cannot be written until each witness, who makes any record whatever, shall have told what he saw. Nobody could see it all -- no more than one man could see the whole of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was too vast, too swift, too full of smoke, too full of danger, for anybody to see it all. My experience derives its only public importance from the fact that what I did, substantially, a hundred thousand others did or attempted -- that is, saved or sought to save their lives and enough of their wearing-apparel to face the sky in...
I had retired to rest, though not to sleep (Sunday, October 8) when the great bell struck the alarm, but fires had been so frequent of late, and had been so speedily extinguished, that I did not deem it worth while to get up and look at it, or even to count the strokes on the bell to learn where it was. The bell paused for fifteen minutes before giving the general alarm, which distinguishes a great fire from a small one. When it sounded the general alarm I rose and looked out. There was a great light to the southwest of my residence, but no greater than I had frequently seen in that quarter, where vast piles of pine lumber have been stored all the time I have lived in Chicago, some eighteen years. But it was not pine lumber that was burning this time. It was a row of wooden tenements in the South Division of the city, in which a few days ago were standing whole rows of the most costly buildings which it has entered into the hearts of architects to conceive. I watched the increasing light for a few moments. Red tongues of light began to shoot upward; my family were all aroused by this time, and I dressed myself for the purpose of going to the "Tribune" office to write something about the catastrophe. Once out upon the street, the magnitude of the fire was suddenly disclosed to me.
source:altavista.com
The Great Chicago Fire
by Horace White
October 14, 1871
Horace White, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune, wrote this eyewitness account of the most destructive fire in American history in a letter to Murat Halstead, the editor of the Cincinnati Commercial. The Chicago fire raged for two days and nights, covering over 2,100 acres, causing 200 deaths, destroying 17,450 buildings and leaving 70,000 homeless (out of a population of 324,000).
As a slight acknowledgment of your thoughtful kindness in forwarding to us, without orders, a complete outfit of type and cases, when you heard that we had been burned out, I send you a hastily written sketch of what I saw at the great fire...
The history of the great fire in Chicago, which rises to the dignity of a national event, cannot be written until each witness, who makes any record whatever, shall have told what he saw. Nobody could see it all -- no more than one man could see the whole of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was too vast, too swift, too full of smoke, too full of danger, for anybody to see it all. My experience derives its only public importance from the fact that what I did, substantially, a hundred thousand others did or attempted -- that is, saved or sought to save their lives and enough of their wearing-apparel to face the sky in...
I had retired to rest, though not to sleep (Sunday, October 8) when the great bell struck the alarm, but fires had been so frequent of late, and had been so speedily extinguished, that I did not deem it worth while to get up and look at it, or even to count the strokes on the bell to learn where it was. The bell paused for fifteen minutes before giving the general alarm, which distinguishes a great fire from a small one. When it sounded the general alarm I rose and looked out. There was a great light to the southwest of my residence, but no greater than I had frequently seen in that quarter, where vast piles of pine lumber have been stored all the time I have lived in Chicago, some eighteen years. But it was not pine lumber that was burning this time. It was a row of wooden tenements in the South Division of the city, in which a few days ago were standing whole rows of the most costly buildings which it has entered into the hearts of architects to conceive. I watched the increasing light for a few moments. Red tongues of light began to shoot upward; my family were all aroused by this time, and I dressed myself for the purpose of going to the "Tribune" office to write something about the catastrophe. Once out upon the street, the magnitude of the fire was suddenly disclosed to me.
5. What is one medication used for the treatment of Asthma?
source: msn.com
Asthma medicines are commonly grouped into two categories: long-term (preventative) medications and quick-relief (rescue) medications. All people with asthma should have a quick-relief medication to treat sudden asthma symptoms immediately when they arise. People with persistent asthma should also use a preventative medication to help prevent symptoms from occurring in the first place. In this section you'll find a brief description of some of the types of asthma medications and their role in the treatment process
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Asthma medicines are commonly grouped into two categories: long-term (preventative) medications and quick-relief (rescue) medications. All people with asthma should have a quick-relief medication to treat sudden asthma symptoms immediately when they arise. People with persistent asthma should also use a preventative medication to help prevent symptoms from occurring in the first place. In this section you'll find a brief description of some of the types of asthma medications and their role in the treatment process
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5. What is one medication used for the treatment of Asthma?
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Goals of asthma treatmentMany experts agree that with today's medications, living an active, healthy life with minimal symptoms really is a realistic goal. In fact, it's what you should aim for. With proper treatment, you can expect to:
Take part fully in everyday activities such as work and school, along with exercise and other physical activities.
Minimize such asthma symptoms as coughing, wheezing, tightness in chest, and shortness of breath.
Sleep through the night without waking up because of asthma symptoms.
Reduce the number of emergency room trips and unscheduled office visits (and the trauma associated with both).
Maintain normal or near-normal lung function, and help prevent permanent damage.
Experience few to no side effects from medicines.
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E-mail: president@whitehouse.gov
5. What is one medication used for the treatment of Asthma?
sources:mns.com
Goals of asthma treatmentMany experts agree that with today's medications, living an active, healthy life with minimal symptoms really is a realistic goal. In fact, it's what you should aim for. With proper treatment, you can expect to:
Take part fully in everyday activities such as work and school, along with exercise and other physical activities.
Minimize such asthma symptoms as coughing, wheezing, tightness in chest, and shortness of breath.
Sleep through the night without waking up because of asthma symptoms.
Reduce the number of emergency room trips and unscheduled office visits (and the trauma associated with both).
Maintain normal or near-normal lung function, and help prevent permanent damage.
Experience few to no side effects from medicines.
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