Book Description
Intended as a literary study guide with activities designed for group and individual projects. Includes a book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension and discussion questions.
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Creative activities and seat work
ISBN : 9780590536271
Intended as a literary study guide with activities designed for group and individual projects. Includes a book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension and discussion questions.
Author : Ellen Levine
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590437981
This book takes you to San Francisco, California, shortly before, during and after the great earthquake of April 18, 1906.
Author : Ellen Levine
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 1992-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780606018548
Describes the effects on San Francisco of the earthquake of 1906 and discusses the city's efforts to recover from the destruction.
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 9780590906555
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language arts (Elementary)
ISBN : 9780590592574
Author : Robert C. Bell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1628924624
Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of "natural†? disasters in American consumerism, literature, media, film, and popular culture. In a hyper-mediated global culture, disaster events reach us with great speed and minute detail, and Americans begin forming, interpreting, and historicizing catastrophes simultaneously with fellow citizens and people worldwide. America's Disaster Culture is not policy, management, or relief oriented. It offers an analytical framework for the cultural production and representation of disasters, catastrophes, and apocalypses in American culture. It focuses on filling a need for critical analysis centered upon the omnipresence of real and imagined disasters, epidemics, and apocalypses in American culture. However, it also observes events, such as the Dust Bowl, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11, that are re-framed and re-historicized as "natural†? disasters by contemporary media and pop culture. Therefore, America's Disaster Culture theorizes the very parameters of classifying any event as a "natural†? disaster, addresses the biases involved in a catastrophic event's public narrative, and analyzes American culture's consumption of a disastrous event. Looking toward the future, what are the hypothetical and actual threats to disaster culture? Or, are we oblivious that we are currently living in a post-apocalyptic landscape?
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2000-09-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618062553
Tells what it was like living in California at the time of the great San Francisco quake of 1906.
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 9780590491099
The creation of successful series books is discussed. Includes exercises for aspiring young authors.
Author : James David Cooper
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literature
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Author : Malcolm E. Barker
Publisher : Great West Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
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The 1906 earthquake shook San Francisco for sixty seconds and ignited fires that raged for three days, killing more than 3,000 people and destroying 500 city blocks. Dozens of first-hand accounts by people who endured the catastrophe. Stories of watching the quake approach and rip open the streets. -- Fighting the fire from inside the mint. -- Being trapped in the basement as City Hall collapsed.