Read the excerpt from part 1 of zeitoun. he looked in the backyard. there was the canoe. it called to him, floating and ready. it was a rare opportunity, he thought, to be able to glide over the roads. . leaving the yard was difficult. a tree across the street had been ripped from its roots and lay across the road, branches spread over his driveway. he paddled around them and looked back to the house. no great damage to the exterior. some shingles missing from the roof. the windows broken. a gutter that would need remounting. nothing too bad, three days’ work. what conclusion can readers draw about this character vs. nature conflict?
a. nature exerts her power and control over zeitoun.
b. nature offers protection to zeitoun’s family.
c. zeitoun believes he can manage nature’s strength.
d. zeitoun feels overwhelmed by nature’s power.

C. Zeitoun believes he can manage nature’s strength.

Explanation:

Zeitoun is a non-fiction book written by Dave Eggers that tells the story of a man named Abdulrahman Zeitoun and his decision to ride out when the Hurricane Katrina hits his Uptown place of residence in New Orleans. When the issue of the hurricane coming was known, Zeitoun decided to ride it out instead of staying indoors and trying to stay safe. To him, riding out the hurricane will be a much better option to save himself and also help people if he ever saw anyone on the way. He thought that those staying in are in much more danger than the ones fleeing away from it. And the above excerpt shows that even though nature may be strong, Zeitoun believes that he is capable of managing nature's strength.

it is natural to stand at the beginning of a research project and feel overwhelmed by the amount of published research that exists in databases, literature reviews, and reference pages. at the same time, each new research project brings the hope of discovering something new. overwhelming though a project may be, starting at the foothills of a new thread of research is a great privilege, and is best approached as an opportunity to learn rather than a drudgery. as a researcher/writer, you have the chance to dive more deeply into less frequently encountered pools of knowledge.

depending on the topic or scope of your research, it is also natural to spend many days and weeks - and in some cases months and years - searching. no matter how great or small the scope of research is, the serious researcher needs to reserve adequate time to perform a thorough survey of published articles. for an undergraduate course project, finding five or six sources might seem like plenty of material to review, but graduate-level writing projects typically involve up to 20 sources minimum.

note that the main point here is not to say that it is only the number of research articles matters most, but rather that having a broad spectrum of papers to choose from you choose your topic for at least the following two reasons: 1) a larger pool of sources provides you with a broader perspective of the topics within your scope of research and 2) along the way you will find many topics within your field that you do not want to write about! so, one particularly effective way of viewing research is not finding the absolute minimum sources to "get by", but rather to find a variety of sources that you can an artist uses negative space to "carve" shapes out of a dark guide you toward topics that are more directly relevant to your topic.

the good news is that as you research you may find that some of your sources that were published in the same decade or so will cite and reference each other.

one of the joys and privileges of research is being able to follow your curiosity; if you are truly curious about your topic, and authentically driven to find out as much as you can, then even the articles you don't find interesting will be useful for a future project, and no energy will be wasted.

the turtle carries new life, oat seeds, over to the other side of the highway and plants them there.