The film conveys with some visual power, the effect of the blast and destruction and suffering of the people. Besides all the good qualities of the movie, it is unfortunate that the title of the film will cause confusion for years to come as it shares the same name of a fine and very reliable non-fiction book about the Halifax Explosion: Shattered City by Janet Kitz. According to the sources listed in the bibliography, there is no evidence of German spies in Halifax in World War I during or before the explosion. The Film tells us that there were no surgeons and only two makeshift hospitals until the Americans arrive of trains. There were actually a half dozen hospitals operating the day of the explosion.
People’s Temple, Branch Davidians, Heaven’s Gate The task of comparing and contrasting different religions is difficult because it seems like it can be done without endless quantifiers. In some ways People’s Temple, Branch Davidians, and Heaven’s Gate can be compared, they all had charismatic leaders and resulted in multiple deaths. They can all be grouped under the category of “cult” but treating all cults the same is a mistake. The People’s Temple, Branch Davidians and Heaven’s Gate had different agendas and methods and each needs to be evaluated on its own merits. The People’s Temple founded in Indianapolis, Indiana in the 1950s by Jim Jones was a reaction to the racism and prejudice that Jones experienced growing up in poverty.
The sun was setting on another blissful day in London. Mustapha Mond stood solemnly beside The Savage's bed in the Hospital for Dying. As John had died in such an inconvenient and unexpected fashion, there was no provision for how to deal with his body. Mond had hesitantly suggested that they should treat it similarly to one of their own bodies: cremate it and harvest the chemicals to serve society. However, his fordship had pointed out that The Savage would not have the same contents as that of someone who had been decanted, nor any of the ageing supplements which ordinary people possessed.
Caroline Reid The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury’s style of writing is very unique and differs from most novels I have read. Personally, I believe he never fully explains what he is talking about, but he does not necessarily have to. In his short stories within his book, The Illustrated Man, Bradbury relates his exposés with common themes. “The Last Night of the World” and “Kaleidoscope,” both demonstrates the idea of the acceptance of death, but leaves the reader to interpret this theme with an open imagination. The main character, Hollis, advances Kaleidoscope, in a bleakly existentialist view.
Author O’Brian also confuses the reader by writing his novel as if everything that was told took place in the real world. For example, just by saying “this is true” (64) doesn’t always make it true. O’Brian leaves it up to the reader to distinct what they see the story as: reality or fiction. It is said that “a true war story… makes the stomach believe” (74). Author and character O’Brian tell the story in such a way to make it believable that the two different people are really the same person.
Critical Response The Catbird Seat In his article, “The Catbird Seat,” David J. Birnbaum explains the difficulties and advantages he encounteredbeing a quadriplegic. At age seventeen, Birnbaum was involved in a serious automobile accident, just days before his eighteenth birthday. Ultimately, the crash broke his neck and permanently took the use of his legs. One day while wheeling back to his hospital room; still becoming acclimated to his new disability, Birnbaum rudely cut in front of a line of people waiting for an elevator. Instead of being scolded, he was allowed to pass without any retribution; “That was the first time I felt my place in society” (Birnbaum 227).
We can see what is happening but we never feel the need to act and do something about it. A great example of this is the Salem Witch Trials, because following the film it shows that the witchcraft expert knew what was going on but did not put a stop to it. This led to a massive trial of deaths that shouldn’t have happened. Mass hysteria is a very stealthy disease that we do not expect coming because it shows no organic cause. There have been many incidents of this disease all over the world such as the dancing plague, the June bug epidemic, Soap opera hysteria etc.
The narrator refers to himself very infrequently in the novel, and some details he adds to the novel as the narrator are very strange. For example, when describing Una, he writes, “I never knew Una. She was dead before I remember, but George Hamilton told me about it many years later…” (pg 276). This statement does not add a lot to the chapter, and is an example of how inconsistently Steinbeck uses the first person narrator. However, there is also a chapter that is entirely about the war and how the
His argument was an echo of George X. Sands who had written about the unexplained accidents around the triangle in 1952. Later other authors like John Wallace wrote about the same mysterious triangle. The most popular losses that the United States has experienced is the disappearance of the plane of Flight nineteen in December the year 1945, NC16002 plane in December the year 1948, SS Marine Sulphur Queen in 1963 and USS Cyclops in the year 1918. In all these cases disappearance, the planes and the ships have never been traced. This has been used to support the mystery of the Bermuda triangle, although the accidents might have been due to poor weather conditions or mechanical failure.
There are entire books that have been written about failures from air traffic control or ground crew or maintenance crews and thus it would not make sense to simply focus errors and human factors in the training of cockpit cruise on so many other departments have historically contributed to accidents as well. For example, let us consider the case of the Tenerife runway accident. Widely regarded as the aviation industry's titanic moment this horrific accident occurred on a runway in the Canary Islands when a Dutch KLM airliner Anna Pan-American airliner collided on the runway when one attempted to take off and foggy conditions being unable to see the other that was using the runway as a taxiing means and much of this particular accident had to do not just with failures on the part of the flight crews specifically the KLM crew but also from failures of air traffic control to properly communicate necessary information to both planes. In the case of aloha airlines flight the failure was on the part of the maintenance crew who failed to recognize stress fatigue in the fuselage of the aircraft given the number of hours it was operating doing island jump flights which resulted in the top of the fuselage blowing off mid-flight. In the case of