March 25, 1947 is the day 111 coal miners were killed during their routine daily duties at the Centralia Coal Mine. There was a massive explosion that changed the city of Centralia forever. The cause of the massive explosion was due to a buildup of coal dust. The explosion was one hundred percent preventable if the necessary actions were taken in to affect beforehand. The conditions of the coal mine was deadly.
The perfect fuel for a fire. In addition, the railroads had cleared their right of way and the remaining waste was left alongside the tracks. Occasionally the waste was ignited by sparks from passing trains. On this particular day several small fires have started. The winds that had been blowing in from the south allowed these fires to merge.
Silver Linings Playbook Life does not always go as planned. Silver Linings Playbook was a movie that proved that. In the movie, Pat had lost everything, his job, his house and even his wife, which led him to moving back in with his mother and father after spending some time in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat was determined to rebuild his life, always remain positive, and to reunite with his wife, even though there were challenging circumstances of their separation. All Pat’s parent’s want is for him to love/be obsessed with the Philadelphia Eagles football team.
Why do we have to pay for other peoples mistakes? In the book “Flight” by Sherman Alexie Zits deals with many disappointments in life. One of his biggest disappointments is not having a father or someone that loves him like he wants to be love, “My father was a drunk, too more in love with beer and vodka than with my mother and me. He vanished like a cruel magician about two minutes after I was born” (Alexie4). This most of been hard for him to know that his dad didn’t care for him and that he only cared about his beer and vodka.
According to Albert Kropp, “Two years of shells and bombs - a man won’t peel that off as easy as a sock” (87). When a man is in the war for two years, the war will become a part of him, because of the horrors and terrors he has faced in the field. Two years of the war isolates a man from civilian life, and eventually, the war will identify him, causing it to be very difficult to make the transition of war life back to civilian life. Paul reflects back to the innocence the war has taken from him as he states, “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world, and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our heart.
I do not like the idea of sleeping with another man or woman or having my husband sleep with another woman. I noticed even though Kinsey had been sleeping with Martin, when Martin asked to sleep with Mac which is Kinsey’s wife Kinsey was hesitant. To the surprise of Mac she enjoyed sleeping with Martin. Also, Garbo slept with Martin’s wife which Martin did not like, he blamed it on Kinsey and his teachings. The blame game was nothing new for Kinsey he had been blamed for homosexuality, promoting erotic sex and all things dealing with sex which was considered a
It is not enough to simply have his name live on, he seeks true immortality. In a sense, Gilgamesh hits his mid-life crisis, he realizes he too will face Enkidu’s fate and goes out to try and buy his own metaphorical Corvette (immortality) he so desperately sought when he was younger. As he seeks immortality, the people he meets advise him against his quest and they do not immediately recognize him. Gilgamesh loses sight of himself and his humanity as he sought immortality, which is shown by his poor and unkempt appearance. Accepting the fact that one day, we all must face our own death is part of being human.
Things seem to be going pretty well but a secret Travis has been keeping from Hawaii causes him to struggle with himself. He gets the same nightmare almost every night and feels like the only thing that helps him is by doing drugs and being back together with Laura. While Travis keeps his secret about Hawaii to himself, he finds out Laura has been keeping one too, one that will ruin their relationship for good. Throughout the book, Travis tries to build his life back up only to find it crashing down in the end. Just when you think something may turn for the better, it goes downhill and you think of the two phrases in the foreword that “this is not a love story” and “There are no happy endings.” To find out what Travis is hiding, and what his friends
Falling into Adulthood In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield, a 16 year old boy, struggles to mature and conform to the expectations of society as he enters adulthood while he tries to cope with the death of his little brother, Allie. Holden doesn’t like what he sees as he starts to meet new people and venture into the world. His travels in New York City cause him to lose his childhood innocence from encounters with people who are phonies that only care about money and sex. These losses of innocence are shown by a recurring motif in the story, falling.
He is able to risk his life for this fight, but he cannot drink a beer with his dad on his day of return? People say that 18 year olds are too immature to drink and cannot handle it, but then why are they allowed to hold two jobs, be a legal adult, drive, and go to college full time? It seems to me that the only reason for the drinking age to be older than eighteen is that people are scared that the eighteen-year-olds would not be able to handle their alcohol, but anybody who just starts drinking needs time to get used to it. In turn, nobody is perfect and no matter when you start