The ammonium nitrate was packaged in paper sacks, and then it was transported and stored at high temperatures that caused it to react. With such high temperatures, the ammonium nitrate started a fire in a lower hold. The captain ordered his men to steam the hold in hope of preserving the cargo, but soon after the ammonium nitrate detonated causing casualties and massive damage to the shore front along with farther in-land cities. The effects of the massive explosion lead to the SS High Flyer’s ammonium nitrate to explode, as well, causing even more deaths and destruction. 2.
Undoubtedly, the plague causes the disintegration of families in the town. By structuring her novel as a retrospective narrative that is our protagonist, Anna Frith describes of what had happened in the book, enables the audience to adopt the sense of doom and horrors occurred during the time of the catastrophe. We are exposed to pain and grief that Anna feels when she lost her children whom she ‘loved from the moment she first reached down and touched the crowd’ of her children because of the plague, which results in her ‘(fighting) the sexton when he came to take Jamie’s body away’. Brooks clearly demonstrates and explores that the crisis such this plague can destroy
Therefore, Golding explores the fragility of order in a society under stress. He also expresses this through constantly referring to the conch as fragile such as in the line ‘the fragile white conch’, emphasizing that civility can be lost any moment. This is also shown when the conch smashes to pieces, now representing broken civility and chaos. At this point, Piggy also dies. ‘Piggy was dead and the conch smashed to powder’ enforces that Piggy represented the need for science and intellectual endeavour in society so the break of both of these symbols at the same time shows a sudden corruption of civilisation.
The court authority is also symbolised as a hellish place, with Miller referring to it as "hot fire" that "melts down all concealment". Proctor also compares it to "the fires of hell". This portrays the authority in Salem as something to be feared and involves the connotations associating the court with fire, suggesting it's something which shouldn't be touched or interfered with. In
The horror of the plague: An Analysis of “The Masque of the Red Death” In Edgar Allen Poe 1842 short story “The Masque of the Red Death,” A plague destroyed the country, not only was so fatal and horrible but by actually seen how it affected the body, how those dark spots cover the face of the person it look horrible. How the blood will cover their entire bodies, the black sports become darker like the color black little by little it will cover the entire body and have a slowly death. The prince not only did he build a wall, that had an amazing structure so the plague will not be on his way and he could survive. He let his people die, but only half of them were already dead by the time that he builds the wall. H e just invited the most important people Knights, part of his court and some of the people that will work for him on the castle.
On February 27th, within a month of Hitler coming to power, the Reichstag building caught fire effectively destroying the whole building. This proved to be a valuable excuse for the Nazis to suspend most human rights provided for by the 1919 constitution in the Reichstag Fire Decree. The destruction of this building symbolized the end of one chapter in German history making way for Hitler and his new chapter under the Nazi party. During the 12 years of Nazi rule, the Reichstag building was not used as a parliamentary building because it was damaged by the after the fire because the damage was to great. The Government convened in the former opera house called the Krolloper building, which was opposite the old Reichstag building.
The hot portions of the crashed meteorite land onto the earth’s surface which cause fires. When a huge meteorite crashes in to the earth, it causes so much harm, that it destroys the land and all living things that surround it. As it harms the land, it kills the homes, food and water and plant supply of animals, therefore leading them to death. 3) At this present stage, if a massive meteorite was to crash on earth, our lives, as we know them, would totally change. Reactions that would happen if a meteorite was to hit the earth are:
The poet has described the gruesome reality of the first nuclear explosion and its power to destroy the whole human race. This bombing wiped out two cities and millions died. However, Japan endured the calamity, rose up, (bit by bit my strength/Seemed to revive) and rebuilt their shattered city and their world. Thus, we can conclude that “A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945” is an anti-war poem. It talks about
The second line refers to Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Plot (referenced also in other lines of the poem), where an attempt was made to blow up the Parliament building in honor of anarchy. The attempt, like Kurtz’s life, ended up fruitless—the plot was exposed and the conspirators executed. Both these allusions give references hinting at the poem’s theme even before the actual material of the poem itself is presented. Kurtz and Fawkes alike are famous for their ultimately failing grand plots they worked so hard for. Reminiscent of Kurtz’s last words (“The horror!
This widespread extreme censorship of books eventually led to the downfall of the society and I realized that my definition of dystopia must be broadened from freedom of choice to include restricting intellectualism or self expression. One interesting thing to note here is that the society in this novel actually gets destroyed literally and left to rebuild. The idea of these violent or otherwise consequences in literature and media depicting dystopic societies happens time and time again. The dystopia in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is mainly about the aftermath and fallout of a nuclear war, but it also examines the oppression of androids and the treatment they receive from society. In this post-apocalyptic world, where the extreme radiation from the nuclear fallout has destroyed nearly every form of life, companies began creating artificial animals and humans that takes the form of androids.