Multiple hoses had been deployed and were whistling as the water flew through the nozzles. The fire crept through the whole entire house leaving nothing in its path. As the flames died down throughout the house, I was tired and sore from all the hard work that was done. As the fire slowly ended, Chief 12-1 from command had marked the situation under control. Foam was placed on the little patches of flames that were still burning throughout the piles of rubble that were once part of a fully, well-built house.
They start shooting; Montagues trying to flee, firing their guns at anything like cans, signs but people. The Capulets are more violent, aim at their rivals, even shoot one of them. As the yellow convertible zooms out of the gas station with its panicking passengers, the gas pump falls on the ground... Benvolio is left behind. Tybalt drops his cigar onto the leaking fuel which causes the gas station explode. The fire and the music is very dramatic, makes the audience think that the fight is over but instead it carries on between two sides on Verona’s streets till the police ends it from the helicopter.
English Composition January 23, 2013 Growing up, most people experience what it is like being pressured by an adult to excel or succeed in something that you have no interest in whatsoever .Not so much because you want to excel at it or learn about it, but because it is something the adult thinks would be best for you. It could be learning a new sport, learning a new language or even a new instrument. In the selection “Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities” by David Sedaris, we read about a boy who goes through this exact situation after his father decides that he and his younger sisters should start a family music group to support his love and appreciation for jazz music. The author’s purpose of this story was to inform the reader about his childhood with having a music teacher such as Mr. Mancini and what it was like to have a music junkie for a father. Sedaris tells us ,“jazz was my father’s only form of rebellion.
He went to a nearby gas station, filled a plastic container with a dollar’s worth of gasoline, and returned to the club. He threw the gasoline into the only entrance of the club and then lit matches to ignite the fire. Smoke quickly filled the first floor of the club, where 18 people were found dead. Smoke billowed up the narrow staircases to the second floor where there were 69 fatalities. All of the decedents died in the building, and none were resuscitated.
On Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire started on the eighth floor. Work had ended at 4:30 that day and most of the workers were gathering their belongings and their paychecks when a cutter noticed a small fire had started in his scrap bin. No one is sure what exactly started the fire, but a fire marshal thought a cigarette butt had possibly gotten tossed into the bin. Nearly everything in the room was flammable, (hundreds of pounds of cotton scraps, tissue paper patterns, and wooden tables). Several workers threw pails of water on the fire, but it quickly grew out of control.
They agreed to burn the house down to hide the evidence. They went to their own garage and found a gas can, took some matches, and proceeded to Nelly’s home. Able dowsed the front door with gas, and Bonnie lit the match. Before dropping the match, the three decided together that burning the house would not solve their problems. After Bonnie blew out the match, the three went returned the gas can to their
Steven was the first he met up with, and he was just bickering with Paulette from across the riot. Nate ran into Herr Schulteis next, and he had just spilled ketchup on his brand new stripped shirt, and was licking it off. Then, right before Nate made it to the middle; Candy’s daddy came up behind him and gave a big slap on the rear. What for, the world may never know. Nate decided since he did not see Candy he would just continue on with this traitorous journey through the riot.
A fireman was killed by a body falling from the sky. But he reached for her hand and she reached for his hand and they leaped out the window holding hands. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, wrote John the Apostle, and the elements shall melt with a fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. I try to whisper prayers for the sudden dead and the harrowed families of the dead and the screaming souls of the murderers but I keep coming back to his hand and her hand nestled in each other with such extraordinary ordinary succinct ancient naked stunning perfect simple ferocious love. There is no fear in love, wrote John, but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath
Communication theorist have say that the way we perceive someone is part of our everyday communication and are adopted the usually the first time we meet someone or if we have had a bad experience in the past associated with a particular group. In the book The Stranger by Albert Camus , the main character Meursault will eventually have his life sentenced to death based on the way people perceived him towards his Maman instead of being charged with murder. <br> The title of the book confused me at first after I had finished reading the book. I couldn't see why it was called The Stranger. After discussions in our class and pondering this question ,I came up with my answer.
Acquainting himself with his cell-mate who was accused of burning down a barn, Thoreau believed the man was telling the truth when he said he was innocent suspecting that the man had fallen asleep drunk with a lit pipe in his mouth. Upon being released due to someone paying his poll-tax he began to look at his town in a new way. He felt as if “the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses” (Thoreau