Coconut Grove fire By: Jace Laidig On November 28, 1942, this club was the scene of the deadliest nightclub fire in history,killing 492 people (which was 32 more than the building's authorized capacity) and injuring hundreds more. This tragedy shocked the nation, briefly taking the headlines in the newspaper over World War 2.This fire led to a reform of safety standards and codes across the country, and major changes in the treatment and rehabilitation of burn victims. The Cocoanut Grove fire was the second deadliest single-building fire in American history. The Iroquois theater fire in 1902 in Chicago had taken more than 605 lives, with the Cocoanut fire taking 492 lives.
Imagine being captured and trapped in a camp, in North Vietnam, for six years filled with days of brutal torture and agonizing boredom. In Leo Thorsness’s novel, Surviving Hell, Thorsness and his fellow soldiers found a way to not only survive, but to thrive. Through numerous events and experiences, the soldiers survived by utilizing any means possible, both mentally and physically. It was their hope and optimism that kept them going. This can be seen when Thorsness plots his walk home.
On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling was fatally shot by Blane Salamoni, a Baton Rouge police officer, in a convenience store parking lot. Salamoni was responding to a call about a man brandishing a gun and thought that Sterling fit the description of the suspect. However, when Salamoni arrived at the scene, he immediately became violent in his use of force on Sterling. Body camera footage shows Salamoni “slamming him into a car; twice ordering the second officer, Howie Lake II, to use his Taser; and threatening to shoot Mr. Sterling with a gun pointed at his head” (Fausset, 2018). Also shown in the video is Sterling doing his best to follow Salamoni’s orders although he was being pushed around by officers for the duration of the encounter.
Economics and Psychology in Appalachia, An Analysis of the Novel: Above the Waterfall In the novel Above the Waterfall, Ron Rash decides to focus on the main theme of Loss. The culture within the beautiful ecosystem of Appalachia is encased with family ties that are hard to deny. Rash writes, “In a county this rural, everyone’s connected, if not by blood, then in some other way” from the relationship between Darby and Gerald to the friendship between Les and Becky, their relationships show a true loyalty to the ones they have grown up with and show that Appalachia is a tight knit community (Rash 90). The characters within the novel: Above the Waterfall demonstrate signs of loss of self, domestic violence, as well as poverty.
"Running for His Life" In the story "Running for His Life", Michael Hall explains the genocide Gilbert Tuhabonye experienced when he was in high school in East Africa and how he managed to escape and relive his life in Austin, Texas. Tuhabonye's teachers and the Tutsi teenagers were burned alive and beaten to death by friends of theirs. A couple of students tried eluding, but we're caught and killed by the killers. The building was on fire, burning corpses, and burning to death any students who remained alive.
Having a good relationship with family as a child is important for mental health cause without it some people go through mental abuse because of their relationship with their family. The Distance Between Us was made and published in 2012 by Reyna Grande. It is a memoir about her childhood in Mexico up until she moves to America or as it is called in the book "El Otro Lado" which means "The Other Side". Reyna's relationships with her family have grown and changed over the years from when she was left at Abuela Evila house till she could go to America. When her mother left, Reyna looked up to her father, hoping they would come back and take them to "El Otro Lado".
Sweat is a 2017 playwright piece by Lynn Nottage (produced by Dramatists Play Service, Inc). The show covers an array of themes including industrialization, race, economics, and addiction. It follows a group of nine characters, all living within the same Pennsylvania community. The characters also all work for the same factory, “Olstead’s.” The shows swap back between 2 different years: 2000 and 2008.
He is not happy with his income that supports his family. He sometimes gets work at the sugar mill. He is number 78 on the hire list for the sugar mill. Guy never wanted to be like his like father. His father was a struggling man too.
Who Had the Greatest Impact on Your Will? Rules don’t always rule. In Long Way Down, written by Jason Reynolds, the main character Will Holloman lost his brother to gun violence. In his neighborhood, it's a rule to avenge any loved ones death. So he grabs his brother's gun and gets on the elevator where he meets his loved ones who’ve died.
People come and go in life, but eventually, everyone will find the one that stays and makes them happy. The country song “Sun to Me,” by Zach Bryan is about a speaker who has found someone that brings out the best in them, and makes them a happier person. In the first stanza, the writer introduces that the speaker has found someone that is like the sun to them and brings out the best in them. In the second stanza through the rest of the poem, the speaker continues to emphasize how important the person that he found was to them, and how they make the speaker a better person. In “Sun to Me,” Zach Bryan uses alliteration and metaphors to teach listeners that having someone that brings out the best in them is very beneficial, and everyone can find someone as long as they look hard enough.
Freedom Summer was written by Bruce Watson. This book is about how 700 hundred students traveled to Mississippi to make blacks as equal as other ethnicities. In 1964 in Mississippi and other Southern states blacks did not have the right to vote in elections. Things that stopped them from voting in elections were poll taxes, literacy test, and other "legalistic voodoo"(Bruce Watson) to stop blacks from voting in elections .The book reflect today's life as well, by blacks not being able to do things.
Have you ever considered how a teen parent goes through their day-to-day life, even with the struggles of income, school and relationships with family and friends? Well if you haven't you should know for the average teen parent it is extremely difficult to deal with the struggles of income, school and relationships with family and friends without any help or guidance. In the novel With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo, the author uses plot events, motifs, and characterization to show that being a teen parent is very difficult without help or guidance. Acevedo does this with plot events. Emoni throughout the book has trouble with money.
On September 11, 2001, tragedy struck the city of New York. On that fateful day, two airplanes were hijacked by terrorists and flew straight into the twin towers. Each tower fell completely to the ground, taking thousands of lives with it and injuring thousands more. Not only did that day leave thousands of families without their loved ones, it also left an entire city and an entire country to deal with the aftermath of the destruction. Poet, Nancy Mercado, worries that one day people will forget that heartbreaking day.
Although Day care cost him 150 a month, which is 1800$ a year, so in reality he has 7800$ a year for rent food, daycare, gas, his wife, electricity, water, heat and personal spending. The cost of this is most probably more than 7800$ so we can infer that he had no savings as he had to spend all of his money yearly including some of the money his wife made, so when she left him it must have been a huge decrease in funds for the family. This brings me to my third
Humans have different ways of expressing their emotions. One way of expressing emotion is through art. Art, itself, is very difficult to define. Loosely defined, it is the creative expression and application of humans’ creativity and skill. There is a wide and diverse range of art forms which include painting, song writing, dancing, and sculpting.
