Wind & Fire Essays

The Awakening by Kate Chopin Title The Awakening is related to Edna’s internal awakening that she has over the period of the book The Awakening was originally titled The Solitary Soul Setting New Orleans and The Grand Isle Genre Spiritual / artistic realization, romantic style Historical Information Kate Chopin 1850-1904 Father was Irish, Mother was French-American Bilingual- spoke both French and English Grew up in St.Louis Missouri Developed a passion for music at a young age Met and married

Since the dawn of time, people have been longing for different reasons. Some examples are for love, for peace, or even maybe longing for the chance to go back to their family roots. This cycle of human emotion will never end and that is why numerous poems are written for expression of these repressed feelings. One example of an expression of repression is the beautiful poem “Upon Hearing Tagalog” by Fatima Lim-Wilson. The poem’s tone, word-choice, and even the figurative language used contribute

In Louise Glück’s poem “Terminal Resemblance,” the speaker tells about her relationship, or lack thereof, with her father. The speaker explains a relationship with their father, saying it is not existent. They have a conversation that is supposed to be meaningful, considering he is dying, but it seems to have no meaning to her at all. The speaker wishes her father the best and leaves him and her mother at the door, with the same relationship she had with him before. The poem seems to be about how

Allegories are used for many reasons, such as debating about politics, or create moral meanings, but what intrigues me is that authors are able to express their ideas on controversies going on in the world with their stories, at the same time, it give a better context to the story, and give a peek of how it would feel if the reader was in the situation, just with an allegory. Kate Chopin, most assumedly, was a supporter of the feminist movement, and she showed her support of the women’s movement

Nora Ephron’s “The Boston Paragraphs” displays various forms of rhetorical proficiency in order to create a fleshed out story. A piece of writing that displays many forms of rhetorical devices has the ability to carry out the author's feelings and ideas through a specific audience. Ephron expresses her love for stories and photos because they capture all the angles from the human experience. Ephron uses simple yet effective writing in order to keep casual readers from shying away from this complicated

Albert Camus was one of the leading thinkers and believers of the Absurd. The philosophical movement shares much of the same traits as Existentialism. For a long time humans have tried to find the meaning to life and have examined the purpose and objective of our existence. Either they have concluded that this life is meaningless, or they have taken comfort in some faith and religious belief such as the existence of God or a higher power. Camus concluded that a life has no purpose. He refused to

Great Fire of 1910 The largest forest fire in American History was on August 20th and 21st of 1910. It took lives, destroyed towns, and created torches out of trees. The fire adopted the name of The Big Blowup, or sometimes called the Big Burn. One man described it as “A terrific hurricane had broke over the mountain”. The Great Fire of 1910 was very destructive in its nature. A drought and dry spring made the ground exhausted with dehydration. In Sherry Devlin’s article she states “Wallace

North Valley fire was one of the most destructive wildfires to ever burn the state of California.It started september 12 in Lake County, Califorinia a community 100 miles north of the city of San Francisco. The fire began around 1:00 pm in the afternoon,by 6:00 it already destroyed more than 10,000 acres.Entire towns and thousands of residents along a 35-mile stretch of State Route 29 were forced to evacuate, many running as the fire came down the hill toward their homes.California fire spokesman Dan

different natural disasters, forest fires seems to happen quite often in California. Forest fires are uncontrolled blazes fueled by dry underbrush, wind, and weather. In the matter of seconds. wildfires can burn acres of land and destroy everything in their paths. For a wildfire to burn there needs to be three conditions present, fire fighters call it fuel, oxygen, and a heat sources the “The fire triangle.” Any type of fuel is flammable material circling a fire, this includes brush, grass, trees

According to Fire Science, “In the last eleven years, nearly 80 million acres have been consumed by wildfire, an area greater than the state of New Mexico” (“Worst States for Fire Danger”). The United States has suffered many wildfires in the past and still is. Wildfires have always been a major problem in the United States particularly in the west. There are many causes of wildfires. Along with how it affects the natural environment. (the Columbia River Gorge above Cascade Locks

“They still do not know if he is truly glad God woke him when he did, for the wind had turned and that fire come back” (Ingold 150). This quote creates a fire that continues to spread without notice waiting to take someone’s life as it goes. Wildfires spread across the country burning millions of acres. Additionally, wildfires damage homes and businesses leaving behind high repair costs. An individual can have an impact on the fight against wildfires. Some ways to impact the fight is to become a

Detection Of Fire Accelerants Fires can be set in a number of ways. Setting a fire does not require the use of an accelerant, but it frequently exists in arson and accidents as well. Its important to note, flammable liquids and accelerants are also not always one and the same and can vary in type. The vapor from accelerants such as a flammable liquid supports the flame over the material, which can be either easy or very difficult to detect. The accelerant can leave visible physical traces, or the

events. In 1910, a horrible inferno called the Great Fire of 1910 broke out and destroyed a couple million acres of forest. With the Great Fire, one of the heroic firefighters, Edward Pulaski, saved almost all of his crew except The 1910s also had music. Bluegrass, jazz, and scat with many other genres. The Great Fire of 1910, Edward Pulaski, and Music Impacted the culture of the United States because of the new rules and plans for fire safety, act of heroism and saving people, and all the jobs

“Brush Fire” by Linda Thomas and “Santa Ana” by Joan didion are essays written about the Santa Ana winds of southern California. These malevolent winds start as a cool high pressure front in the Great Basin east of California. As the wind from the high pressure system fall down the back side of the mountains east of southern California. As the winds fall down the west side of the mountains they are warmed by the desert and sun and increase in temperature and speed as they wind through the narrow

The flames of desire can morph into an inferno of destruction. Drought fell upon Mason Row during the summer solstice, the small farming community greeted the sunshine with dreaded welcome; cattle and crop usually thrived beneath its brilliant rays, but this year. . . this year brought danger. A farmer mowing his parched lawn could set the world ablaze, a single firecracker could ravish an entire country side, these reason kept the town constable Eldred Tolhurst awake at night, and kept him on

Fire travels easiest uphill, with the assistance of wind and dead, dry plants to fuel it, so the windy hills with lots of pine beetle kill in Nederland are a prime environment for a fire. Just this July, the Cold Springs fire was close enough to our house that we had to prepare to evacuate and pack most of our belongings. Also, in 2010,  we nearly evacuated for the nearby Peewink fire. My Oxnard 2 family and I try to overcome this by having

essay “The Santa Ana” by Joan Didion the aim is to inform people of the Santa Ana winds as a fierce force of nature by describing its effects on the residents and the environment. She uses good examples of the live in the Santa Ana region and using negative describing words to get her point across. Overall the Santa Ana winds cause major problems with the people and land by drying the water and helping start fires. These problems add to the negative feelings of the essay. In the essay Didion uses

Ana” by Joan Didion and “Brush Fire” by Linda Thomas readers are able to compare that both authors lived in the California and experienced all the types of different behaviors that was caused by the Santa Ana winds. These two authors describe the event completely differently and give their own point of view of this event by using similar techniques. They also give two different type of tones through their stories. Comparing “The Santa Ana” by Joan Didion and “Brush Fires” by Linda Thomas, readers will

increasing in size before Cyclone strength winds caused the fires to rapidly increase in size. This helped to push the fires to spread to the suburbs closer to the centre of Canberra. It claimed 164,914 hectares of land or about 70% of Canberra’s land mass. It took many homes, took four lives and injured many more. Many infrastructures and facilities were also claimed. About 90% of Namadgi National Park was burnt, mush of it was severely burnt. The fires caused severe damage to the Tidbinbilla Nature

There were many conditions that made this storm so devastating, including weather patterns, lack of observation, and bad forecasters. Firstly, the weather was perfect for a devastating hurricane. The storm initially was headed for Florida, but high winds instead pushed it north, towards New England. While heading north, jetstreams and the tides fed it energy, making the hurricane a cyclone. Off the coast of Long Island, there were two high pressure zones that pushed it to shore. To top it all off,