Preview

Personal Narrative: The Compound

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
169 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Personal Narrative: The Compound
Six years since we had entered the compound.
It had been six years! Six years since my father had tricked my family into going into his perfect science experiment. My father was completely crazy, a maniac, once I realized it was only an experiment I was furious, outraged at what he had done to us. Forced us into some hole in the ground and locked it up telling us there was a nuclear fallout outside, and we wouldn't go back for fifteen years. My father is Rex Yanakakis, founder of YK Industries, maniac, and builder of my hell, he is extremely rich so he had plenty of money to build the compound. The compound was his attempt to survive a “nuclear fallout “ I later learned there was no fallout and everyone thought we were dead. We are not dead,

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    This nuclear disaster was a series of equipment failures – nuclear meltdowns – releases of radioactive materials at the ‘Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant’.…

    • 567 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    “Production takes precedence over safety” was a quite common idea in Rocky Flats during the Cold War (Iversen 409). In Kristen Iversen’s non-fiction memoir, Full Body Burden, she investigated the top secret about Rocky Flats – the nuclear weapons plant. She revealed the truth for the innocent citizens lived near around the radiation area and unfolded the concealed information of how the toxic and radioactive waste affected the area around Rocky Flats, and extensively, seeking justice for innocent people in her twelve years of researching. Nuclear production: these words drive all the main factors in this book, two nuclear building fires, death of local animals, water safety issues, higher rate of cancer in local residence, extensive test…

    • 1553 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Since nuclear waste is deadly to humans, the location of a long-term facility is crucial. In the event of a catastrophe, the ability to isolate the area effectively and expose as few people as possible to danger is critical. With the closest humans 15 miles away, Yucca Mountain is an ideal place to build the repository. The location provides the safety necessary for the success of the project by limiting people's exposure to radioactivity. The desert isolation also provides better security for the site, protecting from an easy assault by terrorists. With no one living near the mountain, several…

    • 1120 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    It is significant to know what happened at Three Mile Island and at Chernobyl even though there regardless of the little interest in science or engineering due to many factors. The Chernobyl accident in Belarus and Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania made us aware that the error in technological systems can result in life destructive situations. Even though there are several benefits and gains from advanced technology, engineering and science, it can result in life threatening situations as well in case of fault conditions. These incidents help to understand the…

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    David Hahn Essay

    • 1211 Words
    • 5 Pages

    David Hahn was a typical seventeen year old boy scout who had grown up in the small town of Golf Manor, Michigan. It wasn’t until the day that suited men from the Environmental Protection Agency came to his house, raiding his makeshift lab in the backyard, for his self-deemed project to gain national recognition and reveal exactly what his obsession turned into- a homemade nuclear reactor. Since the early age of four, David Hahn began satisfying his fascination for science by going through the house and mixing various substances with liquid drainer, thus causing a reaction. However, he did not tell anyone about what he did, in which turned into a repetitive pattern that evidently…

    • 1211 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Walking into the locker room about to get ready to go to our last football game of the season. I could smell the sweaty equipment from the kids who never take their pads home. The Hempfield Spartans 7th grade team would be ending their season 0-7 if we didn’t win today. As I was changing into my pads my friend mike walked in the room. I said “you ready for tonight”. “Heck yeah” replied Mike.…

    • 308 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In sixth grade, I stood before a podium that stared back at my English class. This was not how I envisioned sharing my love for reading and writing; however, it was required. My palms felt sticky, and I just knew that the entire class could see my heart as it was about to hop from the walls that kept it safe. I prayed that I would not forget the lines as I recited The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. In sixth grade, reading, writing, and I started a relationship. Today, we have yet to break up.…

    • 434 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In March of 1979, the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant of Middleton, PA faced near meltdown. People feared an unseen enemy: radiation. B.M. Dunn had some vital information to the possibility of this incident prior to its occurring. Dunn relayed this information to D.F. Hallman. Hallman’s memo and the involvement of those who did or did not receive it have been under a microscope since this historical event.…

    • 1095 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Traveling into the Indian Territory, we were being angrily chased down by three Indians furiously shouting at us. Dashing through the thick forest, the savage Indians were throwing spears and shooting arrows that narrowly missed us. Although neither Gideon nor I was mortally injured, I did suffer from a nick from an arrow piercing near my ear. Thankfully, a group of burly fur traders approached from the side, which frightened the Indians to run away. Acknowledging that Gideon and I were inexperienced travelers in the west, they offered us protection in exchange for some valuable possessions. As a consequence, knowing that they were our best alternative for survival, we gave them our antique gold pocket watches and assumed the identities of novice fur traders. From that point on, we followed them through the west and adopted their skills for efficiently hunting animals and keeping warm in the harsh, cold weather. During one of our rest points, we approached a large Cherokee settlement located in Park Hill in which our group leader was friends with the Cherokee leader John Ross.…

    • 682 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Center stage. A single actor in a pool of white light, his jaw opening to sing the first note of “Santa Fe” from the musical, NEWSIES. That is the director’s main goal, in my opinion; to captivate audiences. One of the director’s main roles is to help guide actors during rehearsals. When I was younger, nine or ten, my elementary school teacher told me that I would be an excellent teacher. That has stuck with me through the years. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to inspire people to change their lives for the better.…

    • 2140 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Coming from Eastern Europe, a completely different culture; I didn’t know how to speak English at all. Even now I am not perfect at English. There are certain things I struggle with and certain obstacles that occur because of that. Through my education I had no family member that could help me with school work such as homework because of their lack of English. Back then it all seemed impossible for me. My parents that also didn't know a word of English couldn’t help me since they were going through the same obstacle. My dad eventually had to go to work, and later my mom too, but she had more time with me. My mother was and still is the person who always encourages me, listens, and supports me. I know that the hardships she has faced have been…

    • 196 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    “Cosmo Jenkins” What a stupid name, it’s like my parents wanted me to get bullied or something. If you couldn't already tell, my parents are astronomers. They have done a lot of important stuff, but I don’t know what, don’t care that much either. They keep on pushing astronomy on me, giving me a new telescope or star chart every year. I’ve always thought the stars to be quite boring, it’s a bunch of small lights in the sky, big whoop. While I’m not that big into stars, I am pretty good at coding. I can get into your server faster than you can say “Cyber Security”. Overall, life is good.…

    • 673 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Back in the day when I was about 8 playing baseball I felt mentally captive. I felt that I could not succeed like the other players were and I felt weak. Just like all the patients in the ward battling against Nurse Ratched they felt hopeless just like I did. I was so unmotivated to go to practice because I felt like I wasn’t improving. Maybe if I actually used my head I could of thought that what the major league players do is what I have to do to become just like them. That was my mentality when I was young and it still is to this day. I learned that if I wanted to succeed I have to put in extra work. I needed to practice, have control, and game situation.…

    • 753 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Personal Narrative

    • 563 Words
    • 3 Pages

    When I was nine years old, my grandmother died. She and I were extremely close and, even though she would never admit it, I was her favorite grandchild of the six. With this being said, her passing hit me hard, to say the least. Now, her death did not come as a complete surprise to the rest of the family. She had been battling different forms of Cancer for almost ten years by that point. But of course, as a little girl, I never saw any of that. It’s true that to have ignorance is bliss, and as a young child, I was of no short supply.…

    • 563 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Personal Narrative

    • 650 Words
    • 2 Pages

    All my life I’ve felt like I was constantly reaching, constantly pushing myself to work hard and achieve goals that to me, didn’t seem difficult to obtain. I never believed that I couldn’t do it. But for 10 of the 17 years of my life all I was doing was reaching, never actually grabbing a hold of whatever it was that I was reaching for.…

    • 650 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays