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    How Does The Poet Display His Concerns? "Rising five" by Norman Nicholson is a poem based on humans and youths in general regarding how they are always looking towards and focusing on the future rather than the present tense perspective. The poets concerns are people not living the present and the poet has been able to convey this through the use of metaphors‚ presenting imageries and symbols‚ using alliteration and emphasize for certain ideas and through the comparison of man and nature. The first

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    John Donne: the Sun Rising

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    In John Donne’s “The Sun Rising‚” the use of apostrophe helps strengthen the premise of the poem‚ that love is the strongest‚ most blinding ideal. When one examines the poem on a literal level‚ taking each line at face value‚ the speaker of the poem makes commentaries on the sun‚ love‚ and various other subjects. When one judges the poem as a whole‚ however‚ and considers the parts with respect to each other and not as independent commentaries‚ one sees that the true message being conveyed is not

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    Fire Fatality

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    May 20‚ 2013 Fire Fatality- Rodney Paul Miller They are on call at all hours. They get pulled out of their warm‚ safe beds in the middle of the night to respond to fires‚ crashes‚ floods and other emergencies. They venture out in all kinds of weather‚ blizzards‚ torrential downpours‚ unbearable heat. They save people lives in many cases‚ the lives of people who are not exactly innocent victims‚ whose foolishness puts their own and others lives in danger. They are quite simply heroes‚ typically

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    Forged By Fire by Sharon M. Draper is a sad tale about child abuse. When Gerald was a young boy‚ he was constantly left alone in the house without any supervision. He would not have any food to eat and when it was cold he would be shivering. One day when his mother‚ Monique left him home alone‚ he accidentally started a fire and it almost killed him. Luckily he was saved and his mother was arrested for child abandonment. Gerald was sent to live with his aunt. Aunt Queen took him in and raised

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    The oceans have risen and fallen throughout Earth’s history‚ following the planet’s natural temperature cycle‚ and now we are in a new warming phase‚ where the oceans are rising again after thousands of years of stability. As long as we continue to power our global economy by burning fossil fuels that pollute the air with heat-trapping gases‚ we are contributing to the increase in global temperatures. Consequently‚ the ice sheets in places like Antarctica and Greenland are melting‚ thus causing the

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    Fire Extinguishers

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    References Fire extinguishers types.(n.d.). Retrieved fromhttp://www.fireextinguisher101.com/ Nadar‚k. (2010‚ December 2). Fire Extinguishers. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fire_extinguisher Merriam-Webster. (2004)‚ The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. In New York: A fire extinguisher is a portable container usually filled with chemicals for putting out fires. (Merriam-Webster‚ 2004) An active fire protection device used to extinguish or control fires. Fire extinguishers

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    Fire Induction

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    Fire Safety Induction Booklet for GP Practices and other small stand alone Healthcare Premises Fire Safety Induction Training Book This booklet should be introduced to new employees on their first day of employment. Section 1: is a checklist of those facts and features that you should be shown on your first day by your line manager Section 2: is a self learning package‚ you should complete it during your first month of employment Section 3: is a check of understanding and should be handed to

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    COMBUSTION AND FIRE INVESTIGATION There are many different types of fires and it can be quite difficult to establish what may have started the fire in the first place. Fire investigation is an important process that attempts to establish the cause of the fire and whether a criminal act has taken place. The National Fire Statistics in the UK compiled by the Home Office states that 25% of fires are electrical in origin but this does not tell the whole story. The statistics are compiled from fire report

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    FIre prevention towards progression Fires can ignite at any time without warning. Fire is merciless; it takes away everything standing on its way‚ including people’s lives. "The sudden increase of fires has caused the authorities to take preventive measures to control this growing problem. If the underbrush is cleared out on a regular basis‚ many forest fires will be prevented. Other preventions will include installing or building houses and businesses with metal roofs‚ and installing electronic

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    2013 I visited fire station #6 located in Costa Mesa‚ California. I called the station prior to my visit and spoke with a fire fighter named Story. He said it would be alright to stop by around two o’clock. Upon arrival I came up with ten questions to ask him that I thought would provide me with a better understanding of what it takes to be a fire fighter. During my visit to the fire station I wanted to identify what it takes to be a firefighter‚ the day to day operations at the fire station‚ and see

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