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    Catching Fire Katniss

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    Collin’s Hunger Games series is a literary phenomenon. A three book long story became mainstream and extremely popular in a very quick time and took the literature world by storm. Ask anyone and chances are that they have read the books. In the Catching Fire book‚ Katniss returns home after winning the hunger game with Peeta. This act of defiance has started the sparks of a rebellion and President Snow forces Katniss to fix it by playing out the love tale between her and Peeta more. Meanwhile she discovers

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    The Fire Next Time

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    Jesse Pequeno 4/6/13 Honors English 10 Sayre 1st period The Fire Next Time The Fire Next Time is a book of 2 essays that accurately portray “The Negro Problem” of the 1960’s. The first essay is titled “My Dungeon Shook- Letters to My Nephew on The Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” as the title states this essay is in the form of a letter to his 14 year old nephew who is also named James. This essay explains the struggle of the Negro through history and the American dream‚ the

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    Blue Fire Monologue

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    school and my friends and I‚ Aiden and Sam were going to a bond fire. We go to this bond fire every year. It’s on a ranch near the Powderhorn‚ and we would burn all of our homework from that school year. My dad was driving us to Jack’s house. Once we got there my dad dropped us‚ off we went around the house‚ and saw the biggest bonfire like a whole house was on fire. I unpacked my assignments and tossed them in the inferno. Blue fire lashed out and my homework was gone in an instant. Someone bumped

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    Fire Ants Floating

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    Fire Ants Create Floating Rafts to Face Flooding Mounds of fire ants can be found floating around waters in South Carolina. It is part of the tiny insect’s way of surviving the floods that have affected the state. In a video captured by WSAV 3 photojournalist Chris Murray‚ the ants are shown in a mound floating on top of flood waters near Charleston. WSAV 3’s reports that the ants use their claws‚ jaws and sticky pads on their legs to stick together. There is an oily fluid that keeps them on a

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    Forgotten Fire Analysis

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    “Who you are and what you believe in is your real home‚ the only home no one can take from you‚ the only home that will last.” I believe that this is one of the themes for the book Forgotten Fire. Throughout the whole book‚ Vahan is roaming around‚ looking for a new place to call home. He roamed from city to city hiding out in abandoned houses. At one point he joined up with a “band of Turkish refugees” heading “towards the rumor of remote villages safe from the war.” But even when he was surrounded

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    Fires on The Plain: A Reflection Fires on the Plain is truly the most depressing‚ haunting‚ and sad story I have ever endured reading. The complete abandonment of the Japanese soldiers on the island of Leyte by the Japanese Army is revolting‚ as well as the complete disregard for each others well being among them. It becomes a battle between one another for survival. The lack of comradery among the Japanese soldiers is dumbfounding‚ and leads me to believe that it may very well have been there

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    The Fire Sermon Analysis

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    Sofilda Totoni March 3rd‚ 2011 Lit 216 “The Fire Sermon” Analysis. This section‚ and the longest of Elliot’s “The Waste Land”‚ depicts poor‚ gloomy‚ lethargic scenery in which the themes of lust‚ sexual ambiguity‚ moral degradation‚ spiritual melancholy‚ abound throughout the poem. The poet himself often embodies the role of ancient and mythological figures to which he alludes in order to strike the reader ’s infatuation. He continually reminds

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    Catching Fire Analysis

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    Could you pull of a guise of love in order to not only save your life but also stop an upcoming rebellion? In this astonishing book‚ Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins‚ this is exactly what Katniss and Peeta have to accomplish with the help of their close friend Haymitch. The failure of this task will lead to an epic adventure through out the land leading to an insane twist ending that nobody could have scene coming. In a post-apocalyptic version of North America known as Panem‚ this entire story

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    Case Study Dodge Fire

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    block occurred when Dodge saw that the fire had crossed the gulch ahead of the crew and he redirected them to start ascending up the hill. The smokejumpers could not understand why Dodge would instruct them to go this route when it seemed much safer and more feasible to keep trekking toward the river. This is an example of compression. The smokejumpers were not seeking to find much needed information or clues to help aid them in the process of controlling the fire. The smokejumpers were to set on following

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    Fires Of Hatred Summary

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    Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Naimark‚ Norman. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century. Cambridge‚ Massachusetts: The President and Fellows of Harvard College‚ 2001. When asked why I chose this book‚ I would normally respond with some answer conjured up from the depths of my lying brain. But I’ll be honest; I chose this book because it didn’t have as many pages as the others on the list of approved readings‚ that way I could read it faster. I would normally

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