I began reading Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror without doing any pre-reading about the subject of the play or the author. When I read over the long list of "characters" for the play‚ I thought I would never be able to keep up with who’s who. Before beginning to read the first scene‚ I was unaware that the play was a succession of verbatim monologues from real people. I thought‚ "Wow‚ this is different." Honestly‚ I have probably read about the Crown Heights riots beforein fact I probably
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The fire within is a non-fiction children’s book. Written by Chris d’Lacy this quirky book also includes a bit of fantasy and drama. It is set in present time with the main character being a young man about 20 who is a lodger with a small family that consists of Liz‚ the mother and Lucy‚ the hyperactive imaginative little seven year old girl. As soon as David (the lodger) enters the home he knows there is something a little weird about this family because no normal family he knows of has clay models
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Steven Pressfield’s The Gates of Fire is set in the fifth century B.C. in Greece. The story revolves around the famous battle of Thermopylae where three hundred Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of Persians‚ saving Greece. Pressfield creates a fictional story around the battle where one man‚ a squire named Xeones‚ survives to tell the Spartan story of the battle and the events preceding it. Xeones‚ who is the protagonist‚ tells his life story to the royal Persian historian while in captivity
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The Ford Pinto Fires Case The Pinto fires case is about a series of accidents involving the Ford Pinto’s fuel tank bursting into flames if struck from the rear. A 1978 suit against Ford Motor Co. for the murder of 3 teenagers brought the incidents to the public attention as it was the first time a major corporation was charged in a criminal case beyond negligence (Trevino‚ 2011). Background The Ford Pinto was rushed to production by Lee Iacocca to directly compete in the small car market with countries
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otherwise‚ ollar. Wings of Fire Author: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Review Date: July 2002 Two years back when I read ‘Wings of Fire’‚ never did I think that the author of that book‚ Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam would become the President of India‚ someday. Forget about my thinking‚ even Dr. Kalam wouldn’t have thought so. ‘Wings of Fire’ is an autobiography of Dr. Abdul Kalam written with the help of one Arun Tiwari‚ who worked along with him for about 10 years. Without any hesitation‚ I
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Poured Fire Analysis In the novel They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky‚ by Benson Deng‚ Alephonsion Deng‚ and Benjamin Ajak; Benson communicates a strong will to survive by using the device description. In the middle of the chapter “The Skulls Tree”‚ Benson describes the difficult experience he faced in the desert of Ajakageer. On his journey to Ethiopia‚ traveling through the desert of Ajakageer was the most dangerous part of his journey. Many of the thousands traveling to the camp in Ethiopia
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The Ring of Fire is an area where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40‚000 km (25‚000 mi) horseshoe shape‚ it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches‚ volcanic arcs‚ andvolcanic belts and/or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes.[1] It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt. About 90%[2] of
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How Brands Build Trust Through Social Media Marketing Social media marketing is a process where a company tries to draw traffic to their website through other social networks. This is not a new concept; nevertheless brands are continuously finding it hard to gain power through the social sphere. Many believe search engines such as Google‚ is where customers look for their information. However‚ Google+‚ Facebook‚ Twitter‚ LinkedIn‚ Instagram and Pinterest have become the new search engines in recent
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one and I got through ‚ I rushed back home but on arriving what I saw just made me drop on my knees. The house was filled with smoke and fire qas ravaging . The glasses on the windows broke and shattered with rhe heat. The burning fire engulfed the house from all sides‚ the house looked like a fire-breathing dragon was inside the house puffing fire. The fleames burned deep red and amber ‚ almost livid purple ‚ the firefighters came in minutes after they were called by the neighbour
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Catching Fire Suzanne Collins is a mutually celebrated writer of many books‚ including The Hunger Games trilogy. Catching Fire is just one of these astounding books. Catching Fire‚ written by Suzanne Collins‚ belongs in the science fiction genre because of the advancements and invention of different technologies. For example‚ mockingjays‚ a common animal in the story‚ are the product of female mockingbirds and male jabberjays. These jabberjays were genetically engineered by the Capitol‚ a ruthless
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