Lost legacies- The Desert of Fire Prologue- Lightning was fast asleep in his dirt and rock den when a deep rumbling woke him up. He hopped on his paws immediately and dashed to the entrance‚ listening to the earth as it shook in obvious discomfort. He looked up and saw rocks falling from a nearby cave onto several rattlesnakes and fear flashed through his mind. He leapt back into the burrow and shook his son Willow awake. He hissed urgently to his son “Get up Willow! Come on!” Willow suddenly
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Wall of Fire Rising The Plot Guy‚ Lili‚ and their son‚ Little Guy‚ are a poor family living in a shanty town. Their life looks hopeful when Guy gets a job at the plantation and Lil Guy gets the part of a revolutionary in the school play. Life for this family takes a drastic turn when Guy lives out his dreams of riding in the plantation’s hot air balloon where at the end of the ride he jumps out killing himself. Little Guy recites the lines from his play over Guy’s dead body. The Characters Guy‚
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Cazshmere Rollison Professor DeTriberus English 101 Fiction Essay February 13‚ 2014 Class and Culture Differences In Edwidge Danticat’s “A Wall of Rising Fire‚” majority of the towns’ people were viewed as low class. Working full-time always having to provide for the family with wage below poverty line. “Lili‚ was squatting in the middle of their one-room home‚ spreading cornmeal mush on banana leaves for their supper” (Danticat 72). For instance‚ in the 1800s through the 1900s industrialization
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Whitley Acre Mrs. Hill Honors English 9 26 January 2012 Outbreak: The Ebola Virus in Sudan‚ Zaire‚ and Uganda By killing ninety percent of its victims‚ Ebola is one of the most effective viruses known to man. This virus does not have any specific requirements for its host‚ it simply attaches itself to a species and does as much damage as possible. Ebola is extremely contagious; it is practically unstoppable‚ incurable‚ and unpreventable. The ease of transfer between species makes detection
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Rivera‚ Alexandra August 29‚ 2012 Summer Reading-“Catching Fire’’ The book”Catching Fire” is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen‚who won the Hunger Games‚and she is going to have to go in the Hunger Games all over again.The author for this book is Suzanne Collins‚and the type of this book is fiction and suspense. The main character
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In the second installment of The Hunger Games Series‚ Catching Fire‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ the theme of the government overstepping their bounds is prominent. President Snow’s character is a focal point into letting the audience see the power he has and how it has affected his decision making and actions. The setting of government enforced Panem and the harsh punishments to rule breakers shows the unnecessary harshness of the government. The plot development relates to the theme of an overactive government
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In the article “The Dangers of Biosecurity: The Host and the Geopolitics of Outbreak‚” by Hsuan L. Hsu‚ Hsu argues that the movie‚ The Host by Bong Joon-ho‚ takes a new and critical stance to the well-known outbreak narrative‚ by discussing the cause for the film’s various manifestation of monstrosity. Hsu begins by examining the genealogy of the monster through providing two probable examples: the illicit dumping of the toxic chemical called the formaldehyde‚ and the suicide of the businessman.
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Unspoken Thoughts and Flashbacks To be quite honest‚ I had no idea where I was going to begin with writing this response. I must have re-read Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde over and over again‚ and I am still sadly stuck on what my starting point is going to contain. I have to start somewhere‚ so here it goes. What I can say is that I enjoy this poem greatly. It brings back memories and feelings I thought were buried in my mind everlastingly. The first stanza compares a lot to many experiences and
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camper ready as my brother unloads the four-wheelers. Once everything is ready‚ the first thing we always do is go cut firewood. The campfire is always the main event here. No matter what we are up there to do‚ we always have to have a relaxing fire. We all gather our chairs and strategically
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Summary Gates of fire is a story about Xeones‚ a Greek boy who is a survivor of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. After awhile of living in his village it is over ran by Argives ‚ Xeones then wonders the countryside with two friends and spends his early years as an outlaw. Until one day he is captured enslaved by the Spartans ‚ where they keep him with the other slaves called Helots. He is then paired with Alexandros‚ the son of a high ranking Spartan officer‚ who
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