St Elmo’s Fire is a phenomenon, involving a gap in electrical charge, like lightning, it gets mixed up with ball lightning, and fire, but it is neither.
a. It is plasma; Corona discharge; it sparks unlike normal lightning which goes from cloud to ground, Corona discharges happens when there is an imbalance in electrical charge.
b. It happens in the clouds over water often, and in St Elmo’s.
c. Some problems St Elmo’s Fire can cause are, it can mess up instruments like in a plane, messing up how it operates, and being deadly, and people could mistake it for lightning.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire not only affected the city of New York, but also the rest of the country. It forever changed the way our country would look at safety regulations in factories and buildings. The fire proved to America what can and will happen if we over-look safety regulations and over-crowd buildings. Unfortunately, 146 lives are taken before we fully understand this concept.
Synopsis In West Warwick, Rhode Island, on February 20th, 2003, during the performance of the band Great White, a fire broke out that eventually claimed the lives of 100 people and injured an additional 200. The band’s tour manager arranged for, and ignited pyrotechnic props, large fireworks designed to display a shower of sparks. Sparks ignited foam soundproofing near stage. The fire spread quickly and quickly.
Act 1 of Mr. Burns was the only act in the play that places it characters in a casual setting. It was easy to decipher the type of characters the actors were portraying in the scene. For example, the actor who played a meek character ported this by taking up as little space as she could and crouching behind objects. Also, two characters were pretty intimate with each other. They cuddled around the fire when discussing the probability of a power plant shutting down and shared soft smiles with each other. I felt that the characters were allowed to be themselves in this scene compared to the other acts. In Act 2, the characters were at work that called for them to have a professional mindset, even though they were familiar with each other. The
In this article, The Fireman: Immaculate Manhood, Robyn Cooper reveals many concepts of fire. He says, "As spirit, fire is both purifying and heavenly, punitive and damning. Fire also symbolizes love and passion, as purifying and confining, burning passion as consuming and destroying. Fire is defined as a masculine principle because of the association of fire and heat with energy, life and power (man is sun, woman is moon). In relation to sexual generation, it was traditionally held that the spark of the semen ignited the cold womb to generate life.
On July 6, 1944, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus came to Hartford, Connecticut. It was recorded to be a hot, sunny afternoon, and though an accurate temperature for the day wasn’t taken, Hartford tends to average 81 degrees during July (WeatherUnderground, 2014). The circus had travelled the country and had stopped at other New England towns before settling into Hartford. It had even been to Hartford previous years. Everything was set up as usual: the seating arrangement, the performances, the location of the tent; so if this were the case, what happened in Hartford to cause it to be named the largest circus fire in history (Kimball, 1944)?
sure,on the Sunday evening of October 8, 1871 a blaze started in Mrs. O' leary's
Yes John Orr is the definition of a serial arsonist basing it off of what was mentioned in the first slide alone, not even adding in what is applied to this in the other slide. John Orr did not care at all who he harmed in his fires and it is even stated in the video that he felt that the people who were hurt and killed in the fires as stupid people who had made stupid decisions by not getting out or away from the fire soon enough. He did not exhibit any sort of rebellious behavior, but did try to join multiple blue collar jobs such as the police force and the fire department for the city of Los Angeles and failed at both of these so he took on small blue collar jobs until landing at a small fire department. This allowed him to move up the
I. Solar flares are violent eruptions of gases that release ultra-violet radiation, x-rays and gammy rays. It's an enormous explosion of hydrogen and helium above the sun surface.
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was one of the largest disasters in American history. Practically overnight the great city of Chicago was destroyed. Before the fire there was a large drought causing everything to be dry and flammable, then a fire broke out in the O’Leary’s barn and spread throughout the city. Many attempts were made to put out the fire but there were too many errors and problems in the beginning. After the fire many people were left homeless and had to help build their city again (Murphy, 39)
Although fire is linked to human life, as it is essential for survival, not only its use for food, security and warmth, particularly in the extreme cold weather but also it could harm and smolder entirely. In Mary Shelley 's novel, “Frankenstein,” fire exists
Throughout recorded history, fires have been known to cause great loss of life, property, and knowledge. The Great Fire of London was easily one of the worst fires mankind has ever seen causing large scale destruction and terror. Samuel Pepys described the fire as “A most malicious bloody flame, as one entire arch of fire of above a mile long… the churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once, and a horrid noise the flames made.” (Britain Express 1).
Though they were not wanted, “Fires were not uncommon in seventeenth-century London” (Cowie, 59). Fires weren’t the only things that London residents worried about though. In 1665 a tragedy known as the Black Plague had occurred and killed many people in the city and though the plague was gone “People continued to fear another outbreak of plague for the rest of the seventeenth century” (Cowie, 56-57). The Great Fire of London was a tragedy that destroyed a whole city and scared all the people who inhabited it. Just as the city was recovering from the Great Plague, the inhabitants had to flee the city once again- this time not as a result of a disease, but the result of a human accident (“The Great Fire of London of 1666”, 1).
When I was young and saw the picture like the figure1, I think it was not real. It cannot happen in the earth. Maybe someone did Photoshop to edit and retouch the colorful colors in that picture. However, it is a natural phenomenon that happened in the earth 's atmosphere. Galileo Galilei named this phenomenon as "Aurora Borealis." I have three areas of information about auroras to advise you: what aurora borealis is, where the aurora borealis typically seen is, and comparison and contrast this information with Witch Child.
...some flames from fire. The terrestrial plasmas are the ones that occur on earth, caused by nature. And the ones that occur in outer space are the astrophysical plasmas these are seen in cases such as the sun and stars, solar wind, interstellar and interplanetary mediums, and the commentary ion tails.
Santelmo or St. Elmo's Fire is more than a wisp, it's actually a ball of blazing fire that flies around and follows its victim, usually seafarers and sailors. The Santelmo then leads the sailors astray or set their vessel on fire. In other stories, it appears even in mountainous locations chasing after its victims until they succumb or fall off cliffs and die. Santelmo represents the restless soul or souls of those who died.