I walked into our basement, my parents built a fully functional lab down there, we even had our own telescope. We had three actually from different countries. It was a spacious room, white walls covered mostly with maps of all the places we’ve traveled to, I walked over to my favorite one, it was a blown up version of the one in the book me and my parents drew out together. ‘My Very Excellent Mother Just Made Us Nine Pizzas’ I said. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto. I thought. It was something I took away from that school I went to an acronym for the planets. I noticed a little post-it note outside Pluto in the corner it said ‘Asguard’ Asguard that’s in one of my mythology books. Why is it on our board, it dose not exist, does it? I looked at the note just puzzled. I shrugged it off and turned around to a door with a keypad and a camera in it. I grabbed my backpack and I walked up to the door and tapped a note on the door. ‘Identify yourself’ the door talked. Tight security on this one huh ‘Stella Louise Archer’ I said to the door. Then the key pad came to...
“It was extremely difficult to control the truck at the time, and I had both my wife (two
During the ball Alma’s father has put together she found something that was meaningful to her, the “solar system”. She has never seen something so exciting and she wanted to be a part of it so“She ran over to the garden wall and cried up to the
This explains why St. Elmo’s Fire shows up on pointed objects because the fire is made up of plasma. Plasma is created when lightning atoms build up enough charge along their way down. If the masts (or pointed object) provides a strong electric field, the plasma will be created easier there because the strong force pulls electrons away from the atom. That is why the Elmo’s fire are on the pointed objects.
Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate is the fantastic and romantic depiction of a young Mexican girl named Tita who, in accordance with Mexican tradition, cannot marry because she is the youngest girl in the family. The depravity her situation is only compounded by Mama Elena, her castrating mother, who does everything to make Tita’s life miserable. Tita’s only escape from her monotonous and demanding life comes when a fiery Pedro Musquez asks for her hand in marriage. Tita is crestfallen when she discovers that her own mother selfishly denies her Pedro, but this does not stop the fiery passion Tita and Pedro share. Moreover, in the novel fire and heat are not only representative of love; but also destruction that emanates both directly and indirectly from their powerful attraction. Equivel uses a variety of literary devices to symbolically characterize fire and to give it either a positive or negative connotation. Especially prevalent is the use figurative language, objectification, magical realism and hyperbole to illustrate the dualism of passion through fire.
In the start of Fahrenheit 451, Montag’s thoughts are that fire is good for society. He burns books for a living, and never thought twice about doing his job. That is until he meets characters such as Clarisse, Beatty, and the academics. Montag’s understanding of the nature of fire changes as he becomes enlightened through his relationships.
One time long ago, in Farmington Minnesota, the year 1827 on a beautiful winter day there a sudden CRASH! Then a flying gorilla that called himself Dr. Destroyer appeared out of nowhere. The gorilla had a magic pet baby potbelly pig that walked around and was called porkchop the pig followed him and eats bacon. Pork chop also had a wallet with ninja stars made it of hard bacon in his wallet. He had another pet thing that was a rabbit the rabbit was called stumpy. Stumpy threw carrots at people. He also had a friend that helped him destroy planets and his name was Herman. He was a big green monster with bolts in his neck. He also had another friend who's name was mr. Executioner. He was big and had a green shirt and a black face cover that he wore all the time. He always carried his axe around and chopped people's heads off with it. He had a friend that's a shark with hands and legs
The kids on Venus were jealous of Margot because she had seen the sun, “And then, of course the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun, and the way the sun was, and the sky . . . ” After the Venus children saw the sun they realized Margot was still locked in the closet, “Margot.’ They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other, and then looked away . . . They could not meet each other’s glances. Their faces solemn and pale . . .” The Venus children were so jealous that Margot had seen the sun that they locked her in a closet and accused her of lying. The Venus kids were blind to her as a person until the sun came out and went away again. Only then did they remember
The ambiguity of this couplet within “Pale Fire” encourages a variety of interpretative possibilities: Shade could mean that he is using his own life as commentary within the poem, which is unfinished at that moment, or he could be prophetically predicting that the poem will be unfinished, or the couplet could be a frame-break that slyly refers to Kinbote using his own life as commentary to the eventually unfinished poem. As neither Shade nor Kinbote provides an analysis of this couplet, it seems that the reader is left to decide what it means by him/herself. This striking instance of ambiguity, in addition to other seemingly impossible coincidences in the text, has led critics to speculate that Shade could have conjured up Kinbote, or vice versa. Whichever interpretation is favoured, attempts at interpreting Pale Fire by locating the most authoritative narratorial voice are thwarted by such instances where interpretive possibilities abound. It is for this reason that diagrams cannot adequately represent the framing narratives in Pale Fire, though I have attempted to represent a few possible structures, which are included in the Appendix. The many positions held by critics, together with the intense debates on the NABOKV-L Internet forum, only attest to the seemingly chaotic structure of framing narratives within Pale Fire.
A person's next move can affect them and someone in their life without them even realizing it. So why would they want to make the decision that could result in a sudden death in their family ? It is only right they be held accountable for the steps that lead up to or occurred after, they got entrapped in a life or death situation unless, it happens to be an accident.
. Open your book to page 125. Research paintings by Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. This painting “The Four Elements - Fire” is an allegory of fire. What lesson or message does the painting seem to suggest about the meaning of fire? (1 paragraph). The painting “The Fire” by Giuseppe Arcimboldo is made of fire, candles, rifles, and different materials such as sticks and what looks to be turquoise. This painting to me gives off the feeling of a strong warrior or just something very hot and strong. The use of everyday objects put together to create a human looking face brings together a picture that means more as if a person was made of fire, candle holders, and guns creating the illusion of a portrait.
11:14 p.m.-I slowly ascend from my small wooden chair, and throw another blank sheet of paper on the already covered desk as I make my way to the door. Almost instantaneously I feel wiped of all energy and for a brief second that small bed, which I often complain of, looks homey and very welcoming. I shrug off the tiredness and sluggishly drag my feet behind me those few brief steps. Eyes blurry from weariness, I focus on a now bare area of my door which had previously been covered by a picture of something that was once funny or memorable, but now I can't seem to remember what it was. Either way, it's gone now and with pathetic intentions of finishing my homework I go to close the door. I take a peek down the hall just to assure myself one final time that there is nothing I would rather be doing and when there is nothing worth investigating, aside from a few laughs a couple rooms down, I continue to shut the door.
In the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, there are three principal themes. They are respecting nature, and considering results of actions. The main theme, or universal truth, is heeding warnings. The themes are shown through the character and his actions. The main character in the story had an attitude that prevented him from heeding internal and external warnings. He did not respect nature's power, and therefore he paid with his life.His attitude was arrogant and careless.
Back then, I would always go outside with my sister and just look up at the stars. We would verify which was a star, planet, or a satellite. I remember I would look really closely at a star for long periods of time and proclaim that they were slowly move whether left, right, up, or down. Of course, she didn’t believe me. Her exact words were, “You can’t see a star move without a telescope. Everybody knows that.” But I knew then and now that they do, in fact, orbit in their own clusters. Whenever I looked up at the night sky, I would imagine all the mysteries and wonders the universe can offer. I love learning about how planets are made, the shape, the influence with two galaxies collide, and the ending of a star. It’s amazing and memorable to a child’s eyes. The second encounter I had that led me to astronomy was when I went to a class trip in Texas A&M Planetarium, and the director showed us different constellations, the emptiness of space, dark matter, dark energy, moon phases, and how astronomy all started with the Native America’s tale of the coyote. With wonder in my eyes, I asked if we were to ever encounter other life forms in another planet, or galaxies, or probably even universe. I can only imagine if there’s more universes than our own, and if we are considered the weakest, in-between, or the strongest out of all of them. Who’s to say imagination has no part in the scientific
We had sent the first man to the moon just a few months before. This told every child that if we could imagine it, nothing was impossible. During the next two years, there were a dozen roads and cul-de-sacs, with many homes. In two years, it doubled again. I watched the subdivision grow as the roads at the back of the subdivision would stop only to expand again. In a similar fashion, it seemed that my horizons were as well.
It was a maddening rush, that crisp fall morning, but we were finally ready to go. I was supposed to be at State College at 10:00 for the tour, and it was already eight. My parents hurriedly loaded their luggage into the van as I rushed around the house gathering last minute necessities. I dashed downstairs to my room and gathered my coat and my duffel bag, and glanced at my dresser making sure I was leaving nothing behind and all the rush seemed to disappear. I stood there as if in a trance just remembering all the stories behind the objects and clutter accumulated on it. I began to think back to all the good times I have had with my family and friends each moment represented by a different and somewhat odd object.