What makes a personal essay personal and what makes a short story a story? Though both are very compelling in different ways, they hold their own unique ways that makes them personal and a short story. In my two pieces, “Of Clay We Are Made,” by Isabel Allende, being a short story based on a true story and “The Man in the Water,” Roger Rosenblatt, being a personal essay also based on a true story. Sharing their similarities and having their own qualities that one another don’t have. These two pieces
The Eruption and its impacts In November 1985, one of the most catastrophic eruptions took place to rewrite the history of natural disasters. It was a volcanic eruption that took place in northern Colombia in Nevado Del Ruiz which took many lives. Over 23,000 people were killed and caused mostly due to a large mud flow which “swept through the town of Armero.” [4] These mud flows is what geologists call “lahars”; the word comes from the Indonesian term for “hot or cold mixture of water and rock fragments
Dylan Middleton English 2112 Professor Ricki Weaver 3 May 2014 “And of Clay We Are Created,” by Isabel Allende, offers an observation of what social psychologists know to as the bystander effect. In the story, Azucena is a young girl, trapped in the muck, in need of a great amount of assistance. As she suffers and countless reporters are on the scene filming, no one ever stops filming to aid her. The reporters care more about getting the story than saving the precious life of another human being
From experienced occurrences, these Stratovolcano pyroclastic flows produce great energy and flow speed and have potentially destructive power, as was experienced during the Armero Tragedy which was a direct consequence of an eruption of the Nevado Del Ruiz stratovolcano in Tolima, Colombia in November 1985. Stratovolcanoes can also produce deadly lahars, or volcanic mudflows, consisting of water and rock fragments and particles referred to as tephra. A lahar has a consistency akin
fast-moving lava, lahars, and other effects after an eruption can kill people and damage property on it’s way down. Above all, volcanic eruptions can even cause long term effects on the climate by making the world colder. In 1985, a volcano named “Nevado del Ruiz” killed over 20,000 people in Tolima, Colombia.
In April, forest fires consumed the colorful port city of Valparaiso in Chile. This calamity resulted in the death of 16 people and the destruction of around 2000 homes. An estimated 756 hectares were destroyed and 10000 people were needed to be evacuated. A tremendous amount of resources were spent in trying to quell these fires and today even more are being used to rebuild Valparaiso. This once again demonstrated the ability of natural disasters to cause utter chaos, to countries or cities which
Many people say that the earth is a living planet. Due to the fact that it is constantly changing, this statement holds true. The earth is always moving, both inside and out. Whether one thinks it is good that humans live on a planet that moves is good or not, everyone is affected. This is because when Mother Earth moves, people all across the world will feel it. There are many dangers that the Mother Earth and its geology present to human life. These things lay resting, waiting to be awakened. Things
Isabel Allende’s “And Of Clay Are We Created” tells the story of a man that comes across a teenage girl who allows him to confront his past and achieve self-discovery. In the valley, the townspeople underestimate the trembling of the volcano nearby and avoid its warnings. Unfortunately, the volcano erupts and the towns are rapidly demolished leaving many people injured and buried alive. Rolf Carle, a reporter, is called to report the devastating consequences the volcano left behind and discovers
could threaten human lives or cause significant economic losses, the government and the media have a responsibility to communicate this forecast, as well as the uncertainty regarding the probability and the severity of the hazard. In 1985, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted in Colombia. Geoscientists had forecast the eruption weeks beforehand, but government and media disinvolvement led to a lack of awareness about the eruption, and two subsequent mudflows killed over 23,000 people. Radio Armero was
Volcanoes have played a key role in forming the face of the earth as we know it today. Some of the most well known landmarks and locations in the world are volcanoes. From the Hawaiian Islands to Mount Vesuvius, the Earth is populated with hundreds of active and dormant volcanoes. Among these volcanoes there are multiple different types. Stratovolcanoes, the most dangerous type of volcanoes, are built by multiple eruptions over many years. Shield Volcanoes, the largest recognizable volcanoes