Essays on Fire

The poem Nighttime Fires by Regina Barecca explains the speaker’s complex view of her father. The speaker uses imagery to describe her father’s strange behaviours after losing his job. Figurative language is used strategically to explain the memories of this young girl’s strange adventures. The diction in this poem is also used very well helping…

Throughout the entire story, there are aspects about it that classify it as naturalism rather than the idea of “new’ realism. The unique storyline contains two common examples that appear in naturalist writings. The conflicts between man and nature and man against himself, plus the character of the dog make To Build a Fire into…

Water and Fire Water and fire, two very different elements. But, What really makes these two elements different? Fire burns. It is used to hurt and to kill, but it can also be used for heat and for light. Water soothes. It is used to revive people who are sick and to help to cool…

They discussed about the emergency situations, evacuation, survival crafts and rescue boat, personal life-saving appliances, survival at sea and emergency radio equipment. In emergency situations we should be observant in what happen into our surroundings. Also we should know the muster station. We can be able to know our duties and responsibilities during emergency and…

Fires can ignite at any time without warning. Fire is merciless; it takes away everything standing on its way, including people’s lives. “The sudden increase of fires has caused the authorities to take preventive measures to control this growing problem. If the underbrush is cleared out on a regular basis, many forest fires will be…

When I first saw the four-mile fire, I was driving home for New Mexico. I was celebrating my great aunts 70th birthday in Taos, New Mexico. We were driving into Denver, when I saw a HUGE amount of smoke around the Boulder area. I was with my 2nd cousin and his wife and his kids…

The battle of Lexington and Concord is the first battle of the Revolutionary War. Which people actually started the war by firing the first shot is controversial. So who took the first shot? At the time, the Colonists thought the British took the first shot and the British thought that the Colonists took the first…

A World Lit Only By Fire, a magnificent book written by William Manchester transform the way people saw the medieval and the renaissance times. He portraits a very vivid image of that time opening our eyes to what really happen to the people who lived that era. The book is divided into three parts: The…

Sofia’s story is set in Mozambique, where civil war is raging. villages are set alight and no one, not even the dogs, are spared. As rebels are given arms, it is civillians such as children like Sofia,who suffer the sharp blade of war. Sofia survived the attrocities, yet experienced such trauma that no child should…

The fire alarm sounds and everyone is rushing out the doors. The air smells of smoke. You know where to go because of the fire safety procedures. There are fire exits at every end of the building. You get out safely, think, “Oh, thank goodness I made it. ” What do you think would’ve happened…