AISD Fire Academy Kicks Off Home Fire Preparedness Campaign On March 28th the AISD Fire Academy went door to door in east Arlington offering to install smoke alarms for families. This officially kicked off the Home Fire Preparedness Campaign organized by the American Red Cross in an effort to reduce home fire deaths and injuries by 25% in the next five years. Other community partners volunteering for the cause include the Arlington Fire Department‚ Arlington Police Department‚ Arlington EM‚ Catholic
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Bradstreet was very upset and angry at the beginning of the story when all of her stuff burnt in the flames because she lost everything. Nothing came out of the fire the same‚ not even herself. She was devastated about this because she watched all the stuff she worked for‚ all the stuff she bought‚ all the gifts she was given‚ all of it went down in flames. She started blaming people‚ one of those people were god. She was asking god‚ why did this have to happen to me. I didn’t do anything wrong to
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This excerpt from ”To Build A Fire” is about a man trekking through Yukon territory with his dog. The man has no supplies‚ is alone‚ and is trying to make it to a camp by sundown. Before the main character left‚ an old-timer from the trail told him it was bad to walk through alone after negative fifty degrees. The man ignores the advice the other man gave him. As a result of this‚ he walks the trail anyway in negative one-hundred degree weather and dies from hypothermia. The actions of this man show
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away so he got there in no time. Once he arrived in San Francisco he realized the dramatic reality of the earth quake first hand. He shared this experience of the earth quake to the readers throughout his writing. He wrote about the event‚ how the fire destroyed the city bit by bit. Right away he captured the reader and brought them to the scene of the event when he wrote‚ "...the smoke of San Francisco’s burning was a lurid tower visible a hundred miles away." He continues throughout his article
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Kenderian was a distinguished individual with moral strengths and high spirits. These qualities helped him endure‚ when he knew that each day could have been his last when living through the Armenian Genocide. In the beginning of the novel “Forgotten Fire”‚ Vahan is described as the youngest child of a wealthy‚ Armenian family. He was very careless and would always need guidance from his family who was afraid of Vahan’s lack of character and discipline. When the Armenian Genocide began‚ Vahan’s personality
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A Wall of Fire Rising An image that was prevalent in this story was the hot air balloon. The hot air balloon represented freedom for Guy‚ who was trying to escape the unfair poverty that his family was experiencing. This symbol of freedom is first introduced to the reader when Guy‚ his wife Lili‚ and their son all go down to the sugar mill to hear the evening news that is displayed for them. This is a little place of enjoyment that they have found since they don’t go and sit with everyone else
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During class‚ we have had several discussions about courage‚ specifically as one of the major themes of Gates of Fire. In our discussions‚ we have mentioned that there are‚ in fact‚ different types of courage. We mentioned courage in men‚ in women‚ and false courage or pseudoandreia; this idea of different types or grades of courage lead me to this page about developing courage: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/02/08/developing-manly-courage/ The website outlines four distinct types of (manly)
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Lit Circle - Culture Commentator In the novel‚ Forgotten Fire‚ written by Adam Bagdasarian‚ the main culture presented to the reader is the oppressive Turkish culture. The idea of this culture being dominant can be identified through the distinctly negative behavior towards Armenians. The culture affects the plot of the story by impeding Vahan’s goal to survive properly. Within the novel‚ the Armenians in the novel struggle to survive in this state of oppression from the Turkish. The Turkish
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The claim of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by author Susannah Cahalan is that even ruthless illnesses can be overcome. This is shown when a nurse asks her mother “Has she always been so slow?”(Ch 24 pg 120); when her therapist questions how she’s feeling‚ “‘I’ll ask you again. How do you feel out of 100?’… ‘100‚’… My mom finally agreed with my own assessment.” Susannah also used different structures to support her claim. In chapter 32 she uses problem/solution show us she tells us how the doctor
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Theme: Greek Military The themes represented throughout Gates of Fire‚ by Steven Pressfield‚ give us an idea as to how Greek society operated and what they valued. History comes alive when Pressfield discusses the battles and city-states of ancient Greece. With this fictitious account of real events we are able to relate to characters living during a different time‚ in a different place. We can try and understand‚ through history and Pressfield‚ how and why the Greeks fought and died. The Greeks
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