The City of Ember

preventive measures. Franklin wrote that everyone should remove the wooden moldings from the sides of the fireplace, to clean the fireplace chimneys on a regular basis and because many fires began when bed warmers which was not kept closed as hot embers would fall out when it was being moved around the house to keep the bed warmers, Franklin recommend they be kept closed tight when filled with hot coals. Franklin even looked to fines chimney sweeps that did not properly clean a chimney, which might

“Opposite attract?” Have you ever heard that saying? In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, two characters show some similarities, but also differences. The two characters I picked out to compare and contrast are Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade. At the beginning of the story Dallas is known as a tough greaser unlike Johnny who is afraid of his own shadow. Then toward the end, the two characters flip personalities when Johnny becomes tough from saving children from a church and Dallas becomes

HESTIA Hestia, or Vesta in Roman mythology. The eldest daughter of Zeus and the oldest of Rhea and Kronos. She was a virgin goddess. She, along with Artemis and Athena, were maiden divinities (unmarried goddess’s). She was wooed by Poseidon and Apollo, but she swore by the head of Zeus to remain a virgin. She is the Goddess of hearth, fire, and home. Hestia represented personal security, happiness and the sacred duty of hospitality. She presided over domestic life. Her symbols are the

wildly. Another attempt was taken to stop the fire by blowing houses up with gunpowder to make an even bigger firebreak, but ended up causing more fright and panic because rumors were spread that a French invasion was beginning to happen. Half of the city of London was in flames by Tuesday, September 5, 1666 ("The Great Fire of London." ). The Great Fire spread from Sunday, September 2, 1666 to Wednesday, September 5, 1666. The fire spread the most on Tuesday and Wednesday (@Sean_Munger).A man named

across the grades (“Charter Schools vs. Traditional Public Schools”). This is due to the focus on learning as opposed to test grades which is what Sarah Kass and Ann Connelly Tolkoff wanted as teachers. Kass and Tolkoff saw that Minnesota’s legislator, Ember Reichgott Junge, started

With his confrontation with the cyclops with the Cyclops, he uses his strength to injure it. “Now, by the gods, I drove my big hand spike deep in the embers.” Lines 368 - 370. He uses his strength by stabbing the cyclops in the eye making him blind for them to make a plan to escape. In the same situation, he uses his intelligence to escape the cyclops. “I took and hung myself under his kinky belly, pulled

mistress, and who as an ex-slave, became the most famous and articulate rebuke to the monstrous institution of slavery ever to speak or to write in America. In autumn of 1828, Frederick Douglass began his new life as a freeman in the old whaling city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Ambition, sensitivity, and a high degree of self-consciousness created in the young slave Douglass an unquenchable thirst for freedom and he became what

Friendship is a relationship between people who enjoy each other’s company and have the same interests. In Embers, by Sandor Marai we are introduced to General Henrick and Konrad and the theme of friendship. Henrick is a seventy-five year old man who is a retired general from Hungary, and Konrad is in his mid-seventies and is continuing to live in London. They both have been in a close friendship ever since they were children back in military academy, but when Konrad leaves to London and never says

The Freedom Riders: The most Influential Civil Rights Leaders There was a time when your race defined you everywhere. Whether you were walking down the street, riding a bus, or even just drinking from a water fountain you were defined by the color of your skin. This was a time of segregation and inequality. This was the Civil Rights Era. Was he really the most influential ? There were many influential leaders in this era, but the most influential were the Freedom Riders. The Riders had a background

In a dark cave there are prisoners, restricted to seeing what shadows puppeteers cast upon the stone screen in front of them. This timeless story by Plato, used as a metaphor for those that are, to the philosopher Plato, lowbrows, and have no desire to question what is around them and find the truth and embrace ignorance. I have experienced this first hand, being an exemplification of what it means to not question what I have faith in, or seek more. However, I have also experienced what it is to