Catastrophe

Otherwise, I am fearful for our future and for the future of our Nation, we are one pre-planned catastrophe away from all-out war. And, the problem we all have is, identifying the enemy within and the titles of the puppeteers acting as government officials. What we are witnessing on campuses, in parks and cities around the nation is not spontaneous or…

Subj: Escape from New York on 9/11, a story that is, according to KlaPensee (2011), “was a respond to requests from families and friends to write a brief account of his experiences on September 11”. The story gave a firsthand account of the events that happened on the day of the World Trade Center attack. At about exactly 8:50am that faithful morning, the first jet that took off from Newark, N.J on routine cross-country flight to the West Coast with fully-loaded fuel tanks hit tower one of the…

Aeneas, the man in question, has had to flee his home; the city of Troy. Troy has been destroyed by the war between the Greeks and Achilles. Aeneas along with the rest of the Trojans head out in search of a new home in Italy. The only issue is Juno. Juno is queen of the gods. She is furious with Aeneas because of Carthage, her favorite city. A prophecy is said that descendants of Troy will destroy Carthage someday. She also holds a grudge against the city of Troy because of a beauty competition.…

August Spies was one of the “anarchists, foreign born-Germany” that was involved in the “Haymarket Affair” (Source). August Spies was a man raised in Germany who had ambitions to create a better world no matter where he was (Source). It just so happened that the “New World” was a place he ended up and wanted to help change to be better (Source). During his autobiography, he expresses in great detail on how he was raised, and how he looks at life, living in Germany, and living in the New World…

In “Lord of the Flies” (Golding, 1954), a theme repetitively exhibited throughout the novel is the concept of the boys no longer having the society they once knew. The author basing the novel on British youth, which makes the absence of a community and evolving savagery, have a stronger impact on the reader. When a boy in the group says, “This is an island. At least I think it’s an island. That’s a reef out in the sea. Perhaps there aren’t any grownups anywhere,” it exposes that the boys…

Some people will take great lengths to survive. This can be shown as something that is hard to do for some people or something they normally do. Humans can be known to go to extreme measures in order to survive. There are many examples from television, movies, and real life that shows what humans will do to survive. In today's modern life we watch television. On television, there are many tv shows about survival. Such as The Walking Dead and Survivorman. In these shows, people get dropped off in…

Telephone Essay “Mr. Watson come here I want to see you.” These were the first words ever spoken through the telephone. Spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone to his assistant, Thomas Watson. After several long months of working to build a device to help people who were deaf, finally on March 10, 1876 it was complete. He could have never imagined all the uses for his communicating device. Today, we use our telephones for games, music, communication, business, emergency,…

When I was young, I enjoyed watching athletes do the impossible, but growing up, I realized that some of these athletes used a drug to gain an advantage over the competition. Which was a catastrophe since I looked up to these athletes. From news reports and articles, athletes have suffered significant pain or even have died from the consumption of these drugs known as steroids. Steroids have caused a lot of damage to the human body and should be averted at all cost. One of the reasons to avert…

The Domestic Preparedness cycle includes prevention, protection, response, and recovery. The Preparedness is about the planning, training, and exercising to increase awareness, performance, and the overall capabilities in all four phases of the preparedness cycle (Cordner, 2016). It includes developing intelligence-collection and information-sharing protocols, developing local response plans, training first responders, identification of critical resources, and development of mutual aid…

safe “ We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives” (Thompson,p.2) Thompson compares the disaster to previous ones occurred in the United States, indicating the size of the catastrophe. The author…