Demolition

In Charleston, South Carolina, 22 year old Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and brutality murdered nine people. This heinous crime rocked the nation as news outlets flooded into Charleston. What sent additional shock waves throughout the country was the discovery of a photo featuring Roof with a gun in one hand and a Confederate flag in the other. The revelation of Roof’s beliefs in white supremacy jump-started a movement that forced the nation to…

During the evening of August 13, 2015, the Hawthorne Fire Department conducted a training exercise using the Sugar Shack. They arrived at Eastview at approximately 6:30 pm to set-up. Hiltz, Lombardo, Rutigliano, and Ramlochan were all present during the exercise, but they did not participate in the exercise. Feeney participated in the training exercise in his role as volunteer firefighter but not in his capacity as a Con Edison employee. According to Hiltz, there was no job briefing done before…

Mad Max” gets an even more mad reboot “Mad Max” was originally a movie released in Australia made by director George Miller in 1979. Shortly after, the sequel, The Road Warrior was released in 1981. Both movies received relatively positive scores and reviews all around. In 1985, the third movie, “Thunderdome”, was released. It got decent scores, but it was obvious that this franchise was losing steam. Fast forward 30 years, to the year 2015. Mad Max: Fury Road is released. How does this movie…

Kennedy’s inaugural address talk about freedom and how it will be affected in the years to come. However, Roosevelt’s speech covers more about the “four freedoms” that all humans should have whereas Kennedy’s speech focuses more on nuclear warfare and demolition. Nonetheless, both of these speakers conveyed a serious and meaningful message to their audiences. Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his “Four Freedoms” speech in 1941 after being elected president of the United States of America in 1940.…

time a person has felt betrayed enough to feel it’s simply karma. It is often believed that revenge is the cure for treachery. In Viva La Viva and The Count of Monte Cristo, the writers’ use of figurative language expresses the thought that the demolition of your enemies is justified by their treachery will almost always result in more pain and mourning. In Viva La Viva by Cold Play, the song and its lyrics create the scene of a man who was once in complete…

In the first few chapters of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, the stark contrast between Amir and Hassan’s strong relationship and its demolition highlights one of the book’s major themes, which is even explicitly mentioned by Rahim: if people form a relationship which is actively being deterred by society, societal pressure will inevitably destroy it (99). Furthermore, it establishes some of the book’s most prominent motifs, those of betrayal and deception. Prior to their falling out, Amir…

November 10, 1619, Descartes undertook his own intellectual rebirth. His first step was to throw out everything he thought he knew, refusing to believe in even the most basic premises before proving them to himself satisfactorily. In this act of demolition and reconstruction, Descartes felt it would be a waste of time to tear down each idea individually. Instead, he attacked what he considered the very foundation: the idea that sense perception conveys accurate information. He developed several…

“The Scar”, by Kildare Dobbs, is a moving, emotional account of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The author creates interest as well as suspense by using two storylines. One follows the experiences of a 15 year old Japanese girl, Emiko. The other, in great contrast, follows the story of an American co-pilot, Captain Robert Lewis, who was aboard the Enola Gay, a US Air Force B-29, that carried the first operational atom bomb. Throughout the narrative, the author switches back and forth between…

Through looking to the population change during this period of time, Toronto CMA seems that will continue to spread out over suburban areas bringing challenges to the city specifically in terms of transportation. Behan states that transportation has encouraged imbalance in sprawl of housing and jobs which result in long commutes, increase of fuel energy and therefore air contamination. In addition, private transportation has become an essential good for residents in suburban areas due to long…

bitterly divided by North and South. Lincoln wanted the nation to join as one, so that Lincoln's plans of the reconstruction years could begin. Abraham Lincoln saw the importance of quickly rebuilding the country wounds after all of the abusive demolition caused from the war. Owing more than $2 billion, the southern states were extremely crippled after the war. almost every battle took place on southern soil and destruction of it all was tremendous. reconstruction years were…