Ember

with a closed end (called a Breech) and an open end (called the muzzle). There was a small hole at the rear to light the powder (called the touchhole). The gunpowder was put in first, followed by the projectile. The powder is then ignited with an ember or torch. The expanding gases from the exploding…

As the darkness of the horizon nibbled away the sun, the remaining ember set the sky aflame. Wood chips shot off the resilient trunk, as the silver-plated axe wielded by the bulky arms of the woodchopper dug into the trunk. Now bare and naked, its resilience absent. Drops of sweat tumbled down woodchopper’s side burns, dampening his thick, coarse and choppy beard. Fearful eyes of the forest, witnessing their homes savagely cleaved within the blanket of dense fog. The woodchopper’s rhythm echoed…

small fires at the ready. Although this system seems unmanageable back in 1871 it was considered very efficient, helpful, and fast. Although on the night the Great Chicago Fire broke out the fireman on watch dismissed the smoke as just smoldering embers from the previous night fire. Because fires were so common during that time the citizens of Chicago also dismissed the glowing fire and alarms as nothing important. “For days past alam has followed alarm, but the comparatively trifling losses…

Literature is a two way relationship, when an author writes a work they are simultaneously entrusting that whomever picks up that work will seek to understand its intentioned purpose and how that purpose applies to them. In other words, a prominent work of literature does not become prominent until readers put something of themselves into it. This is one of the primary themes Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor. In the chapter “Is That a Symbol?” Foster indicates that…

How they read the letters from their husbands or husbands to be, not knowing which letter would be his last,the ember of hope that they kept that they would make it home alive.The heartache when a letter comes to tell them their lover has died. The poppy reminds of the pain and anguish as they relish in the thoughts of their former companions, who were taken away…

The Social Contract is a primary source by Jean Jacques Rousseau, a philosophical writer that influenced the world but most specifically the French Revolution and development of political philosophy. Jean Jacques Rousseau uses a speculative tone demonstrating his personal opinion on the solution to the problem of the time: freedom. The reading of this document advocates for the powerful topic of that time period of which aided philosophical momentum for the glorious revolution. The basis of the…

then the surgeon will step in. This may be different in other specialty or hospitals, where there are residents attending and may effect a PAs scope of practice. PAs work alongside NPs and physicians as colleges and in collaboration with other team embers. In neurosurgery specifically they work with neurosurgeons and get help from general surgeon to put shunt, cardiothoracic surgeon to expose upper thoracic vertebrae or work alongside hospitalists specifically when patients have lots of other…

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most distinguished poets of the 1800’s. Poe’s most eminent works have distinct plot and story lines, but are analogous in their tone, setting, and style. Poe often uses the settings of his writings to depict the psychological state of his characters. Poe’s short stories The Fall of the House of Usher and The Raven are epitomes of Poe’s particular writing technique. The setting of, The Fall of the House of Usher introduces dismal atmosphere. The narrator immediately…

happiness only uncertainty of the earth and it's continued path to an unchangeable destruction, no one will have the breath to declare triumph or victory; it will be the sun and earth's victory. Rid every thought as the fires die on burning embers; no chance to strike back realize every pocket has a leak. Rapids exist to show through even the loving eyes of a grandfather…

In The Allegory of the Cave by Plato this piece analyzes how far, or rather not far mankind has come in facing the true nature of the world and it’s reality. Plato does so by comparing mankind to prisoner held captive in a cave. The men are confined and cannot move about and can only see what is in front of them, day after day the men watch images of shadows on the wall in front of them illuminated by fire. Also within the cave the men are exposed to echoes and believe the noises come from the…