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Mount St. Helens By Kyle Lockhead Volcanoes destroy and volcanoes create. The catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 was devastating. It shows the destructive power of a volcano. Yet, over a time span longer than human memory. Volcanoes have played a key role in forming and modifying the planet we live on. More than 80 percent of the Earth's surface is from a volcano and the eruption from Mt St. Helens is big part in the environment but the mountain of Mt St. Helens will never…

In the many settings of the book, “A Dance With Dragons”, there is always a huge conflict involved. A conflict is a serious disagreement while a setting is a place where event take places. George R.R. Martin done a great job creating creative conflicts in each different settings that somehow connects into certain key points: The Iron Throne, or The White Walkers. The setting and conflict of Winterfell, and Castle Black have a connection. In the Castle Black, Jon Snow brought the Wildlings in…

I chose to listen to Stevie Wonder’s album called, “Innervisions” since it is known for its adulation. In order for me to fully assess the song, “Too High,” I must google the lyrics. After I examine the lyrics, it made me conclude that I will not like the song based off the lyrics. I tried to relate to some of the lyrics that are being said such as, I'm too high but I ain't touched the sky.” I only feel this way when I am dunking a basketball; you feel as if you jump so high, but you did not…

The Chicago Fire On that devastating day on October 8, 1871, the unspeakable happened, when a fire broke out in a barn, the owners of the barn being the O’Learys, that soon destroyed almost all of Chicago. In this essay, I will be proving the statement “Everything Went Wrong,” out of a book that I read about the Chicago fire, called The Great Fire, by Jim Murphy. Here are some details to prove that during that fire “Everything went wrong.” My first detail to show that “Everything went wrong”…

Mount St. Helen's is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range in Skamania County, Washington and is part of the Ring of Fire centered around the Pacific Ocean. Mount St. Helen's was created when the oceanic Jean de Fuca plate subducted beneath the North American Plate and has a long history of eruptive periods followed lengthy dormancies. Her volcanic activity was marked by thousands of years of lava and pyroclastic flows only to fall silent and then reawaken to begin her destructive cycle…

It couldn’t have been past 10 a.m. when the alarm went off. We all knew what it meant- we were firefighters, it’s what we do. The fire chief told us that an apartment complex in downtown Boston had gone ablaze, and that it was really bad. We quickly got into our uniforms and hopped on as the fire truck left the station. We were a few miles away before I saw the smoke, a dark giant against the bright blue sky. As we neared the complex, I could see the huge crowd of people gathered around…

the Ring of Fire, is the habitat of 90% of the world’s volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Four hundred and fifty two volcanoes are existent between the southernmost tips of South America to the West coast of North America crossing to Japan onto New Zealand and finish its ring of fury in Antarctica with a mix of active and inactive volcanoes. One of the most active faults in America and the ring of fire is the San Andreas Fault (Turgeon). Chile is unfortunately apart of the Ring of Fire.…

are introduced in A Song of Ice and Fire as nothing more than a fairy tale, believed to be long extinct. Similar to the Ancient Celts, they were once the indigenous race of Westeros and following a war between the First Men they were forced to retreat to the fringe of Westeros, “beyond the Wall,” where their history turned into legend which turned into folklore over the thousands of years they remained in isolation. In Martin’s book, The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and…

In the last years there have been several TV series that have succeeded in the media and that have produced a fan phenomenon and one of them is Game of Thrones. Since its launching in 2011, this drama has caught the attention of the public and has become part of the history of television, breaking records in audience, illegal downloads and sells all over the world. The question here is why this simple and vane fiction has attracted such an amount of audience that are willing to see what is going…

Dr. Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese? is considered a guide on how to face change. The best-seller tells the story of two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little people, Hem and Haw, and how they each responded to running out of cheese. Cheese was portrayed as something they all highly desired and loved. The two mice were able to follow the right path to change, and were successful at finding new cheese. The two little people, on the other hand, resisted change and were left with no…