Fireworks

The movie “The Holy Grail and The Monty Python” Uses lots of satire of many beliefs of the middle ages. There are many different aspects that the movie uses to make fun of the ideals and literature that comes from this time period. They make fun of a few things directly and a few things not so directly. The things that they make fun of directly is the black plague and science and magic. They make fun of the black plague by showing that the people of the kingdom are playing and living in the…

crack a nut You are going to cook a turkey You are going to carve a turkey You are going to roast some potatoes. You are going to go for a walk in the snow You are going to drink champagne You are going to start a fire You are going to light some fireworks You are going to wrap a present You are going to ski…

Dashiell Hodes Dr. Michael Vastola RH 131-03 12 September 2017 Summary & Explication Essay Around the Northwest there has been a change in the last few years-- there is less rainfall and hotter summers as Oregon slowly begins to mimic California’s dry weather. Now, because of a mistake that no one can undo, a scenic part of my home state is engulfed in flames and people are debating the appropriate punishment for those who started the fire. The heartbreak of the Eagle Creek fire: Editorial is an…

Final Hours What would you want to do if you only had twenty four hours left to live. For my last twenty four hours, I would spend with my brothers; Bryce, Weston and Quinn, since we all love to go off-roading I would go buy jacked up mud racing trucks and tear up our favorite minimum maintenance roads around the outskirts of Humboldt. The reason I chose to bring my three brothers is because they all love to do some type of off-roading, so I thought they would be part of my last day. I chose…

While reading the poem, “The Sound of Night” by Maxine Kumin it explores the creatures of what they do at night while we are sleeping. The reader might be camping with another person and they are falling asleep among the unknown creatures of the night. They seem to be frighten by the noises around them, so they wait patiently until the sun rise. The reader has an uneasy feeling. The first part of the poem, the reader and the campers experiencing the same trembling fear. These noises are loud,…

I chose to write my essay on Mexican Independence Day. Mexican Independence Day is on September 16th. They celebrate by having parades, festivals, parties, dancing, fireworks, feasts and much more. They hang Mexican flags everywhere this day. They blow whistles and horns and throw confetti is thrown everywhere. Everything is decorated in green, red, and white. The background behind Mexican Independence Day is that the Mexicans wanted to break away from Spain. But Spain didn’t want that. When…

I read a book titled, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.” It is about a boy in striped pajamas, Shmuel, who is an eight-year-old Jewish child in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. He is befriended by Bruno, a German boy and the son of a Nazi official who’s in charge of Shmuel’s camp. The two boys meet on opposite sides of the barbed wire. Neither them nor Bruno's mother understand what really is going on at the camp. The others are told that the camps are full of luxury and comfort like a…

‘’On April 15, 2013, two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 other people. Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose older brother and fellow suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a shootout with law enforcement earlier that same day” (“Boston Marathon Bombings”).This capture and shootout…

ears as I watched the fireworks light up the sky. All the expected celebratory events were unfolding around me for The Fourth of July. Looking about in the center field of all the cabins, the colors of red, white, and blue could be found everywhere, all the way to the ruffles on my blue jean dress. The events occurring could almost be described as typical for a family reunion on a holiday. Almost. My dad’s family reunion in Concan, Texas looked like what it always had: Fireworks, long lost…

last game 14 to 0. A few months later I went to Texas after school and lacrosse ended. We had fireworks like in Texas like we always do but this time we had more misfire than we had ever had. The worst one was one that had 20 shots and it flipped over and shot my grandparent’s house, my mom’s car, and almost hit me. A few days later my brother and two of his friends came down too but thankfully no fireworks misfired while they were there. We all went swimming on the lake and tubing almost every…