Inferno

mirror image of the inner”. It is apparent that the term fire is symbolic of desire, and the term ice represents hatred. According to John Serio, “Fire and Ice” is eerily similar to “Dante’s Inferno”. For example, it has nine lines which are symbolically comparable to the nine circles of hell in “Dante’s Inferno”. “As such, it presents a much more profound distinction between the two extremes of love and hate (Serio 1999)”. The first line of “Fire and Ice” eludes desire is perhaps a reason for…

Myth Story Millions of years ago there was a greek legend named Nurmagomedov. He was one of the greatest warriors known to man. While being known in Greece, Nurmagomedov was actually from America. Nobody actually knows who his parents were but legend has it that he arose from an errupting valcano in Hawaii. Not long after being pushed out of the valcano, Nurmagomedov was very curious and took up building weapons mainly out of rocks and wood. After years of wondering around Hawaii, Nurmagomedov…

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…

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,…

the incoming main fire and extinguishing it as soon as possible. Dodge had ordered them to stand in the burned out area, but the men never listened due to a misunderstanding or because they thought they were confident enough to outrun the blazing inferno. Unfortunately, the fire proved too violent and too rapid for them to avoid its imminent wake. The aftermath resulted in the need for extensive assistance with 450 more firefighters combating the fire for five more days, in an effort to get it…

through the use of epigraphs, imagery, allusion, metaphor , and diction. J. Alfred Prufrock is followed through his night, romanticizing what could have been. To develop the tone of reflectiveness the love song opens with an epigraph from “Dante’s Inferno”, which is about Dante trying to talk to Guido about the atrocities Guido committed in his life; Guido is resilient to tell because of the pure heinousness of his deeds and believes that his reputation would be tarnished if they were to be…

Epics that idealize the notion of the greatness of heroes, wars fought in the name of courage and stories that nomads would chant to their children in a cycle so dear to them that is nearly a religion, is possible due to the art of translations. Translating by far is the greatest reason why languages has thrived for over centuries. An art that is becoming in many forms, translation is a complex process that requires decoding and immense attentiveness. A successful translation has appropriate…

someone had called 911, so the driver got a grand finale of his vehicle-turned-bonfire turning into a soggy soon-to-be pile of rust. It made me grateful that my parents’ car does not have something dragging on the ground, ready to turn our car into an inferno. The biggest reason we don’t have that problem is that my parents maintain our car enough not to have the problem he did. As my mom said, the man looked like he was “an inch from a diabetic coma,” while my parents are healthy, mentally and…

Memoir I am not a bad kid but in the past I have done some questionable things such as things that followed the guidelines of fists and bruises but I am going to tell you the story of when I got into my first fight. This story is kicked off by saying it was my first day of middle school in gym class when I decided try to smart mouth off to one of the new kids I was paired up with which probably was my first mistake, Never smart mouth off to a eighth grader that is heavier than you. To…

Just the opposite of your residential areas whereas crime is higher in lower economic areas where stress would be higher; in your business districts or downtowns, it appears the crimes are higher in those areas of higher property value or real state to be stolen (Hoover, 2014). The crime would pay off much more in this area and is more worth the risk to the criminal. Your business districts are, however, divided into areas like the residents by crime activity or categories, each having a…