Little Manila

most of these buildings suffered extensive damage from interior fires, had their windows, doors and partitions knocked out, and all other fixtures, which were not integral parts of the reinforced concrete frame burned or blown away; the casualties in such buildings near the center of explosion were almost 100%. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T It had more than two thousand times the impact force of the British Grand Slam, which is the biggest bomb ever yet utilized as a part of…

They had four kids, three of them we're boys and the youngest looking one was a girl. The oldest looked about 17, the second oldest looked around 14, the next one looked 12 and the youngest girl looked around 5 years old. She had the most energy. The little girl ran up to me and then looked me in the eyes. I felt awkward, until er mother came in and grabbed…

In the novel, Little Brother, Marcus proves to be clever and quick-thinking. Firstly, Marcus is very clever. In the fifth chapter of the book, Marcus realized someone had been in his room when he found a bug planted in his laptop. He was smart enough to understand the possibility that there is also a camera watching him. Marcus says, “Knowing how to turn a toilet paper roll and three bucks’ worth of parts into a camera detector is just good sense” (Doctorow 85). Overall, this quotation proves…

When Starr first told me that she was going to become a ‘call girl’, I wasn’t really sure what to think. I was angry, I was scared, but most of all I was ignorant. She had told me multiple times that she had been running into some money problems and even though I offered some assistance to her, she turned it down and said “Thank you, but it’s not enough”. In turn I started to think: how much trouble could she be in? After I voiced my concerns to her, she began to explain to me why she had an…

Imagine that you were swimming then all of a sudden your eyes are burning and your arms are getting heavy, that’s how some of these penguins felt in these two articles. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicle” both talk about how the beaches that penguins live on are contaminated with a oil spill. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicles” have similarities and differences like similarity in conflict but differences in setting. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and…

Childhood, Immortality and the Little Prince One of the reasures I inherited from my grandmother “Nanný” when she passed, was a soft copy of The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antone de Saint-Exupéry. It is a beautiful 1946 edition in French with original illustrations. This tome has been read, that I know, by at least five generations in my family (my daughters included) in its original language. This Little book of les tan 100 pages is the fourth most translated book in history; it has…

On August 6 1945, a US plane named the Enola Gay flew over Hiroshima, a civilian city that had minimal military value and dropped the worlds first atomic bomb nicknamed little boy over Hiroshima, the initial blast instantly killed 80,000 people leaving Hiroshima a wasteland for months. This was a significant event of WW2 as it enlightened the world on why nuclear weapons shouldn’t be used in warfare. The use of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 has long remained one of the most controversial…

consequences on both sides of the war. By tapping into nuclear energy The U.S. was able to open a new era, revealing the power of earth’s natural forces. The first bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945, bomb being nicknamed “little boy”. The uranium based nuclear device detonated 1900 feet above the industrial Japanese city. Instantly obliterating 70,000 people on the spot while annihilating a third of the city meanwhile the long-lasting radiation effects bring in an…

and imagery that he points out. Children at that age are more interested in the whimsical entertainment of the films and are too innocent and oblivious to any of the symbolism that Giroux maybe trying to insinuate are present in the films. In the Little Mermaid children are more captivated by the singing sea creatures and the wonderful colors of the ocean than by storyteller’s views on women having a voice in society. Giroux argues that in Beauty and the Beast, Belle teaches young women that…

The frantic scrambling of pencils on paper, and fingers on the keyboard are in pursuit of receiving full credit. That moment when time seems to move faster than I ever thought possible. If only I could squeeze a few more ounces of time out of what little I have left. These are the thoughts that surface in my mind on quite a routine basis. These thoughts are brought upon by an all too stressful reality that I for whatever reason am too stubborn to avoid. No matter how great of an attempt I make…