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As I furiously flipped through the Contents section in Brett Lacey and Paul Valentine’s Fire Prevention Applications, pages vacillated hither and thither… hither and yon. Yearning for a topic to leap out and command my attention, I began to grow more and more disquieted. I’ll be candid. My understanding of the subjects at hand was shallow at best, and nearly nonexistent concerning most. Knowing that I at one point commanded a deep and nuanced understanding of Chapter 3: Codes and Standards,…

As time churns forward, Dan finds himself sitting in silence on the top stair of the fourth floor, his hands folded in between his legs. Twiddling his thumbs, he stares without expression down at the mid-floor landing. Dan's mind locked in a whirlwind of thoughts as he ponders the events taking place in this direful stairwell. “This can't be real,” he reassures himself out loud. “This can't be. But,” he pauses for a moment as his thoughts begin to calm. “What if it is real and I'm being…

Hoarding is the ongoing difficulty in separating or letting go of a possession due to a need or desire to keep it(DSM-V, 2014). It affects about two to six percent of Americans and a bit of Europeans as well(DSM-V, 2014). Parting with anything the holder owns will be a difficult task as even a tiny thought of letting go will leave that person with a feeling of sorrow as the hoarder has either a sentimental value or a feeling they will use it in the future, they may also feel safer when near…

In the midst of the concrete jungle of the city of New York, there stands an iconic art museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Built in 1959, the museum flares as an expression of modern artistic construction. The museum permanently houses “world-famous collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks, as well as some of the greatest 20th-century paintings by famous painters from all over the world” . The museum was…

Obesity in American The most obese countries in the world are not necessarily the richest or most developed. In fact, the smaller countries such as Naura, Marshall Islands, Kuwait, Samoa, Palau have made it to the top 10. According to World Health Organization, food scarcity and food price increasing have connation with obesity in underdeveloped countries such as Venezuela, where the people difficult to have healthy diet and lost the eating balances. Therefore, the high calories and fried food…

Chapter 6: The intellectual men of Lisbon wanted to give the people an auto-da-fé (ceremony of repentance). Men came with ropes to hang Pangloss for talking and have Candide whipped for listening with approval. They marched in processions and listened to a sermon. Church music filled the place and Candide was whipped in compass to the music, later Pangloss was hanged. On the same day, another earthquake occurred causing immense damage to the city. Candide lamented the death of Pangloss and Miss…

Despite salient critiques on the nature and content of postmodernism , there is still little agreement in any field about the aesthetic criteria defining this avant-garde of artistic movements. Indeed, even the notion that postmodernism retains the nom de guerre “avant-garde” is debatable when considering commentary such as Richard Schechner’s Post-Post-Structuralism? in TDR and hghghghghghg. In her introduction to Postmodernism, an analysis of contemporary visual art, Eleanor Heartney…

Not all Castles hold princesses in the top of them, or end up on a Disney movie; some castles walls have seen things that would leave one speechless. Haunted castles are in abundance in throughout Britain. Chuck Palahniuk said, “If the living is haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.” Steeped in history, the castles Chillingham, Portchester, and Dover are true examples of the haunted castles with its own ghosts, spirits or hauntings. Chillingham Castle is…

The soldiers of the Eighth Battalion slept soundly on the uneventful night at Guard-Raugh’s Prison. Their beds, though hard as rocks, were more comfortable than the ground they slept on during the Forever War. Though they were thankful they had been relieved from the frontlines, they longed to return home to their worried wives and sick children, but tolerated the boredom they faced guarding the most secure prison in all of Asyra. The unlucky few walking the night shift fell asleep at their…

I recently watched the movie Hard Lessons, directed by Eric Laneuville. That took place in George Washington High School in Los Angeles, California in 1986. This film is based on a determined Principal named George McKenna played by Denzel Washington. Mr. McKenna was the new Principal of George Washington High School. On his first day of school, he noticed there was no structure, graffiti, gang violence, and disrespectful student body. The teachers, students, parents, and community have given up…