The Towering Inferno

use the fire hose to extinguish it, but the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. Running from the incinerator, many stuffed themselves into the two freight elevators, operated by Gaspar Mortillaro and Joseph Zito who both returned to the inferno over and over, saving a hundred and fifty people. Still, many could not fit on the elevator, and thus, they tried to slide down the cable or jump down the shaft, meeting their deaths. Ergo, the elevators stopped functioning quickly, weighed…

Book II of Vergil’s Aeneid tells the story of Troy’s destruction at the hand of the Greeks and Aeneas’ flight from the ruined city. In Aeneas’ narration, there is a clear image pattern of fire that spans all parts of his story. The motif of fire and flames foreshadows the Troy’s imminent destruction, characterizes the attack of the Greeks, and emphasizes the emotional stress surrounding Troy’s destruction. Before the destruction of Troy becomes clear, Vergil inserts some symbolic moments that…

Towering trunks of pine and birch grow with ease in the rich abundance of soil that is the forest floor. Each tree accepts the chaotic placement of silky pine needles and glistening pebbles that merge together on the ground. The bending of the grained bark…

accomplish in their musical career. He was progressing into a multi-talented musician who was able to create music that was worthy of being nominated for. He also created scores For Irwin Allen’s disaster films such as The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and…

Orenthal James Simpson, also known as O.J., or the Juice. Was born on “July 9, 1947, in San Francisco, California (Encyclopedia.com).” Mr. Simpson was a star football player at the University of South California won the Heisman Trophy in 1968. This trophy is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football in the United States. He eventually ended up being drafted to the Buffalo Bulls and then with the San Francisco 49ers as a running back for 11 seasons. This gained this…

Sound Recording: My mom grew up in Long Island, New York and was the only girl in her family for most of her childhood. Because of this, she described her family as “uncultured,” and much of her time was spent outdoors or in playing sports rather than in radio, TV, and so on. She listened to records like Neil Diamond, Cat Stevens, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Joni Mitchell. California based group the Beach Boys was one of her favorites. She discovered artists pretty much solely through…

continues, sparks blaze upward, are extinguished, and a new shower appears. Likewise, as long as life continues, it is fraught with difficulties. In Job’s case, however, it was not a matter of a cloud of sparks; his life itself resembled a blazing inferno. Here we encounter Job coming to grips with the nature of his God who, in Job’s experience, attacked him without cause and then maintained a stony silence. We also encounter him in the unenviable position of rejecting the well-meaning advice of…

“After a week, when I was no more annoyed with my destiny and had regained my weight and composure, I discovered one evening the same man with several gold chains around his thick black neck sitting in the warden’s room chewing tobacco, the warden asked me to go with him. I found no difference between Baz Khan and the salacious scoundrel sitting in the chair, the only difference being Baz Khan treated me like a commodity without a price since the fat man was prepared to put a price on me. I…

Inquisitions (1964) [originally published as Otras Inquisiciones in 1952] forms a necessary complement to the fictional entities of Fictions (originally published as Ficciones in 1944) and The Aleph (published as El Aleph in 1949) which made him a towering personality in Latin American avant-garde literature. Poet, essayist, critic, translator- Borges is truly a virtuoso. His fiction, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe, deploys the search for meaning, archaeological reconstruction and…