Tornado

screeching his happy voice because he was excited. We finally reached and sat on our floating, hollow tube we got from the beginning. Water was flushing out from the sides! I got soaked. We had to take our hands off the rail and we went swirling like a tornado and a spiral. At the end, there was a huge bump and we went down the smooth surface Finally, we crossed the bump, but at the very end of the ride, we went really high and touched the black rubber path at the very top of the ride. I…

Poseidon was a determined man. He was so perfectionist that he caused Atlantis collapse. He was the god of the seas,rivers and earthquakes. Poseidon had a poweful trident. He was creating the earthquakes by hitting his trident to the ground. Poseidon hated his father, Zeus. Zeus was the king of the gods,ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice. He was self-confident. He didn’t like Poseidon too. They were living in peace for that moment…

If a tornado powerful enough happened and depleted the soil, a pioneer plant like lichen would begin to grow after a very long recovery period. Then, soil would begin to form and plants would start to grow again. Lastly, after hundreds or thousands of years, the…

The House of Wells A day in my house is a day of chaotic harmony, like aunts surrounding the opening of their nest. We all move in a frenzy that is familiar to us. Our house is relatively undersized for the colony inside, the people inside move in their own fashion, and through all the schedules and planning, we still find time to live and support each other. My house is simply small. On a day like any other we all wake up under the blue tin ruff on the calmest of streets. It is unassuming and…

truth to them. Humanity fears death, and with good reason to. Humans fear what they do not know. That is why ancient civilizations created religions to explain the natural phenomenons happening around them. The “god of wind” was created because a tornado destroyed a neighboring village, and the “god of the sun” made sure that the ball of fire in the sky would rise and fall each day. Death is terrifying. It is a guarantee that in life there; will be death. From a young age, children are taught…

Flames engulfed the house, windows broke, smoke exhaled. My mother received a call that her house was burning down. She stopped what she was doing, worried her kids were inside the house. She frantically dashed home. She arrived crying and screaming that her kids could be inside the house. Firefighters held her back from running inside. I was only 8 years old when I realized that my family and I had officially became homeless and had nowhere to go. At that age I was totally innocent until I…

In “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare. The characters Antony and Cassius are shielded by their appearance on the outside; innocent and bringing justice to Rome. Thus, these false outward showings enable these morally compromised men to use their manipulative rhetoric that unleashes chaos upon their city that,furthermore causes Brutus,a naive man, to create a coordinated plan to kill Caesar a man he was loyal to, because of Cassius's use of rhetoric and leads to uproar and…

about your dog or cat falling off your roof appears like a beautiful thing. On the same coin of speaking about animals fallings off the roof, roofs during the 1500s were known to be slippery in the rain and not exactly stable. Imagine being in a tornado and your roof is falling off and there is nothing you can do about it. Roofs did not obtain wood underneath them and were just thick chunks of straw piled on each other. In addition to this, it was frequent that animals would rest in these…

literature piece created by the Delaware Tribe. The Delaware tribe is a Native American tribe located where Delaware is today and some of the surrounding states. They created this myth to help them explains the world they did not understand; when a tornado came through they needed a logical reason as to why this happened. The myth explains that the world was created by this great force called the Manito. The Manito created the land on which they lived. He gave them the animals that they…

well in school and people actually wanted to hang out with him. He beat his brother’s record and won many races in 1st place. He was one of the best college runners in the country. He appeared in newspapers in Torrance and was called the “Torrance Tornado”. His biggest goal was to compete in the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo. He made the Olympic team in 1936 in Berlin and ran besides runners he looked up to. He even got to run in front of Hitler and meet him. Louie was disappointed when he found out…