We Didn't Start the Fire

In chapters 1 and 2 we meet a boy named Brian and his parents are divorced. Brian boards a plane excited to fly it because it’s a single engine plane. When Brian starts to fly he has thoughts about his parents being divorced and all the fights they had. The pilot of the plane gave Brian a chance to fly the plane, so Brian said yes. When Brian got to the Hampton the mother gave Brian a Hatchet so he can use in the woods After Brian fly’s the plane he sits back down in his seat and the pilot has a…

spread throughout the world. However, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” contained a very different message than “99 Red Balloons.” Billy Joel’s lyrics feature a series of historical events and figures covering a variety of contexts including foreign affairs, pop culture, political issues, and sports. Stating over 100 different events, Joel gives a brief history lesson, spanning over the course of four decades. Accompanied by the catchy chorus, “We didn’t start the fire / It was always burning / Since…

My Cry” by: Mildred D. Taylor, Papa had to make a life or death decision, which put him in danger. The life or death situation that Papa made was to start a fire so he could save T.J., Mr.Morrison, and his family. Papa started the fire by setting the cotton field on fire. I agree with Papa starting the fire because if he wouldn’t have started the fire the mob of angry people would have hanged T.J., Mr.Morrison, and himself without letting them explain. “ The sheriff turned from Mr. Jamison,…

drought do you know what it means.A drought is something serious, it is a shorter way to say that there's not much water left.How does a drought starts good question,it starts when rain dosen't feel that often,so the government can't make the water fresh.If your scared know just wait until you hear what effects can happen without water. Just imagine if we didn't have a winter thing would happen,If don't have enough water prices will go up because did you know that 90% of tomatoes are grown…

book because Ralph didn’t think like most of the other boys did on the island. Ralph wanted to do things by the book and create rules to keep everyone together until they were rescued. An example that Golding used in the novel to show that Ralph…

the first scene we can see that the boys are scattered through out the island, but a boy, later know to become Ralph is exploring. He finds a boy whose name we don't know but is later called piggy because of Ralph finds out that's what he was called in school. Piggy and Ralph later find a granite platform where they rest and find a conch. Ralph uses it to call other students. A large number of boys appear and they form a sort of council. We find out many names but…

this is if we didn’t have rules…

Fahrenheit 451 VS. Hunger Games As I read the book Fahrenheit 451, I started to notice that that book had a lot of things in common with the book hunger games. Both authors use fire in their stories, and both books are controlled by the government. Not one person has any freedom really, I mean they do but it doesn't seem like it because in Fahrenheit 451 the people have their certain laws as in hunger games as well. However both novels are different in their own ways, like the hunger games has…

“What are we? Humans? Or Animals? Or Savages?” (William Golding). Everyone has questioned their existence every once and awhile. Humans come so far and some are still are not capable to stay sane. We need people around us, rules to keep us in shape, but when someone is pulled from all of that do they act out or will they try to keep that normalism they are so use to having. William Golding believed humans are truly messed up in the head. In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding really shows in…

“When we are no longer able to change a situation-we are challenged to change ourselves”, As said by Viktor E Frankl. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the main character Montag changed a lot due to the other characters around him. For example, at the beginning of the book Guy Montag didn’t care at all about books, but at the end Montag believed books were the key to saving everyone from a dystopian reality. Like when Clarisse asked if firemen used to put out fires rather than start them, Montag…