We Didn't Start the Fire

young men” (Junger 2011, p. 234). Sebastian Junger, the author of War (2011), was born in Belmont, Massachusetts and grew up to become an award-winning journalist and #1 New York Times Bestselling author. His other novels include The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, and Tribe. Junger is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, a correspondent at ABC News, and has covered international stories around the world. In 1980, Junger graduated from…

We haven’t seen anyone ever since we murdered those men. When we killed them, I had a rush of excitement and it almost seemed fun. Now I feel a burning pain inside for all those people we killed. They were probably just like us, trying to stay alive. They most likely just felt threatened, and attacked by self defense. Instead of trying to avoid war, we just killed them. Maybe we could have talked about it. Maybe no one had to die. Maybe Dante wouldn’t be dead right now. But we didn’t talk, we…

crime Book lover 's worst nightmare, when reading a book become a crime. Imagine if we live in a society where books been criminalized, and a system that considers whoever keeps, reads, or carries a book is a criminal and the books should be burned. Guy Montag is the main character in the novel “Fahrenheit 451” where he works as a firefighter and his duty is not to put fires out as you would think, but create fire to burn books. Furthermore, comparing Montag from the novel”Fahrenheit 451” with…

Then there was the time cheesecake gave us all free tickets to the reds game. Well I still have a rental. So I drive us being the DD. We stop and get whiskey on the way and start taking shots every time we stop in traffic. I hardly remember parking. Apparently I passed out eating a hot dog while tailgating with everyone. Holly and (I forgot her name but she was amazing (lesbian and she picked me up from the hospital when I fell off the bluff on my birthday at the bar)) Put me in my backseat.…

get rid of all of the hate is if we come together and find a way to love each other for our differences,not hate each other for…

jumped into my bed, messing up all the order that was there before. "It's because of her." I check my phone for messages, none received. I bury my face into a pillow. It all started a year ago, I was classmates with this girl called Mio. At first, I didn't even pay attention to her. She's a very bland girl with nothing really particularly attractive about her. She's just…normal. Don't get me wrong, she doesn't look bad, but she doesn't look good either. Let's see, I don't even know how to…

My Guitar Early one Christmas morning in 1976 towards the end of Elvis’s life, career, I was gifted my very first acoustic guitar. Maybe it was because I was born in Tupelo, Mississippi some thirty-six years after Elvis Presley, that made me suited to play and sing with a guitar. Or perhaps because I was born on the same day as the legendary Johnny Cash, exactly thirty- nine years later, to the day, that I would inherit the intense desire to play, write, and sing with a guitar. After an…

such as Warriors Don’t Cry, I Never Had it made, and “The Father of Chinese Aviation”.The individuals in these excerpts are Melba Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru. All three of these people have faced turning points in their own lives, but it didn’t affect just them. Beals changed all white schools in the U.S.A.. Robinson changed major league baseball. Feng Ru was the first Chinese person to aviate. By facing, turning points in their own lives, they changed not only themselves, but also their…

We were standing at appell and a man in the back of the line was smoking a cigarette. It didn't have any tobacco or anything in it. It was a piece of paper and he lit it on fire just to feel like he was smoking something. One of the guards saw the smoke and pulled about a dozen of us over. He asked us who was smoking, and when nobody said…

On his journey John discovers more than just knowledge, he discovers the truth. Throughout the story, the narrator explains what he is feeling, this helps the reader understand how his knowledge differs from the truth. The beginning of the story starts off with John learning from his father. He learns about the dead places and the Place of the Gods. Once he is able to go to the dead places on his own he says, “So I learned the ways of those houses—and if I saw bones, I was no longer afraid…