Wildfire

Standing on the edge with tears running down your cheeks, you stop to think about your decision once more. Memories flash before your eyes, burrowing a deeper hole into your heart. As your determination arises, one final time, to end it all, you close your eyes and slowly let yourself go. As you fall into the outreached arms of the darkness, you finally feel weightless after so long. The air swooshes past your ears and then thud! Nothing. You feel nothing, you hear nothing, and finally, you are…

Violence has become one of the most occurring social problems that Americans face in society. It is a frightening topic within itself, and there is always talk about ending or lessening it, but somehow it never seems to stop. Violence is one of the significant contributors to deaths that occur in the United States each year. Robert Kennedy once asked, "What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created?". He goes on to describe the cowardly actions represented by a sniper sitting…

Hurricanes are benefitting from the effects of climate change. Humans should be concerned about how climate change intensifies natural disasters, more specifically hurricanes, for it affects our lives and the environment. Places susceptible to hurricanes, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Pacific Ocean, will be hit by more intense storms in the future if we are not mindful of how to slow down climate change. Hurricanes are formed when the moist air from the surface of oceans rise and…

working schedule (which many of them do not have) didn’t even desire to discuss the election. In my opinion that is the epitome of selfishness. Even if this election does not affect you personally, the amount of hate and disunity that has spread like wildfire in this country since the day Donald Trump has announced this election should awaken even the most ignorant of us. I am proud to know that students of the Ivy League schools, where individuals are deemed to be upper class, were visibly…

Rugged Times at Valley Forge Re-enlisting may be prove to be dangerous, but who cares if freedom is at stake. On December of 1777, George Washington took his army to the brutal Valley Forge to sojourn for the winter, 22 miles from the nearest colony. Staying at alive at this camp is hard as nails. My enlistment is coming up rapidly, however I do not plan on quitting until we get our freedom. “Quitting” is another way of stating that you are not re-enlisting. For all my heart’s desire, I will…

trying to send a message and draw attention to their power. They want to let people know what they want, let them know that they are there. With the age of technology being as it is,word of messages and opinions, events and tragedies are spread like wildfire. In mere seconds, an American can see what is happening to a friend in China and vice versa. Naturally, with this open expression it is easier for terrorist messages to spread, governments to hack into each other’s systems and steal…

to start a smallpox widespread in Tenochtitlan. One of Cortes’ men contracted smallpox from a member of the force from Cuba. That soldier died during the Aztec rebellion, and when his body was looted, an Aztec caught the disease, which spread like wildfire because the Aztec people had no protection against it. Cortes regrouped and attacked Tenochtitlan in full force in 1521. At that time, the city’s society had crumpled. The Aztecs no longer trusted Montezuma, they were short on food supplies,…

choices in life that will help the people surrounding them in a beneficial way. Honesty is the best policy in terms of speaking the truth to others, evading the unpleasant effects of spreading lies. Throughout high school, gossip spreads like a wildfire moving from student to student between every class creating an environment where a person is unable to function. Whether the rumor is true or not, it still spawns a horde of attention to that person who is only trying to learn in…

Malyvanh Chanthavong Professor Hamner SOC 101-80 19 December 2016 FINAL EXAM When comparing and contrasting Housing and Urban Development, Red Cross and International Committee of the Red Cross, surprisingly the three organizations are similar in a way, but also have some differences as well. First, to start off HUD is a United States government agency created in 1965 to support community development and home ownership. As opposed to The American Red Cross also known as American National Red…

was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear' and this China had become. Chairman Mao Zedong was a significant figurehead among the Chinese community. His propaganda spread like wildfire among the Chinese population, leaving them to…