Did you know that at least twenty volcanos will be erupting as you read these words? Volcanic eruptions are inconsistent and effect the people and the environment around you in many different ways. The volcanic eruptions help farmers grow crops because the soil around the eruption sites has a lot of good nutrients that is amazing for the plants. Secondly, the volcanoes affect the land by producing good quality soil so that the ground isn’t unpleasant and barren but it has some negative aspects…
Although I am close to being half way through A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin, I still feel the need to discuss characters because there are so many of them and I myself am just beginning to remember and distinguish them by name. Still the Starks are at the center of focus, but this time I with talk about two starks who are characterized by their differences to each other. Arya and Sansa. Arya and Sansa are both Starks, and they are both girls. But beyond that, there are very few…
One of earth’s most colossal volcanic eruption to of happened in the past 100 years is the eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano that erupted in June 15, 1991 in the Luzon island in the Philippines. This volcano also erupted roughly about 450 to 500 years prior to the eruption in 1991. Death was very relevant in this volcano by killing 847 people following the eruption. A U.S. air base was located a mere 37 km away from Mount Pinatubo. Following this eruption it was preceded by various…
In A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin creates a groundbreaking fantasy, in which Ged battles evil in a world where magic is as habitual as breathing. Duny, an arrogant Gontish boy uses magic taught to him by a village witch to defend his village against Kargish pillage, greatly injuring himself. A powerful wizard from Re Albi named Ogion heals the boy and presents Duny with his true name, Ged thereafter taking him as prentice where Ged first encounters powerful dark magic. Eventually Ged…
In Hermann Hesse’s “Siddhartha”, John Green’s “Beowulf” and J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” the protagonist’s search for self-fulfillment is displayed throughout each authors stories differently. Siddhartha, an earnest and spiritual pilgrim consumed by his quest for philosophical discoveries and spiritual enlightenment, finds logical flaws in the teachings put before him which has him choosing between family, friends and religion “I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full…
Charleston Sofa Super Store Fire The single greatest loss of firefighter lives since 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. In the Charleston where the proud fire department haven’t had any line-of-duty casualties since 1965 then on June 18, 2007 they had gut wrenching nine casualties in the Sofa Super Store fire. The call came into dispatch 7:07pm when a passerby noticed smoke coming out over the furniture store. 7:10pm Engine 4 arrives on scene and reports a trash fire on the side…
gave me longer responses this chapter is for you. Sorry to khonas who was looking forward to some softy chapters. I promise some longer scenes with more character development and fluff than by-all-the-holy-cows-does-Harry’s-life-always-have-to-be-on-fire? To which I say: He’s Harry Potter. Also, am I the only one who thought the next generation was too calm in A Cursed Child? I mean my Teddy is nuts and hardly mentioned in the play, can you imagine what’s going to happen when Harry spawns…
Harry and all of his friends become members of the Griffindor house. Of course Draco Malfoy became a member of the Slytherin house and he swaggered forward when his name was called. Harry saw a terrible ghost as the Slytherin table that had a gaunt face and blood-stained robes. Harry’s professors were Professor Filtwick, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, a black haired man with sallow skin, Professor Quirrell and Dumbledore. Harry received a new broomstick, a Nimbus Two…
Forest Fires Forest Thinning exists in most forests in the United States, and many overseas. The act of forest thinning is cutting down trees and removing foliage from forests in order to make them uncluttered. This action is commonly referred to as “logging.” Some people believe that uncluttering forests helps in the prevention of forest fires, along with other benefits such as making the forests appear cleaner. Other people argue that forest thinning is the primary initiator of forest fires…
H is for Heroic: Harry sticks by his morals and has a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong. When he firmly believes that an injustice has occurred, he will do anything necessary to set things in order. After he discovered that Sirius Black, the man who he once thought to have killed his parents, was actually innocent and was going to have his soul sucked out of him by the dementors at any moment, Harry was dead-set on saving Black’s life, no matter what the risks. "’Get on— there 's…