A Fierce Green Fire Summary

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KYLE P-ROLE PLAY- Man guys those soldiers really have it tough. I just saw a 12 year old boy on the confederacy side fighting in the civil war. The life of being a soldier turned out to be way different than I expected. We don’t even have enough food and medicine for us to live.

Vahan and his family are caught in the middle of the Armenian Genocide. In the book, Forgotten Fire, by Adam Bagdasarian, Sarkis Kendrian is a well respected Armenian mandarin of the city of Bitlis with several children and very little to worry about. That, of course, was until the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. Just after the beginning of it, multiple military personnel showed up at the front door of the home of Sarkis. They said he was wanted by the government and even though he knew that was not true he went with it. He, along with many other men from his town, were taken into the streets where they were killed. Shortly after, two of Vahan’s older brothers were taken behind the house and killed as well. This left the mother, Vahan, and his sisters and brother on their own as they were taken by the military along with many other members

Forgotten Fire is a novel written by Adam Bagdasarian. Bagdasarian wrote Forgotten Fire in 2000. Bagdasarian is considered a great youth author. “Adam Bagdasarian is an Armenian American writer for teenagers and young adults. His first novel, Forgotten Fire, became a National Book Award Finalist ” (Goodreads, 2017). Bagdasarian wrote this book for the readers to understand what it was like for Armenian people in Europe in 1900. Forgotten Fire is a tragedy filled non-fiction novel based off the true story of Vahridj Kenderian travels through the Armenian holocaust.

Throughout the 16th century, as there was a demographic collapse of the indigenous population, there was now a new demand for slave labor in Latin America. In Brazil, the Portuguese needed a large workforce to cultivate sugar plantations. As a result, numerous slaves from Africa were imported to work on large plantation fields. In various plantations, rural slaves experienced harsh working and living conditions. Few slaves had a high life expectancy. Robert Edgar Conrad in “Children of God’s Fire,” shares some primary sources that dealt with the types of environments and conditions many slaves faced and encountered in Brazil. The sources also gave insight into the regulations and economics/business of the slave trade. Conrad states that rural Brazil was “a hell for blacks” (Conrad 54). Many slaves dealt with extremely harsh conditions just to keep the European market in Latin American growing and profitable. This paper will analyze how rural slaves lived and worked on Brazilian sugar plantations.

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Gates of Fire By: Steven Pressfield Subject Person- Spartan Warriors Place- Greece 480 B.C. Event- Battle of Thermoplae. Concept- Xeones recounts his life leading up to the battle. Object- Greek city-states consisting of 300 Spartan Warriors, 400 Thebans, 700 Thespian Volunteers And around 900 Helots Fought The Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae. Reason For Choosing Book Prior to reading this novel I had some knowledge of the Battle of Thermopylae. I watched the movie 300last year and it is based on the battle of Thermopylae and the lifestyle of the Spartan Warriors. Summary Gates of Fire tells the story of a young Greek boy, Xeones, who is the sole Hellenic survivor of the epic battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. After

Not much thought went into the well being of the earth in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Dumping toxic waste into waters and being overrun with garbage was just a regular. There was not much thought on the effects these things would have on the environment . In 1970 people started realizing that the planet is suffering and changes were being made. For example Earth day was created and multiple acts were passed to preserve our water and land from waste. Before people would dump toxic waste into waterways causing pollution to natural habitats. Also occurrences like the oil spills, there was about 19 that happened in the 1970-1980’s. Oils spills were difficult to clean up and usually took 20 years to get all of the oil out of the water. When our toxic waste or accidents end up in the environment the whole animal ecosystem is ruined. In the book Offred mentions how there are no more plastic bags. The reason for this is because they cannot be recycled. When Offred makes a trip to the market she mentions how “not many

Recently, a contractor working for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unintentionally released 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste into the Animas River in the Mountain West state of Colorado. Right now, people in the US are debating the efficacy of the EPA (the right-wing is using the spill as anti-government propaganda) and the noxious aftermath the spill will undoubtedly have on local economies, communities and ecosystems.

Fields of Fire by James Webb is a historical novel first published in 1978 that takes place in the year 1969 during the Vietnam War. Although there are many characters that are significant to the story, the novel focuses mainly on three marines who find themselves in a platoon with each other; Robert E. Lee Hodges, “Snake,” and Will “Senator” Goodrich. Webb gives the reader a great, detailed background of each of these characters through a combination of both direct and indirect characterization. As the novel progresses, major events that occur include battle and violence, loss and coping, and learning. The themes that naturally

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is a short story about a man traveling through the Alaskan Yukon to meet up with his friends for lunch. The author keeps the character nameless and refers to him only as “The Man” which is used to show a connection between humanity and nature. The story shows the hardships the man goes through to get to his destination through the Alaskan Yukon, yet unfortunately doesn’t make it. The conflict is a man versus nature theme which contrasts strong and direct relations of the hardships in nature. Throughout this analysis, I am going to explore the conflict between the man and the merciless nature he has to go through before his death.

In Fahrenheit 451 the fire is shown to reveal a certain character in the book. Most of the society wants all the books to burn and thinks that everyone should be equal. One certain character that fire has a big impact on symboling is Beatty. Beatty said, “Now, Montag, you’re a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later” (Bradbury 109).

This is a report compiled by Musawenkosi Nkabinde a student at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University while conducting practicals in the kingdom of Swaziland at a company called Montigny Forest Products. It is a company of about plus minus 75 000 hacters where a variety of species are planted e.g. Pinus elliote, Patula, Taeda, Pexq, Eucalyptus Smithii, dannai etc. All these are planted for different products dominating one being the production of planks which means the company keeps many of its trees for many years till they mature.

“Stop taking my floaty you hobo!” I yelled with my face not two inches from my cousin's ear.

Starting in the 1970s, people of the United States began to fight for the protection of all living things and their habitats, as they saw the damage that the rapidly growing economy was having on the environment. This is shown through various events and acts