It has all happened so stupidly, to my mind: one moment, Powel standing there, brushing from off his helmet the chalk-dust which has turned his face and stiff overcoat prematurely grey; suddenly, a shout from a welder a few stories up, a falling steel beam, and Powel stretched out on the concrete, his head split cleanly - segmented like a grapefruit. So stupid; there is no sense in feeling shocked or dismayed about it. You take your helmet off for five seconds and someone drops a steel beam on your head. We none of us knew Powel well. I was as close a friend to him as any man on the building site, and I didn't have any strong feelings for him. He was a difficult man; he had to provoke people. No doubt he didn't do it deliberately, but he …show more content…
There wasn't much of the Dobostorte left in any case, not enough to go around, so Brian beat Powel up, made him promise to bring more tomorrow, sent him home with his ear and his tongue bleeding and a couple of his teeth missing. He never took much of an interest in his work. I asked him what professional work he had done in Russia and he say "construction work, the same as here", so I suppose that he was merely lazy. His wife had been a professional cook but now she looked after the children. Two children, identical twins - both girls. He was always complaining about the twins. They used to run cat hair through his comb to make him think he was going bald, or turn on the washing machine while he was listening to the radio so that it would pick up and amplify the electrical signal. He would complain to his wife and she would tell him off for not being more assertive. Somehow their duplicity always frightened him, he would tell me; they were uncanny, there was some supernatural quality about them - something primitive or taboo. I used to think it was hilarious - he would work all day and be teased and taunted by a gang of men, then he'd go home and the teasing and the nagging would start up again, this time from a gang of women. On the train, he used to tell me, he could relax. On the train, to and from work - an hour and a half in each direction from Frankston to the central business district, another fifteen minutes by tram if
When he walked in to the office, the councilor, Caleb, greeted him and asked him to sit. Caleb was a seven foot tall old retired policemen who went blind a few years back. When Brian sat down, Caleb wanted to know about him. Caleb heard of him as “The boy who lived in the woods”. So Brian told Caleb about himself and the wilderness. Once Brian told Caleb about nature and how it was self defense about the fight, Caleb agreed that there was nothing wrong with him, but wanted Brian to come everyday so that he could tell him more about the wilderness. Brian agreed and came
Silverline Construction Ltd built a school. Shortly after completion, when Emma was walking by, several roof tiles slipped from the roof and smashed on the ground in front of Emma. Flying debris hit Emma causing serious facial injuries and concussion. Emma could not carry out her job for 6 months, due to her injuries and was scared to leave the house for several weeks following the incident.
Early on in the memoir, Wiesel has a very strong faith for a young boy. He states, “I was twelve. I believed profoundly” (Wiesel 1). His faith is established early on in order to make a great contrast between his faith in the beginning versus the end of the memoir. Before he is deported, Wiesel wants to study the Cabbala and become a master in Jewish mysticism. He finds a master, Moshe the Beadle, to teach him. The teaching does not last long; however, before Moshe is deported and sent to be killed. Moshe’s stories are the first glimpse of the cruelty and dehumanization that is to come later on in the memoir. Wiesel states, “Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners” (4). The Gestapo show little to no emotion when killing these deportees, which shows how they view them as inhuman. The people of Sighet do not believe Moshe’s warning, and pass him off as just wanting attention. Their faith in humanity and their God allow them to have hope, and they do not believe that any of his stories are real nor could happen to them. However, their faith is proven wrong and
For the mass majority of Wiesel’s tale he questioned God. The emotion associated with this part of the book is anger. Anger is an intense emotion, but it is a secondary emotion made by the combination of one or more primary emotion. Sadness and grief can lead to anger, along with helplessness and confusion. These are all emotion Wiesel felt, but he was powerless needed an outlet that wouldn’t get him killed. Who else to blame but the all righteous god Wiesel states, “Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (45). Ceasing to pray does not raise suspicion for most people, but Wiesel would cry while praying just because it felt right to him and spend lots of time at the synagogue. He went on a rant after a ‘officiating’ inmate said “Blessed be the Almighty…” the entire paragraph can be summed up very well in its last two sentences, “Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine Altar?” (67). Wiesel believed in God’s existence there is no doubt about that. Wiesel asked question to God but God didn’t answer because he wasn’t there, that is what angered Wiesel. His questions turned into accusations to a well defended guilty party. Wiesel stated “ I was the accuser, God the accused.” (68).
Anton Chekhov hardly restrained from writing the dreary aspects of life during his writing career. Noted as one of Russia’s most prominent realist writers of the late 19th century, Chekhov’s work ranged from critical issues concerning the mental health system in “Ward No.6” to illustrating the tiresome cycle occurring for ordinary people sensing they are incomplete with their dull, normal life in “The Lady with the Dog.” “The Lady with the Dog,” in particular portrays characters of Chekhov’s facing an unreachable desire; Gurov and Anna. This desire emulates two contrasting forces represented by the double-lives the couple lives, one being that of realism and boredom, and the other of strict passion and romanticism. Gurov and “the lady with
Brian couldn't survive without food so he had to go hunting he made a small bow and arrow. With sticks and string from the survival pack and sharpened rocks to make the arrow heads and he would kill small birds and rabbits. But that bow wasn't getting the food that he needed cause he only hit the animals half the time and sometimes it didn't kill the animals. So he made a bigger and better bow and this he could barely pole back and with that he killed a deer and a moose but the moose didn't die and
At 12:01, with the echo of the last bell lingering in the air, the one-hundred pounds of dynamite hidden in the wagon exploded (Andrews, 2014). Shrapnel encompassed the immediate area; people were dropping everywhere. The structures nearby shook as the shock wave slammed through the exterior walls. The cloth awnings that overlooked the streets burst into flames (Bellows, 2007). Next, came a rain shower of glass that drenched the streets from the shattered windows. Nearby, World War I veterans experienced a scene of devastation very similar to that of the battlefields. They initially suspected that cause of such destruction had come from the skies (King, 2011). One witness wrote, “ It was a crash out of a blue sky, an unexpected, death dealing bolt which in a twinkling turned into a shamble the busiest corner of Americas financial center” (Gage 2002).
A secondary school child could explain a test on the subject of dormancy, effect, and influence of the huge crashes on the two 107-stories WTC 1 and WTC 2 that brought about the breakdown of the 50-stories WTC 7. The other four towers were so little it would have been impossible shake brutally enough to fall. The basic truth was that the crashes of the two planes with the upper parts of WTC 1 and WTC 2 were seen by numerous individuals and recorded on features. In that capacity, the effect from impacts at the upper part of the towers must be calculated into the reenactment, for its total power of effect, its influence on shearing the base of the structures, and its warm impact in starting the falling breakdown. Tower 7 was both sufficiently high to catch more prominent vibration than each other tower and sufficiently close to be completely overwhelmed in fiery remains, garbage, and
Most sports-related head injuries, such as concussions which is temporarily interference with the way the brain works are mild and allow for complete recovery. However, concussion in children can pose serious health. Therefore, as an MA I would explain a pediatric patient with a potential concussion during their visit, if there is any activity they could perform or not, and how long it will take time to heal their concussion. In addition, as the MA I will explain the risk concussion, and it symptoms.
Wiesel’s faith was shaken by the cruelty and evilness he witnessed during
I personally think that the closest real world example that could relate to this incident is 9/11. Minus the fact that it was a terrorist attack and could possibly have been an inside job, it is another example of a surprise attack that occurred with out warning that killed about 3,000 people and injured 6,000 more. It also had the effect of collateral damage because when the buildings collapsed, chunks of steal rebar and concrete fell crushing people.
The sun was nowhere to be found the dark clouds combined with ash and smoke blotted out any form of light, destruction was everywhere. Wheat fields were ravaged by fires, and towns were reduced to rubble. The ground that was once dark brown soil was now churned into large masses of mud filled with the stench of death. In the mud trenches and foxholes were dug in which many men inhabited, not by choice but out of pure necessity.
Phineas Gage was a railroad worker in the 1800's who was working on blowing up the side of the mountain. This process involved drilling a hole into a rock, filling it with blasting powder, then putting sand on top of the powder before packing it down with an iron rod. One day, Phineas Gage forgot to put sand in the hole, so when he started packing it with the iron rod, it reacted with the blasting powder and created a spark. This caused the iron rod to rocket upward towards Phineas Gage. The explosion drove the iron rod through Phineas Gage's head, entering underneath his left cheekbone, going through the left frontal area of his brain, and exiting through the midline of his head. To everybody's surprise, he survived the extreme injury and
He was sitting on the base talking with a good friend of his when suddenly there was a large impact next to him that made him jump. A boom from a crane had fallen and crushed his friend’s skull. He describes it as “an inch and a half thick”.
Dmitri, before he loved Anna, was a dog, one who looked down on women and only thought of the pleasures and benefits he could receive from them. Stuck in an unhappy marriage with his wife to the point that he, “did not like to be at home” (Chekhov, 62). Dmitri, though enjoys the company of women, he acknowledged that “he could not get on for two days together without ‘the lower race’” (Chekhov, 62), the “lower race” referencing women. Consequently, this disgust of his own wife and desire for women causes Dmitri to cheat, “He had begun being unfaithful to her long ago -- had been unfaithful to her often” (Chekhov, 62). Dmitri liked to keep all his affairs simple and amusing, whenever one would begin to be too much work and/or unbearable, he would drop it and proceed to the next one. Though Dmitri is quite an observant person he would focus on the