Sacred Fire: A Short Story

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In the book Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian, Vahan and his untroubled and carefree life is flipped upside down when some Gendarmes kill both of his older brother right in front of him. All of Vahan’s race are being killed and Vahan has to go off and leave his mother with his brother Sisak and start their own new life on the run. Vahan quickly realizes life if much different without everything being given to you. Vahan’s father, Sarkis, and his brother Sisak taught Vahan to push through the hard times, always have hope, and to stay strong. With the advice given to Vahan by his father and brother, Vahan was able to gain strength and courage to push through the hard times, even when everything seemed hopeless and unbearable.

In A World Lit Only By Fire, William Manchester explains why he started to write this book, when he began writing due to an illness, and how he was too weak to move but not to write. Manchester had decided to branch out from his usual american history book, and begun to write about Magellan, a european explorer, inspired by other explorers like columbus and navigational, Vasco da gama. and the ¨portrait of age surrounding him”. Though Manchester only uses secondary sources to complete this book, it reviews the religion, education, exploration, and the philosophy of the 16th century. Manchester also describes the poverty, corruption, and violence of the dark ages. And finally, Manchester tells of how the reform acts as a hero of the time, bringing hope and prosperity to the middle ages.

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.

“Words of Fire,” by Anthony Collings, details the lives of different journalists in regards to free press and covering potentially dangerous stories. Anthony Collings is a former CNN reporter who shifted his focus from reporting to telling the story of journalists who have come under fire in a power struggle between government and free press. Collings puts free press into a spectrum, on one side there is the United States, where the press is largely free, and on the other side there are places like North Korea or China where press is largely restricted by the government. Collings does not focus on these extremes, but rather the places in the middle where there is an ongoing struggle between state power.

The Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates describes a sad and tragic story about a man named Nat Turner who was born into slavery and his fight to be free. Ironically, his willingness to do anything, even kill, to gain his freedom leads to his own demise. From the title of this book, 'The Fires of Jubilee,'; a reader can truly grasp the concept that there is trouble, chaos, and mayhem brewing in the month of August.

19. Magellan's discovery of the Philippines was significant because it proved the world was round.

A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester is not only informative of the conflicts that occurred in Europe, but it is humorous and includes perspectives and anecdotes that are not viewed as impartial. It is structured into three separate sections: The Medieval Mind, The Shattering and One Man Alone.

In the book A World Lit Only by Fire, the author, William Manchester, describes the period of time between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the start of the Renaissance known as the medieval period, or Middle Ages. The church had the most power in Europe and people struggled with surviving events such as epidemics. Consequently people had very short lives that may have not served them well. Every person in Europe during this time would eventually hear, “Bring out your dead!” as the gravediggers’ carts rolled down the street each night after an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague. Life during the medieval period was brutal and harsh with everything from church domination and the constant warring over political power to diseases and

Ilan Stavans says that Juan Rulfo’s book, The Plain in Flames, is best represented by the phrase realismo crudo. Stavans defines this phrase as “a type of realism interested in the rawness of life”, meaning that he characterizes Rulfo’s writing as an unfiltered view into the lives of the average Mexican (Stavans, xi). By writing in this style, Rulfo is able to provide “an image—instead of just a description—of our landscape” as stated by Octavio Paz (xv). To create this image, Rulfo broke his story writing the process down into three separate steps. As paraphrased by Ilan Stavans, the first step “is to create a character”, the second step “is to place him in an environment where he might move around” and the third step “is to discover how the character expresses himself” (xiii). Rulfo was able to repeatedly crafted stories that were filled with high levels of realismo crudo by using that special three-step process. By creating his protagonist, crafting an environment for said protagonist, and allowing the character to express themselves within this environment, Rulfo crafted a three-tier image of post-revolutionary life in Mexico that has never been seen before.

Steven Pressfield's The Gates of Fire is set in the fifth century B.C. in Greece. The story revolves around the famous battle of Thermopylae where three hundred Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of Persians, saving Greece. Pressfield creates a fictional story around the battle where one man, a squire named Xeones, survives to tell the Spartan story of the battle and the events preceding it. Xeones, who is the protagonist, tells his life story to the royal Persian historian while in captivity. This life history of Xeones constitutes the body of the book.

It was an ordinary day in the Aztec village. Farmers were farming, servants were serving, and the ruler was ruling. Everyone including King Maverick hailed the golden mountain. Everyone pleased it, so it wouldn’t erupt. The mountain never erupted, this tells us that the Aztec village was caring and giving. Until one day which is today.” I am getting older.” Said the mountain. “ What do you want us to do? Answered King Maverick“I WANT ETERNAL LIFE.” SAID the golden mountain. King Maverick offered human sacrifices. This made the mountain more upset. A giant hole opened atop the mountain. THIS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE . Lava and magma was shooting out. Everyone was screaming. Everyone ran to King Maverick’s temple.

“To Build a Fire” is a short story written by Jack London. It is viewed as a masterpiece of naturalist fiction. “To Build a Fire” features a miner who is traveling to the Yukon Territory with a dog as his companion. The miner is the protagonist and the dog companion is called the foil. The dog plays off of the traits of the protagonist. “The central motif of “To Build a Fire” concerns the struggle of man versus nature.” (Short Story Criticism) The most argued point in the short story is the reason of the protagonist death. “Some critics believe that it was his lack of intuition and imagination that lead to his death, while others say that he dies because of panic.” (Short Story Criticism) The protagonist in “To Build a Fire” struggles in

Due to the location and content, it is not immediately threatening - despite the danger of the foreground’s infernal fire. Deforestation and drought in Senegal are terrible for its inhabitants, but poses no immediate threat to the Western world, especially the 16,000 kilometers removed Aotearoa. Withdrawing our eyes, from The Prophecy’s (Fig. 2) grasp we are emancipated, and the image becomes obscure; suppressed in the subconscious. With resumption to our preconceived (perhaps now altered) ideologies, the geographical detachment has rendered this visual text somewhat useless. However, the content has instilled that climate change and its causes are not natural occurrences. This is

Mysterio threw the first punch, it went straight threw it. It was 100% water. It counted with a devastating punch to the chest, Mysterio went flying back into a billboard. Straight after the punch, Mysterio’s armour expanded out of nowhere making it obnoxiously harder to operate. Mysterio flew back to the entity. This time Mysterio dodged the incoming punch but then, the entity disappeared in a blink of a second, it was on the city road. Mysterio said to himself “This thing just dodged a punch that no one had ever been able to escape.” Shaniqua rang she said “This thing it’s called Bertha it came a planet called Pluto and as you know it turns to ice, to kill Bertha you have to grab or have your arm somewhere near its chest or arms and it supposedly would shatter.” Mysterio was ready to defeat this entity. Bertha again was again in front of Mysterio, Mysterio was ready to strike back, this time Bertha came in for the punch, like Shaniqua said He put his arms out in front making Bertha in water form punch, it went ice form and its right arm shattered into pieces. After that first punch the it went for another punch, this time with much more force and anger. Mysterio reacted in a matter of seconds he had blocked the punch and shattered the left arm. Bertha had teleported away this time far far away. Berk knew that Bertha would come back. Berk hoped that the world could learn from this act that you don’t need to save the world to be