The Fire Breather By Garrett Morgan

Thesis: In the short stories The Charmer, Love Must Not Be Forgotten, and The Address, one’s past experiences have a profound effect on their development as an individual.

Puritans and reformers of seventeenth century England have been given a bad name for their part in history. This is primarily because they were working against the grain and trying to create change in world that saw change as a threat. The time period was turbulent and there was bound to be resistance in a world that was dominated by Catholics and those that had reformed to abide by their King’s law. The puritans of the time were considered extreme and rubbed people the wrong way because they wanted a world that abided by their morals and ethical codes. For this, they took the blame for the misery that many suffered during this age, but as we see in Fire from Heaven, this is not a fair assessment. The Puritans of this time wanted to improve the lives of the people and society as a whole through morality and purity.

"The Charmer" by Budge Wilson is a short story about a Canadian family that finds misfortune and conflict within their lives. Conflict being the predominant theme which directly affects all the participants in the family. The story is written in third person and narrated from the young girl Winifred's point of view. Budge Wilson uses Zack's smothered childhood, charming personality and irresponsible behaviour to create emotional conflict between members of the family.

Later in 1912, Morgan developed another invention. This invention was much different from his hair straightener. Morgan called it a Safety Hood and patented it as a Breathing Device, but the world would later come to know it as a Gas Mask. The Safety Hood consisted of a hood worn over someone’s head. A tube stemmed from this hood reaching the ground and allowing in clean air. The bottom of the tube was lined with a sponge type material that would help to filter incoming air. Another tube allowed the user to exhale air out of the device. Morgan intended the device to be used in fighting fires. He wanted it to help firemen enter houses thick with smoke and breathe freely for some time.

The poem Fifteen by William Stafford, describes the ideas of a young teenager and imaginations when he sees a motorcycle at the side of the rail, It tells us of how the main character gets familiar with adulthood and starts getting mature, it gives us changes. The author in his poem describes the ideas and temptations that a fifteen year old would have, and it gives us a message of how when you are blinded of your teenage dreams, at the same time to take and decide the correct paths and decisions.

Discuss how your investigation of the generic conventions of poetry has influenced your understanding of at least one poem that you have studied in this unit.

The author of Green Gulch conveys that when in a group, one can be overwhelmed by pressure that brings them to savage extremes. After being lost, a young boy joins a group of kids he has never seen before. The group is nice and offers to bring the boy home. They stop at a sanctuary of a pond. There is a turtle in the pond that is violently murdered by the boys after one decides to throw a rock. Then, the group turns on the new boy. They beat him maliciously and leave him stranded on the road to get home. As, the boy look backs he can’t think of what went wrong, “They stood in a little group watching me, nervous now, ashamed a little at the ferocious pack impulse toward the outsider that had swept them.” Obvious from the boys’ reactions, it was the fault of the group impulse. After the murder of turtle, the adrenaline and riot of the group caused them to turn on the next vulnerable target. They were not acting as they should have, and the realize that afterwards. They were nervous. Even though there is not immediately an adult around, they are nervous because society has conditioned them to behave. They are also ashamed. The shame shows that they are nice boys. They feel bad. This shows that the vicious group mind set was so strong that it came over there good personalities and conscious. However, there is only this slight remorse after the fact. This does not make up for the brutal murder and beating that they had dealt. Being in a group turned them into

Throughout time there was a large number of the world's most well-known creators just delivered one noteworthy innovation that earned recognition and established their status. Be that as it was, Garret Augustus Morgan, one of the nation's best African-American inventors that made two very important things; the gas mask and the street light, among many other things. Garrett Augustus Morgan was African American male was born on March 4, 1877 in a small town in Kentucky called Paris. He was born unto two former slaves; Sydney Morgan and Eliza Reed. With him being born in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to previous slaves, Garrett A. Morgan only received up to a formally instructed to a 6th grade level education. Even though he only received a small amount of education, he

After two years of experimenting and helping himself to the manuscript and studies of scholars, he was finally to create the electric light bulb. He knew society would profit from this invention but was unsure of how to share this with society since being in the tunnel was breaking the rules. His best bet, according to him, was to show his idea to the scholars. While working on his

In this essay I intend to explore the narrative conventions and values, which Oliver Smithfield presents in the short story Victim. The short story positions the reader to have negative and sympathetic opinion on the issues presented. Such as power, identity and bullying. For example Mickey the young boy is having issues facing his identity. It could be argued that finding your identity may have the individual stuck trying to fit in with upon two groups.

America’s answer for dealing with crime prevention is locking up adult offenders in correctional facilities with little rehabilitation for reentry into society. American response for crime prevention for juvenile’s offenders is the same strategy used against adult offenders taken juvenile offenders miles away from their environment and placed in adult like prisons.

This applied theory paper will analyze both the macro and micro analysis of the Novel, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman (Fadiman, 1997). In the book “The Spirit Catches You and Falls Down”, the character Lia illness resulted in a cultural divide between the Hmong culture and the American culture. Throughout this paper both the conflict theory and the family systems theory will be used to examine themes of behaviors among the characters in the text. The family and medical team use the applications of a number of different social work theories to navigate through her illness implementing a number of different strategies to nurse her to health. The author Fadiman explores the Lee’s family

Comparably, Ooka Shohei also utilizes theatrical effects in his story as a tool to convey unconventional themes such as cannibalism that happened among Japanese troops oversea. Ooka is a survivor-author with personal experience of war’s dehumanizing nature when he was drafted abroad to the Philippines during the Pacific War. Thus, his work, “Fire on the Plain,” which serves the therapeutic purpose as Ooka recovered from wartime trauma, is somewhat based on his direct experiences. However, the book reads more like a fictional account of the war by focusing on the psychological turmoil. When working on provoking readers’ sympathy with the agony suffered by Japanese soldiers stranded in an unfamiliar land, Ooka has to overcome the problem of possibly

Garret Morgan died in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 27, 1963 at the age of 86. Before his death Mr. Morgan didn’t just invent thing he also supported the African-American community by donating to black colleges, creating the Cleveland Association of Colored Men a group dedicated to help improve economic and social conditions in the black community, created and launched the African-American newspaper known as the Cleveland Call, found the all black country club Wakeman Country Club and became a member of Antioch Baptist Church. He was awarded with a gold medal by the International Association of Fire Chiefs for his safety device that was replicated during world war one to save the life’s of soldiers and the life’s firefighters in America and around

Did you know that the inventor of the gas mask once used it to save the lives of over twenty miners who got trapped in a smoke filled mine? The earliest war they were used in is the familiar World War I! If you’ve ever wondered about gas masks, then you’ve come to the right place. This paper will tell you all about the gas mask and one of its inventors, Garrett A. Morgan. You see, many people created what is considered a gas mask, but the most well known, even though he isn’t very well known he’s still the most well known, is Garrett A. Morgan. So let’s talk about some interesting facts about the Gas Mask and its inventor!