The Locomotive Firefighters 's Magazine By William Graham Sumner

Matthew E. Barnes was a firefighter who could be called many things including a hero, a friend, a husband, a father and even an angel. The story begins like many 9/11 stories do, with the planes being hijacked, he was one of the men working that day in the New York City Fire Department that would go into the World Trade Center, but would never come out. The 37-year old resident of Monroe, New York was a father to three boys and the husband to Ms. Susan Barnes; he would spend all his available time with his family, somehow slipping out of chores and such just to go fishing with his boys. Two years before the 9/11 he had saved two twins, Isabella and Jacob Kalodner from a fire in their mother, Linda Kalodner’s apartment, by climbing up a 100-foot aerial ladder to the 10th story to save the 6 week old twins.

“A Liberal Education” Analysis Thomas Henry Huxley’s “A Liberal Education [A Game of Chess]” is an essay that subtly advocates Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection. Huxley forms conclusions on how education should be based on the ideas encompassed in evolutionary naturalism. He begins “A Liberal Education” with a question directed towards the reader. Soon after, he answers the question using illustrative metaphors and unambiguous phraseology.

Through the 1920s, conflicts regarding the teachings of religious values versus Evolution, along with the increasing fight for women’s independence, caused a great deal of tension within America. Prior to the ‘20s schools taught the Bible and Christianity’s principles were stressed. It was in 1925 when Clarence Darrow defended John Scopes, a biology teacher, who was put on trial in the court for teaching the theory of Evolution (Doc C). This document illustrates the dialogue of

The story first starts off with the narrator telling about his relations with Dick Prosser. Dick Prosser is the Shepperton’s new Negro man. He goes on to tell about all the things that he knows and what Dick teaches him and his friends. From what he hears, Dick was an army man who is recently discharged and looking for work. Not only can Dick cook, clean, and drive but he is also highly skilled in many areas. He is so skilled that he could chop wood in symmetry; each piece being the same size and length. He teaches the narrator and his friends’ thing such as how to throw a ball, shoot a gun, make a fire, kick a ball, and also box. From the narrator point of view, Dick is the idea role model. The children adored him along with many others. No one thought that he could go wrong.

There are many areas in the fire service where potential lawsuits and liability can arise; some of these areas include, but are most definitely not limited to negligence, hazing, and not following the fire department’s SOPs/SOGs. As our society has changed, so has its expectations of those in emergency services—while many in the community may think of firefighters as the pinnacle of what an upstanding citizen must look like, there are countless moral and ethical pitfalls that firefighters can fall prey to and diminish the reputation of the fire service.

One day Dick made a friend named Frank. Frank is different than Dick, he is not poor he was born into a life of comfort. Franks Uncle Mr. Whitley, who Dick looks up to because he represents Dick’s aspirations in both money and status. Mr. Whiteley gave Dick one of his nephew’s suits and that completely changed Dick’s socioeconomic rank. From the moment Dick get the grey suit from Mr. Whitley and gets cleaned up not only does he receive better treatment, but in a scene where he and Frank are accused of stealing something on a train, they are acquitted because they did not look like the type of kids that would need to steal. Dick implies that clothes really do make the man, who is largely determined by what one wears, that although appearances matter in Alger 's world, it 's ultimately inner virtues like honesty, generosity, and courage that defines one’s self and its potential. Looks can be deceiving. When Dick has his suit on he is not known as Ragged Dick anymore. The bank officer ends up calling him richard hunter. He said that Dick did not look ragged. Now that he is dressing nice it is bringing him more attention in a positive way. In the poor parts of the streets he is known as Ragged Dick, but when he is around people of a higher social class. He calls himself  Richard Hunter. For example after church he was talking to miss Ida  "What is your name? asked Ida, pleasantly. Our hero was about to answer Ragged Dick, when it occurred to him that in the present

The Chicago fire was a huge part of our history. We can never forget about the Chicago fire because it changed how some people lived. The Chicago fire affected people in many ways. Many people had an idea about how the fire started, where it started and who caused it. It took years to rebuild what had been destroyed, the effect of the chicago fire was remarkable.

The first cavalry of wildland firefighters began in August 1886 led by Captain Moses Harris from Troop M. When he took command of the group at Yellowstone National Park, their job was to manage and protect the park.The cavalry remained there for the next 32 years. Quickly after the group's arrival, they immediately began fighting wildfires all around the park. Here emerged the first group of wildland firefighters to be paid for their service. Workers began to apply new regulations, including campfire restrictions when deemed absolutely necessary. These regulations are known as NFPA’s which is an acronym for National Fire Protection Association.

The Great Chicago Fire, October 1871, October 10 of 1871 destroyed thousands of buildings, killed 300 people burned till october 10th 1871, and caused an estimated of $200 million in damages. The fire started at night in a barn owned by Patrick O’Leary and his wife Catherine . Legend says that a cow kicked a lit lantern which that started the fire. The fire burn through 9th of October speeding at 160 kilometers an hour. The fire destroyed 3.3 square miles of Chicago it burned for two days. It left than 100,000 homeless, it killed hundreds of people because of the fire. The fire was on the 8th of October 1871, the fire was going to fast and the fire killed to many people like hundred of people and destroyed thousands of buildings that costs

Written by Horatio Alger, in the late 1800's, hit upon the most important topic in America at the time; the "American Dream." The "American Dream," being the idea that everyone, from all walks of life, can come to America and be successful, in any way in which they want to, so long as they have hard work and determination to do so. Ragged Dick for filling this "Dream" by making his way up in society, and eventually making a wealthy man of himself. The first was that fact that no one should give up. Through all of the hardships Dick was put through, including the loss of his parents, the misfortune of receiving no education, and the fact that he lived on his own for most of his life. Another important topic that was covered, was that hard work pays off. In Dick's case, he worked hard at a boot-black, treated people with respect, and finally caught a break from his hard work, by receiving a high paying job. The kind of people that would enjoy this story would be people of all ages. No matter what age, or what level of education one may be, this story teaches lessons that anyone can benefit from. It doesn't matter if a twelve year old boy, or a fifty year old woman picked up "Ragged Dick," because they will both benefit from what the story speaks about. I think it is a heroic act to set up dream and tend to achieve it, because there is a fine line between a dreamer and a successful person. A dreamer is a person that day dreams without the aim of act towards it. But a heroic person like what we have in the novel of Ragged Dick is that he worked so hard and started from a very simple job a shoe shiner to finding a job to earning more money helping himself to become a successful

Although Darwin’s (1809-1882) work in evolutionary observation might appear radically different from those focused on other areas, the theories he developed from these observation lead to such groundbreaking publishing’s as The Origin of Species. These intern caused an upset within the then accepted norms of philosophy and religion, had a profound impact on the academia, and further

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection, a scientific theory that supported the belief of evolution, was manipulated and applied to different areas of life, and thus it became the shaping force in European thought in the last half of the nineteenth century. Darwin, through observation of organisms, determined that a system of natural selection controlled the evolution of species. He found that the organisms that were most fit and assimilated to the environment would survive. They would also reproduce so that over time they would eventually dominate in numbers over the organisms with weaker characteristics. This new theory was radical and interesting to the scientific world but its effects reach far beyond this small institution of

In the journal “Beyond Individual Resilience”, the author David Osher discusses how Ragged Dick was written when the belief in Social Darwinism was on the rise. He states that the theory was based on the success of the upper class, and the failures of the lower classes, but “Alger’s novels suggested instead that poor individuals with the right genetic makeup would, with luck, escape poverty and rise to the top.”

It is impossible for the minor characters in Ragged Dick to have a fair chance at being recognized as decent members of society because of the emphasis Horatio Alger Jr. places on Dick Hunter. The better qualities of Dick are constantly being reminded to the reader, giving them little room to disagree with Alger’s heroic portrayal of him. Horatio Alger Jr.’s preference to homosexuality also reflects his choice in excluding any useful female characters in his novel. Minor characters lack understanding from readers because information surrounding them is absent, causing them to be judged on face value alone.

In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, introducing the theory of evolution. One hundred and fifty-six years later, scientists still accept this senseless philosophy. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay states, “Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized out of some primordial soup” (Snyder). Schools worldwide have presented exactly this to the young, impressionable minds of your future doctors, engineers, scientists, and presidents. They assure us that if we give a small amount of mud enough time it can, by itself, bring about the art of da Vinci, the plays of Shakespeare, the music of Mozart, and the brilliant mind of Einstein.