We Didn T Start The Fire, By Billy Joel

Could you pull of a guise of love in order to not only save your life but also stop an upcoming rebellion? In this astonishing book, Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, this is exactly what Katniss and Peeta have to accomplish with the help of their close friend Haymitch. The failure of this task will lead to an epic adventure through out the land leading to an insane twist ending that nobody could have scene coming.

People generally like to stay in their comfort zone, they do not like changes. However, change is a necessary part of life, we see change in nature every day. Change can be positive or negative. We can choose to embrace the change or reject it, we also can choose to allow the change to have a negative or positive impact on our lives. Helmstetter lists six steps when dealing with change. First to recognize the change, then to decide if you are going to accept or reject the change. The next step is to choose your attitude toward the change, then choose how you are going to deal with it and what actions you are going to take. The last step is to evaluate your progress of accepting the change (Lamberton and Minor, 2012)

In the song “We didn´t start the fire” Billy Joel does a summary of the most relevant events that took place between 1949 and 1989. The events mentioned in the song include political, cultural, and historical events. Billy Joel´s generation was involved in these events mentioned in the song. His generation is blamed for all the conflicts that occurred in those forty years, when in reality, those conflicts have roots many generations in the past. He portrays the positive and negative effects his generation had in the world. In the positive side, they had advances in science and many cultural events. In the other hand, they were involved in dozens of conflicts all around the world that left misery and death. He emphasizes that many of the

“We Didn’t Start the Fire” is a song written by Billy Joel. The song's lyrics consist historical events, people, and other important things in history from 1949-1989 mainly around the Cold War. The Cold War was a major event in history that changed humanity forever. The song explains that the citizens going about their day aren’t responsible for the Major events going on in the world during this time. People around the world didn’t try to stop the fighting though. The Chorus of the song discusses the fact that nothing we have done in recent years is directly responsible for the problems with the world. The next line after that explains that every generation tries to fix the issues of the last generation and anything we try to fix won’t have

David Clay Large, Between Two Fires: Europe's Path in the 1930s (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990).

Society has been molded by a variety of influences upon it. Looking back in time, society has changed drastically within the recent years, and continues to change as time moves forward. Time creates history, and history is the recording of events that have brought an impact upon society. In the year of nineteen eighty-nine, Billy Joel, a musician, released the song, “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” The lyrics of this song name events that the majority of people knew and talked about in the time period those events happened. The musician put forty years of history into a song, starting from the year nineteen forty-nine of which he was born, and ending at nineteen eighty-nine when the song was written. The term “fire” is metaphorically used for

The phrase “We are carrying the fire” is important in this book as it symbolizes many messages, one of these messages is hope. I feel that this is an important message because it is the thing that keeps the two going, even when times are tough. An example this is when they are running low on food, and the boy asks if they would ever need to eat other humans. The man reassures him that they would not eat anybody else, then goes on to explain how they are the good people and they are indeed carrying the fire. This was one of the first times this phrase was used in the book, and possibly also the most important. I feel that this is one of the most important because it also shows the man’s philosophy of life and how he feels that even though the

One of the main reasons people do not respond to change well is because it ushers in a plethora of unknowns. People tend to fear the unknown since they do not know how it will affect their lives. Will I need to change jobs? Will I be required to move? Will I have to provide and care for someone? These

Change is constant in both our professional and our private lives. Our children grow up taking for granted things like powerful personal computers that we could not envision at their ages. The idea that human beings naturally resist change is deeply embedded in our thinking about change. Our language, our assumptions, and our mental models about change all seem to imply that something in our natures leads us to resist change. However, it is easy to find examples of human beings, from childhood on through old age, actively seeking out change of all sorts. Human beings do not necessarily resist change automatically; however, many people do resist being changed, i.e., having changes imposed on them.

I agree that change is an unavoidable event that people react to base on their temperaments and coping mechanisms. Some people, who are considered laggards and rejectors, might call this change as adversity. Mullins (2009) stated that it isn’t how much adversity we face in our lives, but how we face them. Do we let it overpower us? Or, do we embrace it? It is indeed the role of the change agent to recognize and understand that there are different responses to the change. The question now relies to what responses do we have to put our efforts in order for the change to be successful. Do we focus on the laggards and rejectors because they are the wall that hinder us from moving forward?

Written by Dylan Thomas, the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” was published in 1951, two years before his early death at age 39. Referred to as a villanelle, this poem contains five three lined stanzas and one four lined stanza. In the first stanza, the unrevealed speaker is telling an unknown person not to give into death peacefully, but to fight against it as he or she expresses, “rage, rage against the dying of the light” (line 3). In this first stanza, Thomas uses a metaphor to compare dying of the light to death. In the next stanza, the speaker acknowledges that “wise men” near death know that their death is inevitable because “their words had forked no lightning,” but still encourages them not to give into death (4-5).

Responses to Change Change, all humans are faced with change its inevitable. Change can come in many forms: Physical, emotional, unexpected, temporary, permanent. Everyone responds in many different ways. Some welcome the change while others avoid it at all costs.

Change—it’s something everyone hates and even more so when it affects a person’s way of life or career, and despite the resistance, things will always change.

To build a fire” written by Jack London is more of a primitive survival story where the protagonist tries not to freeze to death. It represents the battle of a man versus the nature. When I was reading the story I could feel my body possessed by the cold temperature just because of the way the author described it. The man was travelling with a dog, which was more conscious than him about the situation that they were living and how arduous it was going to be travelling in such conditions. “The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was no time for travelling.” (London) Phrase that suggests that animal was most self-conscious than the man, even smarter.

In English Class, I have to re-imagine that there’s a fire, and I need to decide what three things I would save in a fire that has meaning to me. My first thought was to save my family, but I have to choose an item that means a lot to me. Therefore, the three things I choose to save in the fire is the Holy Quran, a picture of my family, and all my headscarves.