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    primary shoe and retail shop for the city and nearby communities. Anyone who grew up around that time period in Dubois County has a knowledge or memory of shopping in the famous establishment. Over its 61 years in operation, Reising’s grew into a community standard in Jasper beginning in the early 1900s; overcoming relocation, expansion, and reconstruction, the hometown department store survived a tragic fire under the management of a father and his son before ultimately closing. Although no longer in

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    than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” In Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, a fireman named Montag changes his views on his society. The society he lives in starts the fire and burns books instead of extinguishing the fires and reading the books. Also, reading books is forbidden, and people spend their days watching tv. Although the rhetorical devices used throughout this book are exceptional, the themes are what makes Fahrenheit 451 so popular

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    energy released in burning completely one mole of substance. My hypothesis heading into this experiment was that the closer the flame was to the aluminum can, the higher the temperature/heat would be. This concept is pretty self-explanatory because fires are very hot and so if you put any object near a flame, the object will start to heat up. Setting up/completing this lab

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    The Screaming Fire Sirens start to yell, people are screaming, a fire has begun and my brother and mum are trapped. My mum starts to scream “Help me, help me,” but let’s go back to how it all began. As a kid, you must be curious, but for my brother, his curiosity got the best of him and it was not pretty. I think you can guess what happened next. Ding ding ding! If your guess has to do with matches, you are correct. What most people don’t know, is that you can burn in a fire for 7 hours of more;

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    Up until 8th grade I lived in Cambridge, a sketchy, gilded age-like city on the outskirts of Boston. I lived in the central part of Cambridge, sandwiched in between the affluent undergrads, graduate students, and post-doc families or Harvard or MIT, where all the run down housing projects were and where police cars and ambulances screamed past every night because they had gotten yet another drug overdose dispatch. I lived a rugged inner city life as a kid. As I walked to my bus stop every morning

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    Great Chicago Fire Essay

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    a dangerous fire destroyed most of the city of Chicago. Although it was a destructive fire, it made positive turning points in history. The Great Chicago Fire improved firefighting and new buildings which used fireproof material. After everything settled down, the tragedy united the people of Chicago together even though Mrs. O’Leary was unfairly blamed. The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration, which is an extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property. This fire burned from October

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    mostly like a fire outbreak would be on. Some reporters would say something like, ‘what we have here is a fire; Tom. It has mostly been still ongoing since 4:00 am this morning and it is a tragedy.’ Have you ever felt the presence of flames? Sure you have. If you've been to a BBQ, then you have felt the presence of the flames. You could feel the heat on your skin; though it isn't touching you, but it is so hot that it feels like you’re being burned. Imagine an enormous fire. Fires occur almost every

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    The Lord of the Flies is a novel that contains multiple symbols that reflect the actions of human nature. Some of these symbols include Piggy and his glasses, the signal fire, the conch shell, and the Lord of the Flies. Each symbol shows a different flaw or mistake the boys encounter throughout the novel. Piggy is one of the main characters in the novel. It is notable that he is also the only character who wears glasses. Because of his ideas and approach to different situations, he is seen as the

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    Power of Savagery In William Golding's Lord of the Flies the central and recurring theme, civilization vs savagery, is very evident and obvious. Throughout the novel, Golding associates civilization with good, while associating savagery with dark and evil. Due to the intense and driving force of the novel, civilization and savagery clash against each other as the novel progresses. Golding also lets the two main characters represent this theme. Ralph, the protagonist, represents leadership and has

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    Persuasive Essay

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    the vacation you are going to take next month and you hear a loud beeping noise. You don’t fully wake up because you think it’s something in your dream. When you finally come to the realization that the loud noise is the fire alarm, you see your husband trying to put clothes on and you go to wake your kids and gather outside at your safe place. When you go to your child’s door you perceive that she is trapped around flames all around her bed which is where the fire originated. She is screaming “Mommy

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