As the next story was constructed, the tower began to sway. Sweat poured down my brow as I stood there helplessly. There was nothing I could do to stop the imminent doom. My ears were filled with the screams of such a catastrophic event. Snapping from the center first, it all came crashing down onto the floor in my room. The screams I heard were imaginary. My anguish was not. Although I had spent hours creating my structure, it was leveled to the ground instantly. I was playing with a Girder and Panel action building set which I was obsessed with at the time. It granted me the ability to connect plastic blue girders together to create buildings. During a time I felt little control, it made me feel omnipotent. Nevertheless, I could never build …show more content…
It was this advice I took into action that led me to new heights. Instead of making a 1 by 1 base as a always did, I laid 6 girders by 6 girders to create a huge foundation. I quickly found myself reaching eye level with my tower. Before long, I required the assistance of a chair until I reached the limit, the ceiling. The accomplishment of reaching this new height gave me the inspiration to improve the structure of my own life. At that moment, I understood my life was the precarious building swaying with each consecutive floor. Surely, if I were to have stayed on the same path, my life would have been limited in the future, but at a young age I saw the connection between the stability of my toy and my own future. In school, I began to listen when our teacher taught about George Washington or the Rock Cycle. I tried flag football, baseball, basketball, and track. While I did not suddenly enjoy the foul taste of broccoli, I did start seeing the appeal of different types of food. I could now reach seemingly infinite
(Dwyer and Flynn). By showing the perspectives of the people in and around the towers with further information gathered afterwards layered in with the 1st hand accounts it provides a full circle analysis of the events. Another example of this style of writing is on page 130, “Martin Wortley of Cantor Fitzgerald told his brother over the phone he was hoping to leave by helicopter, and would head up the stairs in the north tower.” (Dwyer and Flynn). This is ironic in the most tragic way as the chapter is titled “The doors are locked”.
I was a child once and I probably still am considered one, but I have emerged out of the innocent stage of childhood, a period so dear to my heart. I believe that everything we are, everything will ever be is ingrained into this phase of our lives, which inevitably will mark us forever. Throughout the book Bad News Bears in Breaking Training wrote by Josh Wilker the reader gets an insight to the author’s childhood and the way he links it to the movie The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training produced by Leonard Goldberg.
While being home-schooled, I had to experiment on my own and see what I liked and what I did not. Other readers can relate to this theme as often times people dream or try to be a person that they are not, and learn lessons from the
Have you ever wondered why New York City is one of the most protected cities in the world? On September 11, 2001 there were four terrible attacks in the United States of America. There were attacks on both of the Twin Towers in New York City, one on the Pentagon in Washington DC, and one was headed for the either the Capitol building or the White house in Washington DC but was taken down in a field in Pennsylvania. The plane that was taken down was crashed into a field because two brave men knocked out the pilots and put the plane down in a safe location without many people. Over 3,000 people were killed in the attacks.
This piece is called “The Other Wes Moore” produced by Wes Moore in the year 2012. Wes Moore wasn't as privileged with his family and surrounding like others might have been. Wes Moore wasn't a great kid, he found things to fill in the free time including negatively affecting stuff. This piece is emotional and subjective, it analyzes how everything came together, and he shows passion and thoughtfulness. The author's purpose of this piece was to show how the choices people make when they're younger can be impacted by the environment one is surrounded with.
Corresponding ideas and uses of rhetorical devices can bridge together multiple stories. The themes of interdependence on other human beings and essentials of life are shown throughout the novels “102 Minutes” by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, and “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer. One may think that these pieces have nothing in common, but in order to interpret the overlying ideas, readers must look deeper than the main ideas of each book to figure out how they develop upon one another. The stories “Into the Wild,” and “102 Minutes” both use a plentiful amount of overarching viewpoints and many of the same tools of rhetoric, such as word choice, delivery and style to help expand and make connections between novels. Jon Krakauer’s purpose for “Into
In elementary school, I read the tale “Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes” when my obsession for origami first manifested. In the story, anyone that folds a thousand cranes is granted a wish. Being a gullible child, I was fascinated by this legend and in turn, attempted to fold as many cranes as I could, measuring my hours and days by how many I could create. As I grew older, the moral of the cultural myth has stuck with me. The cranes now are a materialistic representation of the time and effort I invest into my endeavors and the desired wish I’m granted comes in the form of a medal, grade or feeling of satisfaction.
In the background, another plane could be heard and seen hurling toward and finally in to the second building. Sirens blared throughout the city. Hundreds of firefighters and policemen ran through the buildings, trying to find a way to get on to the higher floors and get those people out. Many people rushed down the stairs, in to the lobby and out on to the streets. Firefighters attempted to help as many people escape as possible.
As we get older, we tend to hold ourselves back from enjoying the exciting things in life, allowing our busy lives to get in the way. While reading Dillard’s story, we inevitably think about our own childhood, and the “chases” we wanted to last forever. Perhaps, by telling the story from the viewpoint of her younger self, Dillard hopes to inspire us to “fling” ourselves wholeheartedly into the chases of our own, just like we did when we were
Suddenly, I woke up from my worst nightmare, a reality which could never be forgotten. Transitioning to my early years, when I was just about below an age of eight, life was simply difficult and unfair to what I can explain. Poverty, a hard decision to encounter, was simply visible on my family. Hearing in my ears discriminatory words due to my origins and
But I couldn 't relate anymore when the character would transform into something unique. Defying the odds. As a child, I had struggled to believe in myself and capabilities. I thought about how a child is never supposed to have limitations. A child 's best efforts is ample enough and therefore should have endless contingencies.
Some of the people couldn’t hear me because of the loudness caused by the huge fire. So I took my megaphone and said to the people “EVERYBODY START TO GO DOWN THE STAIRS TO SAFETY!!” Everybody started to go down. Many boarded emergency vehicles to the hospital. There were still a lot of people in the tower that were in such a panic they were not listening to me.
The book 102 Minutes is a story of the fight to survive. Set inside the twin towers, authors Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn tell the haunting stories of both victims and survivors of the terrorist attack known as 9/11. Describing the morning before the attack, along with the lives of the people in the twin towers, creates an emotion connection between audiences and the text. This emotional connection evokes emotions of pity for the people impacted by this tragic event. By the biographers using the rhetorical device of pathos, an empathetic relationship is formed between audiences and the individuals in the passage, which sparks feelings of anxiety to see if certain people survived the attack, which opens the minds of the audience to other information and opinions that the composers of the text may present throughout the text.
It seemed as though my life was being dictated by others, more than before. The phrase “beauty lies in perfection” was always stored in my head and in order to “fit in”, I must act in a certain manner. At the age of 14, I was now in middle school. I had always been a shy person, which this transition harder for me to adjust too. I didn't want to hold a full conversation with anyone in my class unless they were the one to approach me.
My story of my childhood is not to get pity from anybody; my story is empowering! The struggle and the hard times of my childhood gave me the desire for more. My mother inspired me to fight for what I want, to struggle for what I need, to dream for tomorrow because it just might be a little brighter than today and to make the not so bright days’ worth