Percy Jackson Tornado Book Report

I, Dan McWilliams, woke up at 5:45 to go to work for the FDNY. It was sunny day with clear skies, little did I know the horrors of the day to come. I got to work at 6:45, we were at the station for about 2 hours. Next thing we know every fire station in New York is being called to the twin towers because of an apparent plane crash. It was 8:46 the first plane hit the North Tower, when we arrived it was chaos.

I awoke with a jolt to a loud thunderous boom. It was the middle of a hurricane and a tree had just fallen through the roof of my bedroom. I sprinted out to find my family and we all gathered in the bedroom closet with flashlights, cans of soup, bottled water, blankets and pillows. We were prepared for a long night.

Once Percy has the bolt, he travels to Manhattan and goes up to the 600th floor of the Empire State Building to Olympus. There, he returns the bolt to Zeus and explains the situation to all of the Gods and how Ares stole the

Connor and Risa have to rush him to a hospital even though there is a high probability that they will be caught. They end up being caught and taken to a harvest camp where they will be unwound. While they are at the camp they reunite with Lev. Lev has become a clapper, a suicide bomber with explosives in their blood, so that when they clap hard enough they will explode. Roland gets unwound, and as Connor is about to two other clappers detonate.

In the short story, “A sound of Thunder”, Ray Bradbury used figurative language to make a bigger impact on the story. When Eckels goes into the office he sees and hears, “... A sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars- all the hours piled high and set aflame.” The author, Ray Bradbury, wanted his audience to have a specific image set in the audience’s head. By using a simile he help the reader imagine how Eckle’s is going to get to the past.

No one gets laid! Thousands upon thousands would go to the amphitheatre at night wearing t-shirts with the TRNTB logo (which also had a particular illustration of a baby playing with the end of a rattlesnake 's tail) congregated for the new reign of no love and purified misery. After the preaching of the mighty Pit the followers were given pamphlets with instructions of how to execute door to door persistence to the affected around the world. 1.

Imagine you are getting ready for bed, about to lay down and enjoy a good night’s rest when all of the sudden there is a loud scream that comes from the mountains. This was reality for the people of Armero, Colombia (Bressan, 2011). On November 13, 1985 the Nevado Del Ruiz volcano claimed the small city as its victim. The earth began to shake and water and debris covered the sky (Bressan, 2011). People raced to the streets to find out what was happening only to step into layer and layers of mud and volcanic material (Bressan, 2011).

They wait inside the interior of the castle, which has actually been magically transported to the inside of a house in Sophie’s hometown, as Sophie tries to push a little more life into the magical fire Calcifer, a demon whose life is directly connected to the life of Howl and powers the castle, which seems to be magically weakened for unknown reasons. At this point, a war between two kingdoms has been raging on for months, leaving ruins in its wake as towns are destroyed in a combined attack of magic and bombing in a style that is reminiscent of the second world war. Markl, a young boy, remarks that the newspapers report that their kingdom has won the war and the Witch of the Wastes remarks that only fools believe those lies. The Witch smokes a cigar, filling the room with gray billowing smoke, and Sophie asks Markl to open a window to allow fresh air to get in. Just as Markl opens the window, the scene cuts to a battleship above the town, starting to drop its payload of bombs, with a close-up of the bombs dropping from their carrier bay.

“‘Hurricane Sandy is moving with rapid speed and increasing intensity toward the coast of Long Beach Island, New Jersey. It is advised that all civilians in the area evacuate this exigency.’” The man on the weather channel stated. Mom was in the kitchen, washing the dishes. Darwin and I were in the living room sitting on the couch.

9. Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) This particular anime was the one that introduced Hayao Miyazaki to the world. A thousand years have passed after the “Seven Days of Fire”, a war that destroyed civilization and created the Toxic Jungle, a poisonous forest swarming with giant mutant insects.

My Platoon Sergeant then called in the entire Platoon for a huddle. My PSG then informed us that we needed to start preparing all equipment, and personnel ready for movement back to the Company are because something terrible had happened. We were informed that at approximately 0845 hours a plane had been hijacked and crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. He stated that he was” unclear of the details, but we needed to get back to the company area and await further instructions.” Once we arrived back to the company area, we downloaded all equipment from the trucks.

For Father The night you left, Mother started sleeping with her bible under her pillow and a gun on your side of the bed. While Brother and I were at school, Mother saw a ghost fly down the stairs and into the basement. She told her white friend about it, how after she saw it, she opened all of the windows and prayed through the house. Spread holy oil over every doorway like

An alien had gotten hold of him. Merrill grabs his ball record bat from the wall and uses his years of fame into use to defeat the alien. Bo’s glasses of water sets traps for the alien as he bumps into them, killing itself with the drops of water. Graham picks up Morgan when the alien lets go of him and takes him outside to help him regain life. Graham believes he will lose another loved one but all of sudden Morgan

The battle between Zeus and Typhon was amazing Typhon hurling mountains at Zeus, Zeus raining down lighting bolts on Typhon, Typhon cut out the tendons of Zeus 's hands and feet and left them next to him in the cave, she left them with him because knew Zeus son was going to save him and stitch the tendons back into Zeus hands

In 2011, Joplin had a deadly tornado hit down on May 22. It was a regular Sunday afternoon when things started to get bad. It started to get really dark outside, winds at 200 mph, and clouds started to rotate, that's when the tornados started to hit. The joplin tornado wasn't just one big tornado there were 3 small tornados, that come together to make an EF5 tornado. The EF5 tornado hit stores, schools, works, and homes.