William Dilley: A Personal Narrative

On September 11, 2001, terrorist hijacked four airliners and attacked the United States. The attackers were from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations. Two of the planes flew into the World Trade Center’s skyscrapers in New York City, a third hit the Pentagon near Washington D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. A year before 9/11, a number of terrorist came to the United States to receive training by our people. The attacks resulted in the loss of thousands of people, firefighters, and police officers. The impact of the two World Trade Center towers caused the buildings to catch on fire and collapse. As a result, a number of people jumped out of the burning buildings to keep from burning to death, while the buildings

As I was riding in the backseat of my mother’s white 2003 Lincoln Town Car, I gazed out the window which peered to be covered in drops of rain. Gusts of wind pounded the car, making it shake and jerk around. I was seven years old going on eight experiencing my first disastrous situation--Hurricane Katrina.

The USS Maine explodes in Havana Harbor, Cuba, due to an unknown origin. The investigation of the cause is being explored. Yesterday, February 15, 1898 at 9:40pm, 260 officers died out of a 400 man crew. This morning’s recovery efforts only revealed dilapidated parts of the warship’s superstructure floating in the harbor. The people of Havana have been thrown into a state of panic after the explosion shook the city. The Maine had previously been sent to Cuba to protect the interests of Americans after rebellion broke out against Spanish rule in Havana in January. The warship weighed more than 6,000 tons and was built at a cost of more than $2 million.

The greatest disaster in our nation's history. Thousands dead and even some pleading for someone to end their life.  Buildings from one to five stories crumbling to the ground. Large pits, some five feet deep covering the scorched earth like craters on the moon. What is this horrific event? The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 that rocked our nation.

In 1906, an earthquake hit San Francisco, California. More than 3,000 people died. The earthquake that hit San Francisco was one of the largest earthquakes in northern California. It struck the coast of Northern California. "Horrific Wreck of the City" by Fred Hewitt and “Comprehending the Calamity:” by Emma Burke are both about the same thing but the two authors opinion on how this disaster affected people are completely different.

I was born in a really poor place in the Caribbean called Haiti. When I was 9 years old, my family moved to the United States, because I was doing things I am not proud of. Later on, I went back to Haiti after an earthquake ravaged my homeland and left nothing, but destruction and sadness in the people’s lives. Some of my family were also still there. I called them to ask them how they were and to make sure they weren’t hurt. My family was safe and none of them died, but in some ways I was still unhappy with the look of the people, nation, and the land. It was really not a good time for me. I planned with my family to help them as much as I was able. Damage was everywhere. I was only ten or eleven years old and the earthquakes were still happening, so I couldn’t stay in Haiti for long.

In 2015 in the middle of summer there was a conflagration.The conflagration was in a small town of M.T Vernon,Oregon and it burned for days and days.Firefighters tell me that it started because of the conflagration in California it started from the small embers that traveled and landed in a pile of hay,and spread to the dry grass.

Rankin was only 18 years old when he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. Dilworth may have seen West Point as his only opportunity to get ahead in life. In the Spring of 1846 Dilworth 's company was ordered to Southern Texas, where hostilities had already broken out between United States troops and the Mexican Army. From April 28 to September 19, 1846, Dilworth kept an almost daily diary of his journey. In his diary recorded his thoughts and readers can see his homesickness as he wonders "if I will ever go to church again where I hear the English language spoken." His diary also reveals his personal thoughts about Mexico, he compares it to "a magnificent flower garden," he also shared his thoughts on how beautiful he thought

It was a late and rainy October night. Three kids at the age of 10 wanted to go on a journey to Ash Forest. They told their parents that they were having a sleepover that night. They left after the parents were asleep at 12:00am. When they arrived at Ash Forest, a loud whistling sound with strong wind came from the trees. One of the boys wanted to turn back but the other two were determined. They walked for an hour to find nothing but an abandoned cabin and two tombstones. The loud whistling sound came back but with much more wind. The next morning the parents woke up with the kids to never return.

There were still a lot of people in the tower that were in such a

It was 2:25 pm in Murphysboro, Illinois. The skies darkened, the winds howled, and the rain poured down. Descending on the small little town was a monstrous EF-5 tornado a mile wide with wind speeds above 300 miles per hour. The Tornado had already ravages parts of Missouri and Illinois, killed and injured multiple people, and was ready to lay carnage to Murphysboro. It was coming for the town, straight on a path to tear it up. It ripped up trees, destroyed cars, carried houses into the air… and Justin Sky was caught in the middle of it all.

Could you imagine if you lost everything you have ever worked for your whole life? After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck, many people lost everything they had. Over 3,000 people were left dead with a crashing economy, a city full of complete devastation, and years that it would take to try and rebuild the city. Even though the later effects of the earthquake brought people together, the immediate effects broke families apart. The reason is because so many people lost family members and friends. One of the only positive outcomes that arose after the earthquake was the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition being held in San Francisco. This event brought remembrance to the incident,

Everything happened last summer during vacation. Every year my family plans some wild, adventurous trip, and last year we were going to visit some of the states in the northeastern United States. The trip was going fine until we arrived at the state of New Hampshire. We were going to camp there for a few days, and that was when my parents announced that we were all going to climb Mount Washington. I was not too thrilled by this idea, in fact, I was relatively annoyed. Let me just say, that I did not want to climb to the top of Mount Washington. The thought of climbing this mountain just did not interest me. In the past, we had done many other pretty extreme hikes, and I wondered why this one would be any different. My parents, on the other hand, were both very enthusiastic about this. However, my brother fell somewhere in between, interested, yet not. Despite my parents’ opinions about the climb, I still tried to protest, saying that it would not be that great. Until the day of the hike finally came.

Matthew Williams had always hated the alps with its mammoth, misty mountains. It was a place where he felt endangered. The air was cold, and thick. You could not see farther than a few 100 feet due to the heavy fog. Everything was so quiet. You could even hear the mountain lions growling on the opposite end of the mountain if you listened closely.

I 'm buckled down to the seat in the back, total darkness around me with only a slot hole to communicate to the people in front. I can 't move my arms or legs at all, with only slight leverage to tilt my body forwards. This was enough though. I could see the horizon if I pushed my head up against the tiny gap, maybe the size of a cigarette. Outlined beside it was two big seats with, what could 've been males or bulky, short-haired women, sitting in them. Everything was silent aside from the muffled crackling radio and I could finally see my surroundings. Still bright out, a bit overcast with the sun occasionally poking through. Trees towered over the vehicle from both sides, looking like they came from acres of forest. The road was two lanes but stretching wide across and longer than your eyes could see, never ending into the abyss of forestland.