Essays Tagged: "fires"

"Body Fires" by Fay Jones Art Critique

Critique of Art Painting by Fay Jones Very insightful great paper!!Critique of Body FiresArtist Fay Jones a veteran of the Seattle art community, currently has on display works of acry ... ive" can be viewed at the Museum of Art / WSU. This paper will focus on her triptych painting "Body Fires". A painting that portrays a dream like and imaginative world full of color. Jones imagines co ... itique, I will attempt to express the symbols, styles, and emotions I perceived while viewing "Body Fires".Each of the rendered subjects is a symbol, an iconographic wholefor a selected idea in the ar ...

(3 pages) 207 0 4.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

The Shield of Achilles. From the Illiad.

, the god of fire, is the smith whom forged Achilles' shield. He begins with twenty hot bellows and fires bronze, tin, gold, and silver in his kiln. He then proceeds to hammer the metals upon his anvi ...

(3 pages) 148 0 3.8 Nov/1994

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

The Chicago Fire of 1871

ry one in Chicago. Between July andOctober, only 5 inches of rain fell. In addition to twenty-seven fires in the first week ofOctober, on Saturday night, October 7, a blaze broke out in a planning mil ...

(2 pages) 65 0 3.2 Feb/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Evil and Gender Archtypes in Macbeth

s early stage of his transformationMacbeth is ashamed of his evil urges. He says, 'Stars, hide your fires;/ Let not light seemy black and deep desires;/ The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,/ Whi ...

(3 pages) 44 0 4.2 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

symbolism in macbeth

ow the king's death. The imagery of light and dark continues throughout the play. 'Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.' (I. iv. 50-51) demonstrates Macbeth's step towa ...

(2 pages) 53 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Caliban

refore he thinks that Caliban was put on earth for work. Additionally Prospero just thinks he makes fires and does work for him so people should not have sympathy for him. ' We cannot miss him. He doe ...

(1 pages) 42 0 4.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Macbeth Independence and Failure

ne. Scotland, or the peasant, carries the bundle by the sweat of his brow.They carry the bundle for fires on cold nights, or wars, and to build homes, or castles, toprotect them from the elements, or ...

(7 pages) 45 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Explanation and examination of hit and run play in baseball

oment when the pitcher stares into the catcher's mitt, scratches himself, gets into his windup, and fires the pitch home, it's all between him and the batter. There mayfielders in set and ready positi ...

(5 pages) 42 0 4.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - The Meetings between Montag and Clarisse

hrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a futuristic society that hasbanned books. Firemen that start fires are used to burn the books when they are found.One fireman, Guy Montag, remembers a time befor ...

(2 pages) 52 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Everlasting Murder- "Native Son" by Richard Wrigth

Who can forget the fires blazing over local buildings during the Los Angeles Riots? Unfortunately the whole event does ...

(3 pages) 83 0 2.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Deluge

f the night surrounded her, and in the distance she could see a small orange glow here and there of fires set by those who had been forced to leave their homes and set up camp in this park.She closed ...

(20 pages) 85 0 4.4 May/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

"Fahrenheit 451", by Ray Bradbury

it was for Guy Montag.Guy Montag was a fireman and in the future, a firefighters job wasn't to stop fires, but it was actually to start them. In the future, books were known as bad and shameful and if ...

(2 pages) 65 0 3.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Pyromaniacs: Genetic Or Insanity? This is an essay on the facts of pyromaniacs(those who love to play with fire)

d new technologies to the point where fire is almost no lnger necessary. So why then is there still fires?Many people have been know to enjoy sitting around a fire, whether it be in the home or out in ...

(1 pages) 43 0 2.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

"Barn Burning" by Faulkner: Element of Fire

erful and destructive force to those who encounter it. It is often interpreted as an evil symbol as fires tend to be violent and uncontrollable towards anything in its path. This strong, devastating e ... ith interacting with others. In Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and Barreca's poem "Nighttime Fires," the fire is used as a symbol to represent the revenge, and anger towards the world felt by t ...

(5 pages) 165 2 4.1 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Smoke Prevention

allment. Tobacco causes more deaths than car accidents, AIDS, suicides, murders, drug overdoses and fires combined. Plus, smokers kill 3,000 bystanders every year with second hand smoke.If those stati ...

(1 pages) 73 2 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Rhtorical Analysis of "Disasters at Clubs" By Fred Bayles and Rick Hampson.

on point out that the safety at clubs has been improving. From 1928 to 1942 over 730 people died in fires at clubs. Since that time the inspectors, operators, and patrons have been more effective at p ...

(2 pages) 47 1 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

How setting clarifies the theme in "Macbeth"

side. Except for Macbeth's, all murders in the play occur at night. Macbeth wanted 'stars hide your fires' so he could kill Duncan without heaven seeing what he was doing. This obviously, is an exampl ...

(2 pages) 31 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Television and Video Game Violence Affects Adolescent Aggression.

h, he storms up to Elmer Fudd and shrieks, "And I demand that you shoot me now!"Elmer takes aim and fires sending Daffy's beak whirling around his head like a roulette wheel. What does this say to chi ...

(10 pages) 255 1 4.6 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Who Started The Reichstag Fire?

or arson by the S.A, and had been hand pickedfor the plan, entered the building, and began to start fires at strategic points around the building. He was to be used asa scapegoat. The fire soon engulf ... a man carrying a burning brand on the first floor. By 21:14 the fire alarm was received by thelocal firestation and the firemen were in the building by 21:24. At 21:27 there was a huge explosion and t ...

(5 pages) 36 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Spontaneous Human Combustion.

eather? Most of the time, we have an explanation whenever fire causes injuries. But there have been fires that have baffled the most experienced investigators. For centuries, a phenomenon has kept rum ...

(4 pages) 40 0 3.4 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology