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…slowly down the road towards the fire with my legs feeling extremely weak by now, I watched this huge inferno of flames consume the newly built condominiums across the road from our house. Walking in daze of shock and disbelief I joined the rest of my family…

…. Machine Gun The machine gun is a type of gun in which the operations of loading, extraction, and firing are performed automatically. This enables the machine gun to maintain a constant fire. Before The Great War practically all machine guns used the same…

…human being requires great effort. In World War II, General S.L.A. Marshall studied infantry unit firing ratios and concluded that only 15 to 25 percent of infantrymen ever fired their weapons in combat. In general, those on specialty and crew-served weapons…

…in buildings had to be extremely careful and not let a fire start as this would act as a torch if a German plane was flying above them. I didn't really enjoy the blackouts as it felt unusual when they first started as it wasn't what I was used to, but later…

…for them to go form asleep to wide awake. Paramedics usually arrive at the scene first. Their vehicle is compact and easily maneuverable. As for the fire truck, the size and derivability limits them to how fast they can travel. When they both arrive…

…Those Winter Sundays. Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold…

…the history not only of this continent but of Europe likewise. They had found and colonised Iceland and Greenland. They had found Labrador, and called it Helluland, from its ice-polished rocks. They had found Nova Scotia seemingly, and called it Markland, from its…

…misery to the mortals and Zeus asked Prometheus not to interfere. Prometheus could not stand to watch man suffer so Prometheus asked Zeus if he could take some of the sacred fire for his creatures. Zeus refused and said that fire was only for the god…

…of himself, a man in his final years, to mainly three objects that represent the approach of death: autumn, the twilight of an autumn day, and a self-destructive fire. The implication of the first metaphor, autumn, is self-evident; it depicts the time of the year…

…a mortification. Even then the relationship and attitudes of the two boys remain almost the same. They both agree on the need of fire, on the need of shelters and on the need of meat. Nonetheless, one can feel that after Ralph had been elected for the chief…