...I was walking to my car when I noticed my pants were on fire. I turned to my friend and said, "I think were going to need an oven and fast." He grabbed me with his soggy fingers and said.. "Snap out of it, Man." Then he proceeded to chant and walk in circles around me. I looked down, My pants were still on fire, but by this time it had spread to my Uterus and three other ligaments. I was getting pretty agitated that no one seemed to care about my third degree burns, or my soon imminent death, but I went along with his plan still hoping he'd manage to save me through his voo-doo witchcraft. After I came out of my trance from the fire I noticed that I was now in the kitchen of my grandma's house baking a cake.. I Screamed "WHAT THE F***?" My Grandma ran in and slapped the s*** outta me for cursing. Then she proceeded to say, "I swear if you talk like that 5 more times, I'll beat the living s*** outta you." I was quite confused as to what was going on and what I did to deserve this true life mad lib. I just stood there in silence with a look of uttermost confusion.. and I starred at the women who had once been a kind sweet old lady, who wouldn't even kill a baby piglet, now turned into this vicious beast of a monster with veins protruding from her neck like a porcupines quills on a midsummer day. She gasped, and then with the blink of an eye turned back into the sweet old lady I had once known. "Would you like some cookies, dear?" "Ummm Yes, grandma." As she...
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...experience as a firefighter, had the personality to analyze the fire in terms of winds, weather, vegetation conditions, and the blockage to the river, and lead the other firefighters, and was able to conclude early enough that the forest was a ‘death trap’ as he repeatedly warned the other members. When we describe the situational factors of Dodge’s escape as well as the target factors, we must mention mainly the size and proximity of the fire and the lack of time they had before the fire would reach them, so he quickly lit a escape fire and instructed the crew to follow him in an effort to save them. In fact, Dodge was the only one who concluded that they could not outrun the rapidly approaching fire so running on a rocky incline to get to the ridge was not the solution. Hellman, on the other hand, showed inexperience at the very beginning. He was commanded to lead the crew toward the fire by bringing up the rear of the marching line and to make sure the crew understood and followed Dodge’s order. However, when the foreman reorganized the group, he found a scattered and confused team without apparent member in charge. With much less training and a lack of leadership (Hellman was unable to make decisions, give orders, or be aware of an escape route), he could not perceive Dodge’s lying down on the scorched terrain of that steep slope as the best option to be safe due to his lack of vision and understanding of the fire behavior and the foreman’s intention. According to some research...
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...The word fire is defined by webster as the phenomenon of combustion manifested in light, flame, and heat. What this definiton does not tell you is how dangerous a fire can be if you are not aware of its capability to spread and grow rapidly. Fires can be very dangerous and harmful. It is important to education each other as much as possibe to help prevent injries or deadly accidents. There are four stages that happen in every fire. Those stages are Incipient, Growth, Fully Developed, and Decay. Each stage plays a role in every fire. Understanding each stage, and how to handle or prevent it is critical in becoming in control of a fire. Flameovers and backdrafts are not consider stages, but also are definitely factors of a fire. These factors sometimes can be prevented. Some methods of prevention are taugh at fire academies, or fire schools, to new firefighters, and are constistly being developed. Incipient, also know as the "ignition" stage, is the first stage of a fire. In this stage smoke may began before the fire actually flames up. This is the stage where heat, oxygen, and a fuel source combine to ignite the fire. At this stage it can be controlled by a household fire extinguinsher. Growth is the second stage of a fire. With the initial flame used as a heat sourse, more flames flare up. Flaring up makes the size of the fire increase and the plume reaches the ceiling. In a room hot gases meet at the celing of the roomwhich cause all fuels in that room...
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...no say in anything and they are not allowed to do simple tasks. In a dictatorship, the leader usually demands laws that prohibit citizen’s rights. The government in Fahrenheit 451 cares only for themselves, not the people they rule over. The government saw, “how advantageous it was to have people reading only about passionate lips and the fist in the stomach, circled the situation with your fire-eaters” (Bradbury 85). The citizens acted as if they were robots controlled by the government and they all do the same things. The government had become so controlling that they took someone who had books in their house, and put them in an insane asylum for trying to defy the government (Bradbury 31). Another odd characteristic that the government displays to keep their power is only choosing people that look the same and have the same moral values. Guy notices this change on page 30 of Fahrenheit 451 because everybody has the same look, and, “proclivities” (Bradbury 30). As the government controls the people’s rights, jobs, and values, the people stray farther from the thought of power and closer to the though of...
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...inspiring story about a father and son’s relationship that later becomes closer as they set forth on an adventure together to save their families ranch. Dan plays the role of a man who lost his leg due to a friendly fire held during the time of the Civil War. After the Civil War Dan tried to bet his luck on ranching later became a father to his eldest son William. In the movie Dan and William did not have a close relationship like a normal father and son should have. William thought his father was a coward and he believed his father was not a role model to show him how to be a man he wanted to be. As the movie went on, Dan‘s ranch was being threaten to be taken away from him by a dangerous gang leader, Ben Wade. Dan sets off for an adventure to save his ranch by traveling to put Ben Wade on the train and trying to get the reward money. Dan’s son William took off on the quest to travel also with his father Dan. William being the know it all teen that he is thinks he can handle traveling on the dangerous trip with his father and the other men. From traveling on this thrilling adventure, Dan and William’s relationship become closer than ever and William will finally see the role model he always wanted to see in his father. It did not take much time to notice the rocky relationship between Dan and his son William. At the beginning of the movie Dan’s ranch was set on fire. The reason why Dan’s ranch was set on fire was because he did not pay his bills in order to keep the ranch. As...
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...curtain-like hair. A worn out copy of Sense and Sensibility lay in my lap. I look up as the librarian walks towards me. "We are closing now," she says. "Okay." I smile at her. I get up and place the book in the exact spot I found it. I say goodbye to the librarian and step into the night. I take out my iPod and start listening to one of my favorite songs, Words I Never Said. I stay close to the mural covered walls as I walk through the colorful crowd. The racing cars and laughing teens rise over my music so I let it wash over me and I start mouthing the lyrics. I run a hand through my dark hair as the moonlight swims through it. I pass through a group of cheerleaders from tonight's pep rally and turn into a lonely street with only two streetlamps. I hug the wall closer. I can feel the gravel like ground through my shoes with each footfall. There are tall brick walls on each side. I feel blind staring into the darkness that awaits me on the other end. Almost halfway up the lengthy road, I feel the presence of someone else. I let the music washout and look around me. He's walking towards me. I turn around and speed up. And so does he. I'm running now. I feel my hair blowing behind me. The wind is against me and so I lengthen my strides. The rhythm of my breath and my heartbeat harmonize at the fast pace. I break mid-stride. I can't hear his footfalls. I decide to risk a look back. He's standing with his feet apart, tattooed muscular arms at his sides...
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...But I couldn’t move. My legs felt numb. It was cold as fear. Strange, Odd, and Curious. Going down the narrow steep road. I notice flashes and fireworks were sparkling from each direction. I knew the purge wasn’t just going to be a normal day. I don’t think this is right. Should everyone let their anger out? The attacks were interrupted when a meteorite fell from the sky nearby the car, which gave the young women time to escape. As I searched the wreck of the car for valuables, my face was scratched by a pale, hairless, eyeless dog-sized creature. The scratch was infected and I needed first aid as soon as possible but there was no time for that as there were creatures everywhere. These creatures were gorilla size, with spiky fur which is so black it reflects no light. They had huge claws and multiple rows of glowing fangs. These are the type of creature that you would see in your worst nightmares, but for me it was a harsh reality that they were right in front of me. The creatures started to furiously run away as the other humans ran towards them, setting fire works on them, trying to kill them. The creatures started screeching and screaming like the sound of a blender as the fireworks came towards them. I had to think quickly on my feet because it seemed as if the creatures were multiplying rapidly, so I decided to lure all the creatures to one place to ambush and kill them at the same time. The best way to do...
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...celebrated their 90th birthdays. I am grateful to Lance Sandelands, Debra Meyerson, Robert Sutton, Doug Cowherd, and Karen Weick for their help in revising early drafts of this material. I also want to thank John Van Maanen, J. Richard Hackman, Linda Pike, and the anonymous ASQ reviewers for their he lp with later drafts. The death of 13 men in the Mann Gulch fire disaster, made famous in Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire, is analyzed as the interactive disintegration of role structure and sensemaking in a minimal organization. Four potential sources of resilience that make groups less vulnerable to disruptions of sensemaking are proposed to forestall disintegration, including improvisation, virtual role systems, the attitude of wisdom, and norms of respectful interaction. The analysis is then embedded in the organizational literature to show that we need to reexamine our thinking about temporary systems, structuration, nondisclosive intimacy, intergroup dynamics, and team building. The purpose of this article is to reanalyze the Mann Gulch fire disaster in Montana described in Norman Maclean's (1992) award-winning book Young Men and Fire to illustrate a gap...
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...lab, there is a small, wooden cabinet filled with chemical liquids. Sanguine, emerald, metallic grey, xanthous and yet the colours go on. As we take a detailed look at the liquids, we automatically lean closer to the cabinet, and its frowzy, stuffy smell hits our nose. In a hitech science laboratory, we would not have imagined such smell. In the entire room, there are only ten tables for the individual learning. A teacher is more useful, when they teach individually, especially when it comes to a scientific subject. Each table has an electronic balance, a huge, intact microscope and an aseptic lavatory. After a quick survey of the interior, our eyes come to a woman, sitting near to the window. Brown, short, straight hair, slender, attractive face with black, thick frame glasses. She reads with great concentration, her eyes rarely look up from the book. Every now and then she takes a long, deep breath and her shoulders slowly rise and fall. Her metal bracelet clings on the grey, hardware table with every move, when she turns a page. Suddenly, an agonised, thin voice splits in the air. As we look at a young experimenter, who sits near to the reading woman, we see a beaker full to the brim with scarlet liquid in front of him. He quietly swears as he tries to undo his last, obviously failed step. The woman looks at him perplexedly. He seems younger, than anyone else in the laboratory, therefore he is the least experienced student. The woman straightens her off-white lab ...
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...read the scenario and were quick to thinking and immediately started. Finishing the activity as a group we scored a 92, I scored a 74, Corrie an 82, and Aron a 92. Our average group score was an 82.66. I did this assignment with the mindset that I wanted to survive and get the best score. Ultimately, choosing the items in accordance to importance for me was done by choosing which item I could use to both help me escape and fled if necessary and which items I would need in order to survive the night. I ended up scoring the best score which was 74, mainly because of my ideas for fire and defense. My first roommate Corie, went with the idea of staying still and surviving until someone came looking for...
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...magazines and books occupied the ageing shed. Exploring at night was even more intriguing, with the flashlight, everything could be seen and heard. The quarrel of rats and mice could be distinctly heard in the silent night and their beaded red eyes would stare back at me in fear. But after a tiring day of exploring, the best place to relax was the back verandah, all alone but surrounded by the cold night wrapped in my warm blanket gazing at the luminous stars. [Sad tone, looks down] I can still clearly remember sitting on the back verandah that ominous night of the fire, I could see a huge mushroom-like cloud loom above the house. But little did I know that the cloud belonged to the fire on my farm which consumed my father, not a nuclear explosion. My father was the only one who cared for me, the memories we created together are cherished, filled with never-ending laughter and love. But all of this was taken away from me in a split second. I will never forget these memories which remain close to my heart. [Looks up, around the room] But where am I now? In this dilapidated mansion which is falling apart day by day nearly collapsing into decay. Here I am isolated…alone… [Pause] My mother has no time for me, she is always consumed in her migraines, headaches and pills unlike the other mothers from the neighbouring farms I used to observe. After coming to this house, my mother has pushed me into impressing my uncle to inherit the house but now it seems impossible. My uncle is hospitalised...
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...Increased Awareness for Visitors of Bushfire Prone Areas Design Thinking Report Task 1 – “What Is?” 29/4/2016 ENT60005 Creativity and Innovation Assignment 2: Creative Problem Solving Assignment Group Members: 9231315 Ivonne Milano 101088515 Jeffrey Vanderveen 101123348 Raja Sekhar Ravi 100856384 Isaac Husain Aditya Vaggani 1 Executive Summary Visitors, particularly international travellers to regional Victoria are often unaware of and are illprepared for the fire hazards posed by the dry Australian country side. Early warning and response are critical in improving the chance of escape and survival from a bushfire event. Previous bushfire events including the recent fires in the Cape Otways, Great Ocean Road, Victoria (December 2015/January 2016) caused widespread devastation and impaired access into and out of the main towns. Many visitors to these areas were caught in the event and were unsure as how best to respond and what action to take. This report presents the findings from the investigation into the observed problem of the lack of awareness of bushfire hazards and risks amongst visitors of regional Victoria. The report describes how the Group has come to a better understanding of the problem through the use of various Design Thinking and Lean UX tools and approaches. The application of the tools has identified invaluable insights into the customer’s needs which provided the Group with the confidence to better define the problem statement...
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...still it was on of the most slowly Step his ever had have to take. " if you try to escape or reveal us, your a dead man. We can find you, we will hunt you down. Do you get it? " Jake nodded and continued his slowly walk to the door. "It's my wife and children!" The two man was looking first at Jake then they turned there heads and looked at each other. " why aren't they going inside?" They asked him. " she has forgot he keys " Jake sad. 'Ring, ring ring' jakes phone began to ring again. The man in the black shirt took jake phone " who's Lilly?" " it's my wife!" Sad Jake. The man with the knife took Jake and ordered him to get over to the fire stairs. The knife was closer then 2 inches from his throat. The man in the black shirt opened the door. They punch him almost the whole way down the stairs. They ran down a alley and into a black van. There was two other people in the the van but they was passed out and bounded. Jake was wondering what they'll do to him. And seconds after he got thrown into the van. Jake took himself to his forehead. And 'bang' he was knocked out by his own phone that the man in the black shirt had taken. Jake woke up in a filthy basement, bounded to a pipe with 6 other people. 3 man and 3 women who was almost half naked. Jake was blinding from his head. "What is this place?" Asked Jake out in the basement. His heart is pumping crazy, and he is beginning to sweat. "Do I look like one who would know" sad a man who was sitting in the one corner. " don't...
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...Return Fire Robert Cohen’s 2015 photograph from the Ferguson/Michael Brown Riots is an incredibly moving and accurate example of the scenes found in that Missouri suburb at the time. The photograph was captured on August 13th, 2014, by Mr. Cohen for the St Louis Post-Dispatch. The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown, an 18-year-old African-American male, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police officer. The disputed circumstances of the shooting of the unarmed young man sparked existing tensions in the majority-black city, and protests and civil unrest erupted, namely the “Black Lives Matter” movement and the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” Movement. Figure 1. Edward Crawford returns a tear gas canister fired by police...
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...from her apron pocket. Two letters, their seals broken, their faces covered with my handwriting” (170). After thinking everyone was asleep, Dana slowly and carefully left the Weylin's house. As Dana is walking away from the house, she states “I crept away from the Weylin house, moving through the darkness with even less confidence than I had felt when I fled to Alice’s house months before. Years before. I hadn’t known quite as well then what there was to fear. I had never seen a captured runaway like Alice….” (171). These scenes propose the idea that Rufus’s actions and or decisions intensely affect Dana’s future. Rufus can prevent things like Dana getting attacked or from her running away but he chooses not to. If Rufus had not start the fire, Dana would not have gone back in time at all, the attack would never had happen. Also, if...
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