...As Yank and the men drink, Yank remains in control as the leader of the group. Yank and the men joke about thinking as they drink. Yank, in a joke repeated during the play, tells the men to be quiet because he is trying to "tink." The men mockingly repeat after him, "think" and then erupt into a chorus of "Drink, don't think!" Cutting through the general mayhem, a drunken tenor sings a tune about his lass at home. Talk of home outside the ocean liner infuriates Yank and he tells the tenor to be quiet. Long, quite drunk, stands up and makes a Marxist speech, preaching to the men that if the ship is home, their home is hell and the Upper Class put them there. Yank tells him to join the Salvation Army and get a soapbox. Paddy, a wise, older fireman tells the men that life on an Ocean Liner is hell by comparison to his life on a Clipper Ship. Paddy reminisces about the freedom he enjoyed, the purpose he had and skill for which he was valued. Yank tells Paddy that he is dead, "living in the past of dreams" and glorifies his own job as the strength of the ship's speed and...
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...The Hairy Ape "The Hairy Ape" tells the story of a laborer, Yank. He is searching for belonging throughout the play. In the beginning, he feels secure in his role as a fireman of an ocean liner. But when Mildred Douglas comes to the stokehole, she sees him and calls him a filthy beast, which causes an identity crisis in Yank. He goes to New York and finds that he doesn't belong there, either. Eventually, he goes to see the gorillas in the zoo, and the beast kills him in the end of the play. Yank is a representative of an early 20th century industrial worker who loses faith in the machine. The world in "The Hairy Ape" is bleak. Man has lost faith in himself. Many people have idealized wealth and privilege. O'Neill uses Yank's search for belonging to show that loss of faith ends up in death. O'Neill uses steel throughout the story to represent strength. Steel also represents the cage that Yank feels that he is in. This cage is first symbolized by the fireman's forecastle of the ocean liner. "The lines of bunks, the uprights supporting them, cross each other like the steel framework of a cage."(1103) The workers are described as brutes, "hairy-chested, with long arms of tremendous power, and low, receding brows above their small, fierce, resentful eyes."(1104) This description could be used by many to describe the gorilla later in the play. Yank represents their leader, and in the beginning of the story, the men agree with his opinion, and follow along with his jokes when...
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...help a fireman rapidly assess people’s needs by suggesting that the cops escort the fire truck to the location of the emergency. If people see the police with their sirens and lights on driving in front of a fire truck with its lights and sirens on, the drivers on the road would really move out the way. That would get the fireman to location faster. B. A cop could teach a fireman ways in understanding the severity of a call. Knowing what a real emergency is. A cat stuck in a tree is not as important as a forest of trees burning. C. D. E. F. A cop can teach a fireman to not count on your partner to always be there for you. Some people aren’t as strong or as fast as the next person, and some missions are for you only. Like getting a person out of a burning building that’s a one man job. G. A cop can teach a fireman crowd control because they have actual training for things like that. In the police academy, officers encounter similar situations and have the knowhow to settle down a riot. H. I. A cop can teach a fireman technique in remembering repeat offenders by just remembering the names they put in the computer. If the put it in so many times they will eventually be able to match a face with a name. J. A cop can teach a fireman how to be happy with your job buy jus telling themselves that today is going to be a good day. Police officers and firemen have their lives threatened every day. Cops could get shot on the job and a fireman could...
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...doing this, Montag has become part of a “minority”, something his former friend and fireman Beatty looks down on. Montag is now odd, like Clarisse; he is a thinker, like Faber; he is part of something larger, like Granger. By the end of the novel, he no longer fits in with most people in his society (the majority), who seem intent on regressing in societal terms while advancing on technological ones. The majority is now acting as a roadblock to...
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...A Different Shot My chosen text is “In Creve Coeur, Missouri” by Rosanna Warren. Only in Creve Coeur would an expert photographer firebug snap a shot so eloquent: fireman bent low over the rag of body held like impossible laundry pulled too soon from the line, too pale, too sodden with smoke to flail in his huge, dark, crumpled embrace. He leans to the tiny face. her hair stands out like flame. She is naked, she has no name. No longer a baby, almost a child, not yet a ghost, she presses a doll-like fist to his professional chest. Her head falls back to his hand. Tell us that she will stand again, quarrel and misbehave. He is trying to make her breathe Strong man, you know how it’s done, you've done it again and again sucking the spirit back to us from its lair of smoke. We'll call it a fine surprise The snapshot won a prize and the fireman saved her that night in Creve Coeur. 9/11, the Columbine Massacre, the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina. All four were terrible and sad events. Yet, the photographs taken of these events are some of the most moving in the world. They may show some of the saddest things one can imagine, but they are still looked at as beautiful. The photographers of these events are said to be masters of their craft, and they receive praise from thousands of people, but what about the family members of those depicted in these pictures. How would you feel if you lost your mother? Even better, how would you feel...
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...The Inferno Outside What time is it? I was groggy as I opened my eyes and struggled to get my senses working again. I noticed that my laptop was still open and then I remembered. I was trying to get my homework done. It was 1:00 a.m. I really should try to get more of this finished. Then I remembered that this was not the first time I had nodded off tonight. Tomorrow, ah today, would be less hectic if I didn’t have as much to accomplish. Hmm, I was pretty tired though and studying Econ while struggling to stay awake probably wasn’t the best idea. I decided it was time for much needed sleep. Everyone else in my house had been asleep for hours so I really needed to be as quiet as possible. I slowly crawled off the couch and walked as quietly as possible to the bathroom to brush my teeth. What was that noise? What could be going on outside this time of the morning? That sounded like someone shooting a gun. I knew that as tough as I like to think that I am, I needed to wake my husband to go find out what was happening. The shades were drawn, but I had to walk by the windows to get to the bedroom. I crouched and all but crawled past them. I roused my husband twice to get him up. After telling him what I had heard, he went to the carport door to determine the reason for the noise. He opened the door and quickly shut it, telling me there was an active fire outside. He would know active since he was a retired volunteer firefighter. He opened the door a second time...
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...THE RUNNING MAN Joseph Davidson is a quiet, self-conscious fourteen- year-old boy and a talented artist. His world changes, however, when he is asked to draw a portrait of his mysterious neighbor Tom Leyton, a Vietnam veteran who for thirty years has lived alone with his sister Caroline, raising his silkworms and hiding from prying eyes. Because of this he is the subject of ugly gossip and rumor, much of it led by neighbor Mrs0 Mossop, who views Leyton’s brief teaching career with suspicion. When Joseph finally meets his reclusive neighbour he discovers a cold, brooding man lost deep within his own cocoon of silence. He soon realizes that in order to truly draw Tom Leyton, he must find the courage to unlock the man’s dark and perhaps dangerous secrets. But Joseph has his own secrets, including the pain of his damaged relationship with his absent father and his childhood fear of the Running Man – a local character whose wild appearance and strange manner of moving everywhere at a frantic pace terrified him when he was a small boy. These dreams suddenly return when Joseph is forced to face his fears and doubts regarding Tom Leyton. As Joseph moves deeper and deeper into his neighbors’ world he confronts not only Tom Leyton’s private hell, but also his own relationship with his father, and ultimately the disheveled, lurching figure of the Running Man. CHARACTER DESCRIPTION Tom Leyton- is a very silent type man who does not interact with any person, he experienced the deaths of...
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...From Fireman to Felon PHI103: Informal Logic May 28, 2010 Most people think that Racism is a thing of the past. Well for the most part they are correct. In everyday life, racism has decreased to little more than an odd event here or there. Sometimes you will hear on the news about a racially motivated crime. Did you know that you could be charged with a hate crime if you are fighting with a person of another race and you call them a derogatory name. That is grounds for charges being brought against you for a hate crime. But long gone are the days when you had crosses burning and lynchings. Thanks to Abraham Lincoln the fifth president of the United States and the first voice of the slaves. There is still one place that racism runs rampant and that is the Prison System. .. Every day you can bear witness to racism inside America’s Prison System. can Americans in Prison in New Jersey think that white people are racist, they would always ask, “are you racist”. Because most of the Caucasions in prison join a white supremacy gang, the whites are labeled as racist because that is the gangs a majority join. But what about the God Bodies in New Jersey. They are racist to their very tenants and principals, because they believe the white man is the devil. And that each one of them is a God. They call the Corrections Officers Crackers and Honky. They justify this by saying that the White Officers are in the KKK. Most African Americans think that the reason they...
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...Edwin S. Porter Edwin S. Porter was born April 21, 1870, in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. In 1897, he invented the Beadnell film projector. As the Edison Company's director-cameraman, Porter filmed The Great Train Robbery. He later invested in his own film equipment company, but the 1929 stock market crash put him out of business. In the 1930s he worked on home-movie cameras. He died on April 3, 1941, in New York City. (Biography.com) 'Life of an American Fireman' combined stock actuality footage of fires, firemen and fire engines with dramatised scenes which Porter shot, this juxtaposition added tension and release to the film making it truly dramatic in contemporary setting, unlike Méliès whose filmatic drama was derived from his films’...
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...Tort Law Case I. The fireman car accident The fireman’s car was driving at a very high speed. This excess of speed was ordered by his supervisor. The car ahead, under the pressure of the fireman’s car had become agitated and by trying to make room for the fire engine, collided with a lamp post. The driver of this car had no security belt. We have to see if the fireman is liable. To be liable, three things are needed : a damage, a fact, a causation between them. According to the principle of tort law, article 1:101 of European Principle of Tort Law, (the strict liability) as soon as the victim proved that he suffers a damage, it’s needed to have compensation. Is there a damage ? Peter has collided and had to be took to the emergency. Based on article 2:102 (2) of European Principle of Tort Law, a bodily integrity enjoys the most extensive protection. If no serious hurt had been seen, we can assume that it exists a little traumatism or maybe a light physical damage and therefore this is a bodily damage. A damage exists, so the victim, Peter, doesn’t have to prove a fault, according to the strict liability principle. We need to identify the fact. By driving too fast, with the flashing lights, with the bell sounding, the fireman put a pressure on Peter who panicked and by trying to make room for the fireman, he collided with a lamp post. Are the fact and the damage in relation ? To identify the factual causes, we utilize the “but...
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...society Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag, the protagonist, struggles with finding a meaning for himself. Montag’s rash actions consequently put his and other people around him, lives in jeopardy. Montag is a fireman who is hiding books; he has a strong nostalgia for learning the history of his world, and he wants to learn to put his dreams into actions. In our society fireman extinguish fires, but in Bradbury’s dystopian society they ignite them. “How did it start? How did you get into it? How did you pick your work and how did you happen to think to take the job you have? You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You’re one of the few who put up with me. That’s why I think it’s so strange you’re a fireman. It just doesn’t seem right for you, somehow” (23-24). Montag discovers his averse view on the world he is living in and sets out on a journey to find truth. His hasty decisions come off as fortitude, but in reality it is him not thinking about the consequences that his actions hold. In addition to Montag’s career as a fireman, he also has a deep longing for knowledge of generations before his. He wants to know about the time when books were valuable and considered prized. On Montag’s hunt for truth he meets a timid old professor...
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...isn’t able to properly think because of his dystopian world/society. Even though, he wasn’t in a good situation he was able to push through it as hard as the obstacle was. Different emotions were expressed that changed characters throughout the story. In the novel, “Fahrenheit 451” written by Ray Bradbury, the main character Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books. This dystopian world is against reading books. Failure to do so will result on the books being burned. Montag does what is told to him, he does not think for himself. He has never questioned anything about his job. One day, Montag had just finished burning books and was heading home when he came upon Clarisse. “ Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” “ He laughed. That is against the...
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...Books are a great way of gaining knowledge. Life without books would be very boring and people would have a hard time learning. Montag has a wife whose name is Mildred. Montag ends up getting hunted by a mechanical hound. Montag like many others ends up with a job of a fireman. City Where montag Lives is a very brutal City with the way it's managed, which is why Montag is fighting the government of the city. Montag first meets Mildred when Montag walks home from work. They later marry. Montag begins to bring home books from his work and starts hiding the books. Mildred begins reading books Montag has brought home. Mildred later becomes frustrated with Montag after Montag reads a poem of Dover Beach so she leaves in a taxi after filing a complaint...
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...Run over by a car. Four days ago. I'm not sure" (Bradbury 47). Mildred's forgetfulness of the event shows how little she cared for the life of another. In Captain Beatty's description of Clarisse, much is revealed of feelings towards the outcasts of society, "She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead" (Bradbury 60). Straying from the cemented path of thought in the portrayed society is frowned upon and to the denizens of the society, any persons whom qualify as a outcast are not worthwhile of a second thought as shown through Clarisse. Early in the book, Montag and his group of fireman are summoned to the house of an older woman whom has hoarded a great many books. During the raid the douse the building in kerosene and evacuate all the inhabitants, however one old...
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...He wants to burn books as well. “He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch…” (Bradbury 1). Just like a fireman, seeing books burn is what made him happy. (STEWE-2) Montag acts like other firemen, and is pleased by burning. From this pleasure, he grins at the prospect of fire. “Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven by the flame” (Bradbury 2). He, like other fireman, is powered by the flame, like a machine powered by fuel. This is ironic because everybody in his society is mechanical. Fire is his weapon that he uses daily, and the main tool that surrounds this society. (SIP-B) In addition, Montag agrees with the law, and the whole system of the society and government. (STEWE-1) Montag does not just follow the laws, he enforces the laws. When Clarisse asks if he ever read a book, he answers how he was told to answer. “‘That’s against the law’” (Bradbury 5). He states this because he trusts and believes in the society he lives in. Without question of his motives, he follows what he is told to do as a fireman, which was to burn books and make sure nobody reads them. Because of this, he is...
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