People sometimes enjoy being in life or death situations. If something bad happens to these people, is it their fault? The people that do this should be held accountable for everything that happens. This is because mistakes can easily be avoided by preparation, people should always be aware of their surroundings, and people are to blame for their actions when they include other people or things. Accidents are also very rare when they couldn’t be prevented by preparation. Everybody makes mistakes but they can be avoided in life or death situations. An example of such a mistake, is in “To Build a Fire”. “And then it happened. At a place where there was no signs, where the soft, unbroken snow seemed to advertise solidity beneath. The man broke …show more content…
In the text, “Survival is Your Own responsibility” it states ,”Wilderness rescues are often dangerous to the rescuers and always weather-contingent.” The author is saying that if the weather is too bad for a rescue, it might not even be attempted. Also even if the weather is good enough, the rescue still may be in danger. This means that people need to pay attention to the weather before going to a place that could be dangerous. If they do not, they could get severely injured or their rescuers could too. This text also has another quote, “The remoteness of the Alaskan backcountry makes everyone susceptible to a catastrophic incident or medical emergency.” This piece of evidence supports people to know exactly where they will be going because an area could be extremely remote. Meaning that it would be really hard for people to get a rescue team out there. One other quote is, “Alaska has long been regarded as the last frontier offering some of the most remote and rugged mountains in the world.” If someone, were to go to Alaska, they would need to learn skills first before going on to the very rugged terrain. If they don’t, it could result in a very bad situation. People should be blamed for their actions if they go to a place without knowing the surrounding area, it was their fault for not finding out more about where they were heading
It is very common to see people deciding to go mountain climbing, hiking, or sailing-in a place where they shouldn’t be, just for the thrill of it. What some of these people don’t do-is prepare themselves properly for the situation that they are about to put themselves in. For example, rather than just deciding out of nowhere people should do some research on the supplies they should bring, things they might need in case of emergency, what the temperature is going to be like, and the kinds of emergencies that can occur if they are to make a life threatening mistake. In the passage, “The Cost
The traveler is advised not to make this trip with the lack of his inexperience in the Yukon due to the weather, the incoming storm, and its advisories. With the subzero freezing cold temperatures that came with the storm. “Fifty degrees below zero stood for a bite of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against by the use of mittens, ear flaps, warm moccasins, and thick socks.”(561)
A person's next move can affect them and someone in their life without them even realizing it. So why would they want to make the decision that could result in a sudden death in their family ? It is only right they be held accountable for the steps that lead up to or occurred after, they got entrapped in a life or death situation unless, it happens to be an accident.
People in almost every day are put in life or death situations either accidentally or it’s a totally unexpected thing that now they’re put in the life or death situation. The question is though if people should be held accountable for their life or death situations. No one should be held accountable for almost dying. It’s usually a case of the wrong place at the wrong time. Crazy accidents happen all the time that most people would never want to be apart of.
Disasters can be so impactful; some can forever change the course of history. While many at the time thought this story would soon pass, and with it all the potential bad publicity, the story of the Triangle fire spread quickly, and outraged many people. On a beautiful spring day in March 1911 when 146 workers lost their lives, a fire would prove it could do what years of reformers had failed to do, get the government on the side of the workers. I would argue that the fire largely impacted the country. Specifically, the Triangle Fire ended up changing New York’s interconnected political and economic scene, and spurred on the creation of stricter safety codes. For the first time owners would hold responsibility for their actions. Max Blanck and Isaac Harris; being indicted for manslaughter was proof of this. Social change seemed to be spurred as well; the general public and newspapers would come back the workers of New York. Large institutions would suffer as well. Tammany Hall would be feared less and less by waves of new immigrants. The largest change brought about by the blaze would be legislation. Twenty-five bills, recasting the labor laws of the state
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” is a song written by singer, Billy Joel. Before writing this song, Joel realized that every continuing generation always tends to blame the previous generation for the difficult changes that the present generation confronts. In "We Didn't Start the Fire," Joel writes a chronological order of historical events that occurred during his lifetime. Joel then creates his list of history events into a song that rhymes. When Joel sings the verses of this song, he sings the lyrics at a steady pace. Joel's singing at a steady pace acts as a symbol demonstrating that history does go at a steady pace as well. The message of this song is that history is going on and on, and as it does so, it is bringing changes with it, and there is no way to stop it. Modernizations are changing throughout time, and new struggles are being confronted, and the previous generations are not to be put as the blame. Billy Joel’s song mentions noteworthy happenings in world history, politics, and culture from a forty-year span to
When the narrator introduced the main character of the story, the man, he made it clear that the man was in a perilous situation involving the elements. The man was faced with weather that was 75 degrees below zero and he was not physically or mentally prepared for survival. London wrote that the cold "did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold."(p.1745) At first when the man started his journey to the camp, he felt certain that he could make it back to camp before dinner. As the trip progressed, the man made mistake after mistake that sealed his fate. The man's first mistake was to step into a pool of water and soak his legs to the knees. This blunder forced the man to build a fire to dry his wet socks and shoes so his feet would not freeze and become frostbitten. When the man began to build a fire he failed to notice that he was doing so under a large, snow laden spruce tree where he was getting his firewood. When the man had a small fire that was beginning to smolder the disturbance to the tree caused the snow to tumble to the ground and extinguish the fire. "It was his own fault or, rather, his mistake. He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree. He should have built it in the open."(1750).
When you look back at the history of legacy fire and modern fires you have to compare and contrast the differences. Legacy fires were of more natural products such as wood, cotton, and natural fibers; these types of fires will have a slower time developing as they release as much smoke and fire as it goes through the combustion process. Modern fires tend to grow much hotter and faster because of all the synthetic materials being used like, foam, thinner wood, and most petroleum based producers. As firefighters we have to understand the way in which fires spread have increased solely because of the products that are being manufactured, therefore we must improve our understanding of our surroundings as we fight these fires. “Combustion is an
Washington 1 Dustin Washington Kara Lybarger-Monson English 1B 12 September 2016 Short Fiction Essay In “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, he gives an intriguing and trembling feeling as we follow an unnamed man is making his way through the freezing white snow of Yukon. As the story goes, on you cannot help but be latched onto his journey and wanting to know what will happen next. Although from an outside perspective it may seem initially boring or bland, slowly this unnamed man becomes a focal point that has you wanting to continue reading more and more. This story grabbed my attention by connection a regular man with a challenging life experience, along with a harsh environment with little to no help which ultimately test his
“To Build A Fire” is a clear example of naturalism and follows many of its conventions. Some of the characteristics of naturalism are being conditioned or controlled by the environment, having the world understood only through objective science, conflicts which bring out the instincts of man, pessimism, and presenting a viewpoint which is detached from the reader.
Altho somewhat similar the two stories are very different in many ways. The first story is called “Mystery of Heroism” by Stephen Crane and the other one is “To Build a Fire” by Jack London. Both of the books are part of the short story genre and realism stories. The author's purpose for writing the “Mystery of Heroism” is to tell a story about a brave man who went to get water for a dying man. The purpose for writing “To Build a Fire” is to tell about a man and his dog and how he tried to fight the below freezing temperatures to stay alive. Both authors use realism because they want to tell real stories about people and how they had to overcome struggles in their lifetime. These two stories have similarities but they are way more different than anything else. One of the stories is about a man who has to overcome fear to get water for a man.
A: The film begins with a fire. It narrates the story of men running from a fire when, suddenly, one of the men stop and sets fire to the ground in front of him and the steps into the new safety zone he had just created. The term for his discovery became known as an escape fire. The directors used the idea of an escape fire as a metaphor for our health care system. Currently, our health care system is like a raging fire. The consuming flames of rising costs and a “disease maintenance” mind-set are about to consume our country and we must find a way out, an escape fire, before we perish. Like the men running away from the eminent death by the flames, we as a nation are sprinting towards
Arson is one of the oldest crimes recognized throughout the world. It is defined as the intentional and malicious burning of a structure or building (Montaldo). Arson can cost the lives of individuals and the damages can be costly. In 2010, there were about 260,600 fires (“Arson and Intentional Fires,” n.d.). Many of these fires were intentionally set. These fires have resulted in an estimated 390 deaths, 1,340 injuries, and $1.2 billion in damages (“Arson and Intentional Fires,” n.d.). Most of the fires have occurred outside, but most of the deaths, injuries, and losses occurred in structures, particularly in homes (“Arson and Intentional Fires,” n.d.). Arson is considered to be a property crime to law enforcement agencies, despite that the fires created by the arsonist can injure and kill many people. This paper will discuss the history of arson as well as explaining why arson is difficult to prove, why people commit it, and also provides specific case examples and suggestions on what people can do to reduce the risk of arson.
Wildfires are catastrophic disasters that destroy everything in their path. “A wildfire (also known as forest fire, grass fire, vegetation fire, etc) is an uncontrolled fire often occurring in wild land areas, but which can also consume houses or agricultural resources.” (Wildfire.) The causes of wildfires are mostly intentional, negligence or accidents and natural causes. Wildfires have three distinct phases: Initiation, propagation, and extinction. This phenomenon affects our ecosystem, such as air and earth. In addition, people who witness this kind of catastrophe in the lower cases they lose belongings as houses or cars, but they can also lose their lives. There are many campaigns that help prevent these phenomena, but they need the help of the entire community. It is very important take care of not cause an accident. Wildfire is a phenomenon very common on these days causing a terrible damage to our environment and we have to prevent its expansion through our help, cooperation and prudence...
Firefighting has been a thankless job since the beginning. It started out as a group of people with one objective; to extinguish a fire. They did not worry about the consequences or repercussions from not having any personal protective equipment. The equipment to help keep all firemen safe has drastically changed from being non-existence to the upmost importance. Without safety equipment, firemen cannot perform their job to the best of their ability. Firemen use turnout gear which has three major parts; helmet, jacket, and SCBA.