Essays on Chimney

A Fireplace

The sooty, stained bricks that made up the fireplace were visible in the fire’s warm glow. It slowly heated the room as I began to realize I know longer needed to be wearing so many layers. Shadows danced and flickered on the walls around me. There was no need for electricity on a cold, quiet night like this when the fireplace was lit. The fire’s light cast a sleepy haze over the room, as we heard the wood kindle and crack with its heat. The flames grew higher, licking their way slightly further up the chimney. The ...

William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were written in the 18th century. Blake used parallel versions of his poems to construct an ideal form of human existence which he later compared against the contemporary society. His works, which were sometimes considered deeply spiritual, caused some of his critics to dismiss him as a Lunatic and his work as the rantings of a lunatic. Blake was also an artist and his images accompanied most of his poems. Blake used parallel poems to respond to the decay in the human values in the society (Vines 116). Many ...

Cooking in Mayukkwayukwa has predominantly been done using stoves that are not energy efficient; therefore, the residents end up consuming a lot of firewood and charcoal in the cooking process. As a result of the collection of large volumes of firewood around the settlement area, the region is becoming deforested as more trees are cut for firewood and charcoal production. This has led to a shortage of fuel for cooking. Gathering firewood is generally women’s work, and they have to gamble with life-threatening risks such as forest and rape attacks during the firewood search process. At times, these ...