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    A House of Fire

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    Fire is a good servant‚ helping us with the cooking and providing warmth during those chilly winter nights‚ but it can also be a bad master when we underestimate its destructive power. It’s for this reason that fire needs to be handled with care. Playing with it can be dangerous‚ and at times can also prove fatal to those unfortunate enough to find themselves in its path. Our next-door neighbours were lucky in that nobody was injured‚ but the same thing cannot be said about their beloved house. Although

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    mgm fire

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    building broke ground during 1972 and it was ultimately opened to the public in December of 1973. The building consisted of different construction types of varying efficacy with respect to fire protection. The hotel floors were resistant to fire and utilized a steel framing members which were protected by gypsum wall board (GWB) and reinforced concrete. Partitions were constructed from steel studs and GWB. The casino and interstitial levels were more sparsely protected; in some instances partitions did

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    Fire Insurance

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    Fire Insurance | | | | Fire insurance is a contract under which the insurer in return for a consideration (premium) agrees to indemnify the insured for the financial loss which the latter may suffer due to destruction of or damage to property or goods‚ caused by fire‚ during a specified period. The contract specifies the maximum amount‚ agreed to by the parties at the time of the contract‚ which the insured can claim in case of loss. This amount is not‚ however‚ the measure of the loss. The

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    The Iron Wall

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    Since 2005‚ passing through a wall separating the West Bank. It separates Palestinians from Israelis‚ Palestinians‚ and especially Palestinians. In Germany‚ it is hardly noticed‚ while we should have a sense of what such a wall. We are committed to the destruction of Israel. The film‚ describing the impact of the Israeli separation wall‚ built largely on Palestinian land‚ is said to be one of the clearest expositions of the Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank. Reviewing the film‚ former President

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    Wall-E

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    humans have all been relocated to a star liner called Axiom. Trash compactor robots are left on earth to clean it up. Then the company Buy ‘n’ Large decides to shut down all the robots except one‚ Wall-E Recycling Wall-E was the last of his kind of robots left on earth to clean it up. Every day‚ Wall-E would go to a section or sector of the earth and gather up garbage‚ compact it until it was a square shape. He would then‚ take the recycled squares and began stacking them until they formed buildings

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    The Vietnam Wall

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    Appendix line. A dig. An archaeologist can explain. The walk is slow at first Easy‚ a little black marble wall Of a dollhouse‚ A smoothness‚ a shine The boys in the street want to give. One name. And then more Names‚ long lines‚ lines of names until They are the shape of the U.N. building Taller than I am: I have walked Into a grave. And everything I expect has been taken away‚ like that‚ quick: The names are not alphabetized. They are in the order of dying. An alphabet of

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    Essay On Samurai Rising

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    Written by Pamela Turner and illustrated by Gareth Hinds‚ Samurai Rising is a biography on the fascinating life of Minamoto Yoshitsune‚ one of the most well known samurais in Japan. Yoshitsune was a member of the Minamoto family‚ who were defeated by their main rival‚ the Taira family‚ when he was still just an infant. Most of the adult Minamoto were killed‚ while their children were sent to live in exile in various parts of Japan. Little is known about Yoshitsune’s early childhood‚ but there are

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    Rising Cost of Education

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    reach college age‚ doing the math can make the dream of college sound more like a nightmare. For those within a year or two of college‚ the change in estimated costs can bring some major sticker shock. So‚ here are some of the major contributors to rising college costs‚ and what it might mean for your budget and planning: Inflation Inflation generally refers to the natural increase in the cost of living over time. While no one loves inflation‚ it’s generally accepted as a fact of life. In the

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    The Walls of Thebes

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    Valerie S Watson Humanities 101 May 16‚ 2013 W. A. The Walls of Thebes The Walls of Thebes 1. The significance of The Walls of Thebes is some twenty-five hundred years later Bertolt Brecht‚ a refugee in Denmark‚ wrote a poem which began‚ “Wer baute das siebentorige Theben?” Who built seven-gated Thebes? In the books stand and recorded the names of Kings. The Kings haul the broken rock. It was of course the working class that built Thebes. Euripides+Hermes would give the job to Zethus the practical

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    INTRODUCTION Fire is one of the original perils insurance was designed to protect against.  Current building codes and many nearby fire departments make it easy to forget about the catastrophic damage fire can do.  However the damage caused by fire and the fire departments effort to put out a fire is all too real.  It happens in just an instance.  Smoker falling asleep in a chair‚ an unattended candle‚ paper or clothing too near the stove or a heat generating source‚ or a spark caused from an

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