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    Blanche and Stella. It also included and abusive husband‚ Stanley. Williams described many sad details and shined a light on mental illness and spousal abuse. “Street Car” shocks people to their very core with emotional and tragedy throughout the whole play. It showcases tragedy thru certain elements including the symbols‚ themes‚ and setting. “A Street Car Named Desire” has many symbols in it‚ but the one that is most relevant is the streetcar. The streetcars are foreshadowing Blanches’

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    Submitted by: Jaron Su Submitted to: Mr. D. Lukas Course: ENG2D Date Submitted: 6 June 2013 The Power of Circumstance in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Throughout the world‚ “[t]here are...great challenges that ordinary [people] are forced by circumstance to meet” (Halsey). William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ effectively conveys how Romeo and Juliet meet their tragic fates. The actions of Friar Lawrence‚ members of the Capulet and Montague households‚ society’s demands‚ and fate create

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    just pure bad decisions‚ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a catastrophic story of a death of young children. Everyone in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has an effect that lead to the young lovers death. With the Friar’s guilt-ridden advice‚ Romeo’s impulsiveness‚ and the dispute between the Capulets and Montagues‚ there’s many people you could potentially say did the most damage‚ so who should take credit for The Tragedy of two young lovers? Throughout the “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” there’s

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    The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet In Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ two main characters from very different family’s meet and fall in love at first sight; their names were Romeo and Juliet. After Romeo is banned from Verona by prince Escalus‚ Juliet tries to fake her death so she can be snuck out of Verona to be with Romeo. When Romeo finds Juliet asleep without knowledge of her plan he assumes she is dead and ends up killing himself by consuming a deadly potion. When Juliet

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    In December of 1984 there was an incident that lead to a gas leak in Bhopal‚ India that is referred to as the “Bhopal Gas Tragedy.” This gas leak is commonly referred to as one of the worst industrial disasters in history. The gas leak was at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) chemical plant in Bhopal‚ India. This chemical plant produced Sevin which is a pesticide that was commonly used throughout Asia [12]. Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) owned a little more than half the shares of the UCIL

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    a normal kid living in Halifax Harbor. So was his family‚ his school‚ and so were his friends. All was well that December day‚ boats still hustled along the narrow harbor. No one knew the tragedy that’d soon become their reality. Kristin Lewis shows this in her article “Shattered sky” On December 6th a tragedy rose in Halifax harbor. But no one knew this. The town‚ in the author’s words “were buzzing with activity. Soft smoke curled from chimneys as mothers served up steaming bowls of oatmeal” (1)

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    together popped out. The gash in the hull let water come into the ship at 10 tons per second! Of the 2200 passengers‚ she carried on board‚ only 700 survived. Some people say that Thomas Andrews (the head designer of the Titanic) was responsible for the tragedy due to faulty ship design. Others say that J. Bruce Ismay is responsible for encouraging faulty ship design. Ismay is to blame because he should have told Thomas Andrews to make the supposed ‘water tight’ bulkheads higher. Ismay also should have added

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    9. Piper Alpha video review The Piper Alpha’s tragic chain of events occurred because of a number of safety procedures were not met or implemented. The almighty dollar was given preference over the safety of hundreds of lives. We found a number of unsafe situations that could have been avoided if the right Safety management system was in place. These are our findings. 1. The oil rig recently introduced a new gas pipeline in the weeks leading up to the disaster. The rig wasn’t designed to be a gas

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    1) We could firstly look at the arguments that would justify a company in putting its first loyalty and moral responsibility to its owners as a priority. One of those arguments is the shareholder theory‚ which states that “the primary responsibility of a firm is to maximise the wealth of its shareholders” (Friedman‚ 1962). As Friedman (1970 in Moore 1999) then proceeded to argue‚ he claimed that society would gain as a whole if businesses were left to do what they do best‚ create wealth. This

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    A tragedy has struck the people of Flint‚ Michigan. One that has come as a great shock to some‚ but an inevitable occurrence to others. The government that once elected to switch to the polluted waters of Flint is now scrambling to think of solutions to the destruction it has caused. Regardless of what residents thought about switching their water supply from the Detroit river to the Flint River before‚ it is something that affects everyone now. The tragedy of the Flint Michigan Water Crisis represents

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