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    Triangle Waist Company had a fire breakout which killed 141 young girls and an about 5 of them men. This fire is believed to have started by cigarettes or matches that had been thrown in a pile of waste‚ and witnessed to have ended in being the greatest industrial disaster till that time. This company broke numerous amount of laws that were created to protect the workers‚ such as not being allowed to have doors locked during working hours and having correct dimensions of the fire escape‚ and because of

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    essay with pictures that shows and explains the reasons for the fires that displaced people during the 1970’s in New York City and the effect these fires had on people and the neighborhoods. In this task the readings include: 1. An introduction 2. A reflection about the South Bronx written by a writer for The Post 3. An interview with a journalist who covered the fires in Bushwick 4. An oral history from someone who experienced the fires at the time You need to take notes in your notebook. You can pick

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    The tragedy of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire sparked the uprising in the fight for better shape of the working environment when 145 of the innocent were killed. It was that it began in a small rag bin‚ a simple target for a fire in a building with locked fire escape routes‚ unoperational elevators‚ and no ventilation‚ that initiated the fight for worker safety. Although most hand-made garment businesses have been made irrelevant in the U.S. due to industrialization and mass production today

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    United States of America her entire life along with 148 of her fellow workers‚ was killed in the fire in the Triangle Shirt Factory(Nussbaum death certificate). Ever since‚ historians and advocates have asked the question‚ “Who should be held responsible for their deaths?” After looking at many sources it seems that the owners of the building‚ Blanck and Harris‚ were ultimately responsible for the fire. This is because they failed to keep the building properly inspected‚ had terrible working conditions

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    Game of Thrones is a television series based on the popular book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. The first season covers about the same time period as the first book‚ aptly named Game of Thrones for which the series take its name. There are many great things about A Song of Ice and Fire‚ from the hundreds of unique individual characters‚ with their own back stories‚ allegiances‚ and house names; to the visual detailed pictures Martin paints in your imagination of everything

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    installed emergency lighting on the second floor . The fire escape stairs have a rise of cm and a width of cm. There are two installed escape ladders on the building but the other one is obstructed by stones along it.  The corridor has a width of 1.80 meters.  The classrooms in the basement ( F101 and F107) have an exit that leads directly to the exterior without entering the floor above. FOR WARNING AND PROTECTION  The building doesn’t have a fire alarm that is manually operated  We did not see

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    this year’s (2014) Fire Prevention Month‚ the Bureau of Fire Protection recorded a number of 618 structural fire incidents. Fire incidents occur mostly due to carelessness. For the past years‚ numerous cases of houses and establishments were burned that led to high cases of death and property losses. Fires often occur during summer and hot season because there is a gradual increase in the temperature‚ which makes flammable objects become more prone to cause fires. And because fire produces smoke‚ it

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    We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel is a song about many historic events‚ starting from 1949 and ending in 1989‚ the year the song came out. In each verse‚ Joel sings about the historic events that happened throughout the decades starting with Harry Truman and ending with The Rock n’ Roller Cola Wars. The chorus contains the following words after each verse: “We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning since the world’s been turning. We didn’t start the fire. No we didn’t light it but we tried

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    Lauren McDaniel Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Immoral owners ignored basic worker’s rights. Exceptionally hazardous working conditions‚ ridiculous long hours‚ and low wages were the lives of the workers at the Triangle Waist Company. Most workers were women immigrants seeking a better life in the United States. Speaking out would end with the loss of their needed jobs‚ forcing them to suffer personal indignities and severe mistreatment. Because of the poor working conditions the Women’s Trade

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    The tragic story of the fire occurring at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company was very compelling because it brought attention to the events leading up to the fire. The working conditions for women during the Progressive Era were awful and didn’t actually ensure the safety and proper After the fire‚ the story rapidly spread inspiring hundreds of activists across the state and the U.S. to push for very much needed fundamental reforms. Many of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory workers were young

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