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    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - I agree watching video story is the Triangle Fire that happening was a death of long ago year people in the garment workers died an without in the fire. The Triangle Fire is a worker in the 20th century for people want including fight background of the American industry in New York City about a Government has a century ago most histories of the death in their victims had family and friend. It’s only women can go to workers for Triangle factory will accept can

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    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire‚ was something foreign to me until just recently. How could such a big tragedy of our nation’s history‚ not make it into more books and other texts? Before this‚ I had only heard about the terrorist attacks in New York‚ but never an incident not involving an outside source. It is a sorrowful yet interesting topic‚ and it makes me question why it the factory fire is not more commonly known about. My first reaction‚ was fear. Fright‚ horror‚ panic‚ scare‚ terror

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    You think we would learn from the first fire that burned down the city of Salisbury‚ right? The city of Salisbury had two fires that brought great devastation to the city of Salisbury. We learned how to handle the fires after most of the entire city was burned down and when we learned how dangerous fire can really be. There was a fire that burned down most of the city in 1860‚ but the real devastation happened 20 years later on Oct 18‚ 1886 when another fire burned a lot of the city. The city of

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    9th in 1871. Millions of Chicagoans left homeless and only because of one cause — Natural Causes. (History.com) The Great Chicago Fire started because of natural causes. There was a drought in Chicago when the fire occurred‚ and there were previous fires before that. Those fires also happened anonymously. There is better chance of a loose spark starting the fire by shooting out of a another wildfire than a crazy old woman trying to get her revenge on the government. The humidity was also a big

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    ran out of the building‚ telling no one there was a fire. The women who worked there became trapped‚ because the back entrance was locked‚ so many were forced to jump out windows or go down the faulty fire escape. That day will never be forgotten and made people realize how bad the conditions were as workers. As a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire‚ many social reforms were built to protect children‚ women‚ and to change workers safety and fire laws. The public was in awe and shocked at the loss

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    The Great Chicago Fire burned for two days straight. From October eighth to October tenth‚ 1871. There are so many questions people ask about the fire. Such as "What caused it to burn out of control?" People can ask about "The effects the fire had on the city and its residents." too. Plus‚ people ask "What happened in the aftermath of the fire?" Those question‚ will be answered in this article. The first question that will be covered is "What caused the fire to burn out of control?" There are

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    How far do you agree that the Reichstag fire handed Germany to Hitler? On the 27th February 1933‚ the Reichstag building was burned down. Hitler was able to take advantage of this. The Reichstag fire was very important it was a step in Hitler becoming fuhrer of Germany. The communists were his closest competition in the election‚ and he made it look like it was a communist plot‚ and was able to go and have the members of the communist party arrested and killed‚ of course all for the good of the

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    Basics of Fire Prevention On board Ships The best way to deal with fires on board ships is to prevent them rather than letting them occur. Breaking out of fire in a place where no fire exist is called “ignition”‚ whereas “flash” is a term used for fire eruption in a new place as a result of flames from an existing fire in a nearby place (the ignition source).  Fires on board ships can be prevented by finding and rectifying leakages of fuel oil‚ lubricating oil‚ and exhaust gases. In a ship’s generator

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    Macbeth and a Song of Ice and Fire By: Janahan Selvanayagam June 14‚ 2013 “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings‚ that you ’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” This quotation by F. Scott Fitzgerald explains that the best literature will always reflect on human nature and so will be immortal and universal. Literature has many aspects that are reused and refined to create modern stories. Some themes like forbidden

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    CIVIL DEFENCE DEPARTMENT MINISTRY OF INTERIOR‚ QATAR FIRE SAFTEY STANDARDS MINIMUM REQUIERMENTS Material: BASIC FRAMEWORK FOR SUBMISSION OF PERFORMANCE-BASED SOLUTIONS 1. Prescriptive requirements are developed for general use but not for specific purposes. Under certain circumstances‚ engineering methods can be used to justify certain alternative approaches to resolve fire safety problems. This will motivate designers of building such as architect and engineers to be creative and innovative. This

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