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    noticed the barn spark up in flames. The most responsible and logical answer to all this Biela’s comet. Could have pieces of Biela’s comet scattered around the Chicago area? The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was started by Biela’s comet. In Wisconsin‚Michigan‚ and Chicago on the year 1871 there was a fire as great as the one in Chicago. In the state of Michigan‚ Peshtigo Wisconsin‚

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    the time of the fire the only safety measures available for the workers were 27 buckets of water and a fire escape that would collapse when people tried to use them. Most of the doors were locked and those that were not locked only opened inwards and were effectively held shut by the onrush of workers escaping the fire. As the clothing materials feed the fire workers tried to escape anyway they could. 25 passengers flung themselves down the elevator shaft trying to escape the fire. Their bodies rained

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    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ Introduction The fire was at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City Claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers This incident has had great significance to this day because it highlights the inhumane working conditions to which industrial working conditions to which industrial workers can be subjected Sweatshops & Strikes before 1911 Was a typical sweated factory in the heart of Manhattan Located at 23-29

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    Pepys about the Great Fire of London in 1666‚ text B being a news article on a fire that devastated Tasmania a few year ago. Do the texts have similarities? Despite there being about a 300-year difference between the two articles written there are actually quite a few similarities. Firstly‚ both the texts are written in first person and in a personal way. They use the same pronouns‚ the pronouns being ‘I’ and ‘us’. They both also talk about a very similar topic being a fire that took the lives and

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    Courage Under Fire In 1991‚ millions of people tuned in to CNN to observe a real life and death drama played out in the cities and deserts of Iraq. For the United States‚ the war was more or less a display of power and a preservation of economic interest. Nobody was to ever hear of the mishaps and foul-ups of the war. In many eyes the war was seen as a chance to boost American spirit and make the government look empowered. Director Edward Zwick and writer Patrick Shane Duncan snatched onto

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    below. You must use All My Sons and “Tragedy and the Common Man‚” by Arthur Miller‚ and one of the two texts provided. This is due Monday‚ November 3‚ 2014. Topic: Is Arthur Miller correct in claiming All My Sons and Joe Keller are modern versions of Aristotle’s tragedy and tragic hero? Your Task: Carefully read each of the texts provided. Then‚ using evidence from All My Sons‚ “Tragedy and the Common Man‚” and either “Arthur Miller: An Attempt at Modern Tragedy‚” by Alvin Whitley‚ or “Arthur Miller’s

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    The novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is story full of adventure‚ action‚ and suspense‚ but only after the first 400 pages. The first part of the book is little more than an account of everyday life in a magical landscape. The story is really slow with nothing very interesting or exiting happening. On the other hand‚ when you finally get to the dramatic climax of the story‚ it is very well told. The movie is totally different. The director decided to add long fight scenes‚ such as the 2o

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    How to hook up to a fire hydrant and pull hose The first thing you need to know about hooking up to a hydrant is it’s the most critical thing at a fire. If you can’t get connected to a hydrant you have no water to put on the fire. So there’s a couple steps to this process. You need to know where your hydrant bag is. This bag includes everything you need to make the connection beside the hose. This include your hydrant wrench‚ your rubber mallet‚ your adapter to connect your storks to the hydrant

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    Published in 2004 by Gover Atlantic Inc‚ David Von Brehle wrote Triangle: The Fire That Changed America that recounted that fateful day at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 26‚ 1911. Von Brehle portrayed not only the horrors of the trapped workers in the factory but also included the poor state of worker’s safety and low wages. Von Brehle’s purpose of writing about the Triangle disaster is to inform readers that factory conditions in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century

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    York City on March 25th‚ 2011 was one of the biggest tragedies killing 146 workers. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a sweatshop factory which caught on such a huge fire and which spread so quickly. The workers consisted of women‚ mainly immigrant women and teenaged girls who did not speak English. They were all crammed into rooms with sewing machines and worked for 12 hours each day. The 8th‚ 9th and 10th floor of the building caught on fire. Most of the deaths could’ve been prevented but the

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