a earthquake and fire developed in San Francisco that only lasted seconds‚ but yet it destroyed ¾ of the city including 300‚000 homes and 38‚000 buildings at the end. Much of the destruction that day was caused by the fire that the earthquake started that is why people today call it “the great Fire of 1906.” During the earthquake the head of the city’s fire department passed away when the chimney of his home collapsed on top of him. In addition to this tragic incident the fire department lost almost
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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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Barber 9 May 2012 Guilt and Shame in Who You Are: An Analysis of Kinbote in the Novel Pale Fire Out of the many forms of literary criticism that have been imposed on Pale Fire‚ there is one in particular that Vladimir Nabokov consistently refutes: psychoanalytic criticism. Though Nabokov regularly discredits psychoanalysis‚ I believe that it is crucial to use a psychoanalytic lens when looking at Pale Fire in general but more specifically when looking at the character of Charles Kinbote. As discussed
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Focus Question: The Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire highlighted problems in workplace safety‚ building code enforcement‚ and women’s labor. What changes were made to federal and state occupational safety laws as a result of the fire? On March 25‚ 1911 fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Manhattan Borough of The City of New York. It was a catastrophic‚ public spectacle of tragedy which cost 146 people their lives‚ and became the catalyst needed to set in motion some the most
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First Paper: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Paper In an organized and coherent essay‚ answer the following questions: What was the significance of the fire which occurred on March 25‚ 1911 at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City? Why were public officials motivated to act in response to the fire? How did the fire and the response to the fire impact the world today? Your essay should be 2-3 pages long. Keep in mind that you need to have an introduction‚ a thesis statement‚ at
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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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Prof. Dr. JSI Prasad FIRE‚ PREVENTION AND PROTECTION: Fire Precautions: Fires in hotel and catering establishments are common and all too often can result in injury to the employee and in serious cases either injury or loss of life to employees and customers. Fire Prevention: In dealing with this subject it is necessary to realize that it falls into two separate categories : a. Fire Prevention b. Fire fighting One of the most important requirements for fire prevention is good housekeeping---housekeeping
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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 owners were so selfish and uncaring so the workers were trapped inside during the fire since the doors were locked. The owners
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it is another cause of death‚ another tragic way to die. This exact way of dying took 145 souls on March 25‚ 1911. One after another girls aging anywhere between 13 and 23 years of age thought they were leaping for their lives from the out break of fire‚ but instead leapt for death‚ out of the windows to meet the concrete over one hundred feet below. In honor of those who leapt for their life‚ changes were made in occupational safety standards that ensure the safety of workers today. When it comes
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 What do we think of when we hear the word sweatshop? Many people associate that word with female immigrant workers‚ who receive very minimal pay. The work area is very dangerous to your health and is an extremely unsanitary work place. The work area is usually overcrowded. That is the general stereotype‚ in my eyes of a sweatshop. All if not more of these conditions were present in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. This company was located in New York City at
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