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    was born on October 2‚ 1905‚ as Mary Marvin Breckinridge. She started using Marvin to stop people from confusing her with her cousin Mary Breckinridge who was the founder of Frontier Nursing. She started her journalist career by making a film “The Forgotten Frontier” depicting the nursing service of her cousin. She is known for taking the first pictures of a London air –raid shelter. She was the first female broadcaster‚ hired by CBS in Europe. She resigned from CBS when she married Jefferson Patterson

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    of scarce resources‚ separation of collations‚ and their organizational culture lead to the disaster of Mann Gulch in August of 1949. Little to no unity existed among members of this organization which caused them to be doomed from the beginning. To fire-jump everything needs to be in unity in order for average men to commit their lives for the job. Power struggles and cultural norms impeded group cohesion causing sub-groups and ambiguity along the way. By using both the political and symbolic frames

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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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    am about to tell you about what happened in Chicago fire that happened 1871. It devastated a lot of people made 100‚000s of people homeless. What I think about the Chicago fire is that if it had happen any where else the people would had acted the same as the people in Chicago did. Now I will tell you what happened in Chicago. When William lee reached Goll’s drugstore‚ he was gasping for air and frantic. In his breathless voice lee requested the key to the alarm box that was mounted outside of

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    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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    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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    encountered many challenging situations in its existence. On September fifth of 1666‚ a fire ignited by Thomas Farriner’s bakery spread rapidly through the city of London. Farriner started the fire in the oven to cook bread;however‚ he forgot about the fire and went to sleep. His house went up into flames‚and the fire  began to spread through the streets of London quickly. The great fire lasted over a span of four days. The fire eventually destroyed thirteen thousand and five hundred houses‚eighty-seven parish

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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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