Triangle Waist Company (manufacture of women clothing and linens)‚ located in the lower Manhattan area of New York City in the Asch Building. Triangle Waist Company had two owners Max Blanck and Issac Harris. Black and Harris went to partnership that would capitalize on Blancks business sense and Harris industry expertise. (PBS) Both men were about profits for the company and not their own employees working conditions that would lead to one of the worst disasters. In the Asch Building‚ the owners
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Sadie Nussbaum‚ an eighteen-year-old Jewish girl who had lived in the 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
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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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van Rijsbergen. Information Retrieval. Butterworths‚ London‚ second edition‚ 1979. [WMB99] I. H. Witten‚ A. Moffat‚ and T. C. Bell. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images [ZMR98] J. Zobel‚ A. Moffat‚ and K. Ramamohanarao. Inverted files versus signature files for text indexing. ACM Transactions on Database Systems‚ 23(4):453–490‚ 1998.
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Drehle moved on to The Miami Herald in 1985. During his time with the Miami Herald‚ he was awarded the Livingston Award‚ which recognizes excellence in young journalism. In 2006 Von Drehle became Editor-at-Large for‚ the renowned‚ Time Magazine. In Triangle: The Fire that Changed America‚ Von Drehle coalesces his critically acclaimed writing skills with knowledge of early 1900s New York to create a masterpiece depicting the struggles of immigrant women and a catastrophic fire that drastically changed
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Design of an LQG controller for two inverted pendulums Objective: The objective of this paper is to design linear quadratic controllers for a system with two inverted pendulums on 2-d Plane. To this goal‚ it has to be determined which control strategy delivers better performance with respect to pendulum’s angle and the cart’s position. The inverted pendulums represents a challenging control problem‚ since it continually moves toward
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1.0 Inverted Pyramid This is the type of news writing where most important point is on the top‚ then followed by less important lastly the least point. The newsworth information comes firts and least newsworth information lat. Normally‚ this is where it contains the five Ws and H‚ the who‚ what‚ where‚ when‚ why‚ when and how of the story. The next paragraphy nomarlly elaborates more on the lead paragraph by using facts and supporting details. The third paragraph most of the time it contains
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Journalism exam Possible questions Section 1 (9 questions): Week 2 1. Define the news: * “anything you can find out today that you didn’t know before” * “new or interesting information” * “anything that makes the reader say gee whiz” * “news is information people need to make sound decisions” 2. What does the news do? * Satisfy our needs and problems * Communicate with each other and get to know who our friends and enemies are. 3. What is media
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Find the equation of the tangent line to the curve x = θ + sinθ‚ y = 1+cosθ a=π/4 14. Prove that is increasing in [o‚ π/2] 15. Prove that curves y² = 4ax and xy = c² cut at right angles If c4 = 32 a4 16. A water tank has the shape of an inverted right circular cone with its axis vertical and vertex lower most. Its semi vertical angle is . Water is poured into it at a constant rate of 5 cubic meter per minute. Find the rate at which the level of the water is rising at the instant when the
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