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    out of the blue

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    Out of the Blue’ is a dramatic monologue spoken by one of the people inside the twin towers on 9/11‚ from inside the burning building. The effect is of extreme close up on a tiny point in space in time‚ almost in a 1to1 narrative time. The event is narrated as it happens an appeal to a second person who could not be listening. This creates an weird effect‚ of an event we cannot touch‚ of lost people who could not speak to us‚ even though we watched at the time or later: the flames‚ the people who

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    The Mann Gulch Fire

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    The Mann Gulch Fire On August 5‚ 1949‚ a wildfire overran 16 smokejumpers and firefighters in Mann Gulch on the Helena National Forest in Montana. The fire was most likely started by lightning from a thunderstorm. It was noticed promptly by rangers‚ who dispatched 16 smokejumpers‚ under the command of Wagner Dodge. Thought to be much smaller than it actually was‚ the fire quickly grew large and out of control‚ covering 3000 acres in 10 minutes during its blow up stage. Upon approaching Mann Gulch

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    Pan Europa Foods * Question 1 * a. Strategically‚ what must Pan-Europa do to keep from becoming the victim of a hostile takeover? Answer: Pan Europa should not decrease the dividends of the shareholders to not devalue the stock price of the company. Instead should just decrease capital spending as what they board of directors have decided. In short‚ they should adopt strategies that should increase stock price not push it down to discourage buyout. b. What rows categories in Exhibit 2

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    Inside Out

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    Carissa 2-22-10 Ahrens english 90 Prewriting for reader response on inside out I was almost overwhelmed by fear when my friends car slammed into the car in front of us on the freeway. It was the year 2008 and my friends and i where driving to Oceanside from San diego to go to an concert. It was my friends Candice‚ Karis‚ Moline‚ and Kayla. Kayla was driving with candice in the front seat‚ Candice was three months pregnant. The rest of us was sitting in the back seat‚ I was sitting

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    The Fire of London 1666

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    THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON The Great Fire of London was a disaster that spread throughout the City of London in September 1666. Preceded by bubonic plague which struck England in 1665‚ the fire was another disastrous event that threatened Londoners in the seventeenth century. Medieval in its street plan‚ the City of London with timber buildings and very narrow streets had been threatened by several minor fires before. Yet the risk of the fire of 1666 was increased by a long period of severe drought

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    The Fire That Changed an Industry: A Case Study on Thriving in a Networked World By: Amit S. Mukherjee About 8 p.m. on March 17th 2000‚ a lightning bolt struck a high-voltage electricity line in New Mexico. As power fluctuated across the state‚ a fire broke out in a fabrication line of the Royal Philips Electronics radio frequency chip manufacturing plant in Albuquerque. Plant personnel reacted quickly and extinguished the fire within ten minutes. At first blush‚ it was clear that eight trays

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    Fire Sprinkler with Alarm

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    Running Head: FIRE SPRINKLER ALARM Fire Sprinkler Alarm Christopher Sazon Justine Vergara Legazpi City High School CHAPTER I Introduction Fire is extraordinary helpful. It gave humans the first form of portable light and heat. It also gives us the ability to cook food‚ forge metal tools‚ form pottery‚ harden bricks and drive power plants. But at the same time‚ fire can destroy houses and possessions in less than hour. It can also reduce an entire forest to a pile of

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    Peshtigo Fire Analysis

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    Peshtigo Fire The article‚ The Blood-Red Night by Lauren Tarshis illustrates how the Peshtigo fire in 1871 was a very deadly natural disaster that changed the lives of many people. The Kramer family’s lives were going pretty great in Wisconsin the forest was very big. Next‚ the article talks about the fires that began to spread out of control and burn things up‚ like the creek. People began to become panicked and started to try and prepare for the fire. The fire hit them hard and became a firestorm

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    Elevator Fire Analysis

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    This video provided both a horrific description of the fire‚ and also a lot of interesting background leading up to the fire. In fact‚ most of the documentary was about the business‚ social‚ and political environment surrounding the fire. So‚ I will spend more time discussing what I learned from the environment‚ but I certainly will consider the fire and its impact as well. First‚ the video talked about the role of government in business at the time. Even though this was a little over 100 years

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    Maxed Out

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    Business 1001 9/9/13 Maxed Out The video “Maxed Out covered many useful and important facts that all Americans should know. While watching this video‚ I found three particular facts that attracted my interest. I gained the knowledge of who are most vulnerable to credit card companies‚ how people get into debt and how many people have filed for bankruptcy‚ and what the Unites States spends more money on. These three key facts have more of a meaning than most Americans know. The first key

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