Scientists have studied forests and fires to determine the secret of Nature’s success in attaining this necessary balance. They have learned that a "natural" fire results from a certain fuel condition. Some forest types produce and accumulate fuels faster than others; some decompose fuels more readily than others. However‚ at some point in time‚ every forest type has fuel of the right quantity and quality for that forest to be "ready" to burn. In the past‚ forest fires would benefit the whole forest
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Fire Insurance | | | | Fire insurance is a contract under which the insurer in return for a consideration (premium) agrees to indemnify the insured for the financial loss which the latter may suffer due to destruction of or damage to property or goods‚ caused by fire‚ during a specified period. The contract specifies the maximum amount‚ agreed to by the parties at the time of the contract‚ which the insured can claim in case of loss. This amount is not‚ however‚ the measure of the loss. The
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FIRE INSURANCE WHAT IS FIRE INSURANCE? Fire insurance is a contract under which the insurer in return for a consideration (premium) agrees to indemnify the insured for the financial loss which the latter may suffer due to destruction of or damage to property or goods‚ caused by fire‚ during a specified period. The contract specifies the maximum amount‚ agreed to by the parties at the time of the contract‚ which the insured can claim in case of loss. This amount is not‚ however‚ the measure
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INTRODUCTION Fire is one of the original perils insurance was designed to protect against. Current building codes and many nearby fire departments make it easy to forget about the catastrophic damage fire can do. However the damage caused by fire and the fire departments effort to put out a fire is all too real. It happens in just an instance. Smoker falling asleep in a chair‚ an unattended candle‚ paper or clothing too near the stove or a heat generating source‚ or a spark caused from an
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DISCOVERY OF FIRE The largest technological breakthrough in prehistory was the discovery of fire. The discovery of the technology to make and sustain fire. The discovery of fire‚ or‚ more precisely‚ the controlled use of fire was‚ of necessity‚ one of the earliest of human discoveries. Fire ’s purposes are multiple‚ some of which are to add light and heat‚ to cook plants and animals‚ to clear forests for planting‚ to heat-treat stone for making stone tools‚ to burn clay for ceramic objects. Until
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My enthusiasm in social work began during high school. At my high school‚ all seniors were required to complete what was called a “Quest Project”. The purpose of the benchmark project was to focus on a social issue that affected the community‚ find research on the social issue‚ and find any possible solutions to the issue. Given that my social issue was focused on social anxiety disorder in children and adolescents‚ I had worked with a school counselor‚ who was also a marriage and family therapist
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The poem “Fire and Ice” is a poem written by Robert Frost. This nine-lined poem of Robert Frost reminds me of Armageddon. Robert Frost is using the elements of fire and ice to represent the two strongest and deepest of human emotions. Fire would represent all the passion‚ lust‚ desire‚ and envy while ice represents the cooler and calmer emotions such as humans hate or ambition. Both are deep enough for humans to cause our own downfall. This is one of Robert Frost’s simplest poems. In Robert
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Kindle Fire: A little over 3 months: Amazon has sold nearly 5M Kindle Fires and had capture ½ of the non-Apple tablet market share. Worldwide sales of e-book since the introduction of the Kindle product line had grown from less than 1% of all books sold to 15% in 2012 Amazon has to refine its strategy fir Kindle Fire because of IPad 3 New entrants such as Samsung‚ Motorola‚ and Google were beginning to wnter the tablet market Amazon’s long-time competitor in the E Ink-based readers‚ Barnes& Noble
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I have chosen to write my paper on a fire that occurred on February 4th‚ 2007 and was initially reported at 0934 in a small town in Pennsylvania. The weather at the time of the incident included a high temperature of fourteen degrees‚ with a low of three degrees. Winds were between ten and twenty miles per hour and there were gusts up to thirty miles per hour. This fire killed one firefighter a 27 year old male with approximately thirteen total years experience twelve and a half of those being
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imaginary worlds‚ and that escape was represented by many symbols during the play‚ one of them were the fire escape. The fire escape which represents the one way excursion which Tom needed in order to find a temporary safe haven from the nagging of his mother‚ Amanda‚ and the responsibilities he had towards his crippled sister‚ Laura. Tom was suffocating both emotionally and spiritually and it was the fire escape that represented the bridge between the illusory world of the wingfileds and the world of the
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