What is a disaster? Disaster‚ in this article‚ a sudden‚ accidental event that causes many deaths and injuries. Most disasters also result in significant property damage. Common natural causes of disasters include earthquakes‚ floods‚ hurricanes and typhoons‚ and tornadoes. Tsunamis (popularly‚ but incorrectly‚ known as tidal waves)‚ volcanic eruptions‚ wildfires‚ and landslides and avalanches rank among the other natural forces that sometimes create disasters. Man made Not all disasters are
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In 1909‚ workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory began to strike for better working conditions. The workers were harassed by hired toughs and prostitutes hired by the company. When photos got out in the newspaper of the strikers being attacked‚ the movement gained widespread support by many powerful people. This forced Triangle to end the strike and give in to demands for better working conditions‚ 52 hour work week‚ and a fixed wage scale. The bosses still distrusted the workers and often locked
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Indian Wars By Diana Chavez There were many Indiana wars in the 17th century‚ 18th century‚ but mainly in the 19th century. Etheir involving Indian slavery or mainly the English‚ colonists‚ Spanish‚ or the U.S army trying to take over their land. Wars in the 17th century were the Powhatan Confederacy‚ Pequot war‚ King Philip’s war‚ Pueblo revolt‚ and French and Indian war. The Powhatan Confederacy began 1622 and ended 1644 in Jamestown Virginia. The war was made because when the colonists
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This rise in population lead many governing officials to seek statehood for the territory. The population had passed the sixty thousand requirement and was estimated to be around eighty five thousand. Congress at the time was not willing to make Michigan a state and President Jackson wanted to keep his successors in power. Michigan would have brought three electoral votes into the electoral college. These electoral votes would have most likely gone against Jackson’s party. Another huge issue
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What Caused World War 1? During World War 1‚ there were many things that caused it. Imperialism is a structure where a powerful nation takes over or controls over someone‚ something‚ or a place and utilizes one or many colonies. During World War 1‚ Britain was one of the world’s most powerful nation that anyone could ever imagine. Britain took over in the late 1800’s over; Canada‚ India‚ Ceylon‚ Burma‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ Hong Kong and other Pacific and Caribbean Islands‚ South Africa‚ Rhodesia
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someone else comes along to confront and fix it. In the play Hamlet‚ the characters downfalls are caused by their own weaknesses of character. Weakness can be brought upon a person in many ways. Poloniuss weakness is thehis inability to control his actions towards other people. Polonius has a controlling personality that ultimately causes his downfall. Poloniuss uncontrollable personality causes him to spy and manipulate the people he cares about. Right from the beginning we observed that Polonius
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He worked with Paul Green between 1940 and 1941 to create a stage adaptation of the novel. Paul Green later wrote another adaptation for the stage with the guidance of Richard Wright right beside him. He down plays Bigger and even lets him off of the hook for the murder of Bessie. Even though it may have been too graphic for Bigger to have raped and killed Bessie in the stage adaptation‚ it would have helped if‚ like in the novel‚ Bigger served as the main contributor in her death instead if him
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692? All starting in June‚ 1692‚ the Salem Witch Trial hysteria was a period when people were constantly being accused of witchcraft. A witch is someone who is taken over by the devil and portrays the actions of the creature. This mainly happened to women. Historians are still trying to figure out why people would accuse others of witchcraft. Some think it was because of the paranoia from the Native American raids. Hallucinogens were also another suggestion
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Pollution Caused By Factories Factory related pollution is the number one source of pollution in the United States. Factory pollution accounts for more than half the volume of all water pollution‚ as well as for the most deadly of pollutants. More than 365‚000 manufacturing factories consume vast quantities of fresh water to carry away wastes of several different types. This waste water from industrial factories is discharged into lakes‚ oceans and streams‚ which eventually disperse the polluting
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John Lambton‚ Earl of Durham‚ was appointed Governor in Chief of the Canadas‚ sent to investigate the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada in the spring of 1838. Both rebellions had occurred in the previous year of 1837‚ and were led by Louis-Joseph Papineau (Lower Canada Rebellion) and William Lyon Mackenzie (Upper Canada Rebellion). Britain realizing that change was in order to be able to successfully administer the colonies‚ delegated Durham with finding the source of the conflict that had led
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