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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the ILGWU

p.PG). At around 1900, most of the workers in the garment industry were Jewish immigrants and attempts at organization had been im...

1911's Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

hours and poor pay" (Kovacik, 1998, p. 137) - had decided to stay late that particular March Saturday in 1911. With a standard we...

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

William Shephard described his horror at witnessing this. "Thud-dead; thud-dead;...sixty-two thud-deads" (Leap for life). Shephard...

75 Year Old New York Woman Interviewed

In ten pages this paper presents an interview with a New York woman that spans her life from the early 1920s to 1979 and includes ...

Overview of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission

loss of life. New laws specified that there must be two exits per floor, one of which could be a staircase, but the other had to b...

Truth and History

workers who smoked at their jobs, and no fire extinguishers (Triangle fire, 2006). At approximately 4.45 p.m. on March 25, 1911, ...

Women and the Advent of Unions

of problems, but highlighted were the working conditions which had since been changed through unionism and the passage of labor la...

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle

thesis is how this fire changed something in America. The author begins by illustrating many people and movements involving...

Who Is To Blame in the Triangle Strike and Fire Case?

understand the customs of the US. As such, then, the company took advantage of their youth and their impoverished conditions to ex...

Asian Growth Triangles' Economic Analysis

In fifteen pages the Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore Growth Triangle is analyzed in terms of the current Asian monetary crisis ...

Ecological Management and the Role of Fire

In twelve pages management of the ecosystem is discussed in a consideration of fire's role with emphasis upon the fire effects on ...

Firefighting Assistance from Computers

to accurately predict the conditions in which the fire would burn out (Walton, 1985). This revolutionary computer "expert syste...

Firefighting and Labor

In a literature review consisting of twenty five pages this paper considers various labor issues concerning civilian fire casualti...

“The Gates of Fire” by Steven Pressfield

on history, on ancient people and cultures. Pressfield has obviously researched the types of weapons the people used, the struggle...

Sonnets and Poems

are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...

Why Should a Trailer Mounted Fire Unit be Replaced?

with an understanding of how to deal with five in the environment, and their ability to think quickly and react in the appropriate...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

The Great Chicago Fire

been very well off. At the same time, it seems that there was a lot of money in the area. After all, there had been private mansio...

“Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

Reviewing Gas Plants in Terms of Fire Safety

need to consider the causes and how to deal with these potential events. There are three basic types of explosion, the first ids...

Lane v. Franks 2014

In 2006, Lane fired an employee because she never came to work and refused to do so. She sued. Lane was fired and filed a lawsuit....

Fire Prevention, Private and Governmental Interactions

In four pages this paper examines the fire prevention role of state and federal agencies and the private companies' responsibility...

Asia, Forest Fires, and Air Pollution

burned in addition to the health havoc it wreaked on the population of South East Asia (Linden, 1998). At the height of the fires,...

Fire Inquiry Design Regarding an Offshore Platform Fire Investigation

In five pages this report presents the inquiry and process of a fire investigation regarding an offshore oil platform's design fla...

Fire as a Theme in Virgil's Aeneid

the contest because she bribed Paris by offering him Helen of Troy, the fairest of mortal women, which is the basis for the confli...

Fire Safety Issues

This paper examines various fire prevention and fire safety issues with an emphasis on institutional buildings. The author cites ...

Fire's Effects on the Evolution of Plant Species

This paper examines the effects of fire on various metabolic and evolutionary aspects of plant life. The author focuses on the Po...

2003 Fire at Rhode Island's Station Fire Nightclub

they tried to go out the same way they came in...the other three exits had signs with battery-powered lights, but people couldnt s...

Fire and the Development of the Fire Service

mean firefighting in all its permutations, from urban areas to forest fires; it includes training and equipment as well. This pape...

A Narrative Overview of Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"

is one of the most popular and enduring short stories of all time. There are many reasons why one might like the story. On the sur...