In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone women play different types of roles, but very few are shown as truly powerful and independent. This is due to the beliefs that powerful jobs are mostly held by men, since they are considered superior to women. The way women are portrayed is often an interpretation of how they are viewed by society. If women are portrayed as being less capable than men, either intellectually or physically, it reflects how they are truly viewed in society. In
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1911 Triangle Waist Factory Fire What exactly is a sweatshop? Have they ever existed and if so, do they still exist in today’s society? According to Dictionary.com a sweatshop is “a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.” Factories in which the definition mentions, do, in fact exist. These factories can be traced back to the 19th century. One in particular, was called the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. The ending result of what happened to the
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those guidelines are NFPA, NEMA, FCC, UL, and NEC. NFPA stands for National Fire Protection Association. NFPA was founded in 1896 as a nonprofit organization to help protect property, people, and the environment from fire damage. It’s now an international organization representing over 100 countries with 65,000 members. NFPA’s mission is to help reduce the risk of fire through safety requirements, research, codes, and fire-related education. NFPA is published every three years. It covers issues related
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Industrialization after the Civil War Monyea Anthony Professor Adam McBride History 105: Contemporary U.S. History August 3, 2014 The industrialization after the civil war had affected American in different ways. Industrialization influenced the U.S society by the number of employed children
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states require use of the codes in International Building and in addition, they need to be accredited by the 'Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' (Carr, 2010). The regulations require compliance with the fire codes set by the National Fire protection Association and follow the standards set in NFPA 99 and NFPA 101 which guide safety within the facilities. The facilities must also follow the American with Disability Act since it is a public facility. They must follow OSHA
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did not do that she also worked as a professor. She taught at Adelphi College teaching sociology. Her life was always busy. She never seemed to stop. The year after that something horrible happened. She was their when the Traingle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened. This was a bad part of her life. This was in New York where she worked at. This was dealing with the Consumers League. After all that happened she became the executive secretary. Not any secretary, the secretary for the Safety of the City
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Out of This Furnace, by Thomas Bell, although fiction, depicts actual people, who were working in the steel mills of Pennsylvania, in the early nineteen hundred’s. These immigrants who worked within the mills, were mostly men, “a good half were Slovaks or other non-English-speaking foreigners, and of that half not one had a skilled job” (Bell 119 Kindle version). Many of these men had come to the United States to find work, and hopefully have their families join them once they got established
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would cause 146 deaths in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The negligence of proper fire safety equipment, poor building design, absence of an appropriate fire escape, and substandard evacuation routine caused innocent lives to wither in the inferno. Disregarding proper safety measures had a resounding effect in the tragedy. As Abramowitz was taking his coat and hat from a nearby peg, he noticed the fire. The fire that would ultimately burn and destroy the factory. Dinah Lipschitz, a worker at Triangle
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“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” The seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling, is packed with action and edge of your seat suspense. Six years ago, Harry discovered the truth about his past: why strange things always happened to him and why he never fit in. He was a wizard, and his parents were murdered by the Dark Lord, Voldemort. However, Voldemort’s spell
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“Triangle Fire of 1911” is a documentary based on the fire that occurred in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 25, 1911, in which 145 workers of various ages died. The shirtwaist factory fire was the deadliest workplace accident in history, although shirtwaist factory workers had gone on strike for better working conditions before the fire it was not until after the tragedy that several laws were passed to improve working conditions. “The Triangle Fire of 1911” also talks about how the women
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