Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers: Résumé: Harry Potter est un garçon de qui est élevé par sa tante et son oncle qui ne l 'aime pas. Il apprend le jour de son 11ème anniversaire qu'il est un sorcier. Il va donc aller a l'école de sorcellerie de Poudlard où il va se révéler un très bon sorcier. Mais il va lui falloir plus que du courage pour affronter celui-dont-on-ne-doit-pas-prononcer-le-nom mais il pourra conter sur ses amis Ron et Hermione. Le livre: J'ai adoré!!!Le livre m'a emporter
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 was the deadliest work related accident until the terrorist attacks on 9/11, ninety years later. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a large sweatshop run in New York City. This business was run in the top three floors of a ten story building(Workers in the Industrial Age). This fire on Saturday March 25, 1911 caused 146 people to die from multiple causes such as suffocation, burning alive, and jumping to their deaths. All this destruction still has no
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The Triangle fire that claimed the lives of 146 people, most of them immigrant women and girls, caused an outcry against unsafe working conditions in factories. Firefighters arrived at the scene, but their ladders could only reach the 6th floor of the 10- storey building. Workers were trapped inside because the owners had locked the fire escape exit doors to prevent theft, so workers jumped to their deaths. The government could’ve prevented the Triangle fire earlier if they listened to the workers’
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Harry potter. A famously known book and movie series that made more than 450 million copies of the series and skyrocketed to over $7.7 billion in sales worldwide on screenplay. Yes, books are fascinating and we get emotionally involved with them, but once a great actor or actress is put into the film of a favorite book or the phenomenal directors and filmmakers are used, it’s game over. You can not put into words the emotional connection that is made when watching a film. While reading and watching
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over their employees. In the end, devastation struck. A fire was ignited from a dropped cigarette on the 8th floor of the building. There was only one exit (the other exits were locked due to an owner's policy) a frail fire escape and a very small elevator. Paper and wooden furniture were prevalent and pathways to the escape routes were obscured by equipment. The safety precaution against a possible fire were a dozen pails of water. The fire caused the death of 146 employees. This tragic set of circumstances
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Triangle Fire V. Rana Plaza Disaster Unsafe conditions in the garment industry can lead to a catastrophe. In March 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught on fire, which lead to the loss of 145 innocent lives. A similar event happened 102 years later. In April 2013 at Dhaka, Bangladesh, Rana Plaza factory building collapsed killing 1100 workers. These two events have similar yet different safety aspects that contribute to the garment industry regulations. The most important similarity between
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Triangle Waist Factory Consequences On March 25, 1911 the Triangle Waist Factory in New York City went up in flames. Experts say it was most likely a cigarette bud from a worker but we will never know for sure. While this event was a tragedy it sparked a movement for worker safety regulations across the nation. I will be exploring what all this event affected and how it affects us today. The tragedy at the Triangle Waist Factory helped the organization ILGWU which was a labor union at the
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was one of the greatest tragedies of the progressive era. All started with the labor movement originated from poor working conditions in those years. Workers were usually overexploited and underpaid. One of the companies that more was noticed was the factory of Triangle Shirtwaist located in the ninth and tenth of Asch Building (NYC). The company, under the ownership of Max Black and Isaac Harris, produced blouses known as shirtwaists. The company usually hired
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire The Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911 was one of the deadliest industrial accident to occur on US soil. 146 workers lost their lives in a fire at the shirtwaist factory in New York City. This factory massed produced triangle shirtwaist, a women’s fashion piece, back in the early 1900’s. Fashion was around this time, changing, and changing fast and the owners felt the pressure. The owners of the factory Max Blanck and Isaac Harries had to keep up with the high demand to produce
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Triangle Factory Fire safety issues. The triangle factory fire was one of the most tragic events in New York, up until September 11th of 2001. 146 bodies were identified, any others were burnt in the fire or too massacred to tell who it was. No one knows exactly how the fire was started. There are theories, but for it to have gone the way it did, the conditions of the building, and the people, couldn't have been safe. The women who worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, had apparently
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