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    Eight Disastrous Events

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    most significant impact in the development of some of the most commonly used building codes today. The first event that I will discuss is 9/11, 9/11 is one of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil. The second event is one of the largest hotel fires that ever broke out, which happened on November 21, 1980, at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The third event that I

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    many great fires from the 1860 Elm Street Tenement in New York City that killed 200 that resulted in a requirement for fire escapes in buildings over 6 stories and multiple exits in new building to the 2003 Station Nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island that killed 100, making NFPA later adopted a new standard for nightclubs to be sprinkled with 50 or more occupants. The fire that I wanted to write about is the 1944 Ringling Brothers Circus tent fire in Hartford, Connecticut. This fire killed 169

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    Cincinnati Night Club Shoot: One Dead,15 Shot One person has been killed and many with life-threatening injuries, after gunman opens fire on people at the Cameo Nightclub in Cincinnati. Shooting took place at 4601 Kellogg Avenue around 1 a.m. on Sunday Morning in Cincinnati Night Club reported, a local TV station and the Cincinnati Police Department. Hundreds of people were inside the club and many of them fled away when shooting took place. The shooting happened around 1 p.m, when people were inside

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    Lone wolf terrorism is a disgusting thing. These people do horrible things for stupid reasons. There are several instances were people would do attacks just because they don’t have anything better to do. Like the shooting in fort hood by Nidal Hissan, these are very stupid people and need to be stopped permanently. We (as in America) need to band together and stop these people. The government could make new jobs that have unemployed veterans stand guard. They would love to have a job protecting people(and

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    Standing Out or Consumed Music is one of the major pieces of entertainment that humans use to express themselves. It has a huge impact throughout the world. People worship music and sometimes they use music to worship their beliefs. Music is extremely fascinating as it adapts and evolves in today’s culture. Today there are numerous genres that range from being underground such as electro swing to something more mainstream like pop music. Music can be calm and peaceful or it can be explicit and or

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    In the beginning of The Book Thief, the reader meets Liesel Meminger, her mother, and her brother, Werner Meminger. The father is never introduced. It is only said that he is a communist. Werner dies on the train to Himmel Street, the place that Liesel is left with a couple, Hans and Rosa Hubermann. Liesel’s mother is never seen again, but the reader assumes that she was taken away for being one of the Nazi’s targets. According to The Book Thief, “What came to her then was the dustiness of the floor

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    Big Eyes Synopsis

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    marries him to their everyday life of painting together and living happily. The movie continues with the Walter trying to make a living off of their art by selling it in art galleries. We are then taken to Walter’s small gallery space in the Hungry I nightclub where he finds his wife’s work is liked more than his. Walter mistakes a couple’s compliment for his work, but was for one of Margaret’s “Big Eyes”; Walter takes credit for his wife’s work and deceives his buyers and admirers. Walter issues a whole

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    reads a newspaper stating that his brother, Sonny, has been arrested for drugs. This initiates the inner conflict that we identify within the narrator. The narrator does not wish to accept that his brother has done this. As he walks from the subway station he thinks, “It was not to be believed. . . And at the same time I couldn’t doubt it” (Mays, 93). Throughout the story, we watch the narrator struggle between how he views Sonny should live his life and how Sonny desires to live his own life. Growing

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    “awkward” to many people, because my brother and I have different dads. Steven, my brother, had a pretty good father, which resulted in me having a father figure for a short period of time. On February 20, 2003, the tragic event called “The Station Nightclub Fire” occurred taking his life away. At this time I was only five, but Steven was thirteen

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    Nancy Pace is a registered nurse at South County Hospital. She has not been there for too long, but she has already made herself known, as an excellent healthcare professional. Not only is Nancy a nurse, she is a wife and a mother to three children as well. They all reside in Warwick, Rhode Island. She seems like she is a very caring and loving mother, and that seems to translates to the way she treats her patients. I walked into the waiting room of the hospital I noticed a woman with blonde hair

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