Bermuda Triangle

When dealing with change and progress in the early portion of the twentieth century in America, one organization and one event come to mind. In 1911, the Triangle Waist Company building caught fire and several of workers in the building didn’t make it out alive. The majority of the workers were young females who worked long hours for little pay and ruthless conditions. Those who had the ability to fight for the women and victims did, pursuing ideas such as unions, for workers’ rights. The owners…

Until the World Trade Center tragedy in 2001, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire remained the deadliest workplace incident in U.S. history claiming the lives of 146 women and young girls on March 25, 1911. Greed, paranoia, and dominance ruled the factory owners who wanted more money for themselves without the regard for the laborers that worked long hours for little pay in the worst conditions possible. The textile factory was located on the 8th floor of a high rise building, it had two exits and a…

to convey his theme that The Triangle Fire that took place in 1911 was caused by many unsafe practices and standards, which led to 146 deaths in the large fire. Fortunately, this fire prompted people to want to work for reforms to improve safety standards which we still use to this day. The first kind of evidence Albert Marrin uses in his story to convey his theme is implicit evidence. In paragraph one it says, “We will never know for sure what started the Triangle Fire. Most Likely, a cutter…

article “147 Dead, Nobody Guilty” published by The Literary Digest magazine explores the tragic accident which happened in the factory of the Triangle Waist Company in 1911. The Asch building appeared to be on fire, while the workers were trapped inside. As a result of the accident, 147 persons, mostly women and girls, were killed by a fire. The owners of the Triangle Waist Company, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, who went on trial for manslaughter were not found guilty of the tragedy. Considering…

As I furiously flipped through the Contents section in Brett Lacey and Paul Valentine’s Fire Prevention Applications, pages vacillated hither and thither… hither and yon. Yearning for a topic to leap out and command my attention, I began to grow more and more disquieted. I’ll be candid. My understanding of the subjects at hand was shallow at best, and nearly nonexistent concerning most. Knowing that I at one point commanded a deep and nuanced understanding of Chapter 3: Codes and Standards,…

Tazreen vs. Triangle November 24th and 25th in the year 2012 a fire stormed the factory of Tazreen Fashions in Dhaka, Bangladesh where more than 100 workers perished (Bajaj, 2012). The blaze initiated on Saturday at 7 pm and took all night for firefighters to extinguish. A large majority of the plants manufacturing was made for Wal-Mart, as well as other American and European brands. Due to the notably poor fire safety precautions and the fact that the plants managers blocked off some of the…

On March 25, 1911, a notoriously dangerous fire broke out in the Asch Building of the Triangle Waist Company causing great destruction and many lost lives. As stated in “Eyewitness at the Triangle,” I heard screams around the corner and hurried there. What I had seen before was not so terrible as what had followed. Up in the [ninth] floor girls were burning to death before our very eyes.” In such a short period of time, all the hard labor people did during their period of work went to waste as…

fire was so far up firefighter could not reach it with a ladder. “In 1911, there were two elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and the workers had to file down a long, narrow corridor in order to reach it.”(Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire). The elevator only made one single trip letting a crowd of people to safety. A machine operator trying to escape pried the empty elevator doors open and slowly slid down the cables. Six girls jumped off into the…

The fire itself was started, as so it is said, by a match being accidentally dropped on a pile of cloth in the work area, which is proof of the unsafe working conditions. The fire had occurred in the late afternoon on Saturday, March 25, 1911, when one of the employees noticed the fire and brought it to the attention of the rest of people on the eighth floor, where it had started. The workers tried to put out the fire with buckets of water, but it quickly began to spread to the bins of scrapped…

though this was not the circumstance in the Triangle Fire, it certainly contributed to the days horror, as they neglected any policy that would hinder the process of torching the factory. Furthermore, they had little empathy for the workers themselves, paying them fifteen dollars a week and having them work for 12 hours a day. In 1909, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union had a strike for higher pay and better hours, but the owners’ of the Triangle Factory disregarded it and…