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Collin Edgington Professor Hollis English 1510 29 March 2015 Rana Plaza: Was it Safe? Have you ever asked yourself the question: Am I assured safety going into work today? Most people would answer the question with “yes”, even without knowing the true answer. This was the case in Bangladesh for many workers who worked at the Rana Plaza factory. This was one of many factories in Bangladesh that has been constructed without legal permission. The workers had no idea about the status of the building and chance of collapse, but the owner Sohel Rana did. In April 2013, the building collapsed, generating an immense controversy and a high death toll. Among these controversies were how the collapse affected the workers, companies that relied on manufacturing from the factory, and the needed improvement of building construction safety laws in Bangladesh. The Rana Plaza was a factory inside an eight-story building that was built in Bangladesh in 2007. Sohel Rana, the owner, had it built by “draining water from a pond and filling it with concrete foundations” (Syed, Wright). This way of construction was not very supportive and safe, and would soon come to backfire on Sohel Rana. With a history of buildings being built illegally in Bangladesh, the Rana Plaza was added to that list. Syed and Wright explain in their article how the factory “was built without proper permission on unstable land” (“Collapsed Factory Was Built Without Permit”). The plaza was mainly constructed of factories,…

Guns laws have become the forefront of conversation on all Texas Universities as of June 2015. There have been several school shootings that have taken place all around the United States. The two that stand out the most according to the news are Virginia Tech and Lonestar College. The headlines in 2013 were 3 wounded and 2 detained. This was regarding the shooting that took place at Lonestar College in Houston, Texas on January 22, 2103. “The Houston shooting comes roughly a month after the…

consisted of what is now currently Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The Chesapeake region was mainly Maryland and Virginia, even though the Carolinas and Georgia were considered part of the Chesapeake region as well. Although the two regions were both settled by Englishmen, the regions possessed major differences that could be traced back to the varying motives for colonization, the various settlers, the geography and climate of the New…

freed land became scarcer and less fertile because the great fertile land had been all bought up, and the only land that was left where bordering the Appalachian Mountains and Indian territories. Indentured servants were often outraged with the less than ideal plots they were given after working in horrible for so long under abusive Masters. If they chose to not move out to the dangerous frontier lands, they were forced to be tenants on the fertile coastal land, either case they were still at a…

The founding of the Jamestown Colony in 1607 was an incredibly difficult feat that could not have been accomplished without the sacrifice and grueling work of the settlers. They left relatives, acquaintances, and most of what was familiar to them behind and braved the rough sea voyage to the New World. When they reached Virginia, the colonists of Jamestown were forced to construct shelters and procure what they needed to survive, in addition to adjusting to an unfamiliar climate. They also…

At the age of twelve, he was sent away to Donald Robertson’s School. There, he learned many things including Latin and Greek. He had an early career in politics by 1776 when he attended the Virginia Convention. At the Constitutional Convention, Madison proposed the Virginia Plan, which was the first plan to be reviewed at the convention. In order to get everyone on board with the Constitution of the United States, Madison wrote twenty-nine of the eighty-five essays that were anonymous in The…

Virginia is among the most developed states in the United States basing on the various important aspects. According to the research, this is one of the states that offers services and well-manufactured products that serves the across the world. In the US, this is among the top four currently states which are highly developed hence performing better in most of the aspects. It is evident Virginia is also one of the leading centers in terms of software development; hence, the high technology…

Late in the 18th century, the nation was changing before our eyes. New religious movements were popping up throughout Virginia and among the other colonies. The most important change that was happening was that the colonist were fighting the Revolutionary War to gain their independence from Great Britain. The Colonist faced many problems before the war and after the war, mainly caused because of religion and taxation. There were dissatisfaction from the dissenters; who broke off from the Church…

Era in many ways. George Washington was born on February 22nd, 1732 in Virginia on his family’s plantation. He attended school but quit when he was 15 because his mother was too poor to keep paying for school. He became a surveyor until he inherited an estate on the Potomac River in Virginia. Even with no military experience he became a commander to the Virginia Militia. He fought in the French and Indian war rising into military fame. He eventually resigned his commission…

Well as the acts by James Madison also affected on how the country has progress under him and his plans. Like the last part about mentioning the Federalist Papers that it influence people to learn more and give their own opinion on the case of a new constitution and government. It also help support the act of nullification supported from the Virginia Convention. Which is stating that states can rule out the law by the federal government to be unconstitutional. He has also introduced the Bill of…