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In the last years there have been several TV series that have succeeded in the media and that have produced a fan phenomenon and one of them is Game of Thrones. Since its launching in 2011, this drama has caught the attention of the public and has become part of the history of television, breaking records in audience, illegal downloads and sells all over the world. The question here is why this simple and vane fiction has attracted such an amount of audience that are willing to see what is going…

Dr. Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese? is considered a guide on how to face change. The best-seller tells the story of two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little people, Hem and Haw, and how they each responded to running out of cheese. Cheese was portrayed as something they all highly desired and loved. The two mice were able to follow the right path to change, and were successful at finding new cheese. The two little people, on the other hand, resisted change and were left with no…

Flames everywhere, ashes everywhere, it the Great Chicago Fire. Some people believe that a Mrs. O'Leary started the Great Chicago Fire. But what really happened is a man named Louis M. Cohn started the Great Chicago Fire. He was known as the gambler. He gambled a lot in the O'Leary barn with the O'Leary boy and he was only 18 years old. He was in the O'Leary barn with some of his friend he alway play the illegal dice game with the few boys. Louis M. Cohn started the Great Chicago…

However, thanks to Samuel Pepys we have an un-edited, un-filtered first hand account of what it was like to be in the midst of some of the most momentous events in English history. Pepys bore witness to and recorded the second Anglo-Dutch war, the Great Fire of London, and what the Restoration or even the Great Plague was like experience. And while these events can be found in history books, Samuel Pepys’ diary brings something to the table that a group of…

The Great Fire Chicago in October 8, 1871, was a city ready to burn like a fireplace and the author Jim Murphy showed enough evidence to show it’s a city ready to burn. Also in the book you could see the fire from miles,but they didn’t think it was something to worry about. In the book he tells you most of the city was made of wood. Such as “houses, roads, sidewalks, and even companies because they didn’t have enough money to make it out of stone”. There was only a few fireproof buildings in…

On January 17th 1994, at 4:31am, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, killing more than 60, injuring more than 9,000, and causing widespread damage (Taylor, 2014). With the vast amount of damage, loss of life, and injuries it is easy to understand how the local and state responders would have quickly been overwhelmed in their response measures. This is the exact sort of emergency that the Stafford Act was developed for. According to (Hunter, 2009),…

reptile. There are some endangered species as well including the California Condor, the Bald Eagle, and the Bighorn Sheep. Number Seven: Unique Growth Methods of the Sequoia One of the factors that contributes to these trees being so resistant to fire and living such fantastically long lives, is the way they grow. While other trees bend or curve, sequoias grow up perfectly vertical. Number Six: Native American Settlements It's been proven that Native Americans such as the Western…

1871 a horrible fire struck the city of Chicago destroying everything they have and leaving the horrible memories behind. The fire roughly destroyed 3.3 square miles, and killed around 300 people and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. This disaster seemed to be started by a women and a cow being milked. The theory is that the cow must have kicked over a lantern that was in the barn and since the city was very dry from not having rain in weeks upon weeks, causing the fire to jump…

The earthquake of 1906 was a horribly destructive and stunning event. It was described by people that were there, some of them described it in books. One of these books in the novel Dragonwings, where a character named Moonshadow feels the ground twist and turn between his feet. There are also articles found that explain the natural phenomena of the terrible earthquake that occurred on April 18, 1906. The name of one remarkable article that gives many facts is called “Web Resource”. Though…

San Francisco – The Bay Area was shaken to its core Monday morning when an earthquake struck around 7:12 a.m. with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4. One San Francisco resident was awakened that morning not by the quake, but by a chunk of cement flying through his kitchen. Michael Beamer said he was eating breakfast before the earthquake began, and when it did he ducked and covered under his kitchen table. “I was eating my breakfast and the room started rolling. I dove under the table just as I…