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    Charleston Sofa Super Store Fire The single greatest loss of firefighter lives since 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. In the Charleston where the proud fire department haven’t had any line-of-duty casualties since 1965 then on June 18, 2007 they had gut wrenching nine casualties in the Sofa Super Store fire. The call came into dispatch 7:07pm when a passerby noticed smoke coming out over the furniture store. 7:10pm Engine 4 arrives on scene and reports a trash fire on the side…

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    These fictional characters Macbeth, Emily Grierson, and Norman Bates, and one actual person Adolf Hitler, had many things in common with each other. They wanted power either over a country, or over the people they loved. The four of these people were all mentally ill and had very controlling tendencies. You actually are sickened by the crimes they committed, because in the beginning they showed great promise of what they could have been capable of. That is why I feel that even those these…

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    not overlooked as she and her fellow district tribute, Peeta, ride into The Capitol. He does this by representing her district as something new, not the black dull coal district 12 is usually represented as but as fire. Sparking something big, transforming Katniss into the Girl on Fire. The tributes then go through training for the games. This training ends with the tributes given a number from 1 to 12 depending on what the gamemakers think their chances are of winning. These scores are then…

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    Gale Hawthorne is an ethical type of a person. He is the type of guy who has transformed from a person who had feelings for other human beings, to a person who wants revenge on the Capitol and leave no prisoners behind, due to the traumas he faced. Gales hatred for the capitol came after they bombed district 12, but he managed to saved 800 people. Getting revenge for something doesn’t mean necessarily killing them all or trying to bomb the capitol, but that’s the mindset that Gale has. He is…

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    I will be commenting on the following dilemma a fire chief than is working to serve his firefighters to protect the community versus a fire chief that works for the government to protect the community. I will indicate if this dilemma is true or false and why. Being a leader of a Fire service in any place in our modern world is no easy task with more and more being demanded from communities and less that governments want to provide the harder this task will become in the future. Through reading…

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    she survived many hard times during the games just like a “Mockingjay” would, hence Katniss’s nickname the Mockingjay. In addition, Katniss is called “The Girl On Fire”, once more she is not literally on fire (despite her costume made by Cinna) but she allied the districts, to go against the capitol, which is referred to as on “fire” because it was hard to do. Moreover, “The sun is a searing blade on my skin” the sun was not literally a blade, but it felt painful, therefore the metaphor “a…

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    Edifice Solutions is committed to providing a safe and healthful workplace for all employees. We strive to build a strong culture of safety through proactive planning, training, enforcement and recognition. Our goal is to achieve the highest standard of safety throughout each phase of our operations. We recognize that construction sites can be perilous. Therefore, we strive to ensure that all employees work safely on jobsites free of avoidable hazards. When hazards cannot be completely…

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    The first one is The Hunger Games. The book follows Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th Hunger games so that her sister does not have to participate. The hunger games is a death match between the children chosen from each district to participate. The Hunger Games is a great example of breaking common gender stereotypes as the main character is a strong and independent female character. Katniss does not rely on the usual stereotypical male character…

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    Everybody faces challenges, but not everybody can handle what life throws their way. In the dystopian worlds of “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins and William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”, both authors explore the lives of young and naïve teenagers, experiencing dangerous worlds that they have never imagined before. In “Lord of the Flies”, a plane crashes into an island with a group of boys that become isolated. Young, ordinary schoolboys must fend for themselves on a desert with no external…

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    the people being cleansed out of their own community? Do they appear to be a burden that needs to be washed off by their community? One would also ask what the role of the Fire Department was in addressing a protest situation? What is their role in ensuring the safety of people in a protest that did not involve any use of fire? Why is it only the man to the extreme right on the receiving end of the assault? Is he protecting the others or he just happened to be the unfortunate one there at the…

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