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    On February 20th 2003, The Station nightclub in caught on fire. Four hundred people had come in the club to hear the band Great White play, when fireworks set off by the band’s manager caught fire to the foam board on the stage. (NFPA, 2006). In the end 100 people lay dead. That makes it the fourth most deadly nightclub fire in the history of the US. The massive amount of deaths can be blamed mostly to the fireworks being to close to the soundboard, the facility being over packed, and the lack of a sprinkler system (Reese 2004). The high number of deaths prompted a number of alterations to life safety codes. A couple of investigations looked into the cause and reason for the rapid spread of the fire. There were local, state, and national teams involved. Also, NIST recreated the situation to better understand the life safety threats and firefighter safety hazards posed by the building (NFPA 2006).…

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    participating in a ride along with a station in a city I’d be potentially working for in the coming years. I was also getting to see my family for the first time in 3 months. Having left my car at home for my father to use, I had no means of getting back and forth between my home. Needless to say it was nice to see them all again, but I had to focus on the upcoming ride along. So upon arriving home I began packing and ironing my shirts and other needed equipment to make sure I was prepared for…

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    Dassey’s classroom, pulled him out, took him to the station, and interrogated him for more than three hours! Brendan Dassey was in the interrogation room without an adult there with him. Brendan also has an IQ of 69 total, so it would make sense that the investigators could easily manipulate Brendan into saying what they wanted to hear. They finally got Brendan Dassey to say what they wanted when he finally said that he went to get the mail, brought Steven his mail over to the trailer when he…

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    The first deadliest mass shooting that occurred in the last 10 years happened in Orlando, Florida in June 2016, killing 49 innocent people in a gay night club. This mass shooting left the whole country in shock and unable to grasp the fact that so many people were killed at a place where they went to have fun. A little over a year later, another mass shooting occurred that took 58 lives. This was the deadliest mass shooting yet to date and happened October 2nd during a country music festival,…

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    They also met with people who worked with ESPN and made sure that the live coverage of sports events would not put us out of compliance with any contracts. The department also brainstormed possible places that Falcon Radio could be housed and met with people in charge of facilities at NDC. The Programming team brainstormed about what types of music and radio programming would be attractive for students to listen to, how we could incorporate live shows with current events, sports, and campus…

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    must be honest when I say that i’m a little less than merry about having to go. The farm just isn’t what it used to be, however, Mother and Father aren’t making the money they used to. So it’s my turn to make my way in the world. I plan to get a job in the city and send what I can back to the farm. It’s my first time on a train and I must admit how terribly nervous I am. Living in the countryside my whole life I’ve never seen such a thing. Hearing about it is not at all the same as seeing it…

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    The little people are fearing the future of the unknown. The fear of the unknown kept them without cheese for awhile. One of the little people, Haw, begin the have a new mindset that allowed to him to not fear and enjoy life again. He moves on so he begins to enter the maze. When he did, he carved ”If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct" on the wall of Cheese Station C for Hem. Hem continues to fear the unknown and refuses the new cheese due to his Haw’s disappointment. Haw decides to…

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    If I would relate them in the corporate world, they handled the problem using Sluggish-Thermostat Management. They have stable goals but fears taking risks, they are too firm with the decision of staying at Station C with the belief that the cheeses were only somewhere near and it was only move. They lacked the skill of observing that the cheese ran out and was not only moved, they held onto their beliefs. They were not able to keep up to the changes that happened which became a major problem,…

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    Harry Salvo Case Study

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    of kidnapping a former student, Lyndsay Elliot. (Tr. 18:32-33.) Shocked by the accusation, Harry informed the police officers of his innocence and offered an alibi. (Tr. 18:33-34.) The police intimidated Harry into going to the police station to prove his innocence. (Tr. 18:38-40.) Earlier that day, at about 10:00 am (Tr. 10:16), Lyndsay’s school went to the Boston Museum of Science for a field trip. (Tr. 3:8-12.) Lyndsay Elliot and Rachel Swift were standing outside of the museum when a…

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    live the maze his friend Hem intents to discourage him telling that he would not find cheese outside the maze. Similarly, people often try to stop you for going in to school or finding a new job just like Hem is do it to ham. Nevertheless, his friend’s negative comment does not hold him from changing his decision to leaves station c. Finally, Haw leaves the station c with no fear that could interfere with his goal of finding cheese. He even wrote in a wall “when you move your fear you feel…

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