...A massive fire swept through Chicago long ago, known as the “Great Chicago Fire”. Despite the event occurring almost 153 years ago, the cause is unknown. The “Great Chicago Fire” started on the eighth of October 1871 as mentioned by greatchicagofire.org. The fire raged on, destroying 17,000 buildings. The fire proved seriously deadly by claiming more than 300 lives before it finally went out on October 10th. Mrs O’ Leary’s cow, Daisy, kicked over a lantern, sparking the fire. The barn was the first to catch fire, but her cottage survived. To provide more evidence, there was testimony held against her in court. First, the barn was the first to catch fire, according to many sources, around nine o’ clock when the fire started. She and her family owned the barn. If she and her family owned the barn, they were the only ones that had access to the barn. She ran a business out of the barn. She and the rest of her family were poor immigrants. The fire was spotted as soon as it started in the barn. Although she was the only one in the barn, there was a drayman named Daniel Sullivan. There could not have been anyone else in the barn....
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...The Great Chicago Fire started in October 8,1871 and ended October10,1871. The legend of the great Chicago fire was that a cow kicked over a lantern in the barn and caught on fire, the grass was so dry that the fire spread to Chicago or a meteor hit the earth left a trail of fire and it spread to the city or a couple of boys were gambling and dropped the cigar that caught the barn that they were in and it spread to the city. The Great Chicago fire was one of the biggest fire in the history of the united states. A cow hit a lantern, a meteor hit the earth, or a couple were boys were gambling in a barn, or couple of boys didn’t like these people and just set the barn on purpose and it spread rapidly, the ground was so dry that the fire spread...
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...As an appointed state official, do you have the knowledge and the know how to obtain results when faced with major issues? Are you safety driven? These are just a few questions that if were addressed would have prevent the tragic blast that occurred in 1947 when 111 coal miners from Centralia No. 5 were killed. The State appointed official Scanlan could have utilized many different logistical alternatives to obtain results in the many violations that occurred within the mines. He presented many factors involving the Constitution of the United States, but did not produce enough results to help protect the men working there. Scanlan obligation to the people was motivated by the laws that govern the states, but he lacked the know how to produce results. Four Logistical Alternatives Driscoll O. Scanlan an appointed state inspector of the coal mines did not use logistical alternatives to help protect the men working in the mine. As a representative to the public and a state appointed official Driscollo Scanlan could have utilized his power in ways that produce results. He was very active in inspecting and reporting his recommendations of his findings every three months to the Department of Mines and Minerals which were only treated as routine reports. These reports did not produce the results need to show the mine Management that the mines were a hazardous place and needed to be kept clean at all times. He should not...
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...Crystal Eastham Professor Soden EDUC 200-D04 11/23/2015 Philosophy Essay An important part of being an effective teacher is knowing what your philosophy is. Your philosophy helps to determine how you will teach and how it will impact your students. When preparing for this paper I had to learn what my philosophy is. The results showed an equal foundation in both perennialism and social reconstructionism. In this paper I will discuss what these are and how they will be applied in a classroom setting. The perennialism psychology places a lot of importance on learning through teaching that have stood the test of time such as literature or curriculum. It is important to use methods that have a high success rate in order to have a base line for teaching. If something has the same effective rate now as it used to then it would be wise to use it repeatedly. At the same time social reconstructionism is the philosophy that focusses on the social aspect of a child’s growth. This places importance on ensuring kids have a strong foundation in equality and fairness. I see the value in both of these philosophies although I feel in a way that they contradict each other. It is important to instill in children things that make the past so influential yet prepare them for the future. This being said, how can one use these philosophies in a real life scenario? Imagine you are an American History teacher, and you want your students to do more than simply memorize their way through the information...
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...turned 18 we wouldn't start smoking. Obviously this is a silly and ineffective way to get kids not to smoke, but of course they had good reasons. These days, no one can claim to be ignorant of the negative health effects caused by smoking, but this awareness doesn't seem to be doing much to hurt the industry – in a paper published by the World Health Organization, over 1.2 billion people smoke worldwide. That's only slightly less than the population of China. However, many remain unaware of the consequences the tobacco industry has on the environment. In fact, the entire life cycle of a cigarette is damaging to the ecosystem, beginning in the fields where tobacco is grown, during cigarette production and consumption, and after the filter is disposed of. Everyone over the age of eighteen, at least in the US, has the right to choose whether or not to smoke, but I believe that to take steps to fix this environmental mess we've put ourselves in, first we must be informed of the effect we have. Tobacco is one of the most environmentally irresponsible crops to grow. According to The Smoke Ring: The Politics of Tobacco by Peter Taylor, tobacco is a weak plant that requires a great deal of pesticides. Tobacco also causes severe nutrient depletion in the soil, necessitating regular chemical fertilizing. Besides heavily polluting the ground, these cultivation practices have led to chronic health problems in farmworkers, including Green Tobacco Sickness, a type of nicotine poisoning. Workers...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST SEMINARY RESEARCH PAPER ON THE THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ONE OF THE NAMES OF GOD: YAHWEH SHAMMAH SUBMITTED TO DR. DENNIS MCDONALD IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THEO 525, SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ....................................................................................................................3 Defining the Name “Yahweh” .......................................................................................4 Defining the Name “Yahweh Shammah”……………………………………………...5 Biblical & Historical Context……………………………..........................................6 The Connection of Christ…………………………………………………………..10 Conclusion....................................................................................................................12 Bibliography…….........................................................................................................14 INTRODUCTION There are many names of God that are mentioned in the Bible. All of them have a specific meaning that describes His character and a significant attribute that He possesses. Each name is introduced to us in the midst of a specific moment when God chose to reveal himself to His people, Israel. The subject of this paper deals with one of those names of God: “Yahweh Shammah,” which means “The Lord is There.” It is my intention to explore the in-depth...
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...Imagery and Allusions in translating Chinese PoetryBased on Tu Fu’s Poems Shih-ying Liaw Prof. Wang Linguistics and Translation June 18 2012 Shih ying Liaw1 Shih-ying Liaw Prof. Wang Linguistics and Translation June 18 2012 The Interaction between Imagery and Allusions in translating Chinese PoetryBased on Tu Fu’s Poems Though Chinese poetry has been translating for almost a hundred years, there are still many questions about the translation strategies and situations worth discussing. In this paper, the interaction between imagery and allusions when translating are discussed and the practical situation used when translating are presented. To discuss the interaction between imagery and allusions, the first thing is to identify and define each term. First is imagery. Imagery is thought to be the most important factor to the poetry. I use Ezra Pound’s word as definition because he is not only a pioneering translator in Chinese poetry and also a great poet. He says that “an image' is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” Further explanation is given by Professor Liu in “The Art of Chinese Poetry” by putting imagery into two categories. The first is “simple imagery,” which is defined as “a verbal expression that evokes a mental picture, which not merely picture in words but also arouses emotional associations and enriches the poetic context”. The Shih ying Liaw2 second category is “compound imagery”, which...
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...9-809-009 REV: DECEMBER 7, 2009 NOAM WASSERMAN RACHEL GORDON Playing with Fire at Sittercity (A) In August 2006, Genevieve (“Jeh-neh-veev”) Thiers, founder and CEO of Sittercity.com, looked over at Dan Ratner, Sittercity’s vice president and her boyfriend of five years. It had taken her six long years to build Sittercity into the nation’s leading babysitting Web service. Thiers had begun Sittercity in 2001 in Boston as a way to connect babysitters and parents online, at a time when no one else had thought to manage caregiving connections via the Web. She had started the company right out of college while working full-time, but by 2006, Sittercity had sitters available across the country, was larger than all of its competitors combined, and Thiers still owned two-thirds of the venture. The company now had plans to add pet, elder-care, house, and tutoring services in 2007, and Thiers wondered what other challenges she and Ratner would face as she continued to grow her venture. Born to Babysit Thiers liked to joke, “As the oldest of seven kids, babysitting is in my blood.” At the age of 11, Thiers and her twin sister began babysitting in her hometown of Langhorne, Pennsylvania. From the outset Thiers enjoyed babysitting. She saw it as a way to escape from home, meet new people, and “raid a fridge that wasn’t mine.” At first they sat for children who lived on their immediate block, but by the time the two turned 15, they were babysitting throughout the neighborhood...
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...Many people claim that the gun control policies are very effective and there should be strict control on the implementation of these policies. On the other hand, a group of people thinks that the gun control policies are not so effective and there should be no strict policies on the firearms. Thus, the both sides provide their arguments on the issue of gun control. The main aim of this paper is to persuade against the policies of gun control. The paper is comprised of both the arguments in favor and against of the gun control policies. Discussion It is so easy to understand that without guns or rifles, killing of criminals would have been much more difficult to consummate, which is sometimes hard to explain how it is possible that guns are legal in the largest and most powerful democracy in the world. But it is undeniable that easy access to firearms greatly facilitates this sinister task (Amo, 1989). The criminals have committed one of the latest killings with firearms that shook Americans, 14 Dead Colombine students in 1999. With the use of firearms, criminals made the last great slaughter at a university, the 15 dead at the University of Texas in 1966. With firearms, almost daily acts of revenge or punishment occur in the workplace or at home. And with the use of guns each year more than 10,000 people die in the U.S., according to the latest official figures available. Almost half of American families keep in a...
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...Crises: Theory and Evidence Franklin Allen University of Pennsylvania Ana Babus Cambridge University Elena Carletti European University Institute June 8, 2009 1. Introduction Financial crises have been pervasive phenomena throughout history. Bordo et al. (2001) find that their frequency in recent decades has been double that of the Bretton Woods Period (1945-1971) and the Gold Standard Era (1880-1993), comparable only to the Great Depression. Nevertheless, the financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 came as a great surprise to most people. What initially was seen as difficulties in the US subprime mortgage market, rapidly escalated and spilled over to financial markets all over the world. The crisis has changed the financial landscape worldwide and its costs are yet to be evaluated. The purpose of this paper is to concisely survey the literature on financial crises. Despite its severity and its ample effects, the current crisis is similar to past crises in many dimensions. In a recent series of papers, Reinhart and Rogoff (2008a, 2008b, 2009) document the effects of banking crises using an extensive data set of high and middle-to-low income countries. They find that systemic banking crises are typically preceded by credit booms and asset price bubbles. This is consistent with Herring and Wachter (2003) who show that many financial crises are the result of bubbles in real estate markets. In addition, Reinhart and Rogoff find that crises...
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...Leuz I n its pure form, fair-value accounting involves reporting assets and liabilities on the balance sheet at fair value and recognizing changes in fair value as gains and losses in the income statement. When market prices are used to determine fair value, fair-value accounting is also called mark-to-market accounting. Some critics argue that fair-value accounting exacerbated the severity of the 2008 financial crisis. The main allegations are that fair-value accounting contributes to excessive leverage in boom periods and leads to excessive write-downs in busts. The write-downs due to falling market prices deplete bank capital and set off a downward spiral, as banks are forced to sell assets at “fire sale” prices, which in turn can lead to contagion as prices from asset fire sales of one bank become relevant for other banks. These arguments are often taken at face value, but evidence on problems created by fair-value accounting is rarely provided. We discuss these arguments and examine descriptive and empirical evidence that sheds light on the role of fair-value accounting for U.S. banks in the crisis. While large losses can clearly cause problems for banks and other financial institutions, the relevant question for our article is whether reporting these losses under fair-value accounting created additional problems. Similarly, it is clear that determining fair values for illiquid assets in a crisis is very difficult, but did reporting fair values of illiquid assets make...
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...FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY | H.H HOLMES | AMERICAS FIRST SERIAL KILLER | | Kevin Hutter | 10/20/2011 | H.H HOLMES, THE FIRST AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER, IN THE FOLLOW RESEARCH PAPER WE WILL BE LOOKING AT PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HIS CRIMES TROUGH HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD TILL HIS EXECUTION IN THE LATE 1800’S | Herman Webster Mudgett, better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. Mudgett was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire [4] to Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodore Page Price, both of whom were descended from the first non-native settlers in the area. According to the 2007 Most Evil profile on Holmes, his father was a violent alcoholic, and his mother was a devout Methodist who read the Bible to Herman. He claimed that, as a child, schoolmates forced him to view and touch a human skeleton after discovering his fear of the local doctor. The bullies initially brought him there to scare him, but instead he was utterly fascinated, and he soon became obsessed with death. Born to an affluent family, Holmes had a privileged childhood. It has been said that he appeared to be unusually intelligent at an early age. Still there were haunting signs of what was to come. He expressed an interest in medicine, which reportedly led him to practice surgery on animals. Some accounts indicate that he may have been responsible for the death of a friend. [2] Holmes also talked about his childhood...
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...In this research paper you will learn about Ivan III and how he improved Moscow and more or less all the struggles he had and the choices he had to make and about his main battles. Ivan Vasilievich, later known as Ivan the Great, was born on January 22 1440 in Moscow, Russia. Ivan family consisted of two brothers and his parents were Maria Yaroslavna and his father was Grand Prince Vasili II. Ivan father was conceived as a ruthless and cold person. When Grand Prince Vasili dies, he would break up his kingdom in three, for his sons. As a result Ivan came to power during the time of the Great Civil War. Ivan took the throne at 22 years of age. Long time after his two brothers passed, without heirs. So Ivan inherited all of his father’s land....
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...Paganism VS Christianity Paganism VS Christianity Jeff Pierce University Of Phoenix Online (Axia) Frank Muller February 25, 2012 World religions have become a great debate in the last hundred years. People push their religion on any one that is willing to listen to the person that is explaining their belief system that they practice. The religion for this paper is Paganism. Paganism or Neo-Paganism is a newer version of the old religion of Paganism. Paganism is a religion that has really no temples other than Mother Nature and father sky. Pagans believe in the world around them and worship everything. There may have been temples for the religion long ago but they have been ether forgotten or fade into the annals of history. Pagans were one of the first organized religions of the world. The fact of the matter is that Paganism is one of the few oldest religions that are still practiced. The interviewee for this paper is Mrs. Cassella. Mrs. Cassella has been practicing Paganism since the age of fifteen. The method for this interview was over the phone on at Saturday at my place of residence. There was no particular site do to the fact that her religion is primarily practiced in the outdoors. Her child hood was open as far as religion was concerned. Her father jumped around from religion to religion no really settling on one. At the age of fifteen she was introduced to Paganism from a child hood friend who...
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...I n its pure form, fair-value accounting involves reporting assets and liabilities on the balance sheet at fair value and recognizing changes in fair value as gains and losses in the income statement. When market prices are used to determine fair value, fair-value accounting is also called mark-to-market accounting. Some critics argue that fair-value accounting exacerbated the severity of the 2008 financial crisis. The main allegations are that fair-value accounting contributes to excessive leverage in boom periods and leads to excessive write-downs in busts. The write-downs due to falling market prices deplete bank capital and set off a downward spiral, as banks are forced to sell assets at “fire sale” prices, which in turn can lead to contagion as prices from asset fire sales of one bank become relevant for other banks. These arguments are often taken at face value, but evidence on problems created by fair-value accounting is rarely provided. We discuss these arguments and examine descriptive and empirical evidence that sheds light on the role of fair-value accounting for U.S. banks in the crisis. While large losses can clearly cause problems for banks and other financial institutions, the relevant question for our article is whether reporting these losses under fair-value accounting created additional problems. Similarly, it is clear that determining fair values for illiquid assets in a crisis is very difficult, but did reporting fair values of illiquid assets...
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