Lessons Learned From the 1903 Iroquois Disaster Rebekah Beach March 02‚ 2010 The Iroquois Theatre Highly advertised as being “absolutely fireproof”‚ The Iroquois Theatre was as fireproof as the Titanic was unsinkable. On December 30th‚ of the year 1903‚ five weeks after The Iroquois opened‚ The Iroquois Theatre did indeed burn. The fire was so bad that in just under 8 minutes it roared through the theatre claiming 602 lives and injuring at least 250 others (Foy‚ 1995). According to the
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While each story is different‚ they often involve two gods descending from heaven and creating the world for necessity. The Iroquois creation myth‚ “The World on the Turtle’s Back” is an interesting story on the creation of earth. I enjoyed reading this story because it was a new perspective on the creation of man that I hadn’t heard before. The story tells of the pregnant wife in the sky-world who disregarded the rules of the eternal tree and‚ as a sort of punishment‚ falls through the clouds
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Turtles Hatching The poem Mark O’Connor wrote "Turtles Hatching" at a time in his life when was closely studying nature. In this poem Mark O’Connor closely observes turtles hatching and contemplates the ritual that turtles share with the beach. This poem also has close connotations to life cycle and family. Mark O’Connor begins the poem with one single line which emphasis the information that he is giving the reader. The continuation of this line from the rest of the poem to the next without
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the story “ The World On A Turtle’s Back” it talked about how when the girl fell through the hole in the ground in the Sky World she tried grabbing the edge to stop her from falling but she couldn’t hang on and Fell through the hole.. “ However‚ between her fingers there clung bits of things that were growing on the floor of the Sky World and bits of the root tips of the great tree” (26). This textual evidence talks about how the world was created and what helped create the world and all of the things
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Compare&Contrast The World on Turtle’s back was about a female and male which lived in a sky world. In this sky world was a big tree and on this tree grew crops for the two to eat every year. A day came when the two were curious and started to dig a hole next to the tree. It wasn’t even 10sec. and they broke through the world‚ it spooked the male so he stepped back. The Grandma got down and stuck her head through the hole and then‚ she fell falling from what seemed to be the sky. Then the story about
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be an endangered species. Luckily‚ this isn’t the case for us‚ but for endangered sea turtles it is a reality. Some of the older turtles‚ which are 140 to 160 year old‚ can lay hundreds of eggs every time they go ashore. However‚ only one or two of these eggs survive. Some turtles have been known to live more than 250 years‚ but because of poachers few actually survive that long. The cycle of life for the turtle is hard‚ and the beginning is a very rare thing to witness. I had the amazing opportunity
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post-columbian groups thrived in these geographical regions by developing ways of survival. I will be talking about the Iroquois in the Eastern Woodlands‚ the Cheyenne in the Great Plains‚ and the Inuit from the Arctic/Sub-Arctic. First‚ the Eastern Woodlands has rich dirt which makes it perfect for farming‚ and the Iroquois tribe were the best farmers there were in the Eastern Woodlands. The Iroquois tribe figured out that the three sisters (Corn‚ Squash‚ and beans) were the best crops to grow because they
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The Iroquois were known to be from the Northeast woodlands. They were located in North America and what is now known as upper New York. The Iroquois were known for their agriculture. They grew maize‚ beans‚ squash and tobacco. Since they were close to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean they also set up fishing traps to catch fish. The Iroquois adapted to their environment by growing their own vegetables. They used natural sources such as animals and plants to make their cloth‚ weapons and tools. The
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heavens and the Earth‚” but according to the Iroquois‚ the creation of life took place in a much different way. Throughout the book of Genesis in the New Testament‚ the description of the creation goes by days. In the story “The World on a Turtle’s Back‚” the creation of Earth happens in a series of events‚ all caused by the gods in the Sky World. According to the Hebrews‚ the sky and Earth were created by the commanding of God‚ unlike what the Iroquois foretold. Consequently‚ God was said to have
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How was the world created? Nobody really knows‚ but people and cultures from all treks of the Earth have created stories or myths to help themselves understand. Myths from across the globe‚ although different in many ways‚ have the same underlying theme. The Iroquois and Dogon have differences and similarities when it comes to who created the Earth‚ why it was created‚ and what roles humans play in the becoming of the world. The Iroquois believed that life came before the Earth. That sky gods and
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