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    Fire Fighting Notes

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    Prevent • Make sure it do not start • Control fuel sources Communicate • Ensure if fire happens‚ occupants know what to do Escape • Provide a route for escape for occupant to move safely before threatened by smoke Containment • Ensure fire can be contained to smallest possible area Extinguishment • Ensure fire can be extinguished quickly with minimum damage FIRE DETECTION SYSTEM SMOKE DETECTORS HEAT DETECTOR FLAME DETECTOR GAS SENSING DETECTOR Ionisation Dectectors

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    first Gladiator fighting started around 265 BC. The Gladiators could of have been men or women and sometimes volunteers from the crowd‚ who risked their lives to fight each other or wild animals for audiences like the Roman Empire and Roman Republic. They fought for fame‚ riches‚ and glory in arenas like the Colosseum in Rome. Gladiators were solid men or women who were at their peak of fitness. Gladiators trained at special school that were designed for the purpose of gladiator fighting. There they

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    Star of the Sea

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    Star of the Sea By: Joseph O’Connor I.B. English A1 The passage from Star of the Sea was written by Joseph O’Connor. It is a piece of narrative prose which takes place on a passenger ship. The passage is written in a third-person subjective narrative mode. The passage is takes place at a point in the storyline as the ship is passing through a violent storm at sea‚ which portrays the forces of nature The passage starts with a sense of an atmosphere‚ “The music of the ship was howling around

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    Sea Anemones

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    Sea anemones are members of the Phylum Cnidarian. The cnidarians include the anemones‚ jellyfish‚ coral‚ Portuguese man-of-war and hydroids. Their characteristics include a soft body with two tissue layers arranged around a central gut cavity. A ring of tentacles surrounds a central mouth‚ and the tentacles endure stinging cells which contain nematocysts used to capture food and for defense. ("Marine Life Profile: Sea Anemones”) The two basic body forms among the cnidarians are the polyp‚ which looks

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    talking about taking hitting and fighting out of hockey in the last few years because of the rise in career ending injuries‚ but the cause is from the fact that hockey players having been getting faster stronger and more skilled. Although people do get severe injuries and some take it too far it’s the risk that they face every time they step on the ice. Hitting starts at the age of 11 which I think is an appropriate age to start hitting. Taking Hitting and fighting out of hockey would change the game

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    THE WAR AT SEA WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE WESTERN FRONT VIVYANNE SOO 10A Is the war at sea more important or was the war at the Western Front more important? To support or contradict this view‚ we need to considerate the importance of the following things: the U-boat threat to Britain‚ Britain’s supply line‚ the British Blockade and the connections between the war at sea and the Western Front. In this essay‚ I’m going to write down the points that are for and against this view. In conclusion‚

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    Atticus Fighting Quotes

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    To kill a Mockingbird-Theme of fighting There are many themes in the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee. However‚ one of the most predominate is fighting. This theme is shown by almost all of the characters in the novel. Atticus has strong views on fighting. He shows this when he taught Jem and Scout to be brave; for instance‚ when he told Scout to stop fighting the people that mock her Scout had to be brave enough to ignore the harsh remarks and put herself above them. One

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    Sea Pollution

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    Sea Pollution... Why Are We So Bent On Killing Everything that moves‚ everything that feed us and every animal that God created?. I mean‚ why are we so self-destructive toward the fishes‚ the sharks‚ the whales‚ the sea lions‚ the dolphins etc. And until the day I die I will never understand why mankind has such a Big Hole in their heart‚ and the irony of it all is that God placed us in charged of everything He created. And yet we violate our office‚ just like the Politicians do‚ just like the Judges

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    Riders To The Sea By The

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    Riders to the Sea by the Irish playwright J.M Synge is a one act drama‚ which in essence is a tragedy‚ yet an unusual one. Unlike in traditional tragedies‚ the hero(ine) of the play does not put up (or even stand) a fighting chance‚ but undergoes a character transformation‚ which is more tragic than the demise of a hero. Maurya‚ the main character‚ is an old woman. Yet‚ most importantly‚ she is a mother; a mother of six sons who had all perished in the sea. She had had a difficult time bringing them

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    Street Fighting Tips

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    1 2 © Copyright 2007‚ Kerwin Benson Publishing All rights reserved. With the exception of a printed copy made for the purchaser’s ease of reading and brief quotations for the purpose of review‚ no part of this book may be reproduced (nor transmitted) in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ photocopying‚ or otherwise‚ without the prior written permission of the publisher. This book is designed to provide authoritative information with regard to martial arts. It is sold with the understanding

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