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"The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire" By HISTORY

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"The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire" By HISTORY

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"The Stasi and the Berlin Wall" By the DW Documentary

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"The Stasi and the Berlin Wall" By the DW Documentary

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Marino, Andy. Escape From East Berlin. Scholastic, 2022

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Haddix, P. Margaret. Uprising. Simon & Schuster, 2007

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“In Berlin, Quirky Reminders Linger from East-West Divide.” Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2019, www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-04/in-berlin-quirky-reminders-linger-from-east-west-divide.

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“The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | History.” YouTube, 14 Aug. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=FguWSsW21CQ.

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | History

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The Stasi and the Berlin Wall | DW Documentary

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Escape From East Berlin                                                         By: Andy Marino

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Escape From East Berlin                                                         By: Andy Marino

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Uprising                                                                                  By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Uprising                                                                                  By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

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How should an individual respond to conflict?

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How should an individual respond to conflict?

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“The Stasi and the Berlin Wall | DW Documentary.” YouTube, 11 Aug. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=haxkWC6MgcQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo.

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People can take peaceful or violent responses to conflict. In this scenario, people responded with violence. Rioting, destroying property. No one could stand the wall for the most part. On the other side, the public and the military protected the wall. Standing in front of it, and threatening to hurt whoever tries to take it down. So in general people can deal with things in bad ways, and in their rage, the conflict is more than what they can handle. Bringing themselves to the edge, and other things they can never undo.

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People panic in scary situations leading to even worse results. Which took place in the factory. Some jumping out of buildings. As well as hastily trying to escape through an elevator that never makes it to the bottom. Adrenaline can do a lot for people, like creating a burst of energy for their last chance to survive. But in this situation, this was halted by the situation itself. Adrenaline can't help because in every scenario no one could of escaped, people respond to conflict by overreacting.

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a boy names Stefan's death triggers something in his sister, Marta, that makes her want to escape east Berlin, like her brother tried to do. they start to plan with their cousins on that when we transfer to the future east Berlin with a kid named Kurt. his brother and grandfather are in the Stasi, a group of people who want everybody to stay in east Berlin, when we learn that Kurt wants to escape. he meets with his grandfather to find out that he wants him to escape too, to get him to his parents in the west. they start on that, then we cut back to Marta. Marta and her family are going to escape when they encounter Kurt's grandfather in the past, and he tries to stop them but fails as they board a train and escapes just in time. back to Kurt, he and his grandfather attempt to escape, but only Kurt survives in the process and makes it to west Berlin. a story with interconnecting pieces with the past and the future.

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Bella just came from Italy and arrived in New York City. In this new place everything is different, how people speak to each other, and how people treat each other is very different. Soon she finds a job in a factory, where she works to sew clothes. She meets people like Yetta, who are also coming from a very different places. Soon she and others learn the hardships people can have. As she is working to send back home, she learns the truth. Her family back home is dead, killed by a fast-growing disease. Bella also learns about the wage gap between girls and boys. She becomes an activist for change and spends most of the book protesting for change. Leading to a lot of change in people's lives in New York City.

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“The loops of the o and the a take the shape of two dark prison cells waiting to swallow her parents up unless she becomes the kind of person who betrayed her brother. An informer.”(Marino 102)

“I wish there was another way, Lothar says. But there watching me. Always.” (Marino 141)

"She imagines a slimy, man sized grub, writhing and slurping at the heart of east germany itself"(Marino 17)

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"In Berlin, quirky reminders linger from East-West divide" by Frank Jordans

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"In Berlin, quirky reminders linger from East-West divide" by Frank Jordans

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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-04/in-berlin-quirky-reminders-linger-from-east-west-divide

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Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital - divided for decades by bricks and barbed wire - has slowly grown back together. Few visible scars remain other than those intentionally left in place to remind Berliners and tourists of the brutal border that claimed the lives of scores of East Germans trying to flee the communist country.

But those who look closely will spot other signs that the city was once split in half: From stoplights to manhole covers, the differences that marked East and West Berlin have survived into the new century, some visible even from space.
LITTLE GREEN MEN
Like many products of the east, the Ampelmaennchen - literally the "little traffic light man" - was nearly discarded after the fall of the wall in 1989. The slightly portly green figure with a wide-brimmed hat who told East Germans when they could cross the street faced strong competition from his taller, more sober counterpart in the West.

But a mixture of nostalgia and common sense prevailed.

"Ampelmaennchen is considerably brighter," said Derk Ehlert, a spokesman for Berlin's transportation department. In 2004, the city decided to use only the eastern version and now almost two-thirds of pedestrian traffic lights in Berlin feature the jolly-looking character purposely walking when it's green, or with its arms outstretched when it's red. He's also a tourist favorite, showing up on tote bags, keychains and even in gummy candy form.

(Sean Gallup / Getty Images)

TRAMS TO THE EAST
Berlin's complex public transportation system - composed of buses, subway trains, commuter railways and trams - was strictly divided between East and West until reunification. One form of transportation that vanished completely from West Berlin was the streetcar system.

Tram spotters nowadays will catch a few outside the former East Berlin. Over the last 30 years, a few lines have been tentatively extended into the West. But by and large, trams remain firmly part of life in the east of the city.

BRIDGING THE DIVIDE
During the Cold War, the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin to Potsdam in East Germany was famously used as a site for exchanging captured foreign agents. That earned it the nickname "Bridge of Spies" - as seen in the 2015 Tom Hanks film of the same name focused on the exchange of U.S. Air Force pilot Francis Gary Powers for a KGB spy.

Since the two opposing sides couldn't agree to work together when the bridge required repairs, each conducted them separately. The paint was applied differently and faded un-uniformly, and the two shades of green meeting at the middle of the bridge are still clearly visible today.
COLD HARD CASH
The East's ailing economy was expected to converge with that of the capitalist West after a period of transition, but numerous differences remain. Even people who joined the workforce only after German reunification in 1990 will find their pensions adjusted depending on which side of the now-nonexistent wall they worked on. Employees on the same street may get different amounts based on the invisible line that exists to this day.
METAL PLATES
Aficionados of industrial design should keep their eyes on the road. A wide variety of manhole covers exist in Berlin, with some motifs so fetching that entrepreneurs have taken to selling T-shirts featuring them. Among the more unusual ones are those surviving from communist times, when Volkseigene Betriebe - or Publicly Owned Enterprises - manufactured manhole covers for East German streets. Although the East German designs will eventually be replaced because they don't conform to new standards, Ehlert says there's an ample supply in storage for now.

(Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

CONCRETE JUNGLE
Many buildings in Berlin had become uninhabitable because of the destruction of World War II. Instead of attempting to rebuild the old buildings, the new communist leadership in the East decided to create vast housing projects on the edge of the city using prefabricated concrete slabs that were cheap to produce and assemble. Although these so-called Plattenbauten exist in the former West Berlin too, they remain most distinctive of the East.
MIGRANT MIX
Turkish greengrocers are most likely to be found in the former West Berlin, while Vietnamese stores are a hallmark of the East. Each side attracted different groups of migrants after World War II, drawn from their respective sides of the Iron Curtain - NATO member Turkey for the West and communist Vietnam for the East. Their descendants remain largely aligned with the pre-1990 divide, according to census figures, though easterners have firmly embraced the doner kebab - reportedly invented in Berlin by a Turkish immigrant.
NIGHT LIGHTS
One difference between East and West requires a bird's-eye perspective and a clear night sky: Seen from above, streetlights in the former East Berlin appear slightly more orange while those in the western part of the city are a harsher yellow.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield remarked on the imprint left by the wall in 2013, and a more recent picture taken by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky also shows the divide.

According to Ehlert, the transportation spokesman, the difference has less to do with the type of lights used than with the fittings and shades.

Berlin's street lights also hail from other epochs, like the still-in-use gas lanterns that date to the early 20th century or before, and those designed by Adolf Hitler's architect Albert Speer as part of the dictator's never-realized plan for a rebuild of Berlin according to a Nazi vision to be the capital of his new empire and renamed "Germania."
Jordans writes for the Associated Press.

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In Berlin, quirky reminders linger from East-West divide

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Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital - divided for decades by bricks and barbed wire - has slowly grown back together. Few visible scars remain other than those intentionally left in place to remind Berliners and tourists of the brutal border that claimed the lives of scores of East Germans trying to flee the communist country.

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This article spends its time talking about how both sides dealt with problems. Like transportation, splitting the country in half leads to problems with things like trams. How they deal with the problems was one of the many ways they handled the conflicts.