Alex Samoylov

Title : The Ephemeral Flame

Specific Purpose : To persuade my audience that the Brooklyn Theater Fire should be on a walking tour and should have a plaque on the Federal Building and Post Office.

Central Idea : Today, I will show you the reasons why the site of the Brooklyn Theater Fire should be on a walking tour and how to the populous more aware of it.

I. The Brooklyn Theater Fire
A. December 5, 1876
B. Over 300 died
1. people started panicking and running
C. Poor exit strategy
1. doors and staircases were too narrow
a. over a thousand panicking people
b. only 2 exits on ground level
2. fire code was updated after event
II. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
A. 146 dead
1. same mistakes
a.doors locked to stops brecks and theft
b. limited ways down in form of elevators
2. Fire code was updated
B. has a plaque
E. September 11 2001
1. not forgotten
2. Freedom Tower not built over it site of 9/11
3. living memorial, not over the ashes

III. Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” as said by Edmund Burke.
A. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
a. 146 dead
B.bronze plaque solution on the walls of the Federal Building and Post Office
D. injustice will come to an end

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Montrose, M. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2010/06/walkabout-the-b-2/

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Landmarks Preservation Commission, (2003). Brown building (originally asch building), 23-29 washington place (aka 245 greene street), manhattan. built 1900-01; architect john Woolley