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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.1 Detail. According to the passage, which of the following was a lasting effect of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?


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brought to you by laws They're like rules on ly

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fancier and i checked the following passage a triangle shirtwaist

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factory fire deadly is in the history of new york

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one hundred fourteen garment immigrant a muslim now let's get

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a fire with fire like inflation going all right according

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to the passage which of the following was a lasting

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effect of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire lasting effect right

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here The potential answers sympathy more laws managers prosecuted Wait

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with so many details how do we figure out which

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are the most important We're going to get our handy

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of this passage It's compressed All right Well let's get

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into it We can begin by eliminating option a We'd

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like to think that people had souls in nineteen eleven

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But sympathy isn't even mentioned in the passage can always

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hope though Option beacon go to it seems reasonable that

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laws may have been passed to prevent children from working

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in factories But again there's no mention of this in

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the passage So it's got to go We can also

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get rid of option c It'd be easy to assume

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that the managers of the factory were prosecuted for what

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they did But that info doesn't appear in the paragraph

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so so long seek the correct answer Here is option

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d If we take another look at the passage we

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see that the last sentence directly references the passage of

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legislation that improved safety and factories One factory we'd be

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ok with Being stuck in is an ice cream factory

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as long as there's plenty of rocky road and we 00:01:40.146 --> [endTime] like picking fruit Yeah

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