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By Aluisio Azevedo
First released in 1890, and unquestionably Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is likely one of the most generally learn and significantly acclaimed novels ever written approximately Brazil. certainly, its nice acceptance, sensible descriptions, archetypal events, precise neighborhood coloring, and total race-consciousness may evoke Huckleberry Finn because the novel's North American an identical. but Azevedo additionally shows the naturalism of Zola and the ironic distance of Balzac; whereas tragic, attractive, and inventive as a piece of fiction, The Slum is universally considered as the best, or truest, graphics of Brazilian society ever rendered.
This is a bright and intricate story of ardour and greed, a narrative with many various strands pertaining to the several fiscal stages of society. mostly, even if, The Slum flourishes on intersecting tale strains. in a single narrative, a penny-pinching immigrant landlord strives to turn into a wealthy investor after which discards his black lover for a filthy rich white girl. within the different, we witness the blameless but harmful love affair among a robust, pragmatic, "gentle giant" type of immigrant and a vivacious mulatto lady who either reside in a tenement owned by way of stated landlord. the 2 immigrant heroes are initially Portuguese, and hence personify exchange outsider responses to Brazil. As translator David H. Rosenthal issues out in his valuable advent: one is the capitalist interested in new markets, speedy status, and untapped assets; the opposite, the prudent eu drawn moth-like to "the mild and sexual warmth of the tropics."
A deftly instructed, deeply relocating, and hardscrabble novel that includes a number of stirring passages approximately lifestyles within the streets, the melting-pot realities of the fashionable urban, and the oft-unstable brain of the gang, The Slum will captivate someone who may perhaps relish a extra poetic, much less political tackle the nineteenth-century naturalism of Crane or Dreiser.
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Kommen solche Systeme der Brandvermeidung zum Einsatz, muß der Einsatz von Brandmeldetechnik den geänderten Bedingungen angepaßt werden. Eine Brandmeldeanlage ist dann nur noch in der Sicherungskategorie Teilschutz auszuführen. Ein positiver Nebeneffekt bei dem System der Brandvermeidung ist, daß es keine Falschalarme gibt und somit keine damit verbundenen nichtplanbaren Kosten. Abschließend noch einige Ausführungen zu den vorbeugenden betrieblichorganisatorischen Brandschutzmaßnahmen. Während sowohl die Maßnahmen des baulichen als auch des technischen Brandschutzes im Wesentlichen nicht an den Faktor Mensch gebunden sind, ist die Umsetzung der betrieblich-organisatorischen Maßnahmen in ihrer Qualität vom Menschen abhängig.
Auf Grund der wesentlich geringeren Wärmeleitfähigkeit von Holz gegenüber Metall wird eine Schädigung im Inneren eines Schrankes durch Wärme verzögert. Die Wärmeleitfähigkeit von Stahl ist über 200-mal höher als die von Holz. Praktisch bedeutet das, ein Holzschrank verbrennt von außen nach innen. Der Metallschrank selbst wird R. Walther, Brandschutz in Bibliotheken 39 nicht brennen, aber das darin befindliche Gut wird thermisch bis zur totalen Vernichtung geschädigt werden. Es besteht somit aus brandschutztechnischer Sicht kein Grund, vorhandene Holzschränke auszutauschen.
Der abwehrende Brandschutz umfaßt Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung von Gefahren für Leben, Gesundheit und Sachen, die durch Brände entstehen. Für die weitere Beurteilung wollen wir uns auf die Komponente des vorbeugenden Brandschutzes konzentrieren. Ziel ist es, das Ereignis „Brand“ mit allen zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln zu verhindern bzw. den Schaden im Ereignisfall so gering wie möglich zu halten. Um dieses Ziel zu verwirklichen, müssen vorbeugende Maßnahmen des baulichen Brandschutzes, des technischen Brandschutzes und des betrieblichen organisatorischen Brandschutzes umgesetzt werden.