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The Johnstown Flood Topics for Discussion
How do you react to the rich and powerful men of Pittsburgh owning a private lake that causes such a massive disaster? Locate your position in the social structure - upper, middle, or lower class - and try to picture how readers in the two other classifications would react to the same question.
If you were on a jury assessing liability for the accident, to whom - if anyone - would you assess guilt, in what amount, and for what specific reason(s)?
If you were to rebuild the South Fork dam, what precautions would you take against a recurrence of the Johnstown Flood? If you were a county official, what would you demand of such a contractor?
How would modern news coverage of the Johnstown Flood differ from that in 1889? Would it be better, worse, or the same?
Why would Johnstownians want to forget the flood? Would victims today...
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