The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory is one of the biggest moments in history because it promoted much needed and necessary change for not just women but all genders. Both videos focusing on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that happened on March 25th, 1911 described in detail about the horrific events that occurred, why they happened, and what change happened because of this horrible tragedy afterwards. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a man made disaster that could have been prevented with the right precautions, rules, and regulations. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a sweatshop in Manhattan, New York that was a densely packed place, where young immigrant women worked over eleven hours a day every day with extremely low wages and unsafe working conditions for all. Over five hundred young women worked there where they sat at a long table and sewed blouses for women. This horrific fire started in a bin of cotton scraps that may have been started from a cigarette bud; when the fire began to spread quickly women tried to rush out the building through the emergency exit however, the space wasn’t big enough and it collapsed. After the emergency exit/fire escape collapsed the young women tried to get out the building using the elevator however, the elevator then broke before everyone could get out safely therefore, many women jumped to their deaths from the Asch building instead of the scorching and unbearable flames. It was also stated that these young women fell to their deaths in order for their families to be able to ID them and bury them properly. The fire lasted a total of eighteen minutes and one hundred and forty six women died making it the deadliest workplace disaster in New York City history. Days later after the horrific fire, a massive funeral protest march took place where more than three hundred and fifty thousand people were in attendance for the one hundred and forty six souls that passed over a tragedy that could have been prevented. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire helped redefine the American industrial workplace because it was a key movement in the growth of labor unions particularly  the international ladies garment workers union. This fire prompted more rules and regulations to be a necessity in place for workers including the Sullivan home fire prevention law which required sprinkler systems to be installed in all factories; this served as a model for state and national workplace safety codes. As I was re-learning everything I was taught about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire throughout these two videos I realized that I did not know the extent to which change happened and the fact that citizens prompted this change just by protests and marches. Just by people coming together and fighting for these women that tragically died from this fire they were able to create more stricter laws, rules, and regulations to protect workers and above all ensure their safety as they work each and every day. Although such a tragic fire occurred for this change to happen I feel as though it woke people up and lit a fire under them that they couldn’t just ignore. To me, the most important information you can take away from these videos is that you don’t need people of high status or power to enforce much needed and necessary change for citizens in general, all you need is a bunch of people like you, who wants the same end goal for all not just specific people that it would benefit from. Many social movements begin with a bunch of regular people who aren’t rich or known but share the same drive, goal, and message that they want to promote and in the end cause change for the world in ways it may not know it needs it.