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A sociological analysis of the 1917 Halifax Explosion through Samuel Prince's dual perspective as clergyman and scholar.
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A sociological analysis of the 1917 Halifax Explosion through Samuel Prince's dual perspective as clergyman and scholar.
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On December 6th, 1917, the young curate at Saint Paul's Anglican Church, Halifax, was a witness to the greatest manmade explosion prior to the atom bombs. Samuel Prince was no stranger to death: quite apart from being a priest in a city at war, he had spent weeks at sea with a crew, retrieving bodies from the Titanic and somewtimes performing the 'burial for the dead' there, in the North Atlantic. . Unlike the other witnesses, however, Prince was also a budding social scientist. Samuel Prince sa...
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will contain mild spoilers
Romance & sex
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No romantic or sexual content depicted.
Violence & gore
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Descriptions of the Halifax Explosion with likely focus on death and destruction.
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence of LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Religious content
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Features a clergyman perspective with likely religious framing.
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft depicted.
Occult / demonology
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No real-world occult content depicted.
Political content
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Minor sociological analysis of disaster and social change.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Brief mentions of suffering due to disaster and loss.
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