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Movie Disaster at HillsboroughSummary     The painting "Disaster at Hillsborough" showed the complexity of a stampede.From the build-up of people foreign the entrance, to the accident that ended in thedeath of 95 people.     The film started out outside the pipe bowl where 95 people died at asoccer game. The stadium was non equipped for the masses of people to show up all told at the same place at the same time. According to the officeholder interviewedthere was no plan in case of an emergency and no problems anticipated. Theatmosphere outside the gates was pleasant and people were looking frontward to agood game. The stampede started when the people in the rear realised that thegame was to start before they were going to shake up in. The stampede could possiblybeen averted if the kickoff were delayed but the man "in charge" refused todelay. near as at the "Who" contrive the people in the rear of the rakeh ell were inan predatory panic to get into the stadium. This contract was recognized bythe police in the front of the line and due to poor talk nonhing couldbe done to stop it. A large gate "gate C" was finally opened to let off thepressure in front. This is when the true disaster occurred. People funneledstraight onto the already salutary pens and created the stampede which killed the 95people. People in the rear were in an acquisitive panic and the people in thefront who were getting crushed were in a fearful panic. The emergency gateswould open but the police, not realizing the situation, kept people in andclosed the gates.Critique     This example could not be anymore perfect to show a stampede and panic. all four components were met. (1) Partial entrapment the reality is completeentrapment. As at the Who concert the only avenue of escape was jam by thepolice. (2) Perceived flagellum this comes from both ends of the panic. Thepeople at the rear were affrightened by the accompaniment that they would miss the kickoffof the game or even not be able to get into the game. The people at the frontwere facing the threat of being crushed. (3) The partial breakdown of escaperouts is obvious from the front. The gates to get out were blocked by thepolice and there was a risque fence blocking everyone on all sides except thetunnel which was blocked by people trying to get into the pens. (4) Front torear communication theory breakdown occurred when the people at the fence realized the