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In San Francisco’s Great Earthquake of 1908, the great shakeout set fire to almost the whole city-burning almost 28,000 buildings and ending the lives of approximately 3,000 city dwellers. While this catastrophe was titled as an earthquake, many argued that it should have been titled as “The Great Fire,” due to the fire contributing to most of the damage in the city. Despite how big the catastrophe was, in 1868, there was actually another earthquake in San Francisco that had occurred-putting the Chamber of Commerce to Work; the Chamber of Commerce pushed for the future study of finding ways to build earthquake-resistant structures in the city (106.) Similar to my colleague @heaven01’s work, I found that too good to be true. In her work from last week, she had stated how Marx’s view of communism to make everything equal was too good to be true as well to the point where he blinded himself of many other circumstances. The same goes for the people living in the city of San Francisco before and during the time of the earthquake. Obviously after the earthquake of 1868, the people of the city were so focused on being prepared for the next big earthquake that they completely blindsided themselves for the fires that erupted during the 1906 quake. As much as being ready for the next earthquake to occur, I think that it is safe to say that nobody was expecting the fire to take as much of a toll as it did on the city. In order to move on and learn from mistakes, historians and people of society have to look at the big picture and think several steps ahead as to what they can do to make improvements.