THE ROUGH CROSSING by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) The Saturday Evening Post (8 June 1929) I Once on the long‚ covered piers‚ you have come into a ghostly country that is no longer Here and not yet There. Especially at night. There is a hazy yellow vault full of shouting‚ echoing voices. There is the rumble of trucks and the clump of trunks‚ the strident chatter of a crane and the first salt smell of the sea. You hurry through‚ even though there’s time. The past‚ the continent‚ is
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Border Control I feel that border security should be a priority and it is important to me because of the consequences we are currently suffering from and will continue to suffer from. We have decades of children that will depend on us to resolve these issues now rather than lay the burden on them. Even if Border Security is dealt with successfully‚ the radical terrorist threat will continue and will be able to be dealt with more easily because of the progress we will be able to make at home domestically
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railroad crossing is where a road crosses through a railroad where the trains can pass through. There are all sorts of signs that warn drivers that there is a railroadcrossing ahead‚ they can be on a post or on the road pavement. The warning signs thatare on the road and on the posts have an “X” and two “R” on the sides of the X. These signs tell you to slow down‚ listen‚ keep the look out‚ and be prepared to stop at a railroad crossing.There are three types of railroad crossing signs‚ which
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and watching the additional videos‚ I learned a lot about railroad crossing safety. At first I did not know that this topic was an issue. But through reading and watching the information given to me related to this issue‚ I learned that it is definitely a danger to drivers and passengers who are involved. From the Utah 2014 Driver’s Handbook it states‚ “As the number of driver’s increases‚ more and more people die at railroad crossings.” As seen in the statistics‚ the number of injuries caused by railroads
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Middle Passage is a term used to describe the forced journey of African slaves from Africa to America in exchange for goods from Europe. It is called the middle passage because it was the middle leg of the ‘triangular trade’. During the 17th century heaps of slaves were kidnapped and transported from the west coast of Africa to America in slave ships. These ships travelled across the Atlantic ocean from and this took about six to eight weeks depending on the weather. Conditions for slaves were horrible
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Africa Bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east‚ Atlantic to the west and Mediterranean to the north; lies the continent as we know called Africa. The longest river‚ which runs about 4‚160 miles‚ is the Nile River and is the survival source for the African people. It provides mode of transportation‚ food and fertile land. Providing a route between the coast and the Sahara Desert‚ the slopes contain cedar‚ pine‚ cork and oak trees. The Sahara Desert separates northern Africa from the rest of
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various signs that warn people of railroad crossings. Some of thedifferent types of railroad crossing signs include advance signs‚ markings on the pavement‚ andrailroad crossing buck signs. There are other devices such as red flashing lights with bells‚ and gates that also help to warn you of a railroad crossing and a possible upcoming train. Whenapproaching a railroad crossing you should always slow down even if you can’t see a train coming. If a railroad crossing has red lights that are flashing‚ you
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Crossing Brooklyn Ferry is considered one of the greatest lyrical poems of all time. In Crossing Brooklyn Ferry‚ Walt Whitman uses connotative diction‚ prying questions‚ and critical reader engagement to convey a feeling of connection and unity of people through time. By using these certain rhetoric strategies‚ Whitman creates a piece of poetry that seems to be timeless. Whitman carefully chooses certain words and phrases that really highlight his intentions to connect
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around the world what this was and where did this terrible and humiliating racism happen‚ well it was happening in my beloved South Africa during 1948 to 1990 to me and all the black South Africans and even some whites that stood up to the government. To me‚ apartheid was the most dehumanizing‚ humiliating and racist period of time for me and my fellow peers in South Africa and I wasn’t going to let these people get away with what they were doing but it was going to be a long struggle for freedom again
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publication of the novel Memoirs of a Geisha written by Arthur Golden has very similar themes to the famous American art piece Washington Crossing the Delaware painted by Emmanuel Leutze. Although these two pieces are set in very different places with very different scenarios and backgrounds‚ both obviously show themes of overcoming the odds and persevering through hardship. The famous oil on canvas painting depicts a scene that was a very critical moment during the American Revolution. Before the
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