The Wreck of Amtrak’s Sunset Limited H. Richard Eisenbeis‚ Sue Hanks‚ and Bruce Barrett University of Southern Colorado On September 22‚ 1993‚ the Sunset Limited‚ the pride of Amtrak‚ glided swiftly along through the warm‚ fall night. A dense fog hugged the countryside. Because there was nothing to see through the train’s windows‚ many passengers dozed peacefully‚ lulled to sleep by the gentle‚ rhythmic‚ clickety-clack of iron wheels passing over jointed rails. Crewmembers roamed the aisles and
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Throughout time there has always been wars‚ and the hardships that follow shortly behind. The novella‚ Leaving Gilead by Pat Carr‚ the Civil War has began to engulf the Balm-of-Gilead Plantation. Ian Birdsong heads off as a confederate captain in the Arkansas 14th‚ leaving his daughter Saranell‚ his wife Geneva‚ and all of his slaves to keep the plantation running. As the Yankees crept closer to their home Geneva‚ Saranell‚ and the recently bought slave Renny‚ head off in hopes of evading the approaching
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Cited: americanrevlutionarywar.net. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.americanrevolutionarywar.net n2genealogy.com. (2011‚ 9 12). Retrieved from http://www.revolutionarywar.n2genealogy.com/ Carr‚ K. (2011‚ March 8). historyforkids.org. Retrieved from http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/after1500/history/revolution.htm ushistory.org. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.ushistory.org/us/11a.asp Berkin‚ C.‚ Miller‚ C.‚ Cherny‚ R.‚
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Both the Eli Creekmore story and David Pelzer story shared similar and differences in their abuses. The main and tragic differences was that one went through it longer and the other died because of it. However‚ both cases went through physical‚ emotional and neglectful abuse. There are indicators of each abuse and the social service in each case should’ve been more aware of it. If they would’ve paid more attention to each child in these cases‚ I think both children would’ve been saved more quickly
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fellow friends so we don’t see any problem while communicate. During our first class of English communication‚ Mr Jeremy was our lecturer but after a few classes they switch our lecturer into Mr Darren. This issue make us uneasy for a few classes but we started to get used to it. The note given by Mr Darren was really useful and the explanation was very easy to understand. He also gave us a lot of examples to make us easy to understand. Over all the classes is quite fun but we hope he can speed up
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Abstract The aim of this report is to identify consumer behaviour and explore the extent of which smart phones are changing how consumers shop and what fashion retailers are doing to support consumers use of m-commerce. The report will show different approaches to m-commerce between different segments from luxury brands to high street. It will examine how retailers adapt new concepts and share information through smartphones to compete in the consumer market. The report will also reflect on what
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Svetlana Kashirina Professor Balcan BCC WRT-101 Digital Technology and Evolution of Humanity: How Science Fiction is Crossing into Reality We cannot deny the fact that information technologies play a major role in the modern society. Little by little humanity becomes more dependent on the technological advancements. The extent of our reliance on “artificial intelligence” of the inventions like iPhones and Google makes some of us uneasy. In a new environment‚ which reminds us of a science fiction
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Imagine a world where people are all programmed to think a certain way‚ where every action is robotic‚. wWhere they have no freedom of thought. T‚ this is the reality we face that is described in the book written by Nicholas Carr‚ The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Google is restructuring the human mind for its own purposes‚ forof faster information extraction and retrieval. The fact that Google is doing this is wrong‚ because we should be able to do more than parse through data
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“2001: A Space Odyssey‚” Stanley Kubrick writes‚ “As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world‚ it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.” In the essay “IS Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr‚ M.A. a writer and blogger‚ talks about the Internet and specifically search engine Google as an example. He points out that beside the fact these technological advancements making life much as easy through easy access of information. However‚ the
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The Elephant Man 1. Describe the human qualities of John Merrick that make him human not an elephant. Though John Merrick is a man with deformities‚ he should still be considered human since like all else‚ he is equipped with most of the human qualities that others have. He is such an intelligent man‚ and was gradually discovered to be sophisticated and articulate. He spent most of his time in his room reading‚ drawing and making a model of a church visible through his window and doing other intellectual
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