Floca takes his readers to a cross-country journey with him in Locomotive. According to one of its book reviews‚ “In a collegial direct address‚ he invites readers to join a family-mother‚ daughter and son- on one of the first passenger trips from Omaha to Sacramento after the meeting of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific in May 1869” (Kirkus)‚ Locomotive illustrates the trip in details. Locomotive by Brian Floca is one of the winners of Caldecott Medal Award. Its success can be attributed
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Netflix Netflix was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos‚ California. Netflix is a company that provides online movie rental subscription services in the United States. The company offers its subscribers access to a library of movie‚ television‚ and other filmed entertainment titles on digital versatile disc (DVD) and Blu-Rays. Its members can get DVDs delivered to their homes and can instantly watch movies and TV episodes streamed to their TVs and PCs. It also partners with consumer
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supplies stored in Great Britain to prepare for the attack. D-day proved to be one of the most powerful invasions in history since it was a monolithic turning point of World War II. D-day proved to be important because of the outstanding overtaking of Omaha Beach and the massive death toll that occurred on that monumental day. The D-day invasion or also known as the Operation Overlord that occurred on June 6th‚ 1944‚ was an invasion that was prepared for with much training to stop Germany from gaining
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June 6‚ 1944‚ 0630 hours (MacDonald). Not a single gull in the sky. All that could be heard were the crashing of waves against the side of the boat‚ the vomiting of my brothers in arms due to sea sickness and fear‚ and my own heartbeat‚ beating louder than it ever had. Water was continuously spilling over into the boat‚ waves crashing down over the walls soaking all of us inside. It was foggy‚ the sun could only be seen as a smear of light behind the gray and black that consumed the morning sky.
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Allied invasion. The landings were preceded by extensive aerial and naval warfare and an airborne assault‚ the landing of 24‚000 British‚ US‚ and Canadian troops. The target 50 mile stretch of the Normandy coast was divided into five divisions‚ Utah‚ Omaha‚ Gold‚ Juno‚ and Sword Beach. The men landed under heavy fire from guns overlooking the beaches‚ and the shore was mined and covered with obstacles such as wooden stakes‚ metal tripods‚ and barbed wire‚ making the work of the beach clearing teams difficult
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Kansa Indian The name "Kaw" or "Kansa" means‚ "People of the South Wind‚" (unknown‚ kaw nation‚ n.d.) and the state of Kansas takes its name from this famous tribe. The Kansa people were closely related to the Omaha‚ Osage‚ Quapah and Ponca tribes. Clothing The men of (unknown‚ kansa people‚ n.d.)The tribe wore a variety of clothes including a red or blue breechcloth with a belt‚ and deerskin leggings‚ and sometimes a blanket robe over the upper part of the body‚ often trimmed with fur. Buffalo
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Part 1: Summary Saving Private Ryan takes place at the in in 1944‚ during the second World War. It starts off with American soldiers arriving at Omaha‚ France by boat and engaging in an extremely bloody battle. One of the American commanders‚ Captain John H. Miller is then chosen to lead a new special mission: to find and return Private James Ryan back home because he is the last remaining son out of three who had been K.I.A.. Captain Miller assembled seven men to join him on the mission and
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Effective Rhetoric On November 19‚ 1863 Abraham Lincoln gave a reverent and humbling speech for the soldiers who had given their lives at the battle of Gettysburg for the reform and advancement of the country. He states that the brave men who here gave their last full measure of devotion” should be highly esteemed for the sacrifice they made. Lincoln establishes his ideas through the usage of rhetorical devices such as‚ an appeal to ethos‚ parallelism‚ and juxtaposition. Lincoln never uses the
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Joseph Freberg had been with Alcon for 18 months. He had begun his career right out of college with a firm in the Southeast called Cala Industrial‚ which specialized in air compressors. Because of his work with Cala‚ he had been lured away to Alcon‚ in Omaha‚ as a sales manager. Joseph’s first six months had been hard. Working with older salespeople‚ trying to get a handle on his people’s sales territories and settling into the corporate culture of a new firm took 16-hour days‚ six days a week. During
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An Overview In the years since 1945‚ it has become increasingly evident that the Grand Alliance forged between the British Commonwealth and the United States was often beset with disagreement over the correct strategy to insure the final defeat of the Axis powers. Early on‚ both British and American staffs could agree that Germany represented a greater military threat than Japan‚ but they did not often see eye to eye on the strategy that would most efficiently defeat the Reich. The Americans were
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