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    Train’s high speed and large mass can easily total a car‚ and in most cases‚ kill all the passengers and driver in the car. This is why it is important to learn how safely cross railroad crossings. The main purpose of the signs is to inform that driver that there is a railroad crossing up ahead. They are usually yellow or white and have two capital R’s on the left and right of an X. These signs don’t mean that a train is coming down the track‚ but only to yield. They let the driver know that

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    Crossing the Red Sea

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    Crossing the red sea essay “Crossing the Red Sea" is a poem that is based on World War ll. Thousands of people were displaced by the destruction and cruelty of the war. They looked for a new life in a new world. In the poem a there is a substantial amount of people on a ship leaving there shattered and war torn homeland. The poem displays how people have suffered and seen dreadful scenes. It also expresses there sadness and grief that has left them each flabbergasted and scared. As they set

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    In The Crossing‚ a book by Gary Paulsen‚ a boy named Manny Bustos is trying to overcome the challenges of crossing the border between Mexico and the United States. Manny‚ a 14 year-old homeless boy thinks that if he can cross the border his life will be good forever. He is right that he will be able to get a job and be able to do fine. He will be fine if he is able to make it to America because if he is able to survive in the harsh conditions of Juarez‚ Mexico such as fights‚ drunken soldiers‚ older

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    Crossing Some fathers take their sons out on camping trips to create a closer bond. These trips are cozy and relaxing and are done under safe circumstances. Most fathers would never dream of taking their sons out on dangerous trips‚ which is not the case in Mark Slouka’s short story‚ Crossing‚ which was published in 2009. It’s a nerve racking story about a father who takes his little son on a survival trip in a forest‚ which turns out bad. It

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    Crossing Heaven's Border

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    Crossing Heaven’s Border An international pariah or the “Hermit Kingdom”‚ these names have been used to describe North Korea (Jacob and Benzkofer 1). In North Korea‚ the leaders‚ and those that are considered to be upper class and loyal to the regime‚ dine on gourmet cuisine‚ expensive cigars‚ and other luxuries while 4 out of 5 children are suffering with malnutrition (Msnbc.com Staff 1). Their living conditions are unfathomable. The North Korea regime and its military make the decisions on

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    Crossing by mark slouka

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    Crossing The short story‚ ‘Crossing’‚ is written by Mark Slouka in 2009‚ and takes up father and son relationship together with man vs. nature. From the beginning of time fathers have taken their sons on camping trips or similar to pass on their knowledge about how to conquer Mother Nature. But more important it binds them closer together‚ and this is exactly these two purposes the father here wishes to obtain.  Through a third person limited narrator the reader is presented to a father who has

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    Calvary Crossing a Ford

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    A Yankee Journey from the South In merely one sitting‚ a reader of Walt Whitman’s piece Calvary Crossing a Ford might have the inclination to interpret the work as a simple depiction of some unknown band of horseman and the aesthetic scenery they encounter on their travels. With an eye that is more attentive to detail‚ literary elements such as the speaker’s tone and Whitman’s presentation of detail bring to light a deeper revelation; the Yankees are coming home. The speaker’s diction is not

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    The Crossing by Gary Paulsen is a book about a young boy trying to cross the Mexico border into America. The question that is asked now is why is this an important novel for American students to read? This is an extremely important book for American students to read for many reasons such as‚ it gives us a way to experience the way some people are who are not as fortunate as us live. Many kids around the world are exposed to such graphic and horrific things everyday and don’t realise what they go

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    The man in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road‚ shows no deviation from the deliberate sacrifices for the boy‚ illuminating the potent value of love‚ especially highlighted by the dreary atmosphere surrounding them. With a tone described as tender and elegiac‚ McCarthy conveys the love a father can share with a son‚ despite being in the wake of an astronomical disaster. Paternal love possesses an ubiquitous thematic throughout the work‚ given the relationship between the two protagonists. Small gifts or

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    Crossing Trust and family relationships are the two main themes in the short story “Crossing” by Mark Slouka. The story tells us about a father‚ who is going through a tough period‚ and his relationship to his son. He wants to obtain trust from his son trough a trip in the nature but runs into some challenges on his way. The father in the short story takes his son on a trip to a place at a river‚ because he wants to get closer to him on this trip. We get hints throughout the story that the father

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