Amtrak: Long Distance Trains: FY 2008 Long-Distance Train Facts • A long-distance train typically consists of sleepers‚ coaches‚ a diner and/or a lounge car. • Long-distance trains travel as far as 2‚800 miles and pass through as many as 12 states. • Amtrak operates 15 long-distance trains over 18‚500 route miles serving 39 states and the District of Columbia. These trains provide the only rail passenger service to 23 states. • In FY 2008 these trains carried 4.2 million passengers accounting
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Summary This is a summary of the report about the Wright Brothers‚ who had the biggest impact on the development of civil aviaton. The introductory part is dedicated to a brief description of the first engine powered flight made by Wright brothers on 17 December 1903. The main part gives a short description of the life of the Wright brothers. The third part describes how they made the biggest impact in civil aviation. In particular their inventions and discoveries‚ including: the light
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Outline Caleb Luthringer Thesis: Richard Wright was an African-American author in the early 1900’s with a terrible back-ground but a bright future. I. Personal Life A. Birth: September 4‚ 1908. B. Education: Richard only received a ninth grade education. C. Marriage: First wife‚ Dhimah Meadman‚ August of 1939. Second wife‚ Ellen Poplar‚ March 12‚ 1941. II. Professional Life A. In 1927‚ Wright made it to Chicago. He showed his poetry to Abraham Aaron and Bill Jordan. They got his
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Train To Pakistan is written by Khushwant Singh and is India’s best known writer and columnist . He has been founder-editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India ‚ and National Herald and the Hindustan Times. He was a member of parliament from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army. In 2007 ‚ he was awarded the Padma Bhushan . Among the other awards
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Train to Pakistan‚ originally published in 1956‚ is not a very good book‚ but quite enjoyable much of the time. Khushwant Singh‚ less than ten years after Partition‚ in 1947‚ wrote a novel of less than 200 pages and still managed to create what’s probably best described as an uneven mess. Ideas‚ allusions‚ characters and bits and pieces of story float all over the book. There’s no denying that Singh‚ who has since become a famous public figure and intellectual in India‚ prefers to lecture rather
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skyward‚ for there you have been‚ and there you will always long to return.” Leonardo da Vinci. Wilbur and Orville Wright are known throughout the world as the first men to fly an airplane. This‚ however‚ is a myth. “The first fixed-wing aircraft -- a kite mounted on a stick -- was conceived and flown almost a century before Orville and Wilbur made their first flights” (Engler). The Wright Brothers‚ however‚ were the first to control an airplane in the air. Though not the first to fly‚ these flight-loving
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Judith Ortiz Cofer: Understanding a Writer Judith Ortíz Cofer was born in Hormigueros‚ Puerto Rico in 1952. She was raised on the island and in Paterson‚ New Jersey‚ before her family finally settled in Augusta‚ Georgia. She received her B.A. in English from Augusta College in 1974‚ and her M.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University‚ and did graduate school at Oxford University in 1977 (Judith). Her collections of poetry include The Year of Our Revolution: New and Selected Stories and
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The Train from Hate” by John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin’s “The Train from Hate” tells a story of a black family in Oklahoma during the time of racial separatism. When the family boards a train to head a couple miles out of town to Checotah‚ the conductor informs the mother that they must leave the train when it stops. The mother tells the kids that they must exit the train and head back to their hometown of Rentiesville. The narrator‚ who is a young boy does not understand why the white conductor
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Birthdate and Place Katherine Wright was born August 19‚ 1874 in Dayton ‚ Ohio. but surprisingly she was born in her own house. Don’t you think that’s cool? They also just moved to there house 5 years before she was born. Family Info She was born when her favorite brother Orville turned 3 ‚ but she was technically the only girl since her sister Ida died in the infancy(the state period of early childhood or babyhood) . Also her role model is her favorite brother Orville. Her hobbies was mostly help
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play‚ otherwise you may not understand a word I’m typing. This is not an indepth summary of the play‚ enjoy! Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles is about two women discovering the real reason why Mrs. Wright killed her husband‚ they discovered it by just worrying over what the men called trifles. Mrs. Wright lived a lonely life‚ she was isolated and depressed. Her husband‚ who obviously was emotionally unavailable to her‚ pushed her over the edge by killing her precious bird. Between the objects the ladies
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