Levitating Trains The Maglev trains “A train is a connected series of rail vehicles propelled along a track to transport cargo or passengers.” -Wikipedia Trains now days are most commonly used for the transport of passengers across long distances‚ they are fast enough to reach a constant speed between 65 km/h to around 120km/h‚ although the record speed of a conventional train is of 575 km/h‚ held by the French TGV. It needed some modifications (shorter and higher voltage) and had passengers
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Imagine growing up in the depression and being an orphan in the United States because you moved here from Ireland. Vivian Daly is the main character in “Orphan Train”. She arrived in New York when she was a little girl and was put on a train immediately and sent across the country with a bunch of other kids to find a new home with a loving family. Vivian grew up in Minnesota and then later moved to Maine when she was older. She met a girl named Molly Ayer. Molly was a seventeen-year old girl that
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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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Today is the day we are starting our trip. We have our wagon train ready to go now it’s time to leave this crazy city. I have my oxen pulling my prairie schooner everything is going well until I bump into a fancy Conestoga wagon. The wagon wasn’t to badly damaged‚ there was just a scratch‚ but the owner made me pay him sixty dollars. I almost knocked him out but I didn’t want to start off our journey that way. Our first day we had plenty of problems including the little accident earlier we had to
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has taken years and years of fighting that our people are known as equal men & women. I think that Franklin employed a lot of symbolism to have a sense of flow with his arguments. In the title‚ “The Train from Hate”‚ it simply states that the train is the representation of hate. At that time‚ trains were the only mode of transportation. Franklin noted that the different coaches took a set of colored people and non-colored people. Therefore‚ everything was separated and the blacks were discriminated
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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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When I was skimming pages when I saw this big painting the one that caught my eye right away. "The Tube Train" by Cyril E.Powers about 1934 (pg.203). I was so fascinated with this image‚ the urban theme and the nice colors. I notice the use of complementary colors; most of the picture is done in yellows and dark violets and reds which are all on opposite sides of the color wheel. The moment when I glanced at this painting my first question was “where are these people heading?” I believe they
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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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The artist name is Judith Goldstein‚ a child Holocaust survivor‚ and she was born in Vilna‚ Poland. The name of her work of art is Joys and Sorrow. In 1941‚ the Nazis sent most of Vilna’s Jews to the Ghetto where Judith and her family spent the next two years. Following the liquidation of the Ghetto in 1943‚ Judith and her mother spent the next two years in concentration camps in Latvia and Poland. Somehow‚ Judith‚ her mother‚ and her brother survived and were sent to a banished person’s camp in
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Vanessa Allen Carolyn Bax English 045 March 26 2013 Three Ways To Train a Dog How many times have you heard dogs being referred to as “mans best friend?” Training your dog will strengthen that bond that you have with your dog. Dogs are very smart animals‚ they can trained; to be working dogs‚ show dogs or as a domestic pet that does tricks. There are many different types of working dogs; sheep herders‚ seeing eye dogs and police dogs. First‚ most Border Collie or Collie breed of dogs are
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