Boxcar

Zvolen, Poland 1891 My Dearest Beloved Sons, I am writing this letter for a very good purpose, to thank you for all you have done for Hannah and I am sorry for not being such a good father. You guys have lived on your own like an adult for a long time and I am very proud of you guys. First of all, you guys started off having jobs, getting money, getting good pay checks, and now you’re grown men. Herschel, I’m very sorry for not glancing at your handsome face for the last time, but…

This is far from the idyllic life that Rose Of Sharon planned, and far from the place that Rose Of Sharon planned to give birth her first born. Oddly enough, Rose Of Sharon decides to pick cotton with the family instead of staying behind in the boxcar. It seems at this point, Rose Of Sharon finally decides to put the family’s needs over her own, but at the worst possible time. However, more tragedy strikes and a great rain, although not 40 days and 40 nights, begins to fall. After being rained…

join the formation. The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were…

When Billy and other American soldiers were kept prisoners during the war, the Germans had them in tight boxcars and under the circumstances the “human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets, which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them. Billy was a dumper” (70). Once again, Billy cannot do anything about it so he does not.…

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humanity. This passage also introduced the concepts of betrayal to the monsters, which is problematic because the monsters perceived betrayal by Victor causes him to commit heinous acts later in the novel. The monster should have instead read “The Boxcar Children” by Gertrude Chandler Warner. The brothers in this novel care about each other and wouldn’t betray one another. This might of sparred the lives of Victor’s friends and family by removing the monsters desire for…

deep that it was exceeding the height of homes. Fertilization and the rotation of crops we not taught to the farmers who were used to fertile soil. The erosion of the land became so extensive that it was said within the documentary that “A series of boxcars could go around the earth seven times with the amount of soil that had eroded” During this enviromental issue there was also another very detrimental problem within the United States; The Great Depression. The economical decline of America,…

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At the beginning of world war II the U.S. is not yet involved. The U.S. air force is exclusively white but that all changed in 1939. The airmen overcame adversity and with their impressive flight records they proved their worth during world war II and in post-war time by being influential in the developments of aviation and breakdown of u.s. Segregation. I talk about the missions, influential people, role in the war. Until the formation of the Tuskegee Airmen, no African American has ever been…