Mile

Railroad was built, how it was made, or who made it? Well before the Transcontinental Railroad was built the first steam locomotive was built in 1930 and in 1950 over 9,000 miles of track was built connecting cities, states, important landforms, and more. That set the early stages for the next couple of decades for more and more miles of track to be laid. In 1849 lots of settlers were traveling long distances over mountains, hills forests, rivers, deserts, and more. The journey was very risky…

The last major theme in “Tuck Everlasting” is the breaking of rules, laws and risky behaviour. Miles, along with the rest of his Tuck family and Winnie Foster, broke quite a few rules and laws and this along with their behaviour, got them into troubles that they had to get themselves out of. The first law that the family break is the kidnapping of Winnie Foster once she saw the spring. The kidnapping was witnessed by the man in the yellow suit: “The road, where it angled across the meadow, was…

These all impact racing in different ways. First, the size of the track means a lot in racing. The longer the track is, the faster the cars usually go as they have a longer distance to build up speed. Tracks can range from half of a mile to over 2 and a half miles.…

My favorite part of the book was probably the ending when the governess was describing her last event with Miles, “...With the stroke of the loss I was so proud of he the uttered cry of a creature...We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.” It made my jaw drop because I didn’t know the governess would be glad for something like that to happen to Miles. Also, during my first read, I couldn’t process what happened in the end because of the complexity of…

The novella Turn of the Screw was written by Henry James and originally published in 1898. The story is a ghost tale, involving a Governess and two children. There is much debate to whether the Governess in this story is sane or insane. According to Oxford Dictionaries, insanity is a “state of mind that prevents normal perception, behavior, and social interaction” (Oxford Dictionaries). The Governess can be considered insane since she has disturbed perceptions, exhibits abnormal behavior, and…

tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. Weak tornadoes often having a thin, rope-like appearance, the wind speed ranges anywhere from forty miles per hour to one hundred twelve miles…

Looking for Alaska by John Green is a mystery filled with twists and turns. This novel tells the story of Miles Halter, a boy obsessed with last words. Miles is new at culver creek, he has no idea what to anticipate the only thing he knows are the story’s of his father when he went to this school. On his first day there he already makes two friends and buys cigarettes, and met the presumable love of his life. Everything Alaska did within the book was impulsive. I don't think she…

“Looking for Alaska” written by John Green is about Miles Halter, who moves to Birmingham Alabama. Miles joins a boarding school when he gets caught up in the intriguing, sexy, intelligent, and confusing world of Alaska Young. When Miles meets Alaska his whole world was turned upside down. Alaska makes him question everything, from birth, to death. The main question in Miles’ head at the end is “how will I ever escape this labyrinth?” Labyrinth is a complicated irregular network of passages or…

before my 14th birthday, at the Greenville Track Club summer all-comers meet, that I first felt the pain of running. Even though I hadn’t trained at all beforehand, I jumped in one of the mile heats anyways. The first two laps went without much trouble, and I was feeling good. I have been told that the first lap of a mile race is run off of nervous energy, and the second lap is run off of the momentum of the first, but the third lap is when the race really starts. As I entered the third lap, I…

The Inner Jovian Moons For the moon project I recieved the Inner Jovian moons. The Inner Jovian Moons are four different moons of Jupiter. The names of these moons are Adrastea, Metis, Amalthea, and Thebe. Each of these moons get their names from Greek Mythology. They Were all discovered by different people. As it goes for research I found that all of these moons have very little to be known about them. They do not know the rotational period of any of these moons. A lot of the pictures at are…