Unbroken chapter 1 summary

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In California in the summer of 1929, Louie and his brother, Pete, wake to the sound, and then sight, of a massive aircraft passing over their house. Louie notices how the famous German dirigible airship Graf Zeppelin covers the star-filled sky with complete darkness. That night, the airship is three days from completing its objective of circumnavigating the globe. It has already passed over New York, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Japan.

Louie was born in Olean, New York to Italian immigrant parents, and suffered from pneumonia before the age of two. A daredevil from a very young age, Louie jumped off the caboose of a train at age two, when his family began a relocation journey to California. As a child, Louie had many adventures around the streets and alleys of his new hometown, Torrance, California. He often stole food and other items and ran away. At times, he was mischievous just for the sake of it. He had a gift for escaping and was not easily discouraged.

Louie’s older brother, Pete, appeared to be the opposite of Louie: polite and successful. Pete took care of Louie, which was not easy because of Louie’s obvious ways of standing out from others in his community. He was shorter than most other kids at school, and was bullied for not only this, but his Italian heritage. As Louie got older, he got in more trouble, and fought with classmates and policemen alike. It was only when his neighbor was almost a victim of government sterilization of people deemed unfit to reproduce, that Louie tried to clean up his act. Even then, he couldn’t seem to do anything right. He longed for a different life and started to dream of escape.

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How does Shakespeare present the changes in Lord Capulet's character in Act 3?
Elaborate on answer.

Write a ' I have a dream one day' speech about any topic and it has to be 4/5 paragraphs

p a d l e t anyone???
i am b o r e d

How does the dress that LaNier wore on her first day of school contribute to the central idea of the text?

Keep it simple as possible please

Fallacious reasoning may be based off of incomplete information.

A. True

B. False

Combine the following sentences using either ... or, neither ...
nor.
1. He doesn't have a pen. He doesn't have paper.
2. You can have tea or you can have coffee.
3. She wants to buy a BMW, or she wants to buy a Toyota.
4. We could fly, or we could take a taxi.
5. We can't go swimming. We can't play tennis.
6. The library doesn't have the book I need. The bookshope doesn't
have the book I need.
7. My father doesn't enjoy hunting. My father doesn't enjoy fishing.
8. We can take them to a restaurant. We can have dinner at home.
9. According to the news report, it will snow tonight, or it will rain
tonight
10. They don't have a fridge. They don't have a washing machine.​

Ambition

Can you use ambition or ambitious in 3 different sentences?

In the book unbroken where does Louie grow up

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A group of lists titled United States History, table of contents. The first list is labeled Unit 1, Colonial America with entries Spanish exploration and settlement, French colonization, English/British Colonial America. Second list is labeled Unit 2, Civil War Era with entries Causes of the war, Secession, The Confederacy, The war begins, Reconstruction.

Based on your preview of the visual, from what kind of book could this table of contents have been taken?
a.
A novel about the civil war
c.
A book of poems about the US revolution
b.
A US history text book
d.
none of the above



Please select the best answer from the choices provided


A
B
C
D

alice paul and fellow protestors were arrested for picketing at the white house. true or false?

5. It was not until the invention of the printing press in the 15th century that people could have access to literature. a. Who invented the printing press? b. What was the effect of the invention? c. What do some historians believe about the printing press?

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Explain what was the purpose of mythology in the ancient world. In 3-4 complete
sentences.

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1. Nutritive Value: _________________________________________________________________
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2. Texture: ________________________________________________________________________
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3. Color: __________________________________________________________________________
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4. Aroma: ________________________________________________________________________
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IDENTIFYING SENTENCES AND SENTENCE FRAGMENTS Identify each of the following groups of words as a sentence or a sentence fragment. On the line provided, write S for sentence or F for fragment.

Example 1. F After attending the film festival.
2. S The film festival begins Monday.

From as far as India and China, for example, and from as close as our neighbors, Canada and Mexico.​

Pick the sentence that is written correctly.

a
Blakely Tina's sister is a miserable unhappy person.
b
Trent the father of Drew does not help with the dishes at all.
c
Misty, my beautiful wife, enjoys helping others and singing in church.
d
none of the above

Read this excerpt from a play.

(The stage lights illuminate a classroom. Tidy rows of desks face a wood stove, a chalkboard, and a teacher’s desk. Piles of books and papers adorn the teacher’s desk. A young girl and teacher are speaking quietly.)

TEACHER: The primary children are studying poetry this afternoon, and I need your assistance. (She gathers a stack of textbooks and hands them to her student.) Please choose a few poems and have the children read along with you.

MARGO: (She reaches for a book) Yes, ma’am. I always enjoy reading to the young ones.

(MARGO retreats to a chair by the window and begins flipping through a book. Two boys sit nearby, giggling about a picture that one of them has drawn.)

Which setting detail reveals the time period?

What is the primary weakness of this passage?
A. The evidence is not clearly tied to the claim.
B. No evidence is given from either novel.
O C. The passage fails to make a debatable claim.
D. Color is an inappropriate topic for analysis.
SUBMIT

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Civil Disobedience Part 1 Most people remember Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as reformers who practiced non-violent forms of protest and advocacy. Both effectively changed the popular opinion about emotional issues for their countries and brought in a wave of change that was long overdue. But the practice of non-violent protest, or civil disobedience, started long before either Gandhi or King. It began with a quiet, shy poet who is best known for writing a lot about a pond. Henry David Thoreau lived from 1817 until 1862, mainly in the area of Concord, Massachusetts. The issue that would tear the country apart in the 1860s had already begun dividing the nation. Thoreau was only 14 when Nat Turner led the slave rebellion in Virginia and was later hanged. In his late 20s, Thoreau began speaking against slavery in public, echoing the voices of freedmen like Frederick Douglass and Lewis Hayden. Thoreau believed that a government that supported slavery was corrupt and immoral. He was also deeply suspicious of government. For these and other reasons, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax for a number of years. The poll tax was a legal tax owed by every person. It was basically a tax on one's body. After not paying for years, he was at last arrested. He spent only one night in jail, however, as a relative paid the tax for him. He was reportedly furious that any tax was paid on his behalf. It was this experience that Thoreau wrote about in an essay called "Civil Disobedience." In this essay, he argued that being moral and just came before allegiance to government. He wrote “If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." He also felt that voting was not enough to ensure that the right thing be done. He wrote that "even voting for the right is doing nothing for it… A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance…" He felt that one had a moral responsibility to resist unjust laws. Which line from Part 1 best

Which type of Non-Fiction text
does the following title suggest?
My Life in a Chinese Prison
A. autobiography
B. biography
C. speech​

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How does the "Life in the wild" contribute to the author's argument in "Excerpt from Marine Mammals in Captivity"?

Which line from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet reveals the ending of the play?

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life

Hungry for an answer, I opened the letter. My fingers were shaking.
“What's it say?!” My mom asked excitedly, peering over my shoulder.
I waved her away impatiently. As I opened the letter, my world changed. I struggled to fight back my tears.
This was it: I had the answer I was looking for. Now, I had no idea what I would do.

Is this an example of an internal or external conflict?
Group of answer choices

A.internal

B.external

24. Why are you taking my dad phone away?" Susan wondered as she saw her Dad take the cell phone from
my backpack

a.internal
b. external

On pages 223 and 224, Carlotta mentions several historical events including the March on Washington, where Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech; the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama; and the assassination of President Kennedy. What are Carlotta's reactions to these events? What might account for Carlotta's different reactions to them?

what does probability have to do with heredity

Excerpt from Stuff Matters

By Mark Miodownik

In the absence of copper, gold, and meteoric iron, our ancestors’ tools during the Stone Age were made of flint, wood, and bone. Anyone who has ever tried to make anything with these kinds of tools knows how limiting they are: if you hit a piece of wood it either splinters, cracks, or snaps. The same is true of rock or bone. Metals are fundamentally different from these other materials because they can be hammered into shape: they flow, they are malleable. Not only that, they get stronger when you hit them; you can harden a blade just by hammering it. And you can reverse the process simply by putting metal in a fire and heating it up, which will cause it to get softer. The first people to discover these properties ten thousand years ago had found a material that was almost as hard as a rock but behaved like a plastic and was almost infinitely reusable. In other words, they had discovered the perfect material for tools, and in particular cutting tools like axes, chisels, and razors. This ability of metals to transform from a soft to a hard material must have seemed like magic to our ancient ancestors.

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In 1961 Professor Richmond from Oxford University discovered a pit that had been dug by the Romans in AD 89. It contained 763,840 small two-inch nails, 85,128 medium nails, 25,088 large nails, and 1,344 extra-large sixteen-inch nails. The hoard was of iron and steel and not gold, which most people would have found bitterly disappointing. But not Professor Richmond. Why, he asked himself, would a Roman legion bury seven tons of iron and steel? The legion had been occupying the advance headquarters of Agricola in a place called Inchtuthil in Scotland. This was at the outer reaches of the Roman Empire, and their mission was to protect its border from what they saw as the savage tribes who threatened it: the Celts. The legion of five thousand men occupied the region for six years before retreating and, in the process, abandoning their fort. They made great efforts to leave behind nothing that could help their enemies. They smashed all food and drink containers and burned the fort to the ground. But they weren’t satisfied with this. In the ashes were the steel nails that had held the fort together, and they were far too valuable to be left to the tribes that had driven them out. Iron and steel were the materials that enabled the Romans to build aqueducts, ships, and swords; they allowed them to engineer an empire. Leaving the nails to their enemies would have been as useful as leaving a cache of weapons, so they buried them in a pit before marching south.
Based on the excerpt, the reader can infer that Professor Richmond viewed the discovery of the Roman pit as –

A) Fascinating

B)Disappointing

C) Wasteful

D) Intelligent

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