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…room. The distance ended up being too great, as my grandpa died in the car. My grandmother went on running the farm by herself another ten years before her death. It took every inch of her soul to keep going after the death of her husband, but during…

…. The verdict for the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) would be what shaped the next fifty years of legal civil rights. All desegregation cases turned on the precedent of the Plessy verdict. Homer Plessy was a Black man who rode in the white passenger car…

…with their gangster-like behavior which included extorting money from local shop owners, driving around in fancy new cars showing off, getting drunk, beating up and even murdering innocent people for fun. For Adolf Hitler, the SA's behavior was a problem that now…

…. of Reclamation, 1971). No standard railroad cars could handle this demand, so a new solution had to be thought of. The solution that the contractor came up with was to erect a plant along the construction railroad a mile and a half from the top of the dam…

…to use this new technology in the buildings they were designing. Machines in the form of cars, telephones and ocean liners caught the public’s imagination, and showed the positive force that technology could play in people's lives. In 1921, Le Corbusier…

…. The directions he had been given led him down a very narrow alley, where he was confronted by a gang of youths who threatened to kill him. The gang after surrounded the car tried to drag out the occupants. One of the men got inside the car and started fighting. Willer…

…revolution, has resulted in man and nature living separate from one another even though they are symbiotic. In this poem, nature is trying to get back to man, as “The deer had come for me”. But is faced with the barrier, which is symbolised by the car…

…Film Quarterly, 12) The approach Errol Morris takes to his subject in The Thin Blue Line (1987) is emblematic of the more ironic stance of recent nonfiction films. In 1974, a Dallas police officer was shot and killed when he pulled over a car to tell…

…. For approximately one-third of cases reported, the initial attack had taken place in a public environment, one-third in their own homes, and approximately a quarter had taken place in a car. Generally, there is a link between the first panic attack and a source of major…

…railroad cars. One hundred fifteen locomotives hauled trains of these cars to the dumps. Here a great plow traveled from one end of the train to the other unloading 20 cars, each carrying 60 tons, in less than ten minutes. The earth, which was excavated, totaled…