... went to the Lounge at the Promenade deck, the walls were similar to the ones at Versailles Castle near Paris, it was truly magnificent. Next to this was the Georgian reading and writing room for women and next to that was the Smoking room for men. The Titanic had a sense of space and openness (Titanic, p.2) Exactly 860 people worked onboard the ... the way to New York from Great Britain and everyone was eager to get there. So again the Captain increased their speed. The fourth day was April 14, 1912, the day the unsinkable ship sunk. They hit an iceberg at the speed of 22.5 knots (Titan...

• Word Count: 978
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... girls as sisters and brothers and when this happens and when we allow freedom to ring?from every village from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God's children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing?"Free at last. Free ... change the fate of our country for the better. No one could better state the feelings of the country as a whole than did Mario Savio when he declared, "I"m tired of reading history. I want to make it?...

• Word Count: 3282
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Benjamin Franklin America has never and will never forget Benjamin Franklin, because he would "write things worth reading or do things worth the writing." He wrote as much as he possibly could and became famous for doing many things. Benjamin stands alone as the only person to have ... mail deliveries by using the fastest packet ships available across the Atlantic Ocean. He hired more post riders and required couriers to ride both night and day in order to speed up domestic mail service. Throughout his life, Franklin had a great curiosity about the world around him. He wondered why and how t...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... the identity papers of a freed slave. "Though I was not a murderer fleeing from justice, I felt perhaps quite as miserable as such a criminal. The train was moving at a very high rate of speed for that epoch of railroad travel, but to my anxious mind it was moving far too slowly. Minutes were hours, and hours were days during this part of my flight ... nature of the slaves" lives. In fact, thanks to its choice of words, rhythms, cadences, scenes and people, this book clearly represents what millions of black people experienced during slavery. Reading a book like In the Castle of My Skin...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School