Unbroken chapter 1 summary

Answers

Answer 1

Answer:

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.


Related Questions

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

Answers

Answer a novel about the Civil War.

Answer:

a; novel about the civil war

Explanation:

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.​

Answers

Answer:

6, the library doesn't have the book I need. neither the bookshopes I need

Help please , I have this due soon !!

Answers

the answer is 47. you would work this out by replacing “x” with 6. 3(6)+29 would be another form of the equation.

Ambition

Can you use ambition or ambitious in 3 different sentences?

Answers

For becoming ambitious we need 500 points and five answer should be marked as brainlist.

WILL MARK BRAINLIEST PLZ HELP!!!!How Cooking Alters Food
1. Nutritive Value: _________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
2. Texture: ________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
3. Color: __________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
4. Aroma: ________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
5. Flavor: _________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

Answers

Nutritive value is how much nutrients you get from the food. Nutrients gives energy to your body.

Texture is the feel of the food, crumbly,mushy, ext....

Color is what’s visible on the food

Aroma is how the food smells, in some cases smell can effect the taste of food.

if it's not too much trouble.

Answers

Answer:

16: No improvement need

17: Marcus drove the car

Explanation:

In the book unbroken where does Louie grow up

hurry pls!

Answers

Answer:

Torrance

Explanation:

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

Answers

Incomplete question. I assumed you are referring to the article "Excerpt from Marine Mammals in Captivity" by The Humane Society of the United States.

Explanation:

In that section, the author provides real-life examples that back his claims about why animals should be taken from their natural wild habitat.

For example, the author stated, "The very nature of these animals makes them uniquely unsuited to confinement." He further continued by stating how Whales and Dolphins naturally love to travel long distances every day, "they are always aware, and  always moving."

The author made a lasting point by adding, "Understanding this, it is difficult to imagine the tragedy of life in no  more than a tiny swimming pool." With such expression the author no doubt causes the reader to think about the sudden changes experienced by these living organisms.  

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

Answers

C is written correctly.

Answer:

c is the correct answer overall

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

Answers

Answer:

Since this the title is depicting one's personal life I in the Chinese Prison it would be A. Autobiography. This is where personal information about who the person is and his/her back story and upbringing are provided along with any major struggles and hurdles that they had overcome.

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

Answers

Answer:

I'm pretty certain it's A.

Explanation:

I believe the answer is A

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

Answers

Answer:

Lord Capulet changes from a considerate, sensible father in act one to a brash, overbearing guardian in act three. Initially, Lord Capulet wants Juliet to make her own decision regarding her future husband and believes that she is too young to get married. In act 3, Lord Capulet's personality completely transforms as he forces Juliet to marry Paris and loses his temper when she refuses to obey him.

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

Answers

Answer:

The dress may be appropriate for her first day of school but segregation in schools dominated. She was judged based on the color of her skin. A s a result, she was put into a hostile situation. She clarified that the dress was bought from the store and not made by her mother.

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

Answers

Answer:

Its External.

Explanation:

It's external because this is a conflict between her and someone else, if it were internal then she would be having a conflict with herself.

Fallacious reasoning may be based off of incomplete information.

A. True

B. False

Answers

Answer:

false

Explanation:

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

Answers

Answer: I Have A Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr. Paraphrased

Five years ago, the good American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Declaration of Emancipation. This head of the judiciary came as a great ray of redemption to the millions of Black slaves who had been sealed in the fires of wiping oppression. It was a glorious daybreak to end the long night of their imprisonment.

But 100 yrs later, the Slave is still not free. One hundred years old, the existence of the Negro is still unfortunately segregation and the chains of seclusion and the chains of racism. One century later, the Black lives on a secluded island of hardship in the middle of a vast ocean of material prosperity. A hundred yrs later...

The Colored is now languishing in the shadows of Society today and finding himself in exile in his own country. And then we came here today to sensationalize a shameful state of affairs. In a way, we've traveled to the capital of our country to pay a check.

Because when founders of our country penned the glorious words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they signed a promise note upon whom all American was to become heir. This note was a pledge that all men-yes, men of color as well as white men-would be granted the inalienable rights to life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

It is now clear that United states has defaulted on this promising note as far as its people are concerned. Rather than upholding this sacred responsibility, America has given the Colored people a poor check, a check that has come back marked a lack of money.

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?

Answers

Answer: The time period was from a time ago. At least before they had whiteboards and still when they had to use wooden ovens to keep warm instead of a heater. The chalkboards aren't used anymore and not many teachers refer to children as primary children.

Explanation:

Answer:

A: “Tidy rows of desks face a wood stove, a chalkboard, and a teacher’s desk.”

Explanation:

Edge 2021

what does probability have to do with heredity

Answers

Answer:

In genetics, theoretical probability can be used to calculate the likelihood that offspring will be a certain sex, or that offspring will inherit a certain trait or disease if all outcomes are equally possible. It can also be used to calculate probabilities of traits in larger populations.

Explanation:

Hope it help

Mark me as brainliest

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

Answers

Answer: True

Explanation:

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

Answers

Answer:

myths are more than just stories and they serve a more profound purpose in ancient and modern cultures. Myths are sacred tales that explain the world and man's experience. Myths are as relevant to us today as they were to the ancients. It was used as a means to explain the environment in which humankind lived, the natural phenomena they witnessed and the passing of time through the days, months, and seasons.

Explanation:

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?

Answers

Answer: See explanation

Explanation:

The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg and this invention occured in the 15th century.

The effect of the invention was that it led to the faster sharing of information and knowledge. This enabled civilization and this also helped in spreading Christianity due to the availability of Bibles.

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?

Answers

Answer:

Carlotta seems to be removed from the events. She describes her reaction to the March  on Washington like this: “I had no burning desire to participate in a march that seemed  to me then purely symbolic,” but then she felt how powerful it was when she saw the  thousands of people on television. However, when Carlotta heard about the 16th Street  Church bombing and President Kennedy’s assassination, she was horrified.  

It seems like her reaction to the March on Washington reflected her experience—a  march by itself didn’t seem to mean much after her time at Central High School where  she faced so much discrimination. Upon hearing the news of the 16th Street Church  bombing, however, she said, “I knew that the same fate so easily could have been  mine.” She identified with the victims in that case. Similarly, President Kennedy’s  assassination made her reflect on her experiences, saying “his life extinguished by the  same kind of hatred that had been so rampant in Little Rock. I wondered how—and  sometimes why—I survived.”

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.

***

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

Answers

Answer:

A) Fascinating

Explanation:

According to the excerpt from Stuff Matters

by Mark Miodownik, the history of metals is discussed and how their discovery helped shape mankind and how he used tools. Professor Richmond discovered a pit dug by the Romans in AD 89 which contained buried nails meant to be kept out of reach of from the Celts.

Based on the excerpt, the reader can infer that Professor Richmond viewed the discovery of the Roman pit as fascinating because he thought it interesting that they valued the nails so much to keep them out of the reach of their enemies.

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

Answers

Answer:

same my guy

Explanation:

Answer:

Me too! I don't like this virus!!!

Explanation:

HEY HELP HELP PPLEASE!

Answers

Answer:

the 2nd one

Explanation:

WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST plz help
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

Answers

The line that most exemplifies Henry David Thoreau's view about government is C. (Please see the attached for the sections omitted from the question.)

What is Henry David Thoreau's key point?

David's opinion is that where the moral rights of a people or an individual is breached by the government, then the individual must respond in disobedience to such a government.

This is further premised on the idea that the government exists to protect and administer the natural system of equity that is inherent in every human. Hence the statement: being moral and just came before allegiance to the government.

See the link below for more about Civil Disobedience:
https://brainly.com/question/325929

Answer:

Oppression and robbery have become institutionalized in the government.

Explanation:

just took the quiz

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

Answers

Answer:

A. internal

Explanation:

Answer: External conflict

Explanation: It's an external conflict because it shows the conflicts between a character.

I NEED HELP PLEASE ENGLISH PEOPLE

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.​

Answers

Answer:

S because there isnt any fragments.

Answer:

F

Explanation:

It doesn't make any sense if u put the other one in front of it

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

Answers

Answer:

A pair of star- cross'd lovers take their life

Explanation:

It was the ending tragedy

Answer:

It's D

Explanation:

PLEASE HELP ME :( !!!

Answers

It’s bad and very hard to stop and the earlier you stop the easier it will be done and over with. It can happen in 3 days.
Other Questions
Which point is the outlier on this scatter plot?Shark Sizey3300Length (cm)200100X00306090Mass (kg)OA (0.07, 18)O D. (105, 320)O C. (85220)O B. (68, 165) Help Help Help .!repeated multiplication using a negative fraction . Simplify: Write your answer in scientific notation.(3.3 x 10^7) + (7.7 x 10^8) who is the 1st us president How many moles of S2 are needed to produce 1.50 moles of SO2 gas The price of a 9-minute phone call is $2.25. What is the price of a 19-minute phone call? Rigid bar ACB is supported by an elastic cir-cular strut DC having an outer diameter of 15 in. and inner diameter of 14.4 in. The strut is made of steel with a modulus elasticity of load P 5kips5 E 5 29,000 ksi. Point is applied at B. Calculate the change in length of the circular strut DC. What is the vertical displacement of the rigid bar at point B Simply -17 - 4x + 10 + X NEED HELP ASAP!!! PLZ SOME ONE ANSWER THIS What did Van Gogh study in Paris ? Randy has 53 inches of ribbon that he cuts into 6 pieces of equal length. What is the equal length of each piece of ribbon in inches x+4=10;x=I literally dont get it please help The perimeter of a square is 48 cm. What is the length of the diagonal? HELP FAST PLEASE 2. Recall Noam Chomsky's speech about the role of the United States in the Vietnam War, which you analyzed in this lesson, and read the opening sentences of Chomsky's speech, below.I think it's probably a good thing that this meeting comes at the end of a week of terror in South Vietnam. I know I was much shocked by it-I'm sure you were. It's hard to know what one cansay about the events of the past week. My own reaction is one of horror at the terrible slaughter, of awe at the amazing heroism of those who are officially designated as our enemies, of guilt thatwe still permit this horror to continue. Even now, even after this week, no one doubts that in some hideous sense of the word, we can still obtain a victory--we can still win in Vietnam. But if themen in Washington are still at all rational, they must realize that this can only be a victory of the graveyard.What does the start of the speech tell you about Chomsky's point of view?He believes that Vietnam as a society is not capable of choosing peace over warHe believes that the United States will win the Vietnam War soon if it stays the course.He believes the United States is wrong to remain involved in the Vietnam War.O He believes the Vietnam War was a good idea in the beginning but is now doomed to fall, Mike and Mack are identical twins. Which statement might explain why Mike developed lung disease and Mack did not? Who was all the character's name in Cherokee Creation When determining the density of a grape, a student was not careful when putting the grape into the graduated cylinder, and some of the water got splashed out. How would that affect the determined density of the grape? In other words, is the calculated density be higher or lower than the actual density of the grape? Explain your answer (fill in the blanks below).If some of the water got splashed out, the measured grape + water volume is incorrectly ______________________ (high or low?).Then the calculated volume of the grape (grape+water water only volume) is incorrectly _______________ (high or low?).When calculating the density, the mass is divided by a (higher or lower?) ______________ value. As the result, the determined density is erroneously (high or low?) _____________ and therefore the determined density is (higher or lower?) ______________than the actual density of the grape. 2 to the power of =32 I need it to day problem: which of the expression(s) below is greater than 5/2? Select all that applyA) 2/5 4/3B) 4/3 1/3C) 5/3 1/2 How do you write 927,000 in scientific form