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The detail from "Run Kate Shelley Run" that best supports the idea that the memory of her father gives Kate the Courage to reach the Station in time was the following: "If it were Pa hanging on in Honey Creek or driving the midnight express, she would keep going.”
This is the story of the heroine Kate Shelley who prevented a railroad accident thanks to her tenacity and conviction. People from Iowa were amazed at her deed that wanted Kate to be awarded. She received 100 dollars and a pass for life to travel by train.
At a time when trade and transport were made primarily by water, and bearing in mind that European powers needed to have free access to the rich colonies, and only by sea could they communicate with America and the colonies, the ocean and the seas were the higways of the past. Therefore, access and control of the sea routes, was the only way to have control over the colonies, their riches; and become the dominant power in the world. In addition, the wars between France and Great Britain were not only for trade or wealth, but for power itself, to decide who would dominate the seas.
There were several events that led up to the creation of NASA, but the biggest was the space race with Russia, which was especially heightened after Sputnik.
I'm gonna have to say the battle at Trenton, or Princeton.