How do you say "Holy cow" in French? The fastest thing in France may just be the fastest ground transportation in the world. The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse:
French for very high speed) is France's national high-speed rail service. On April
3rd, 2007, a TGV test train set a record for the fastest wheeled train, reaching
357.2 miles per hour. In mid 2011, TGV trains operated at the highest speed in
passenger train service in the world, regularly reaching 200 miles per hour. But
what you may find most shocking is that TGV trains run on electric power not
petrol. Now if you'll excuse me; I have a record to catch

Parla you studied both a video analysis and text analysis of the poem "i hear america singing." consider how the speaker of the poem describes america as "singing. nrite a paragraph discussing the central theme of the poem, drawing information from both the video and the text. cite specific evidence from the video and text to support analysis

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Create a purpose statement based on the graphic organizer in "section ii: finding the main point."