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Violet and Myrtle are learning to drive the Hope chest. Mr martin was reading about baseball in the newspaper.

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Myrtle woke up and saw Mr. Martin, Martin was telling Myrtle that he was going outside to go somewhere and Myrtle stopped him because she knew that Mr martin is going to get caught.

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In Chapter 13 of The Hope Chest by Karen Schwabach, we see the theme “inequality is injustice.” We see it first on page 154 when Mr. Martin and Myrtle are trying to find food, and they sit at a counter. Instead of serving them, the boy working there calls the police because Myrtle is African American, and segregation laws and opinions at that time prevented her from eating in places where white people ate. At another site, Mr. Martin is told Myrtle can only be served in the alley, and after trying multiple places, they end up eating in an alley because Myrtle isn’t allowed to eat anywhere else. We also see this theme on pages 155–157 when Myrtle isn’t allowed to stay at any of the hotels they try for the same reasons she is not allowed to eat at restaurants.

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Violet eats breakfast and realizes that when to eat dinner no one noticed that she was there realized that she was there and maybe she could spy. She goes down to the train station and sees Mr. Martin and Myrtle. They go back to the Hotel Cloie and Mr. Marten Cloie shows the hope chest to Mr. Martin. Mr. Martin is going to find food for Myrtle.

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Violet helps a woman who had fallen and was upset about losing her, son in the war. Violet was upset that women just got to sit and watch and didn't get to get a say in what they had to do. Violet sees Mr.Martin. But the conductor stops her but she sees Myrtle running toward Mr.Martin. Violet gets a hotel to stay in for the night

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Violet is eating dinner and brings some food back to Myrtle and they talk a little. They agreed that Mr. Martin is a smooth criminal. Then Violet goes back and two Men in black walk toward them and ask if a man was sitting there Mrs. Dexter said " He just went to get some drinks." Violet says she needs to go to the bathroom, but she wants to go warn him about the people. She goes to tell Mr.Martin she spots him and tells him to get off he jumps off the train and one of the Men in black the other asks questions to them.

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Myrtle is walking from the train car to the train car, the doors get harder to open as she goes on. But she is determined. She gets to the colored car. And meets an old lady they talk a bit. She was a former slave, she doesn't know how old she is, her family was taken away from her.

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Violet comes down to see Mr.Martin at breakfast. They send a telegraph to their parent's house, Violet says I'm ok I hope you are too. They convince Mr. Martin to take them to Tennessee they get on 2 trains to get to Tennessee. Myrtle gets kicked off and has to go to the black train car.

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Violet and Myrtle get out of the train they are covered in coal. They walk down a street, go to a bathhouse, and put their heads in the water. Then they go to Mary Church Terrell's home. She tells them to go to Mrs. Alice Paul. She tells them that Cloie is in Tennessee. They are invited to spend the night here...

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Washington Monument, obelisk in Washington, D.C., honouring George Washington, the first president of the United States. Constructed of granite faced with Maryland marble, the structure is 55 feet (16.8 metres) square at the base and 554 feet 7 inches (169 metres) high and weighs an estimated 91,000 tons. (The monument's height was previously measured as 555 feet 5 inches [169.3 metres], but a recalculation based on international standards in 2014 led to its revision.) The shaft's load-bearing masonry walls are 15 feet (4.6 metres) thick at its base, tapering to a thickness of only 18 inches (46 cm) at the top. At its completion in 1884 it was the world's tallest man-made structure, though it was supplanted by the Eiffel Tower just five years later. It remains the world's tallest masonry structure.

A monument to Washington was first proposed in 1783, when the Continental Congress appropriated funds to erect a statue of the country's military commander on horseback. The site eventually chosen for the statue-the exact surveyed centre of the original District of Columbia, on direct axes with the White House (to the north) and the United States Capitol (to the west)-was intentionally reserved for such a grand monument by Pierre-Charles L'Enfant when he designed the city in 1791. In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson drove a stone marker into the proposed site, though it later sank into the marsh. Because of various problems, including bureaucratic inertia, the project was soon abandoned.

Celebrations of the centenary of Washington's birth rekindled interest in a monument. In 1833 the Washington National Monument Society, chartered to select a design for an appropriate memorial to the first president, chose a plan by Robert Mills for a 600-foot- (183-metre-) tall obelisk with a circular base complete with 30 Doric columns. The sheer weight of the proposed monument required moving the site from the location specified in L'Enfant's design to a point 350 feet (110 metres) to the northeast, thereby slightly disrupting the axial relationship to the other buildings. It was hoped that Washington's remains would eventually be moved from their burial location at Mount Vernon in Virginia and reinterred at the memorial.

Construction did not begin until 1848, and the cornerstone was laid during ceremonies on the Fourth of July. In attendance were George Washington Parke Custis, Washington's step-grandson, as well as President James K. Polk and Congressman Abraham Lincoln. Financial and political difficulties plagued the project from the start and led to major architectural modifications, including the abandonment of the structure's grandiose base. Memorial stones for the interior were contributed by various states and numerous fraternal organizations. Pope Pius IX donated a stone from the Temple of Concord in Rome (though in 1854 members of the anti-Catholic Know-Nothing party broke into the obelisk, stole the marker, and disposed of it in the Potomac River). Construction was halted at the outbreak of the Civil War with the obelisk standing only 152 feet (46 metres) tall. Mark Twain, who viewed the unfinished structure after the war, wrote that the monument

has the aspect of a factory chimney with the top broken off...you can see cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nibbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow.

After some preliminary discussion about tearing down the unfinished structure or changing its design, the Army Corps of Engineers assumed responsibility for its completion. Because it was impossible to find marble matching that used to construct the earlier portion, the colour of the upper two-thirds of the monument is visibly different from that of the lower third. Finally, some 36 years after construction began, the 3,300-pound (1,500 kg) capstone was set on the structure (December 6, 1884), and the Washington Monument was officially dedicated by President Chester Arthur during ceremonies on February 21, 1885. However, the monument was not opened to the public until October 9, 1888, following the installation of a steam elevator, which enabled visitors to reach the observation deck without walking up the monument's 897 steps. The modern elevator makes the ascent in about 60 seconds. Inserted in the interior walls are more than 190 carved stones presented by various individuals, cities, states, and foreign nations.

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After a major restoration project in the 1990s, the monument reopened in 2001. It closed again after an earthquake on August 23, 2011, struck some 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Washington, D.C., damaging the monument. It reopened in May 2014.

B. Philip Bigler

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Washington Monument, obelisk in Washington, D.C., honouring George Washington, the first president of the United States. Constructed of granite faced with Maryland marble, the structure is 55 feet (16.8 metres) square at the base and 554 feet 7 inches (169 metres) high and weighs an estimated 91,000 tons.

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Violet and Myrtle meet, Hobie who is a hobe. He will show them the way to Washington D.C. They get on the train. They ride all night. Then they got some food. They sleep on a rusted train. Then the next day the get to Washington D.C., to find Cloie

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Violet and Myrtle was in New York City and they wanted to find Chloe at the Henry Street Settlement House. But they met a man named Theo Martin who told them that Chloe was in Washington D.C. So Mr. Martin starts asking them about who they are and where they should be. Then they worry that Mr. Martin will report them so they leave the Settlement House and they go to the train station.

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Violet took $3.92 on a train to new york to find Cloie. She pays $3.25 to get on. She sat down. She meets Mrs. Renwick and sits down next to Violet. They talk about stuff like how many children Violet wants. She says 7.

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Violet finds letters from her sister Chloe. Mother stole them from her. Violet is angry, so she runs down to the river with a few letters because she dropped a few papers and read them on the way to the river.

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Violet was in New York City and she wanted to find her sister, Chloe at the Henry Street Settlement House. But she didn't know how to get there; or find her way. So she started walking and evenchally slipped in horse poop and met Myrtle and Myrtle helped her up. Then they made there way to Henry Street Settlment House with Myrtle and grabbing a hot dog on the way.

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Violet goes to room 907 and is going to the elevator and finds two drunk people in the elevator. She goes into a suffs room and eats cucumber sandwiches. She is walking down stares when she here's here comes Mrs. Myhues now she dropped her sandwich and runs down the stairs and says Cloie, she turns around and says Violet hen they hug. Then they go to bed.