Arturo Mendez Arturo was a pilot in Skyward Flight before his parents pulled him out after Hurl's death. Freyja is from the deep caverns, and vocally opposes Defiant culture. She was one of only two to graduate to full pilot before the Battle of Alta Second. Freyja Freyja, call sign 'FM', is a pilot in Skyward Flight. She was an athletic girl from Igneous Cavern, and died in battle after refusing to eject from an uncontrolled descent. Hudiya Hudiya, callsign 'Hurl', was a pilot in Skyward Flight, and was also Spensa's wingmate. Ironsides tries to deny Spensa Flight School entry, fearing that she will carry the Defect like her father. Judy 'Ironsides' Ivans Judy Ivans, callsign 'Ironsides', is Admiral of the DDF. He grew up in the deep caverns, and is the son of Jeshua Weight, a First Citizen who fought in the Battle of Alta. His callsign, Jerkface, was chosen by Spensa. Jorgen Weight Jorgen is the flightleader of Skyward Flight, and was one of only two to graduate to full pilot before the Battle of Alta Second.  He 'borrows' parts from the workshop to help repair M-Bot. After dropping out of DDF flight school, he returns to Igneous Cavern and becomes a engineer. Rodge McCaffrey Rodge, often called Rig (callsign Rigmarole), is one of Spensa's childhood friends. He stands up to the Admiral on Spensa's behalf and accepts her into his training group. Captain Cobb Cobb, callsign 'Mongrel', is Spensa's flight instructor and was her father's wingmate. She finds an ancient ship, and, with the help and guidance from her friend Rodge, attempts to rebuild it. Spensa fights to be accepted into Flight School, but refuses to give up even in the face of certain failure. He always told Spensa: 'set your sights on something higher.  Main Characters Spensa Nightshade Spensa, callsign 'Spin', is the daughter of Zeen Nightshade (callsign Chaser), supposedly a cowardly DDF pilot who abandoned a battle. Aided by the mysterious stealth fighter M-Bot, whom she finds abandoned in a cave, Spensa must navigate the pitfalls of flight school, uncover the truth about her father's death, and try not to die at the hands of an enemy starfighter. Gaining entrance to the program with the help of her new instructor Cobb, Spensa teams up with nine fellow trainees to form Skyward Flight and battle the Krell, an alien force trying to destroy the Defiant colony. Inspired by her father, then fueled with outrage by the DDF's accusations of cowardice following his death, Spensa spends the next decade preparing for the flight school entrance exam. Spensa has dreamed of being a pilot since she was a child.  For a complete chapter by chapter summary, see Summary:Skyward.

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It wasn’t until beer advertisers decided to promote the holiday heavily in the 1980s that American celebration of Cinco de Mayo became widespread. It’s been celebrated in California since 1863, and grew in prominence in the rest of the country along with the Chicano movement of the 1940s. Cinco de Mayo isn’t widely celebrated in Mexico outside the state of Puebla, but it has been adopted by many Americans regardless of their heritage, much like St. It wasn’t a crucial battle in the course of the war, but became a symbol of Mexican pride and a celebration of Mexican culture in the United States. He was killed in an automobile accident on January 4, 1960.Today is Cinco de Mayo, the Fifth of May, commemorating the Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862 when 8,000 well-armed French troops were routed by 4,000 ill-equipped Mexican soldiers. Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Among his major works are four widely praised works of fiction, The Stranger (1946), The Plague (1948), The Fall (1957), and Exile and the Kingdom (1958) a volume of plays, Caligula and Three Other Plays (1958) and two books of philosophical essays, The Rebel (1954) and The Myth of Sisyphus (1955), both of which are available in the Vintage series. In the thirties he ran a theatrical company, and during the war was active in the French Resistance, editing an important underground paper, Combat. After winning a degree in philosophy, he worked at various jobs, ending up in journalism. Similar themes can be seen in Camus's essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), also published in 1942.ĪLBERT CAMUS was born in Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913.  Elements of this philosophy can be seen in the protagonist, Meursault, as he refuses to behave as if there is meaning where there is none-or, as Camus himself put it in a preface to The Stranger, Meursault 'does not play the game.' Society thus feels threatened and cuts off Meursault's head. Camus's concept of the absurd instead implored people to accept life's lack of meaning and rebel by rejoicing in what life does offer. Camus utilized The Stranger as a platform to explore absurdity, a concept central to his writings and at the core of his treatment of questions about the meaning of life.  It was published as The Outsider in England and as The Stranger in the United States. Opsis 2: The Stranger is the enigmatic first novel by Albert Camus, published in French as L' tranger in 1942.  Hrough the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed 'the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.' First published in English in 1946 now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

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