tank is on E‚ so you tell your friends that your heading to the gas station. You get to the gas station fill up your tank‚ maybe get a couple of snacks then you check out. You are what the gas station workers call customers. Not only are you just any old customer‚ but you belong in a category just like everyone else that comes into the gas station. There are many different types of people in this world‚ and working at a gas station you interact with all of them. You see everything from college kids
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Describe an afternoon at the bus station (SPM 97) It was two o’clock in the afternoon. I was heading towards the bus station with Mohan after Mrs Wong’s extra class. The sun was beating mercilessly on my back and I could feel my sweat trickling down my spine. I have often wished that my mother would allow me to ride a motorcycle to school. She says that I am not ready but we both know that she is terrified that a car would knock me down. When I reached the bus station‚ it was nearly empty except for
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Central Station Walter Salles‚ Central Station is a touching‚ well made motion picture that has very few flaws. The movie centers around a Brazilian woman named Dora and a little boy‚ Josué. This is a story of a cynical woman and a little boy’s adventure to find his father of whom he has never seen before. Through the film there is a bonding of the two main characters and each of them greatly transforms each other for the rest of their lives. The script of this movie has a compelling quality
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and written texts express their feelings‚ through confusion of being given a new start‚ in a new country. A country where the language barrier between a migrant and a native‚ make this challenge even more taunting. The poem ‘Immigrants at central station’ written by Peter Skrzynecki expresses that migrants are invisible in the representation of Australia. The poet sets a dark and gloomy scene‚ with many immigrants waiting to begin
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integration in freight transportation Freight is defined as any good‚ product‚ or raw material carried by a commercial means of transportation which is air‚ highway‚ rail‚ water‚ and pipelines. The management of how and where the freight moves is defined as logistics (Michigan Department of Transportation‚ 2015). The increasing consumer demand‚ congestion‚ and the ability of the transportation infrastructure to support such demand has cause the significant challenges due to the growing need for freight services
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Situation Analysis (SWOT Analysis) Our SWOT Analysis depicts our key strengths and weaknesses for our new project. It will describe the opportunities and threats that our potential full service gas station will possibly face. External Opportunities and Threats In this portion of our analysis‚ we will use our opportunities to overcome our threats. Of course‚ every business will have threats that they will need to prevail over. This is why we strongly believe that our marketing plan
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The ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop is a very interesting poem. It is fairly short and devoid of strong emotions. To give a brief synopsis of the poem‚ a third person omniscient narrator is describing a father and his ‘several quick and saucy sons’ running a filling station. She moves from describing them to describing the station itself‚ complete with furniture‚ a ‘dirty dog’ and plants. The poem then changes tone to reflection of why the station is the way it is‚ and is concluded by a
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Advertising companies pay other companies for showing their advertisements‚ therefore allowing these companies to offer “free” services to the public. Without advertising companies‚ we would not have a free yahoo or Gmail account‚ and also “free” channel stations like ABS-CBN or GMA-7. It engenders creativity by “forcing” companies to male good and worth-to-look-at advertisements in order for potential costumers to be attracted to the product(s) and/or service(s) they are selling/offering. It encourages
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“Train Stations and Barrooms” Being faced with difficult decisions is a major obstacle in the lives of adults. After conversing‚ many of these decisions are resolved in a favorable outcome that works for both adults. In “Hills like White Elephants‚” the two adults‚ an American man and the girl‚ discuss a major issue in their lives. This controversy pertains to a potential operation the woman may choose to undergo. The train station and the barroom emphasizes what is being discussed between the two
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Enterprise who owned the Spetrol station located along the BPK Highway. Spetrol was acknowledged as one of the big players in domestic petroleum products industry. However‚ Jamel who Mat Jon’s nephew was on boarded of the operations of the pump station and he did not participate in the business operation since he was in his post retirement years. At the start‚ the business was doing convincingly well‚ this success was helped by the strategic area that petrol station been located. Nevertheless‚ the
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