Train 664 leaves Thirtieth Street Station bound for New York City at 10:55. Concurrently‚ Train 663 leaves the station‚ headed for Harrisburg. Both trains are‚ confusingly‚ called The Keystone. If Mark and I have tickets for Train 664 because we plan to celebrate his 58th birthday with a day of Manhattan museum-going‚ but somehow end up on Train 663 instead‚ how many miles do we travel in the wrong direction before we realize that we’ve made a terrible mistake? Or‚ to put it another way
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An unexpected journey Tom looked down at his telephone‚ it was 4 p.m. and we had been walking for hours‚ more specific for two and a half. Lost in our own minds‚ and the thought of finding back to civilization before nightfall. Five days earlier we had landed in Tanzania‚ and here our annual family vacation began. Even though we had had a truly unforgettable trip to Bahamas last year‚ this vacation would prove to turn our lives upside down in a way that we never had imagined. It was now eight hours
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the leaves begin to fall. Each falling independently of each other; having their own rhythm‚ time and place. I admire the leaves for their beauty and graceful independence. Even when falling they maintain the gentle beauty that most people can only dream of. I begin to wonder‚ though‚ whether the trees feel pain at the departure of its leaves; the product of its entire year’s worth of tender‚ careful and tedious nurturing. It was then that I realized that Nature was not simply a one-dimensional story
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he won’t be fully ever normal. This is totally ok‚ because the parts of him that aren’t normal are extraordinary (Halstead‚ 2000). Steve’s story teaches us the never accept being told that we can’t do something. The counselor’s role in Steve’s journey was not to guide his path but to be a companion on the path. The counselor before believe that his mission was to fix and help those broken seeking help from him‚ that he was the “hero’s travel guide-someone who is supposed to make the client’s
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he’ll come and rescue us” (Golding 13). Despite being stranded on an island‚ Ralph remained hopeful and was certain they were going to be rescued. This positive trait of his is detrimental to what makes him a hero. Interestingly enough‚ Ralph’s journey can be compared to that of Bart Simpson’s‚ in The Simpsons episode‚ “Das Bus‚” in which Bart finds himself stranded on an island with other children as a result of a field trip gone wrong. Bart is the only one who took initiative as a leader when
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| It was the year 2201 AD. Gigantic preparations were in progress for the first manned expedition to Jupiter. A team of 150 astronauts had undergone rigorous training to travel in a spaceship called "Excalibur". They were instructed to fetch samples of all possible objects from Jupiter’s surface. The International Geologists Association were hopeful that they would find some metallic deposits in these objects and this would compensate for the diminishing quantity of metal available in the earth’s
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Lean implementation The lean implementation described in the book “Journey to lean”‚ written by Drew‚ McCallum Roggenhoffer describes lean‚ the set of principles‚ practices‚ tools and techniques to address the root causes of the operational under performance. Lean is a systematic approach of eliminating the sources of loss from entire value stream in order to gap between actual performance and the requirement of stakeholders. They authors describes the three kinds of losses as variability‚ inflexibility
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Ray was sent on a journey by the voice to allow others to live out their dreams. Ray decided to accept the challenge to build a baseball field in order to allow eight suspended baseball players to fulfill their destiny. "I’d have played for free and worked for food‚" Shoeless Joe’s remark proves how dedicated and aspired he was to the game. In Field of Dreams as well as Shoeless Joe; Ray’s real reason for building the field was to bring
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There was no escape‚ she was trapped. She figured there had to be another way out‚ so she left the long line of trees‚ and continued her journey to find safety. Walking alone in the dark‚ dark woods was bad enough‚ but the feeling of being watched that scared her even more. Also the feeling is knowing that‚ she might not be alone after all. The shadow was there with her‚ and it wasn’t going
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Ridwaan Khan Good Day Story 1 The sun was casting a dying red light over the court yard‚ as the shadows partly eclipsed the sun. The view from the enclosed cell chamber was tormenting him as it cruelly made him reminisce about that one‚ painful time he was forced to remember eternally. The walls beyond the prison gates showed stretches of dry barren land with blistering weather all year round. The barren empty earth extended far into the horizon. His head hung dejectedly‚ he closed his eyes
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