Fenech Honors India February 15‚ 2013 Book Review: Train to Pakistan Khushwant Singh opens his novel Train to Pakistan in a seemingly peaceful village on the countryside of Punjabi. Although the small village is fictional‚ it is important to note the historical significance this village‚ its people‚ and the time period represent in the novel. Revered as a one of the finest and best-known renditions of the Indian tragedy of partition‚ Train to Pakistan embodies more than a fictitious community
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Essay Thesis: Maglev trains will be the future of transportation providing benefits for the environment‚ society‚ and economic benefits. In our world today we have many problems. Problems that we are facing are environmental‚ social‚ and economic issues. This is due to the fact that traveling to work has become a hassle and when your using your car it also causes environmental damage. When people travel in their cars they have to fill it up with gas‚ which we have seen‚ gas prices increasing
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VIOLENCE THAT PRECEDED THE BIRTH OF INDIA ANDPAKISTAN AS THE BRITISH HURRIEDLY HANDED OVER POWER IN 1947‚ IS BECOMING A FADING WORDIN THE HISTORY BOOKS. FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS WILL SOON VANISH. KHUSHWANT SINGH‚ WHO WASOVER THIRTY AT THE TIME‚ LATER WROTE TRAIN TO PAKISTAN AND GOT IT PUBLISHED IN 1956.REPRINTED SINCE THEN‚ REISSUED IN HARDCOVER‚ AND TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES‚ THE NOVEL IS NOW KNOWN AS A CLASSIC‚ ONE OF THE FINEST AND BEST-KNOWN TREATMENTS OF THE SUBJECT. About the author Khushwant
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The concept of journeys can vary from person to person; literally a journey is a progression‚ either physically‚ mentally or spiritually. Journeys come under five main titles‚ inner‚ spiritual‚ imaginative‚ emotional and physical. Practically all texts contain one or a combination of these journeys. Les Murray‚ an Australian poet‚ has a very strong concept of journeys throughout his poems. Through the use of such techniques as figurative language and film a composer can express their individual concept
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Express freight train in Toronto‚ and planted a bomb in the front engine. The hijackers held 50 male employees hostage onboard the train for 10 days. The reason for this unforeseen hijacking is due to the five million dollars of gold bars onboard. The train that was on route to Hamilton‚ Ontario was headed for Hamilton Harbour. The harbour is known for its easy access to the seaway where the gold was destined for Europe. This operation was supposed to be confidential through CSIS‚ but there
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Maglev Trains In this quickly developing world‚ transportation is becoming bigger and bigger an issue. Therefore‚ it is only natural that demands for it are growing rapidly. To meet this demand‚ yet another form of transportation has been introduced: the Maglev train. Maglev‚ derived from the term magnetic levitation‚ is a method of propulsion that uses magnetic levitation to propel vehicles with electromagnets rather than with wheels‚ which causes friction and can wear out the rails. With maglev
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN an original screenplay by Larry Brand 8180 Films P.O. BOX 975 Leland‚ MI 49654 Copyright 2011 Larry Brand THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN WHITE SPACE and the distant WHOOSH of the WIND. A few beats‚ then: MAN’S VOICE (OVER) You’re not real.... WOMAN’S VOICE (OVER) How do you know? MAN’S VOICE (OVER) Weren’t your eyes blue? A WOMAN’S EYES HOVER huge and luminous before us. Light brown. Haunting. THE MAN is OUTSIDE and VERY HIGH UP. A distant matrix of BRIDGES frames him like a
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Heidi Crist and Destiny Gonzales 1302 Dillard 7-7-13 In the novella Train Dreams‚ the characters struggle with the influenza pandemic. The infection of influenza spreads throughout America and devastates all in its path. Robert Grainer‚ a character in Train Dreams‚ explains how this disease has affected his life and how serious this pandemic was in 1918. Grainer is an average man who as a child is sent to Idaho to live with his father’s mother and her husband and children. His three cousins
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Journeys Dating back to as far as the epic of Gilgamesh‚ literature has explored the most prevalent aspect of human existence‚ journeys. Everything is a journey in life; we go through journeys to discover things about ourselves and the world around us. It’s said that to truly learn something you have to do it yourself‚ but we don’t have the time to go on enough journeys to quench our cravings for answers. That’s why literature has offered us the chance to learn something‚ without actually doing
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1998 Japanese railway workers check an overpass‚ keeping it safe for the "bullet train" below. (Kyodo) Leaving over 100 people dead‚ the June 3‚ 1998‚ derailing of a German Intercity Express (ICE) high-speed passenger train gave quite a shock to railway authorities in Japan. Particularly shaken were Japan Railway (JR) companies‚ which operate their Shinkansen super-express trains (often called "bullet trains") at speeds of 200 to 300 kilometers (125 to 185 miles) per hour‚ on schedules timed
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