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    Sir Mohan Lal looked at himself in the mirror of a first class waiting room at the railway station. The mirror was obviously made in India. The red oxide at its back had come off at several places and long lines of translucent glass cut across its surface. Sir Mohan smiled at the mirror with an air of pity and patronage. ’You are so very much like everything else in this country‚ inefficient‚ dirty‚ indifferent‚’ he murmured. The mirror smiled back at Sir Mohan. ’You are a bit of all right

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    TRAIN TRAFFIC CONTROL COMMUNICATION‚ RAILNET AND POWER SYSTEM An Industrial Training Report submitted to Head of the Department ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING SHRI RAM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY‚ JABALPUR (M.P.).2014-15 In partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING in ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING By Gurpreet Singh (0213EC111040) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is my immense pleasure to express deepest sense of gratitude and Indebtedness to

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    or unconscious. Still‚ most paintings tend to be similar enough to others in theme or composition that they lend themselves well to being compared and contrasted. I will compare and contrast George Tooker’s The Subway‚ and Cyril E. Power’s The Tube Train. George Tooker’s The Subway is a haunting yet beautiful piece. Painted using the egg tempera method‚ it is stunning for its strategic usage of warm colors. The intention of Tooker’s painting is to portray such a familiar scene as a subway as ominous

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    Jgging Around the Issue: A “Hills like White Elephants” Literary Analysis Trying to decide on a course of action when faced with an unexpected pregnancy‚ an American and a girl sit outside a train stop in the dusty part of Spain and drink on it. Indirectly approaching the sensitive subject of abortion‚ each member of the couplehood sets out to test the other in a verbal battle of the wills‚ engaging in a staccato like dialogue that offers some insight into the two main character’s personas.

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    “The Girl On The Train” by Paula Hawkins is an amazing and interesting mystery thriller that is bound to keep any reader on the edge of their seat. From the careful setup of the timeline to how the main character’s own vices come together to describe the disappearance of the lovely and wild Megan Hipwell‚ this book is surely one that keeps the reader guessing until the thrilling conclusion. With foreshadowing that leaves the reader on edge and not a single detail gone unexplained it is difficult

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    Subway and The Tube Train George Tooker‚ an American artist painted “Subway” in 1950. Cyril E. Power‚ a British artist‚ created “The Tube Train” in 1934. With a quick glimpse of the eye‚ one may think these two pieces of artwork are similar. After all‚ a subway and a tube train are basically the same thing. To a trained eye‚ one can see the many differences in the two pieces. Tooker was associated with the Magic Realism movements‚ and is best known for his depictions of alienation in modern

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    narrative movie was The Great Train Robbery‚ created in 1903 by Edwin S. Porter. The silent film is only about 10 minutes long‚ but was the precursor to the action and western genres. The popularity of the movie proved that motion pictures could be commercially successful. The plot of The Great Train Robbery was actually inspired from a real event. On August 29‚ 1900‚ four members from the famous outlaw George Leroy “Butch Cassidy” Parker’s “Hole in the Wall” gang stopped a train in Table Rock‚ Wyoming

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    who is waiting for a train‚ but in reality it is a melodramatic conversation between the two about having a abortion and going their separate ways. Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills like White Elephants” begins with a drawn out depiction of the story’s setting in a train station bounded by hills‚ trees‚ and fields in the valleys of Spain. A gentleman identified modestly as the American and his girlfriend convene at a table external to the train station‚ anticipating a train to Madrid. Hemingway’s

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    The Journey Continuous Writing Essay We were quite a pair‚ silently waiting on the dusty train platform in the late afternoon. Clutching our rolling suitcases‚ we were unable to speak over the loud screeches and hisses of trains in Penn Station. There he was‚ my eighty year old grandfather with his massive shock of silvery hair and bushy eyebrows. Dressed in a plaid flannel shirt‚ which he insisted on wearing with suspenders‚ he was a unique sight in the middle of New York City. And there I was

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    bus system. Two popular examples are San Francisco Cable Car and Berlin MetroTram. The third system is train system. A train system is separated from the traffic and carries the most amount of passengers. As train system is operated separately‚ it may not face traffic jam. However‚ the cost of running a train system is considerably higher than the other systems. Three examples of popular train system are Mass Rapid Transit in

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