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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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    alternatives for numerous train line equipments that may prove to be detrimental in the long run to cut costs. This prompted the resignation of many senior SMRT staff and‚ potentially‚ the reason for the numerous train faults that we have been seeing for the past few months. These are rumours that I have heard and once again I apologize if it is not true. Nevertheless‚ another operational failure I saw was SMRT’s crisis management during the December train crisis. Many people in the train were left there

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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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    Comics and Cartoons September 6th‚ 2012 Lecture 1 Introduction and Overview Comics were used to help people who didn’t read English be able to read the newspapers The comics we are going to study all pretend to be one thing and we are going to look at the other things that they are. Comics communicate all sorts of ideas about communication and about the ideas of communicating effectively When reading these comics we have to think about what they say about what children want. This is because

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    call from his mother telling him to go meet the girl that his aunt wants to set him up with. He refuses and continues to eat with his friends. At the train station on his way home‚ he observes a girl‚ stone drunk‚ standing precariously close to the edge of the train platform as the train approaches; he pulls her to safety just in time. Inside the train‚ Gyeon-woo cannot help but stare at the girl wavering back and forth. He is slightly attracted to her but also repulsed by her drunkenness. Finally

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    Amtrak: Long Distance Trains: FY 2008 Long-Distance Train Facts • A long-distance train typically consists of sleepers‚ coaches‚ a diner and/or a lounge car. • Long-distance trains travel as far as 2‚800 miles and pass through as many as 12 states. • Amtrak operates 15 long-distance trains over 18‚500 route miles serving 39 states and the District of Columbia. These trains provide the only rail passenger service to 23 states. • In FY 2008 these trains carried 4.2 million passengers accounting

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    Chrisda Spending my holiday in Bandung On July 31‚ 2013 I was on my way with a train call Herina with destination to Bandung. At that time‚ it was my first time on a train. I was so scared because I have no idea how to find the place to sit or to find my seat number. So in order to do that‚ I asked one of the securities guard to help me find carriage and where my seat was. Right at 9 pm the train starts to run the engine‚ I was so excited. On the way‚ I met a nice family who also went to Bandung

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    directed by Adam Davidson in 1989‚ is a short film based on an older woman whose main goal is to catch a train. As she goes through the train station she has a series of encounters with black men (homeless and not homeless) to which she seems prejudice towards. But‚ she could in fact be afraid because they are strangers and/or homeless. A woman walks through a busy train station to catch her train. As she is in a hurry a well-dressed black man bumps into her‚ knocking the contents of her purse on the

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    up‚ I apologize with her and explained the causes of my late. Then‚ I bought the ticket at the counter and wait the train come. However‚ there was a unluckily again. I wait for the train for long time and I asked at the counter to know why the train didn’t came for long time. The counter lady told me that the train had to repair for an hour because the derailment of train. I take a deep breath to calm down myself‚ what a unluckily day! But I didn’t know‚ there were many unluckily things waiting

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    like white elephants published in 1927 by Ernest Hemingway. This Fiction story focuses on two American people‚ a man and a woman whose name is Jig. They decided to spend some time having a beer in a bar close to a train station in northeastern Spain while they were waiting for their train bound to an unknown place. The pregnant woman tells the man that the hills look like white elephants‚ which sparks a discussion between them. The couple starts a discussion on whether the woman should get what they

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