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    Traveling on a train is always a wonderful experience. A fascinating journey alongside the strangers from different walks of life is something to look forward to. Unless you are traveling in a Mumbai local. During a rush hour! My 20 minutes ride from Borivali to Andheri wasn’t particularly a happy journey‚ with all the peak-hour rush‚ bodies cramped against each other and what not‚ but being a Mumbaikar myself‚ I had come to terms with it. Although‚ the journey wasn’t always a gloomy one. Every

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    Travelling by Train. |railway station | |waiting-room | | |platform | |journey | | |to take a train | |booking-office | | |to change trains

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    Magnetic Levitation Train Final Report By: Dusty Funk & Kyle Getsla Project Advisor: Dr. Anakwa Date: May 12‚ 2006 Bradley University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 1 Abstract The objective of this project is to create a laboratory scale magnetic levitating train model using Inductrack technology developed by Dr. Richard Post from Lawrence Livermore National Labs‚ Previous work by Paul Friend is discussed as well as the physics associated with Inductrack. The

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    Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” -Anonymous When I first started Hardaway‚ I thought that I would have classes with everybody I knew in eighth grade. Things somehow did not go that way. I ended up not knowing anyone in my classes. I felt alone and by myself. I was too shy to speak to anyone and scared I was going to be judged if I said the wrong thing. In my first class‚ I was embarrassed because I was the only one late‚ and I sat in the wrong chair. I did not understand what the

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    The sun continues being Meursault’s enemy and friend. Meursault spends time with Marie in the beach relaxing‚ having fun with her. The first time Meursault encountered Marie‚ he laid his head back and rested it on her stomach under the sun. They floated on ocean until the sun got too hot. The beach was relaxing perfect amount of sun and water‚ although later in the novel the peaceful beach becomes joyless. Raymond invited Meursault and Marie to spend Sunday at a friend’s little beach house‚ near

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    In Albert Camus’ Nobel Prize winning piece of work‚ The Stranger‚ he presents to his readers one of the most confusing and “strangest” character in the history of literature‚ Meursault. Meursault lives in a town called Algiers‚ and there‚ he gets himself into an unavoidable series of events that will lead up to his unfortunate end. Albert Camus does a wonderful job of weaving hints and traces of significant symbols and references to other famous works of literature to build the atmosphere and the

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    Dogmatic Systems Camus ’s The Stranger‚ illustrates the absurdity of human existence. Through Meursault ’s bereavement‚ Camus emphasizes his philosophy that individual human life has no rational order or structure. Also‚ as life is connected through the certainty of death‚ it inevitably faces the same meaningless end. Camus ridicules the inanity of dogmatic systems as an attempt to establish meaning in an otherwise trivial existence. In Camus ’s The Stranger‚ Meursault ’s indifferent behavior

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    Meursault as “The Stranger” The way a person reacts to ordinary situations determines the opinions of others based on their behavior. Yet‚ when this behavior is abnormal or different from the rest of society‚ it causes society to form an opinion based totally on a person’s behavior not their true personality. In Meursault’s case‚ his strange opinions and unexpected remarks put him in this position‚ without ever really giving him an opportunity to be truly understood. However‚ Meursault cannot change

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    The train was late today and it was always early. Why was it late? The train was an apparatchik. The train always arrived at Chestnut Hill station at precisely 08:03am and departed five minutes later at 08:08am. It had arrived thirty-four seconds late. That meant they were running thirty-four seconds late. She stepped on first; followed by Amara and Annora Willowrider‚ then Margo Lilygrow‚ and finally Vulwin Heartgust and his obnoxiously large briefcase that took up a whole seat. She reached her

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    The Stranger by Albert Camus is one of his best works. This novel tells the story of a man‚ Meursault‚ who is a moralist. Nothing seems to matter to him and his or anybody else’s actions makes no difference. Camus’s use of language allows readers to discover the mood and meaning being conveyed through diction and word choice. His use of figurative language can be seen throughout. Such an example of figurative language is imagery. From reading The Stranger‚ one can clearly picture whats happening

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