“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about a man known as the American and a girl named Jig who are a couple. Both are at a train station in Barcelona surrounded by hills waiting for the train to take them to Madrid. The weather was warm and the couple sat outside the station at a bar to order beer. All of a sudden Jig looks at the landscape and says that the hills look like white elephants to which the American man answers that he has never seen one. After the first
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‘The Night Train at Deoli’ by Ruskin Bond is a story of juvenilely extravagant passion exhibiting unbridled obligation of the protagonist endowed with great sensitivity. Love is an emotion interlaced with a web of perplexing components that is very difficult to unravel. Infatuation lacks depth of love‚ and it is based on appearance and selfish desire. True love is based on commitment‚ understanding and entering into another’s feelings‚ and compassion. In this short story‚ Ruskin Bond recounts his
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put me in the mind of simpler times and relatable memories. His pieces display three dimensional effects on a two dimensional surface with natural lighting effects. All painting are created with oil on linen canvass. Such pieces as the “Wyckoff Train Station”‚ “Dairy Queen” and “Gas” all represent the Bergren County area and parts of New York prior to the gentrification phase. “Gas” depicts an old two pump station as you would see it in the 1970’s. The piece of the “Dairy Queen” shows the classic
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the Morning Train Waiting for the Morning train K.F. FSU History 230 3-25-12 Waiting for the Morning Train by Bruce Catton Bruce Catton is a name that has become synonymous with history enthusiasts but he has also made his own niche on the literary front with books like “Waiting for the morning train”. The novel recounts the author’s childhood in Benzonia‚ Michigan that had been described by the author as “a good place to wait for the morning train” (Ch. 2‚ p
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Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about an American man and a girl named Jig. In the story the two are sitting in a rail station waiting for the train to Madrid. While they are waiting‚ they have an intense‚ ongoing discussion over whether or not Jig will get an abortion. At the end of the story‚ the train is about to arrive and the man carries the baggage to the tracks as they prepare to depart. The ending of the story leaves unclear the outcome of her decision. She says
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BA Honours: Tourism and Business Management Virgin Trains Lecturer Name: BIRTE SCHMITZ Student Name: Ana Maria Do Amaral Zacarias ID: 20272212 Year: 3 Virgin Trains Introduction Strategic Management involves looking at ground realities and formulating an approach that can achieve desired results in the context of these realities. It follows that strategy will differ from context to context. Readymade strategies rarely work‚ and‚ this is the main problem with strategy development; businesses
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manufacturing locations around the world.[3] The original core of the Transportation group was formed with the purchase of Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1975. With that purchase Bombardier acquired MLW’s LRC (Light‚ Rapid‚ Comfortable) tilting train design which it produced in the 1980s. The group also purchased UTDC which in turn had acquired Hawker Siddeley Canada[citation needed]. MLW was later sold to General Electric in 1988. GE ended railcar operations in Canada in 1993. Bombardier Transportation
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railway station so that they can take an express train and travel to Madrid. The author expresses in the poem how it is summer hot day in Madrid that correlates with “were white in the sun.” The author does not give the readers enough information about the “operation” nor the relationship between the American man and girl. The exposition in the poem starts off at the beginning where the author explains that the American man and girl are waiting at a train station. The American man expresses to the young
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White Elephants”‚ focuses around the two main characters Jig and the American. The story takes place in Spain while the two wait on the train. They are both in with conflict whether or not Jig should get an abortion or keep the baby. To the American‚ in his mind he wants no part in having the baby with Jig‚ he just came to have fun. While they wait for the train they either have two choices‚ to either go west where the sun sets or to go east where the sun rises. West symbolizes discouragement and
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Title Page -------------- Tas Faculty Train Air Braking System Engineering Studies By -------- Teacher: ------------ Abstract The purpose of this report is to explain how air brakes in trains work and why they are there. Throughout this report there is information on the function of the Air Brake‚ the history and development of the brake‚ The component materials used in the brake‚ the environmental considerations of the brake‚ its safety features and social implications. The Air
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