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    Pushing through the hordes of people, I catch a glimpse of my train’s boarding check-ins. Like a captain frantically seeking a lighthouse in a storm, I haul myself across the ocean of human bodies, trying to stay afloat, to avoid being stranded – or trampled – in the dustiest city in the world: Beijing, capital of both China and smog. Luckily, I find my train with plenty of time to spare, and without being turned into a pancake, which is always a plus. The train conductor in his freshly…

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    Jimmy Valentine Quotes

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    It’s not easy to change, but it’s possible. Jimmy Valentine was a very lovable, caring person. He went from robbing banks to saving a little girl. He did this by becoming a new car. He also had a beautiful wife named Annabel Adams. Jimmy Valentine was dedicated to living a moral life; therefore, he changed his name to start fresh, he gave away his burglary tools, and he saved Agatha risking his life. One way Jimmy Valentine was dedicated to living a moral life was that he changed his name to…

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    couple waiting for their train with a few drinks. The setting of the story is placed in Ebro, Spain. At the beginning of the story the setting is at a train station in Ebro. By setting the story at the train station, Hemingway uses symbolizes the couple's relationship is at a crossroad. The girl points out how the hills on one side of the train station looked like white elephants. On the other hand, the other side of the train…

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    Stuttering: A Short Story

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    nothing as important as the train station, and the places I’ve gone because of it when it comes to overcoming stuttering. I swung my backpack over my left shoulder and went up to the glass window. My voice clenched up, but I approached the counter anyway. “Can I have round trip tickets to ththth...thirtieth street station?” The station clerk nodded before I finished and handed me tickets to center-city Philadelphia. I left the ticket office and motioned to a station clerk. “Which track is…

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    Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism in “Hills Like White Elephants’’ to illustrate the difficulties a couple is facing in making an important decison about their lives. Jig, the girl, is pregnant and her boyfriend, called the American, wants her to have an abortion. Each symbol represents the two ways the couple can go and their struggle to make a decision with which both parties will be happy. The most obvious symbol in this story are the white hills which, according to Jig, look like white…

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    together to a foreign nation to cross many boundaries. Full of lust, passion, and desire, the pair enjoy themselves in the country of Spain while experiencing more with each other than the formulated travel guide’s intent suggested. At a train station, or a crossroads, their lustful escapade ends and the two go separate ways. Hemingway in the “Hills Like White Elephants” accurately displays the masculinity found in his own life as well as the difficulty of building perpetual relationships.…

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    The story “Hills like White elephant, ’” by Ernest Hemingway is about a couple deciding whether or not to have an abortion. The abortion is never mentioned, but it is implied. The story is short and starts with a woman named Jig. The other character is a man to represent man in America. The Relationship between the two is awkward and not definitive. The story represents a relationship. she is not sure whether to keep the child or have the abortion. And the man wants her to have the abortion.…

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    Ttc Future Plan

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    Customer Service Agents, Supervisors and other customer-facing station staff, they’ve created new, multi-day experiential customer service training. By the middle of 2019, TTC will be providing refreshed accessibility training to all of our customer-facing employees, including how to help customers who have physical, sensory, cognitive or mental health disabilities (TTC CORPORATE PLAN, 67). • Wi-Fi is will be available in all stations and, by 2025, will also be available in tunnels. • In the…

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    We Are Customers Too! Munchy’s no more! Mr. Jones thinks it’s okay to ban us teenagers from his restaurant from noon to 3 pm. Mr. Jones believes that we are loud, we are always on our phone and that we make a mess of things, not all of us teenagers are like that, I for one think this is a ridiculous idea. Mr. Jones believes that we are the loud ones, which is not completely true. When the adults would come into Munchy’s they speak very loudly, they would have the loudest…

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    The Bloor-Yonge subway station the busiest station in the TTC with hundreds of thousands of people going through it every day. These huge crowds create chaos within the station during rush hours of the weekdays, making the average commuter frustrated and annoyed. While these times are testing of one's patience, the subway would not be the same without this epicenter of Toronto's commuters. The beginning of the day for most commuters on the Bloor-Yonge is remarkably difficult, with the walk…

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