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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Ernest Hemingway’s short story, ''Hills like White Elephants'', is about a couple traveling throughout Spain. The couple known as Jig, the woman and The American man, are set in a train station waiting upon the next train to Madrid. The story then transitions settings as they enter a bar where they drink beer and small talk while they wait. In this story, there is a form of communication being utilized by the couple, virtually through the use of codes, endeavoring not to speak on a certain…
During the Ford Pinto scandal that occurred in the 1970’s, Ford executives failed to take action to correct a potentially fatal flaw in the Pinto’s design that causing a fire hazard due to disconnecting the fuel line from the fuel tank during rear-end collisions. In an attempt to compete with the foreign subcompact market, Ford rushed the Pinto leading to “one of the shortest production planning periods in modern automotive history: just 25 months, when the normal time span was 43 months”…
out of Penn Station I knew summer was officially coming to an end because I could feel the cold air hitting my face. We took the train and headed to the Lower East Side, which is known to be fairly close to China Town and Little Italy. The Lower East Side is southeastern of the city. The area has been known to be home to many immigrants from China, Russia, and Italy. The area has historically been known as a working class area, but has changed…