Operation Crossroads

The woman's injury includes a form of partial or total loss of memory that kept her from keeping a memory about in what way the accident took place. The loss of memory was caused to happen from a brain injury so he required going through surgical operation. The person also got bone damage in his ankle. His total likely health care treatment expenses will reach to over $3.5 million. The suffered person, a person in his late 40s, was a qualified earning more or less $62,000 a year. As a…

have come to a “crossroad” in their relationship and the woman “Jig” seems to be the one who is realizing that they are at a “point of no return.” The location is a train station where the two are awaiting a train that will be taking them to Madrid (Spain), where “Jig” may be having an operation. While the two wait they are sitting in a bar having drinks and discussing whether or not “Jig” wants to go through with the operation. It is clear after reading the story that this “operation” is an…

Symbolism is demarcated as any entity that figuratively represents something else, is prominent in many well respected works of literature. Symbols carry a deeper meaning that their physical existence. Two pieces of literature that stand out as an impeccable example of symbolism are, “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, the story is entirely symbolic, with characters as well as a setting that…

2.6.8 "Hills Like White Elephants" Reader Response Assignment Answer the following two questions in concise paragraphs. Upload and submit using a Word document. 1. Hemingway once suggested that his purpose in such a story is to tell the reader as little as possible directly yet to reveal characters' motives and their conflict. How does this principle operate in this story? Where would you like to have more information (besides "he said" and "she said")? As the couple wait at the train station,…

This is a case study analysis of The Family Learning Center Charter School: Leadership and Accountability at a Crossroads by James R. Detert and Natalie R. Detert (2001). This case study focuses on the challenges a charter school may face when opening with a new philosophy on how to approach instruction. The Family Learning Center Charter School (FLC), founded by Dr. Wayne Jennings faced many challenges starting a new charter school: funding problems, inexperienced staff, little instructional…

Correspondingly noteworthy in importance, the railroad tracts mirror the partition of state of mind and thought in the middle of Jig and the man, showing that there is no trade off - Jig should either choose to have the operation or she will lose her lover; in any case, on the other hand, their lives won't meet up. The decisions Jig countenances between having the infant or having the fetus removal (abortion); she appears to be torn between the two scenes, not just remarking…

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 subject. They continue this ongoing discussion about some sort of operation, as a reader discovers by analyzing the story, this operation is an abortion. The method Hemingway uses when writing is the Iceberg Theory (of why something works or happens the…

White Elephants” is primarily a conversation between an American man and his girlfriend, neither of which truly communicates with the other. Both talk, but neither listens, nor understands the other’s point of view. The American man, although the operation is not specifically mentioned, is trying to convince the woman to have an abortion; a subject the woman does not want to talk about and avoids by drinking. In this story, the white elephant symbolizes something nobody really wants, the…

Throughout this class, we have learned about every aspect of nonprofits and how they operate. This includes the day-to-day operations as well as how they forecast and plan for the future. What is interesting about nonprofits is that they show up anywhere and everywhere. In the case of this paper, nonprofits are involved in the political atmosphere, helping particular candidates fund their campaigns for presidency. As of fairly recently, they have played an extremely important role in our society…

American forcefully starts a line of disjointed hollow statements in an effort to convince Jig that “the operation” will not be as hard as it may seem. “’It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig.’ The man said. ‘it’s not really an operation at all.’ The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on.” (Hemmingway 116) As if Jig has heard The American assert his thoughts of the operation a thousand times before, she looks off uninterested at the ground where the table legs are sitting.…