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    The sound of trains There is an elevated railway above the street that is used for the presentation. The train is invisible from the sight of the passenger in the vehicle. When the distance between the vehicle and the coach becomes tight, the sound inside the carriage is displayed from the car stereo. The location of the rail line is reproducing based on the transport timetable. Therefore, the announcement inside the passenger car and broadcasting in the railway platform, which flies out from…

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    decided to take the number two (2) train from Prospect to Westside 34th Street, New York. It was 4:00pm and I just got off work and wanted to go to the city for the train ride. I waited approximately 10 minutes for the number 2 train to arrive and 2-4 minutes between every stop before arriving at my destination within 40 minutes. Traveling during rush hours is unappealing as there are frequent delays and the trains are most often crowded. I stood in the middle of the train that at all time…

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    Who Is Jig A Code Hero

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    Jig is a code hero, and she shows no emotions because they cannot, she has to be strong and brave. In November 1954, Hemingway became the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His last years were very troubled he was physically and mentally ill. He committed suicide on July 2 1961. The Old Man and the Sea was Hemingway's last novel published during his lifetime. In “Hills Like White Elephants”, Jig is not going to have an abortion because she lives by the code hero to not show…

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    Yesterday I visited Grand Central Station- or I should say terminal, the famous station as changed its names many times throughout the last hundred years. Grand Central’s birth was from a tragedy and underwent many changes from presidents, to abandoned tracks to restaurants, to rebuilding this station is an American Icon. The chief engineer was William J Wilgus and build two version of the terminal before the third and final station designed by Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore had been…

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    Arthur Matthews. Arthur Mathews was a Ticketmaster for the small train station located in Vander, North Carolina. The legend states that one rainy night the scheduled train was late and Arthur went outside on the platform with his lantern to see if he could see the train approaching. He slipped on the wet platform and fell onto the tracks hitting his head on a rail and knocking him out cold. As the train approached the station, the conductor saw a light in the middle of the tracks. When the…

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    mind now, the Pyrenees and the well-known events associated with them. Wouldn’t it be fun to witness the “Running of the Bulls” and the “Tour De France”? Furthermore, think of the positive memories that await the family who experiences the “The Petit Train D’Artousete” also known as, Europe’s highest railroad. Therefore, it is time to use every persuasive bone possible to convince the family to taste this lesser known jewel. A true pastoral heaven of dreams, the Pyrenees…

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    Urban Rail System Essay

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    including the following: • Spacing between Stations • Speed • Capacity and Body Outline • Degree of Separation from Road Traffic • Operating System • Rolling Stock • Maximum Curvature 3.3.1 Spacing between Stations Urban rail has a very close station spacing (about 50-500 m apart). It is much easier for people to move through the mentioned distances by urban rail rather than walk on foot. On the other hand, the long-distance rail stations are much longer in station spacing. (White, 2002)…

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    He first appears when he and Olaf go to meet and get Inge from the train station when she first gets to America. In the morning when Olaf and Frandsen show up to get her, because of Inges lack of English, she thinks she is going to marry Frandsen, who she thinks is Olaf. Frandsen also plays a big part in the film when Inge…

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    initially remarking on this with the title. A white elephant is a term that has been used to symbolize an unwanted gift that is difficult to maintain (Kozikowski, 1994). The first section of the story opens to a couple sitting at a table in a train station located between Barcelona and Madrid for drinks before continuing on their journey. While waiting for their drinks the girl, as Hemingway describes her throughout the story, watches out the window and comments on a line of hills in the…

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    White Elephants

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    characters and settings in which the reader will get to know personally and begin to adapt with them as well. In this story however, we are immersed in a train station in an unspecified location in Spain between Barcelona and Madrid. A train station can be representative of a midpoint between now and the future time that will arrive once the train does. The train can also give the reader a sense of transition between experiences, which was not provided earlier but can be inferred is the cause of…

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