Trains

This is a Manhattan-bound B express train. The next stop is Sheepshead Bay” The words rang in my head and echoed around the platform as the people around me sprung to life and entered the train. Suddenly, my body tensed up, and a lifetime of anxiety shook me to my core. Traveling via the subway is an effective way of getting from point A to point B; however, my unfamiliarity with the subway system made me overwhelmingly nervous. Throughout elementary school and middle school, I…

He wanted to be able to bring about a change in the futures of these children so they would be able to experience a family life style, and lessen their suffering. He started the Orphan Train Movement, in which over 150,000 New York orphans were sent to live and work on farms. The conditions were not perfect. Many of the children were treated properly with love and respect, while others still were being abused, neglected and over worked…

the United States in foster homes by Orphan Trains. The program accountable for such as task was a non-profit organization that was determined to help the displaced children due to an increase of immigrants and the Civil War. The overall goal was to redistribute work forces and find homes for displaced children. The Children’s Aid society which is a non-profit organization founded in 1853 by Charles Loring Brace was the main contributor to the Orphan Trains program in the United States…

describing the surroundings of the characters who are waiting at a train station near the Spanish city of Ebro. Across the valley, there are hills described as looking “long and white” (116 Hemmingway) Hemmingway moves on to describing the train station stating it is treeless and sun-beaten and has parallel rales running across it. The male character, referred to as The American, and the woman character, referred to as Jig, are sitting at the train station’s bar pondering what to drink. Reading…

There was slow a cluttered version in the 1970’s was amazing as well as the 1913 version. The birth of Grand Central Station was considered a tragedy, as the soot and the smog was polluting the air quality. As the air quality was poor, so the train station moved completely underground, resulting into business in downtown Manhattan in 1902. Enough about how Grand Central began, what’s interesting is that it took part of the second World War II. In 1942 more than forty percent of the population…

which thousands of vagabond children roamed the streets of New York. They would sell pieces of rags, newspapers, and themselves trying to survive. In an attempt to remedy the problem, The Children’s Aid Society decided to send the “street children” on trains to rural America to be taken in by farmers, accepted into the family, and work on their farms. This situation is very interesting and can be analyzed sociological from many perspectives including from the intent of The Children’s Aid…

Morality of The Orphan Trains For the most part, American history is a story of triumph. Reaching the U.S.A. and achieving the “American Dream” are goals for many people. Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train and the person that it follows portrays the failure of the American dream. Niamh’s story and the tragedy that she faces are tough, but through her hardships she manages to achieve a successful life and find her own “American Dream”. Through the orphan trains, many children like Niamh that…

December 18th, an Amtrak train on its inaugural run from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon derailed off a bridge and fell onto Interstate 5, killing 3 people and injuring many more. Even though the route has been operating for two weeks with non-revenue trains, this was the first passenger train to use Amtrak’s new inland Cascades Line. Though the reason for the crash has not been determined, officials have said that speed was a major factor. At the time of the incident, the train was…

The Girl on the Train is narrated by three woman: Racheal, Anna, and Megan. This tells the story through a female’s perspective while Gone Girl is narrated by Nick and Amy which tells their story through a female and male perspective. Both novels deal with the idea of a missing woman. The characters past experiences deal with children, moving away from home, their childhood and their parents. These reasons all show to have a more powerful impact on the characters and their spouses than the…

fruit all year long? Trains transport food and goods to local distribution centers throughout the US. Trains have greatly affected cultures, economies, and wars; and will continue to do so into the future. To prove that we must take a journey through time back to the early 1800s. The first steam locomotive was built in 1804 by Richard Trevithick in Britain. Since then trains have drastically changed the world we live in. The first big event in the timeline of how trains affected the world…