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    The girl said: “every day I am waiting for you. It’s just exhausted. At first I thought you would come back if I just wait for one more minute, but now I know there’s no point to waiting for you any more, because just like you could never get on a train in an airport, I could never expect the wrong person on the wrong place in a wrong time.” On that day they broke up. However, few years later, the Hongqiao Airport and the Hongqiao Railway station was linked together, and the designer is the boy…

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    talk about experiences and different times on the trains. Lester would brag about knowing the President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. All of the rookie porters loved hearing about Lester's experiences. There was talk about Daddy Joe and how he was a Pullman car porter. They even talked about how Daddy Joe couldn’t even escape the 11:59 train. No one could escape the 11:59 train. Lester and his car porters talk about the 11:59 train. Lester…

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    frequent subway passenger who was staring into the eyes of his fate after getting off work, Han was struck by an oncoming Q-train after being pushed onto the tracks in the way of the train. Han got himself into a brutal argument with mid-20-year-old homeless man, Naeem Davis. The moment when Han attempted to lift himself out of harm's way, Han was already staring into the face of the train accompanied by the recording and pictures taking of other passengers waiting for the tragedy to occur.…

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    makes many friends and enemies in his new homeland, America. Crispin is a hardworking man and one of the few gentlemen in west. The exposition of The Man from Skibbereen is young man named Crispin coming to America from Ireland. He is going on a train west to help build the railroad. When he gets off at a station to stretch his legs he accidentally gets left behind. He finds…

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    means to compare the life or death decision and the topic of abortion as a whole. Hemingway starts off by describing the setting. The couple is sitting at the bar in a train station that is settled between Madrid and Barcelona. On one side if the train station there are hills and the dry brown country. The opposite side of the train station is filled with trees, grain, and has a river in the distance. The dry country side represents the choice of death while the other side is filled with…

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    Hemmingway is about a couple that is sitting at a train station between Madrid and Barcalona struggling with a critical decision they are faced with. Hemmingway uses dialogue to tell the story and forces the reader to interpret what will happen next. The setting and symbolism gives the readers clues to understand the couple’s dilemma they are faced with. Hemmingway chose a public place for the setting for this story. This public place was a train station somewhere near Ebro, which is a river…

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    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…

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    Nighttime Characteristics

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    In the manner of, that, when Christopher is at the train station he is focusing on how to walk, while he is probably missing a big element around him. “‘left, right, left, right, left, right….which Siobhan taught me to do to make myself calm’”(179). Obviously, someone could of been around him that was a…

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    Going To Run Away Analysis

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    decision of going to Mrs. Alexander. Of course when he tells her that he is going to run away that she is going to call his father. She can 't keep a secret like that. After going back home to grab his stuff he goes to school to ask Siobhan where the train station.…

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    “Do you need a help with your backpack” the stewardess asked me in British accent. “Pardon”, I said “I didn’t hear you well”. She repeated, but I still didn’t understand what she was trying to say. I started to panic. “If I cannot understand British English, which I learned in the university for 1 year, how I will understand American English”. “How I am going to study in University in America if I don’t understand simple things the stewardess was trying to say, maybe I should get out of the…

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