... to them. Because of all the emotions and feelings being projected from the poem, it can be classified as a lyric. The man in the poem is "saying goodbye / on the [station] platform" (lines 1, 2) to his son. He explains his situation and describes what is happening and how he feels about it. "I want to tell him he's entering into the light / of ... life" (line 27). The author metaphorically describes the journey as entering a light with a long tunnel. This is why the writer decided to place the setting of the poem at a train station, because trains travel through long tunnels. The reason...

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... the feasibility of offering massages on the Long Island Rail Road. Long Island Rail Road massages would be offered to commuters who ride to Penn Station from Long Island or vice versa. Plus these massages would help relax the commuters. If this service is created it is planned to start ... passengers will be willing to pay to receive a massage. The final area of investigation was to see if there were any massage pallors in Penn Station. This would determine the competition. If there are massage pallor's, I also needed to know how much they charge there clients and if there business ... ...

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... to purchase their MetroCards(2). This marks the first step in what could be the eventual elimination of token booth while transforming token booth clerks into station attendants, who would give directions and otherwise aid passengers. But, these new vending machines have a lot of people worried about the future of ... past, it's that security is our customers" No. 1 concern. With 85% of subway customers using MetroCards and rising use of vending machines, station booth use has declined even as ridership has grown. But even as this shift in customer preference drives how we do business, w...

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... 's "Hills Like White Elephants" "Hills Like White Elephants", by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story published in 1927, which is set at a train station in Spain. In this story the reader eavesdrops on a conversation held by "the American and the girl with him". Most of the story is predominately dialogue ... a decision on whether to have an abortion or not is indeed a difficult decision to make. The setting of the train station symbolizes the decision that the couple must make. On one side of the station, there is vegetation and "fields of grain"; the other side is dry and barren. The fact...

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... the true meaning of this story without examining the symbolism used by the author. The story begins with a description of the setting. There were long hills, a train station, a bar, and a beaded curtain. At this point in the story, I thought that Hemingway was just trying to start another tale of his. Little did I ... American, the Jig, and them as a couple. While waiting for their train, the man and woman sat outside the bar that was next to the train station. They passed the time by drinking, and the woman was observing the scenery at the same time. Jig mentions to her boyfriend "they ...

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... , the American. The choices Jig is facing are in the scenery around her. Hemingway uses the setting of the train station, the valley landscape, and the hills to show the consequences of the decision Jig is forced to make. The story is set in a train ... an idea where the relationship between Jig and the American is at this point. The train station is a place of transition. Jig and the American are also at a crossroads. Just as they are sitting at a station between two sets of tracks heading in opposite directions, their relationship could also go in two ... feelings toward abortion. John...

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... slap her upside the face. She is very kind widow; and sociable as you see her striking up a conversation with the lady she meets at the bus station talking with her throughout her whole bus ride, as they develop a relationship with one another. She is very high strung at times, with dynamic emotions, from ... ashamed to live. The place is cheap and old fashioned to today's viewer but appropriate for the time setting of the story. The scene progresses to the bus station and bus scene. They are on a big Greyhound coach. On this bus Carrie is fortunate to meet a nice young lady whom she de...

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... describe the conflict that was arising between the American man and the girl, named Jue. The beauty and dimness of the scenery, the train station, and the hills looking like white elephants to the girl are all major pieces of setting that represent the decision of keeping or feat rid ... of their child. The narrator describes the landscape of the train station that they were waiting at with influential and descriptive words to show life and death. As Jue and the American man wait for their ... symbolism just with a mountain and a valley. While the couple waits to move from that city of...

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... a few of museums. I'll pack my bag and leave tomorrow from Grand Central Station. It really bothers me that its called Grand Central Station. You just know that whoever named the place was the biggest phony ever: Oh, my train station is the best. I think Ill name it Grand Central Station cause it is so Grand. It makes me nauseous. Anyway, I think that I really ... the only place I didnt see when I went. Ive heard its really nice. The next morning I packed my bags and got in a cab. It was somewhat of a long drive to the station from where I was staying. The cab wreaked, it really did. it...

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... a latter day Sherlock Homes or Dr. Watson, one feels the need to investigate. Ernest Hemingway's story of a young couple's conversation outside a train station in "Hills Like White Elephants" skillfully provides the reader with a similar sense of mystery and intrigue. One can picture one's self sitting at a table in ... that same train station, overhearing their conversation and wondering what's going on with the couple. One wants to solve the riddle. Although one may feel more like ... show the importance of good communication. A little critical analysis will render his intent element...

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... her. At this point, Holden is desperate for a friend. After he finished talking to her on the phone, he went for breakfast at the train station. While he was eating, two nuns sat next to him. He had a good conversation with them but after they left, he said he would have ... woke up suddenly to find Mr. Antolini's hand on his forehead. This really made him nervous and embarrassed so he got his things and left for the train station. There, he slept on a bench. Holden woke up early because people started to come into the waiting room. "And I think I was more depressed than ... I ever was...

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... the exposition there is also a flash back where Karlie is thinking about his home in Cape Town. Rising action: Karlie leaves the rally and goes to a train station. He wants to catch a train and think about all these things he has heard today. Then he sees a bench where it says: "Europeans only". It ... the story). The story takes place at the Grand Parade in Johannesburg, South Africa. The story also takes place at a railway station. The reason, that the story takes place at a railway station, can be because there is allot of stress and busyness at places like that. If the bench had been ...

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... . No wonder it offers him the same scenario, a dilapidated old house facing the dirty, deserted platform surrounded by the darkness of night. He tries to remember the name of this station but fails. "Well, why do I need to know the name? All I need is the passing through of a train," utters the man slowly. And then looks at the mist outside the ... station so eagerly that hardly anyone else would have waited for a train with such an excitement before. The thought that he is committing suicide tonight and thereby, getting relieved from all ... reason?" wonders he with a curious mind. Hi...

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... to a realization about what they are discussing. In focusing on this issue, Hemingway expressed a powerful feminist theme. The story takes place at a train station in Ebro River Valley in Spain "a symbol of the word embryo." At the beginning, the reader is introduced to the barren landscape around the train ... station across the valley, where the couple is sitting at a table. They are waiting for the train to Madrid to come. It is very hot, ... White Elephants"). This is, in my opinion, a turning point in the story. The girl finally starts to think with her head. She walks to the end o...

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... the positive possibilities and works to persuade her to go through with the abortion. Hemingway uses symbolism through alcohol, the hills, the white elephants, and the train station to develop the theme of the story. Hemingway's writing style in this story is well crafted. His simple style and taut dialogue pull readers into the story, ... is a bit of a hill itself. Being pregnant ties a mother down, making her less mobile and more stationary, just like the hills. The element of the railroad station is symbolic of being at the crossroads of life during a time of crisis. The American ma...

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... is located at 5th Ave, between 50th and 51st St., after attending a seven o"clock Christmas Eve's mass in there. Then I started walking for a few blocks to the Fifth Ave. subway station to take the E or F train to get home. Next, I took the first available train that arrived, which was the F train; not knowing that something bizarre was going to happen to ... . I assumed that most New Yorkers were home and spent their Christmas Eve dinner with their families and friends. The train was just leaving the Elmhurst Ave. station and was running towards the Grand Ave. Newtown station, when I su...

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... started. I think that Kane new something was going to happen and that is why he said that. Even the entire board of selectmen believed everything would be ok. The train station guy came running in the courthouse with a telegram saying that they pardoned Frank Miller. Everyone in the courthouse is flabbergasted and can't believe it. Because Miller is bad news. The ... train station guy proceeds to tell Kane that Ben Miller, Jack Colby, and Jim Pearce are waiting at the train station for Miller. The whole town thinks that the smart thing to do is for Kane to leave town, but he wanted ... ...

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... some reason or another, Mary Jane fell from the platform and onto the tracks. She seems to have fallen right before a train pulled through the station. At this happening, all Mary Jane could utter was the word "Hallelujah!". After she had said this word, the train pulled through and ran her over; she was chopped up ... he has a sick sense of humor. As the poem is read, the reader thinks of how unfortunate it was for this young woman to fall onto the tracks from the station platform, and one would find it odd that she shouts out "Hallelujah!" as she falls. However, the mood completely c...

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... strong symbolic characters, aid the reader in understanding the underlying theme. The material objects that Hemingway uses to convey the theme are beer, the good and bad hillsides, and a railroad station between two tracks. The beer represents the couple's, "the American" and "the girl's", usual routine activity they do together. This bothers the girl because "that's all we do, isn't it ... fooling around all the time. She wants to stop being a girl and become a woman. Hemingway then presents the reader with two contrasting hills. One hill on one side of the station is dull, desolate, a...

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... man in the IRA office said that he couldn't find a Malachy McCourt in any of his records. He left the place with no money and walked back to the train station where his family was eagerly waiting. Malachy told them there was no money. They met a police officer at the train ... station, and he said they could spend the night at the police station. The next day they left the station and went to see Angela's mom. Angela's family didn't accept Malachy because he came from the north, and he drank all of the family ... ...

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... told me Doris and I could go under the "buddy system," a program allowing friends to be in the same company during boot camp and be stationed together at their first duty station. Every day that week, I woke up at 3:00am, and Chief Diaz drove me to the Military Entrance Processing Center (MEPS). MEPS is a facility where newly recruited individuals take their ASVAB ... . after graduation, we were able to visit with our family members for around two hours before returning to our quarters. A week later, we received our orders for our first duty station and were finally able to go home for t...

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... . Perhaps I should stop looking down at the ground so I can find a police officer. There has got to be police cars around here. Actually, I will keep walking until I get to the station. There are some people around so I should be alright. The Bronx is where my grandparents and parents first moved to when they immigrated into the United States. That is also ... about my own hometown. Instead, I think about how terrifying it is there. I think about the countless number of times I felt harassed while going on a five minute walk to the train station. When I am outside in the Bronx, I feel as...

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... life and the present situation she is in. She wanted to reach out for a normal life where she would not be forced to make such a life altering decision. The train station was located between two separate railways, leading to different points. The couple was going to take the train to Madrid, where the operation, abortion, would most likely take place. They ... were exactly in the middle of their trip to Madrid, which expresses their doubt about which way to go. Therefore, the train station is symbolic. If they were to get on the train this meant she would have the operation. They had ve...

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... we see this cloud of smoke from the burnt out candle transform into the next scene in which we see this same image of smoke coming from a train pulling into a station in Poland. It is during this transition in which we see the movie switch from colour to black and white, which the majority of the film is shot in. This ... of lost Jewish lives being tossed about. This here shows that even the innocence of a little girl was not excluded from the horror of the holocaust. Futhermore at this train station in Poland we see one man set up a folding table on a small train platform, and slowly l...

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... and it is being told in a third person omniscient point of view. Throughout the story, the narrator only speaks when a scenario is being described. The story takes place at a train station near the valley of Ebro. The hills across the valley are described as being "long and white" (334). This description is important because it introduces the image of the color ... her pregnancy. Jig does not even think twice about drinking, she is the one that even said, "let's drink beer" (334). Furthermore, Jig drinks a lot of alcohol at the train station. She is already thinking of the child as dead...

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