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Introduction It is widely acknowledged that Northern Ireland has suffered from decades of underinvestment in its roads and public transport (RTS, Department for Regional Development 2002). Northern Irelands public transport networks are lacking in many areas of the country. To address key issues surrounding a lack of adequate transport provision, and to combat the growing problems of car dependence and transport disadvantage, the Northern Ireland Assembly commissioned the Regional Development Strategy

An American man and a girl, are waiting at a Spanish railway station for the train to take them to Madrid. They drink beer as they discuss the “simple operation” the American wants the girl to have completed. The man continues to urge the girl to have the operation, but also states she shouldn’t do it if she doesn’t want to. The girl clearly puts on a brave front, but is not convinced that she should have the operation like the man is suggesting. They speak to one another over beers but it seems

currently illegal, the couple must move to another country to terminate the pregnancy. In “Hills Like White Elephants,” the author uses symbolism in many aspects including the train station, the land surrounding the station, the talk about white elephants, and even in the alcohol they drink. The couple is sitting at a train junction, which symbolizes the choice that Jig and the man have to make. Author Doris Lanier states in her article that the “railroad junction—a place where one can change directions—symbolically

The short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Earnest Hemmingway, follows Jig, a young woman and the American man. They are sitting at a café, waiting for a train in Madrid to take them to Barcelona, where Jig is scheduled for an operation. While it is not outright said what the operation is, it is implied that the girl is to have an abortion. This is where we encounter an important symbol in the story, Jig mentions that the hills look like white elephants. A white elephant is commonly known as

quarter of a mile walk we got to the subway station where for the first time I experienced how busy big cities can be. We got our cards and headed downstairs to where the subway trains were. The sound of a jazz musician playing Duke Ellington’s “Rhapsody in Blue” made me want to give the man all the money in my pocket but sadly I couldn't. There was also the smell of chili cheese dogs that the people next to us were trying to scarf down before the train arrived. Finally it arrived and this was my

life he lost all his fortune and his movie studio and make living as a sweets and toy salesman at a train station in Paris. Brian Selznick use of text and pictures to tell the story. A fictional story that has factual lines which based on Georges Méliès. For example, Georges Méliès was working as toy sell man in a train station, in Paris, and had collection of automaton. Hego Cabret live in train station in Paris, have a automaton. Georges Méliès sells all his films to a company and the company melt

Hills Like White Elephants In Hemingway's “Hill's Like White Elephants,” it tells of a couple making a decision. The American and Jig are stopped at a train station waiting for the train to Madrid to get an abortion done, which is hinted at based on what Jig says about White Elephants. From the train station they could see what their destination looked like and how the place they came from, Barcelona, looked compared to it. The way the land looked in both Madrid and Barcelona represented the outcome

The Runaway- 3,000 words max. FIRST PERSONNNNN SLAM. The door frame sounds to struggle from concaving under the pressure of the overemotional hand. I stand. Dumb and appalled at the sight. Hysterically I see her fall to her knees with complete lack of control as horrifically ear piercing screams protrude from deep within her lungs. The scene is dramatic, and I suddenly realise why these kinds of scenes are made slow in movies. There’s just so much happening that your brain literally slows the

When the day came to be evacuated, she packed her meager belongings – a single change of clothes, a toothbrush and scarcely anything else – in a sandbag, alongside her eldest sister, with a tag around her neck, in the case she got lost. Pam boarded a train to Derbyshire, heading for Charbury - once arrived, she was taken to the village school, and given a small ration of food. She was naturally an anxious and introverted child to begin with, however the humiliating selection process, brought up feelings

A man enters the subway station, not knowing if he should go where he would usually go. His hair was a stray and his maroon tie loose. This man has a very charming aura about him. Others would say strange or frightening, but I like to say charming, charming in his own way perhaps. He rushes through the subway station and he slows down to look at the art on the walls. He'd been looking at it for months every time he entered the station, which was every day. It fascinated him, all of the Intricacy