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    all throughout Manhattan. As we walked out of Penn Station I knew summer was officially coming to an end because I could feel the cold air hitting my face. We took the train and headed to the Lower East Side, which is known to be fairly close to China Town and Little Italy. The Lower East Side is southeastern of the city. The area has been known to be home to many immigrants from China, Russia, and Italy. The area has historically been known as a working class area, but has changed…

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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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    Walter Salles’s 1998 drama “Central Station” was a movie that was hard to fit into a specific category. While it weighed heavy on the dramatic side, there were elements of comedy and thriller that made the film very different from any normal film about two people. The film drifted between various sub-genres, but the movie felt more like a mix between a road movie, an odd buddy film, and a complex relationship study. If we focus mostly on the setting on the film, the film feels a lot like your…

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    Once the bus stopped I got off and went inside Grand Central Station. When I found the third level to grand central station I would go back to 1894. To the place I always wanted to live. The place Is Galesburg, and it’s very pretty with the big frame houses and the big green back yards. I could not go back because I do not have the old stile money. Then I figured out that I could go to an antique shop and buy old style money and then I could go back to 1894 and live there. I went to talk to the…

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    Grand Central terminal was originally created to be a train station and still serves that purpose today. Owned by the Vanderbilt’s, Grand Central Terminal earned its name as a terminal because all railways end there, it's always been referred to as Grand Central station. Grand Central Terminal is not only iconic structure in the middle of New York City, but is still a working train stain to help people on their daily commute to places inside the immediate tri-state area and the east coast. …

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    The Central Park Five, when the media is reporting the park jogger case with two completely different tones, it failed to comply a basic moral principle: to be objective on any cases. Extreme descriptions such as “wilding” and “wolf pack” exaggerate the negative image of these teenagers, even though who are actually innocent in this case. The media is trying to plant prejudices in the public’s mind, to make decisions for them to treat the five teenager suspects as pure evil and abominable…

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    One Out Of Many

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    “One Out of Many” Discussion Questions 1. “One Out of Many” is the first of three stories in a collection titled In a Free State. Comment on this title and connect it to Santosh’s experiences in America. 2. “Priya paid me forty dollars a week. After what I was getting, three dollars and seventy-five cents, it seemed a lot; and it was more than enough for my needs” (1021). Is Santosh exploited by his employers or treated fairly considering the situation? 3. Does the knowledge that Santosh has a…

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    before. In the meanwhile, CE central team can set up a time together with ICS team to install Office 365 on the team member’s computer. The team members are allowed to keep on working with the traditional ways for a certain time of period, but they should cooperate with the leads transferring, editing and working on Office 365. Step5 Enable action by removing barriers After the introduction of Office 365, there may be more or less some barriers stopping the effectiveness of the change process.…

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    To Build a Fire Essay In the book To Build a Fire “the man” got frostbite or hypothermia. I am going to write about the dangers of frostbite and hypothermia. Then I will tell you which one he got which one he had. To start off, the 3 kinds of frostbite. Frostnip, which is the least harmful, superficial frostbite, which is a bit worse than frostnip and severe (deep) frostbite which is the worst. Frostnip can be taken care of at home, the other kinds need medical attention.With medical…

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    Union Station

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    busy walkway opens before our eyes. The clacking of women’s heels, the hushed conversations of business men, the different languages being spokes, suite cases being rolled on the tiled ground, and people embracing each other for the first times in years, make up Union Station. Being one of Los Angeles’ central points, it unites people and takes them on new adventures daily. Now on its 75th anniversary, Union Station is looking into the future planning on expanding and growing, by still keeping…

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