The Pedestrian Essay

Introduction Legally pedestrians in the United States always have the “right of way” when interacting with vehicle traffic, and therefore factors like location should not impact pedestrian safety. We wanted to observe if there are any location-based norms of pedestrian-driver interactions and assess whether these differences suggest different allocations of road sharing between pedestrians and drivers. A 2005 paper by Kameda, Takezawa, and Hastie, examines an adaptationist approach to social…

is becoming an all to possible reality; most of the time it seems as though everyone is constantly glued to a screen. In this case, the year is 2053 AD and the problem has progressed to the point where people no longer leave their houses. In the pedestrian, Ray Bradbury uses personification, metaphors and tone to give us a glimpse into the peculiar future we may be heading towards through the eyes of Mr. Mead. Throughout the story, Bradbury uses personification to give us a frightening look…

In Ray Bradbury’s The Pedestrian, technology is disconnecting humans from nature and going outside. Youtube is the third most used website in the world, with being a huge website Youtube users watch 51 years worth of videos in one day, this equals 60 billion hours in one month. 1 out of 7 people in this world use YouTube, and out of that 81.9% of teens of the age 14-17 years use YouTube. With this many young teens using all of their time on the internet, they are not going outside. Teens need to…

avoid the futures he wrote about in The Pedestrian, The Veldt, There will come Soft Rains, and A Sound of Thunder. If we don’t, we might end up like the characters from the stories. So what exactly were the general warnings given to us in the stories he wrote? "The car moved down the empty river-bed streets and off away, leaving the empty streets with the empty sidewalks, and no sound and no motion all the rest of the chill November night." The Pedestrian was written to keep people unique,…

When walking to and from the bus stop it’s important to know what’s going on around you at all times. The Bee offers the following pedestrian safety tips to help keep you safe around bus stops. Make yourself visible to drivers at all times, especially at night, during dusk or dawn and in inclement weather. Wear lightly colored or reflective clothing at night and brightly colored clothing during the day. Stay in well-lit areas, especially when crossing the street. Make eye contact with…

happening all the way back in the 1950s! He wrote science fiction where humans have become obsessed with technology, nowadays, that is called reality. Bradbury wrote two novels in particular that sum up modern society; The Pedestrian and There Will Come Soft Rain. “The Pedestrian” is centered around a lonely Leonard Mead…

a text to be considered dystopian literature it need to consist of four elements: background, hero, conflict, and climax (Stewart). Two short stories by Ray Bradbury, The Pedestrian and A Sound of Thunder, show how dystopian literature alerts the reader to problems with conformity in their society. In The Pedestrian, Bradbury portrays how being different and not conforming is not acceptable in society. In order to get his idea across, Bradbury begins by setting the…

way. Nobody is smarter, prettier, stronger, etc, than anyone else. Diversity isn’t allowed. That’s when Harrison Bergeron comes along and tries to show everyone that diversity is NOT a bad thing. Another example of this is in Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian”, which is about a world that’s overrun by television. Nobody ever leaves their houses because they’re always…

have had multiple pedestrian involved accidents which have lead to personal injuries, and property damage; therefore, it is time our community received an elevated crosswalk to help protect…

improvements that can be made to the pedestrian environment to encourage walking in Lowell. Sidewalks need to be made more walkable; there needs to be more lighting at night; during snow weather, plowing the sidewalks should be prioritized; public transportation should be more reliable, affordable and frequent; specialized transportation should be made available for disabled people; bus stops and stations should be made more convenient, more frequent and more safe; pedestrian crossings should be…