Abbey Road

In his essay, “The Step Not Taken,” Paul D’Angelo fully follows “Csizzy’s Formula.” He hooks the reader in two ways, through the title, and the opening paragraph. The title, “The Step Not Taken” be an allusion to the widely known poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frosty due to the similarity in title. This, if noticed from the start, could give the reader an expectation of what the essay could contain. Additionally, one might read the essay hoping for it to be a parody of Frost’s work or that…

“Yes.” I didn’t want to chance anyone having the time to arrive home and having to introduce Blair. He walked to the door without another word. In the car he remained silent as I led him outside of town to the Crossroads Subdivision. The only conversation was my simple cues to turn right or left. Blair slowed the car to a stop in front of the log house. “Thanks Blair!” I said before stepping from the car. Halfway up the walk the front door opened and Jack appeared. His genuine smile shone…

"Don't worry about me, you can do this!" Sean hollered in agony. I was petrified to look down, I was up 14,125ft in the air, without any safety equipment. It was crucial finding thin empty spaces for my thick and numb fingers to slip into. Sean and I have been best friends since middle school, and we have a devotion to rock climbing. You could say we're adrenaline junkies. We both wanted to free climb Savage. Known for it's steepness and deadly climate, proudly standing at a staggering…

Public signs are effective guide way that exists everywhere, such as road, transportation and restaurants. Everyone can understand the written content at first sight. At that time, people use visual literacy. Thibault and Walbert (2003) states that the “visual literacy allows the viewer to gather the information and ideas.” (p.1) The sign was made up of several components that have the significant meaning. By analyzing them, people can understand the meaning easily. In fact, the public sign…

ember flickers and smoulders in the breeze, blackening the wood, illuminating the ravaged landscape in a post-apocalyptic world of decay. Fire sometimes is seen as a destructive weapon devouring everything in its path. However, in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, fire not only maintains the father and his son’s lives under harsh natural condition but also acts as a beacon of hope and goodness on the father and his son’s journey toward the south. McCarthy repeats the idea of “carrying the fire” many…

Community Development and Planning graduate class, we discussed the importance of understanding physical and symbolic boundaries (i.e. edges) of a space, as a way to comprehend a location. A road can be both a physical edge as well as a symbolic one, as is the intersection of Downing Street and Florence Street. The road is an obvious edge, or boundary for both cars and pedestrians but also a symbolic one because it is the edge of Clark's campus and the beginning of the Worcester community. At…

that have a little to no backyard to play in. Sidewalks also provide a place for kids and adults to walk without walking on the roads where it is unsafe. In fact,the website Distraction.gov, says that in the year 2014, 3,179 people have died in crashes involving distracted drivers on the roads. Sidewalks also give bike riders space to ride safely without biking on the roads and colliding with…

Illinois Route 53 is a road that thousands of people utilize everyday, with so many people commuting on it, there are talks about expansion to help speed up commutes, however, Route 53 should not be extended because the project would be costly for commuters, homeowners, and the general taxpayers. One way that it is costly is simply the cost of the projects. The expansion is projected to cost from 2.2 billion to 2.7 billion dollars of taxpayer money. What this will be used for it to buy the land…

I have spent twenty six days walking alongside this wagon, and let me tell you, we could not have reached Fort Kearny fast enough. I am both mentally and physically exhausted from walking all day. My feet have terrible blisters from my impractical shoes, and my mind goes numb while all I do is walk, ALL. DAY. The only time my brain is jolted from it’s zombie like state is when we meet an Indian. Luckily, all of them have been friendly so far, and have offered tips on how to cross rivers, which…

he didn’t get mad at me, he didn’t get mad at the situation and he didn’t throw a fit about how I lost his phone into the water. I didn’t have to pay for the phone or the bill. I was walking down a road. It was almost the end of summer , by the looks of it, it looked like no one had driven on this road for 2 years maybe or more possible. I saw that other person who phone i lost . By the way ,his name was Karl. Karl was into video gaming and simulators and he also had two vr headsets. So he did…