Arterial road

This is I believe By:Hammudy It was a Friday evening, we had just finished soccer practice. It was nice, cool, and breezy out. The sun was soon setting and I was getting ready to leave. I ran over to my best friend, Zade, and told him how good he had done at practice. I went to my bag and started to take off my cleats and shin guards, when Zade’s dad, Amu Bassam, approached me and asked, who was taking me to New York tomorrow? I told him that my dad was taking me. He nodded, and told me that…

It came out of the northwest. It blew all day and all night. By mid-afternoon the next day four foot high drifts blocked our lightly-traveled country road. Not only was the snow deep, but it had been hardened to near concrete consistency by sustained 45 mph winds. The depth and hardness of the snow made it impossible for the township plow to bust through the drifts so we had to wait for the county rotary plow. We were blocked in for three weeks. SURVIVAL BOMBS As a typical farm family…

The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel about a nameless father and son who are traveling to the coast in the south. The author, Cormac McCarthy, neglects to inform the reader as to the causes of the apocalypse but it is inferred that it was caused by man. The nameless son was born in this world, not knowing what a pre-apocalyptic world was like but only knowing the drained world he was born into. Before the son’s mother committed suicide due to the extreme environment their family was put in, she…

In the novel, The Road, Cormac McCarthy depicts the lives of a man and boy’s life in a post-apocalyptic world. When the reader approaches the last page, the book suddenly comes to an end. At first glance, the ending of the book seems inappropriate because it finishes without any closure or conclusion. With further observation though, The Road has an appropriate ending when compared to the writing pattern of the entire book. The writing pattern throughout the book is disconnected with the common…

Tyler named this story after a song entitled 'Baba O'Riley' by The Who. The song was released in 1971 and has the words 'teenage wasteland' repeated several times throughout. The song also shares a theme of adolescent growth with the original short story. 'Teenage Wasteland' follows Daisy Coble, a former teacher turned frumpy housewife, and her 15-year-old son, Donny Coble. Donny is unmotivated, makes bad grades, and struggles to find his place at school and in his home. His father, Matt Coble,…

The novel “The Road”, written by Cormac McCarthy, is a story talking about a father and a son in a world that everything is totally destroyed. For them, it is an unprecedented catastrophe. Even though the condition is hard to have the good characteristics in human nature, the father still makes his best effort to protect his son and protect his son’s good characteristics. The father died at last, but his son does live because of his protection. In the movie “Life is Beautiful”, the father Guido…

The book, The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, is based on the true story of the Yuma-14, or Wellstone 26, who were Mexicans that crossed into America through the desert. This novel goes through not only their story but what happened before and after their journey, as well as the mentalities of the Border Patrol agents. It gives you the complete picture of what had happened. The Devil’s Highway starts off with a brief background about what happened. It’s learned here that 14 men had died…

I felt a freezing cold shiver crawl up my small body, while my heart thumped loudly in my chest as I entered a crowded, small cat-track. A cat- track is is a small snowy short cut through a mountains slope. They normally have no guard rail. I was on this huge rocky German ski mountain, with snow everywhere. There were so many people on this tiny cat-track. I was skiing slowly trying not to hit someone. Swerve by swerve I followed the trail. The soft, fluffy, and powdery snow was brushing up…

I'm running to the woods with my pack. I see the blurs of reds, browns, and blacks of each wolf's fur and I follow. I speed up; I am Alpha and I should be leading the pack. My white paws crush the snow with each rapid step. I am in front and now we are in the woods. I slow down and the pack follows. I hear something, and my solid white fur stands on end. I take a whiff, and I smell a family of deer and another doe further in the woods. I crouch, a motion the rest of the wolves copy. Our ears…

What are the Essentials of Getting a School Bus Driver's License? School bus drivers are the professionals behind the wheel who steer kids back and forth from home and school safely. To get qualified as a school bus driver, you have to possess a CDL, wondering what is a CDL? -it is the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) and along with it, you should have an authorization to drive a passenger vehicle (P), and a permit to drive a school bus (S). These are typically called as P and S endorsements.…