Burma Road

The Historic Iron King The Prescott area offers a diverse network of trails. Some of these trails can have treacherous hazards like large trees, sharp rocks and steep cliffs such as Smith Ravine trail number 297, Salida Gulch Trail number 95, and the Constellation Trail System. Whereas, some of them are flat maintained pathways of gravel like the historic Iron King Trail. The Iron King Trail was forged on the weathered foundations of the railroad tracks for the Prescott & Eastern Railroad which…

A trail system that meets the needs of residents by providing scenic and enjoyable experiences that include connections with other public facilities, such as parks and recreational areas, open spaces, the regional trail system, points of interest, and sites with educational and historical significance. Trail System. Protect and expand the Trail System in Encino-Tarzana which reinforces the viability of equine uses and accessibility to open spaces and recreational opportunities by requiring new…

The poem, “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, delineates that the decisions which an individual makes in their life can have substantial effects on their future, despite the fact that they may not realize it. This idea is essentially illustrated as the speaker is initially faced with a dilemma: there is a fork in the road, although he can only embark on one path. The poem is essentially an extended metaphor about how any decision that a person makes during a present moment will determine…

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…