Gravel road

Three kids wandered along a disappearing path in the middle of a dense forest. These children looked strange. The tallest girl, Anna, wore black and white on either half of her body. The other girl wore a plain white mask over her face. Her name was Persephone. There was only one boy in the group, his name was Shad. “Where are we?” Anna murmured. She looked back to consult Persephone and Shad, but they both shrugged. “I guess we should just keep walking then.” The kids walked in a straight line…

I began my day like any other day. I woke up, I brushed my teeth and I got in my van to go to work but, something felt different today. Could it have been the three car accidents or the three red lights the caught me? No. When I was driving I happened to of run over something. I was frightened, I have never run over anything in my entire life. I looked in my rear-view mirror as I was driving away and the image I viewed was hideous. It was a crushed goose with its feathers flying everywhere and…

the James River. As your car veers with the road to the right, the trees disappear and the dark, flat water rests beneath you. The bridge’s concrete and rubber expanders jump your car’s suspension up and down as you slow to enter the city. Along each side, the green trees envelope the shoreline and reach out their bright branches, enshrouded with leaves, to you in welcoming. Once back onto the mainland, a petite mustard yellow sign to the right of the road reads Welcome to the City of Hopewell.…

Due to the negative impact our company has made to the local traffic, I have thoroughly analyzed our workforce's transportation methods and provided potential solutions. I've conducted an employee survey discussing employee carpool habits, public transportation, and telecommunication. Employee Carpool Habits In the following chart, I recorded how many employees carpool and divided the responses into four categories : Every day , Certain days , Randomly , Never . As shown in Figure 1, out of…

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Friedrick Nietzshe). In the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy the main characters must face this everyday Having ambitions, goals, and dreams is both exciting and one of the most difficult things humans will ever experience. Along the why mankind will also learn some of the hardest truths along the way. Showing us what a post-apocalyptic world can do to our present day humans, cultured environment, and accomplishments…

Arguments continue today about whether George R.R Martin was correct when he said "Different roads can lead to the same castle" in the Game of Thrones. In the movie, when he said this quote, there was invading armies that were on the outskirts of the city wall and Martin was spreading the army to different roads that lead to the same castle. However, this has raised lots of controversy about wherher or not Marin's quote is applicable in real life as well. Martin's quote can be germane in real…

Finding symbols between the lines can bring new meaning to the constant rain, the occasional snow, even the random blind man walking through the ashes. In exploring the broken world of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a father and son find themselves in instances which convey into acts of baptism. Acts hidden within character’s actions, as explained by Thomas C. Foster in How to Read Literature Like a Professor. The presence of water creates a whole new sense when characters submerge, raising the…

Kayla Miller Dr. Swan English 2333 13 December 2017 Cormac McCarthy Final The Road is a literary masterpiece. At its most basic level, it is a story about a man and his son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. However, the real story is so much more than that. The Road tells of love and heartache, humanity at its most primal level, and how fragile the ideas of society truly are. The Road is important because it's one of very few novels that gives a raw, honest look at what the world…

there is no one else driving in the hot desert. It is very lonely and quite as we are driving through the bumpy old roads.…

“The Road Not Taken” The Road Not Taken is a very metaphoric poem by Robert Frost in 1916. It has the rhyming scheme ABAAB. The poem was written for a friend of Roberts. In the beginning it explains the setting, a yellow wood, referring to a fall woods setting. The poem then explains that one path was destroyed with undergrowth and worn, and the other was grassy, yet appeared quite the same in terms of wear. In The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost suggests that acknowledging and making risky…