Road safety

There are times when life’s situations make us do drastic choices, to help us escape, find ourselves or even to heal the soul within. In the novels “Into the Wild,” and “Wild” both of the characters take an unimaginable trip out into the wilderness to escape everyone and everything that at one point in their life’s was important to them. Both “Into the Wild” and “Wild” are distinctly different from each other, despite wilderness being both of the stories it’s symbol. The distinctions between…

individuals have found it more convenient to purchase their own vehicle rather than spend hundreds of hours a month commuting to home and work. Traffic congestion occurs when a volume of traffic generates demand for space greater than the available road capacity; this point is commonly termed saturation. This increased number of cars on the roadway has help to give rise to the congestion problem. The escalation numbers of vehicles and inadequate infrastructure cause extreme traffic congestion…

In the novel, The Road Cormac McCarthy tells a story of how a young boy and his father take a journey down a post apocalyptic road while struggling for survival and coming in contact with many obstacles along the way. In the novel, society becomes immoral when people are desperate to survive in a post apocalyptic environment. This setting acts as a gateway to many events that would make a person today shudder, yet the boys and the man morals stay pure throughout the novel. The man, the boys, and…

make the right decision. Both “Untraveled Road” by Thousand Foot Krutch and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost agree with this statement in their song and poem. This quote describes how some people in our society make decisions today. In the song, “Untraveled Road”, Thousand Foot Krutch explains how being a Christian can be difficult in our world which is full of evil and danger. They say, “We walk, where no one wants to go, on this untraveled road”, (Thousand Foot Krutch, lines…

I currently reside in Markham, the city is a part of York Region and is located just north of Toronto. I moved there at the end of eighth grade, and since then it has been my hometown. Markham is a boring place to be, rarely does anything eventful ever happens, and there is really nothing to do, there is a mall, a theatre and occasionally there’s a festival, which is pretty much it. This is aided by the fact that crime is low in the city, there are few murders and little robberies, with most…

Truc Tran “Dialectic Journal for Book of Choice” “Quote(s) (with page number)” “Category(ies)” “Commentary” “He looked at it for a moment, picked it up, brought it to his mother and very carefully handed it to her, by which he meant what no man can guess and no child can remember to tell.” (pg. 13) Question, evaluate (Q) What is it about the egg that fascinates Ulysses? (E) The author is establishing the fact that Ulysses is young and very innocent. “They played the song for Marcus, wherever he…

curious individuals who are true life seekers. In other words, people who wander around the world, like travel writers are not astray, instead they are people who are motivated to learn and experience the world from their own eyes. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, is one of the well-known novels written in 1951 but later published in 1957, explaining the life of people after the World War II. This novel gives a voice to a new generation known as the Beat Generation who were the counterculture to the…

If you ever need to drive in unpleasant winter weather condition. Knowing how to prepare yourself and your car are something you want to know before you hit the snowy road. First, be sure your car is ready for the snowy weather. For the best traction on snow and ice, be sure to check the tread and the air pressure in your tires. You must check that your battery is working properly. Second, have your car stock with important emergency roadside supplies. Have a flashlight, jumper cables, a shovel,…

In the novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy shows that “the good guys. Keep trying. They don’t give up.” (McCarthy 137) As one of the good guys, the man has to teach the son to carry the fire so he can replenish the earth by turning the world from evil. If the man does not do this the son will not have anything to live for and will want to die with the man. The man and son have only a few pieces of hope keeping them going; without the son the man would have given up but in the hardest times they…

resembles a road, one that is long and curvy. Just like roads, life is full stop signs and one must decide what direction to take. However, unlike roads, life does not provide a navigational system that directs someone to their desired destination. One must make decisions and rely upon those choices made to get them to their preferred destination. Robert Frost in his famous poem “The Road Not Taken” talks about a man who comes upon one of life’s stop signs and he must decide what road will lead…