Road space rationing

While today's generation may be glued to their iPods and Xboxs, awash in digital technology, others are intent on soaking up the outdoors. From the casual observer to the adrenaline junkie, the natural sights and sounds are proof that the outdoors isn't dead. The nearby Adirondack Mountains are a draw for many, and part of its legacy of the Adirondacks includes being able to climb the 46 highest peaks in the Adirondacks. People who do so consider themselves “46ers.” The 46 peaks; from Mt.…

The Lost Hero Rick Riordan 557 pages SUMMERY Jason is just an ordinary teenager until one day, he wakes up on a bus with no memory of anything. Next to him is a girl named Piper McClean, who says she’s his girlfriend, and a boy named Leo Valdez. They are on their way to the Grand Canyon on a school field trip. While they were on the bus, Jason got a bad feeling about one of the kids, Dylan. Once they get to their stop, a storm starts to come in. When they try to go inside, the doors slam shut…

He tied his boat of and started to climb the cliffs. He knew that no one had lived to tell what was behind the cloud, but he still climbed, he kept going higher and higher. He got tired and weary but didn’t mind. He just wanted to make it to the top and back so he could be the first person to do so. As the day went on it kept getting darker, the night finally got here but he didn’t stop. He told himself if he wanted to make it and he has to commit to it, so no stopping now. He kept pushing…

As we grow older you run into many decisions that affect the outcome of your life. Sometimes you get stuck choosing between your friends and your future. The poem, "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost, tells the reader about how there are two "roads" to go down, the way everyone else is going, or going the opposite way to help better you. In my life I have made many choices that have affected me. Many of my choices are based upon my future rather than friends, because honestly you never know…

The photograph in question depicts an ordinary inner city Pancake House restaurant and surrounding urban street clutter. Judging from the presence of an air conditioning system mounted in the window of the restaurant, a newspaper vending machine just outside, and the prominent hippie flower painted upon a pillar, it can be deduced that the photograph was taken in Chicago, America in the late 1960s or early 1970s. There is also a strong sense of verticality emanating from the foreground objects…

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost is a short poem about a character who encounters with two roads that diverged in a yellow wood, and he has to choose which road to go. For the narrator it is impossible to see what lies ahead, he examines booth roads accurately and thinks that one road is less worn by passers that another. However, he realizes that both roads are likely equally traveled and complains that he will probably never return to take the other path. Moreover, the narrator thinks of…

When one travels on a road trip, there can be many mixed feelings of traveling to a different state, or even country. In “Back Road” by Vinnie Rotondaro, two adults travel from New York City to Pittsburgh for a friends engagement, taking the long way there. In the story “A Winter’s Drive” by ReadWorks, the text is about a man going to Canada for a few days to retrieve something he left behind when he moved to the United States. Mood is the state of feeling from the author that develops during…

I immediately ran to the West side of town. I urgently knocked on the door of Cherry’s house until Cherry opened it. ‘’We’re going to rumble, right?’’ she asked. I nodded my head. We ran as fast as we could to get to the vacant lot. When we go there, we saw Darry and Paul, the high school buddy of Darry, doing the same thing as they did the last rumble. They were circling around one another. To get the attention of the Socs and Greasers, I screamed at the top of my lungs. ‘’Dally’s dead!…

When I pulled up to the lot, I saw vast canyons out in the distance. The colors danced over the rocky terrain, orange, blue and purple. The sun soaked sand was hot and dry. I stepped out of the car, seeing the heat of the mountains before, as though it was a giant grill. I went to the trunk to unload my things. The sweltering heat made it nearly impossible to even walk to my destination of Mesa Verde. As I staggered to the National Park, I took in the beauty of the mountainous landscape. I…

reminds us of the desolate post-apocalyptic landscape created by a nuclear incident, and by observing this fictional world we are shown what could become of our own world through the very real threat of a nuclear war posed by powerful nations. In ‘The Road’ you can't go for more than two pages before reading something that describes the nothingness often referring to his surroundings as “Barren, silent & Godless” which makes us imagine their landscape…