Royal Roads University

I interviewed two (2) Broward County residents who are active bicycle riders. Their thoughts regarding Broward County’s sustainable transportation options to include transportation for bicycle riders follows; • Personal communication from Mr. Dan Braun who is a cyclist and user of Broward County parks: “Broward County parks are a great place to cycle. Sometimes it is a challenge as joggers, runners and walkers share the same sidewalk as the cyclists. Cycling is a good exercise for me and is a…

pedestrians and to figure out ways to improve this problem. Understanding the impediments of a person on foot strolling across the road are important for drivers to watch out for regardless if they are in a hurry or not. Also people walking in the crosswalks…

In the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy one question seems to appear in just about everyone’s life. One of life and death. Some say yes, some say no, and some do not know. But, this question if it is worth living constantly pops up throughout the book. McCarthy first presents this question through the mother of the boy in a flashback. This is where she decides to kill herself after giving birth. This triggers the man to thus be questioning life in this new post-apocalyptic world. The man…

In the novel, The Road, Cormac McCarthy tracks the journey of a man and boy through an unknown wasteland to an undisclosed destination. It is evident that there has been a catastrophic disaster that has obliterated the land, as skeletons and corpses line the road they travel together. There is a foreboding sense of resignation and an absence of time and place. The reader never really knows where the man and boy are going; although, it is evident, that their journey is horrific. Along the way, we…

Collateral: Crime and Fear in Los Angeles The city of Los Angeles is a bustling and attractive home to millions of people who walk and drive amongst each other hundreds of times each day, sometimes sharing a meal or a seat on the bus. The atmosphere of the streets and cafés of may invoke feelings of comfort and happiness, especially when spending time with friends and strangers alike. However, there is a more sinister and hollowed part of the city which director Michael Mann depicts in his 2004…

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…