The Long Road

less prosperous because of the Great Depression when unemployment was excessive. After World War II, automobile progressively gained its popularity once again. In 1950s to 1960s, the car ownership level doubled from 4.4m to 9.4m in Britain whilst the road network remained modest in size and scale (traffic in town 1963). Hence, the traffic has been doubled and led to a shift in public transport to private vehicles. The rise of automobile has brought about various impacts socially, economically…

Throughout life people have to make many choices, they have to pick one path over another. In his poem “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost uses the symbol of the road to show the importance of breaking away from social norms. He uses the two roads to show the paths that society often pushes at people. One is following where others have gone before, the other is to take your own road, where fewer people have gone. In the beginning of the poem Frost writes “And having perhaps the better claim,…

March 14 & 16 Assignment 1. As an experiment to understand the aesthetic of the Beats, choose a long passage in On the Road and a dozen lines from Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California.” Compare the sound and pace of both passages. Describe the similarities you hear. What might account for these similarities? In which ways might Howl and On the Road celebrate life? A passage adapted from On the Road reads: “My first impression of Dean was of a young Gene Autry ---trim, thin-hipped,…

Vanessa Carcamo Ms. Fauver AP English 22 September 2017 The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, tells a gripping tale of a man and a boy surviving a post-apocalyptic journey. The man and the boy struggle to maintain their humanity on the road with the situations that they endure. Since the boy maintains his morality, despite the many dead bodies, vanished morals of mankind, he is able to outweigh the evil. McCarthy uses various techniques to show that even in the darkest times, goodness can prevail.…

completely different from any other occupation. They need to have a truck that has good seats in it for a long day of work, a tuff frame and suspension for the horrible roads around fields, and they need to be able to put a diesel tank, tool boxes, and an air compressor in the bed of their truck. While…

prosperity. A major and most commonly identifiable infrastructure segment is vehicular transportation. The growing dependency of transportation throughout the 20th century has altered how cities are planned. Many vehicular modes of transportation include road ways, underground subways, bridges, highways, etc. Toronto, Ontario is a busy city of 2.6 million people. Transportation infrastructure is critical to moving large volumes of traffic from point A to point B as quickly and safely as…

approach to traffic within the city of Houston. Houston has been ranked the fourth worst city for traffic in the United States by Inrix Inc. Based upon its rapidly expanding population, and its ridiculous size, many Houstonians claim that an hour long commute is the norm. Houstonians sat for an average of seventy-four hours in their vehicles in gridlock traffic in 2015, which was a twelve hour increase in comparison to 2014, where Inrix Inc. ranked Houston number 8 in this list. Currently…

As a conclusion for this data, not only does that mean more people in our region but it also means more car on the roads. (Mac Churchill) The population rate is higher than the roads, which means more cars, more congestion and traffic on the highways and alternative roads. The population in Texas keeps growing and growing. This is due to a lot of job opportunities that the states offers. But this also brings the issue that most of the jobs are in the urban area, downtowns. This causes the…

1: Remain calm- Even the best drivers get into crashes from time to time, but it is important for you to stay calm. Driving school rarely teaches how panic can cause you to make bad decisions that could damage either your health or finances in the long-run. Therefore, take a minute to get yourself together and plan how you will proceed to get out of your situation. Step 2: Evaluate the Scene- One of the worst parts about getting in a crash at night is that the accident itself can be difficult…

The Jeep Renegade ad paints a picture of a life in which no destination is outside the driver’s reach, as long as he is daring and determined enough to blaze his own trail. Seen in the top left, the Jeep Renegade, in its distinct red finish, is pictured plowing through loose dirt and sand. At right, racers compete in a grueling obstacle course. This illustrates that the ad seeks out the bold and fearless consumer who is not afraid of a challenge and does not back down in the face of adversity.…