The Long Road

technology with the technology of smart roads. Smart roads are roadways that have been implemented with technology similar to smart cars. Smart roads are a fairly new concept that is being developed and researched, but there are some smart roads that currently…

“The Road Not Taken” is by Robert Frost. It is about choosing between two different roads in the wood. The narrator chooses one road and thinks that he can go through the second one in another day. This poem is a combination of nature and human life. The narrator is not talking about two roads in the forest. He is talking about two paths in life, and how important it is to make the right decision at the right time. Life is a path, and a choice taken. The narrator describes the path of life as a…

The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel about a nameless father and son who are traveling to the coast in the south. The author, Cormac McCarthy, neglects to inform the reader as to the causes of the apocalypse but it is inferred that it was caused by man. The nameless son was born in this world, not knowing what a pre-apocalyptic world was like but only knowing the drained world he was born into. Before the son’s mother committed suicide due to the extreme environment their family was put in, she…

Mark Smith’s ‘The road to winter’ (released in 2016) Is a story of a boy (Finn) in a post-apocalyptic world, where a disease has taken over. ‘The road to winter’ is a story about survival, love, and fear. With good preparation comes power. Ramage made quick decisions when the disease hit and that’s why throughout the book he is in a position of power. When a disease hits, especially as lethal as the one in the book, the littlest amount goes very far. In the second chapter Rose is amazed by what…

protracts the torment of men” (Nietzsche 45). The Road is set in a post-apocalyptic “grey world” where the last remnants of humanity fade away into oblivion. This world is literally “dead”(%^%), life as we know it is over and civilisation is beyond saving. To complicate the situation, however, McCarthy infuses hope into this dystopian world. This creates an illusion of hope where in fact, there is none for the characters in the book. In The Road, Cormac McCarthy uses the love the man and woman…

Jack Kerouac’s On the Road demonstrates the limitless mobility for white American men during the Long Fifties. Kerouac establishes this idea through his characters and adds those of another race and ethnicity to illustrate their freedom or otherwise (lack of freedom) as a Mexican migrant workers. It is unconventional that Sal finds comfort in his encounters with Mexican migrant workers that he meets throughout his western travels. Although it appears to be a carefree and untroubled life,…

Without the trucking industry, the bulk transport of materials and goods that's so essential to our economy isn't possible. However, semi-trucks aren't the safest of vehicles and endanger the driving public with whom they share the road. The reason for their relative lack of safety is that semi-trucks are built to carry cargo. This compromises their stability and maneuverability, which has led to many devastating accidents. Driving trucks safely requires skill and professionalism that some…

carry massive loads of a company's products and transport it to various facilities. This includes semi-trucks, delivery vehicles and vans, ambulances, fire trucks and other employee owned vehicles that are under a company’s name. When is comes to the road and being safe the best thing you could do is pay close attention and be aware of all of your surroundings. Following the…

protection this vehicle can provide almost doesn’t out way the lives it can take with the hazards involved with it. Some background on the MRAP and what it was made for. The MRAP was designed in a way to help defeat some of the deadliest things on the road during a deployment and these are improvised explosive devices IED’s. MRAPs come in multiple different weights and shapes of vehicles produced by a variety of domestic and international companies…

The book, The Road by Cormac McCarthy displays a very powerful underlying message throughout the book. Love is something that we humans need in order to survive in this day an age anymore. Our world has become so destructed that we we need love in order to have hopes for the future and to keep us going in our everyday lives, without love there is no reason to look forward to the future such as the message in this book is showing us. After an apocalypse had struck, the man and they boy thought…