The Long Road

Long Road Home Names: Abiona (Mother) Born During a Journey Ainose (Father) No one is greater than God Elo – (Daughter) The bug crawls across my finger so slowly that I get sleepy watching it’s tiny legs crawl up my arm and onto my dirty dress. I get sleepy a lot anymore, though. Without food, I don’t have much energy. This morning I used a lot of my energy getting water for Mama. The bucket is heavy and my muscles are almost too tiny now to carry it all the way to the house. Opening my…

In the Summer of 2010 I had taken a long road trip from Houston, Texas to Chicago, Illinois. I began this drive with the question of how am I going to deal with this long long road trip? I truly was trying to deal with a different question internally. My internal question was how am I going to deal with this unknown path we were going to pursue; like where are we gonna go to school or where are we were gonna stay when we got to Chicago? These things did worry me, because a year before we had…

her visiting me. She planned on taking a train to Long Beach, and from there I’d be able to pick her up at the train station. After the plans were made I went to clarify it with my mother. My mother was extremely wary about the idea. The anticipation of a drivers license turns into a terrible trip for a friend. The significance of the trip was a well taught lesson that reminds me that “Mom is always right.” The drive to Long Beach was certainly a long drive for a beginner driver. The traffic…

to John Bowe, author of Nobodies: Does Slavery Exist in America? social change comes from those who are privileged enough to have a voice in their society. Moreover, Nelson Mandela, the influential former president of South Africa and author of Long Road to Freedom, believes that this transformation can come from those ordinary, everyday citizens who are oppressed and who have faced their hardships firsthand. Yet both authors agree that in the end justice comes to both parties, the oppressed and…

Devil’s Highway: A True Story (2004), Luis Alberto Urrea, poet and novelist, promotes the latter as he describes the journey of the Wellington 26, which is a group of Mexican immigrants attempting to cross the border. In an excerpt from the chapter “The Long Walk”, the walkers try to find their way out of the desert. As their situation worsens, the author creates a feeling of sorrow over the approaching deaths of more than…

Randy Bragg starts the book off as a lawyer who lives off his inheritance. He is a failed politician who appeared to be living a wonderful life full off alcohol and women. He did have a few survival skills since he did go off to war after college. The book described as a hermit who lived alone expect for the girls we would have over, he even worked from home. So when he finds out that the end is near he prepares himself. Before the war randy goes and buys the things that he feels he will need…

In the article ‘Long Road Home’ written and photographed by Lois Raimondo, the obvious signs of Primitivism and Orientalism are present throughout the imagery and written experiences expressed throughout the piece. The cultural differences are shown between the western and eastern way of living throughout the article through Raimondos experiences and the images she photographs. This essay will draw examples and annalistic interpretations of cultural differences that are shown through the imagery…

For long positions, we enter a buy a tick above the high of the pin bar. 2. If the next bar to the pin bar doesn’t trigger the trade, we abandon the setup, because, may times, a break in momentum can lead to a consolidation or a reversal. Hence, we want to…

Water begins to spread across every continent, and the remaining humans are pushed higher and higher into the mountains. The novel is a satire that examines contemporary European politics, such as fascism and colonialism. At the end of the novel the long-term history of the Newts is mapped out. The Newts will all but destroy the Earth's landmass, leaving only a small amount of humans to work for them in their factories. Eventually they will form separate countries and destroy themselves by…

How long have you been on the road”(McCarthy)? McCarthy is asking this question to someone the boy and man meet along their quest to find joy and salvation. However, this is asking the reader to ask oneself the same question concerning acts of hatred or malice. It brings up the thoughts of one's actions and how they do not just affect the perpetrator and the one being acted upon, it can also change the views of bystanders. This is what violence does, it gets in the minds of others, causes people…