The Long Road

promises a progressive descent into grey (1). Nature is an impoverished mother: unable to provide for her children or even for herself. Starvation is a constant state as vagabonds traverse the labyrinthine paths before them, knowing they are on the road to nowhere but trudging forward nonetheless. Some call Cormac McCarthy’s The…

Imagine I’m walking down a road and i’m not aware of a car driving down the road the same direction as i’m walking. The driver gets closer down the road around where i’m walking but I have moved off the road. The driver gets a text and thinks there’s nothing wrong with checking it because it won’t take but a few seconds. He becomes unaware where he’s driving and sees that he’s directly in front of me. He begins frantically swerving to avoid hitting me. He tries to swerve away from me but with…

Have you ever been on a road trip and then everything falls apart? I’m talking screaming siblings, hungry family, and most of all feeling uncomfortable the whole drive. Well, this is exactly what happened to my family on our 2016 road trip to California. Not to mention we had everything planned. Every place, cost, time, and snack. What could have possibly gone wrong? For as far back as I can remember, every other summer my family has taken a long journey to Southern California to visit…

The poem, “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, delineates that the decisions which an individual makes in their life can have substantial effects on their future, despite the fact that they may not realize it. This idea is essentially illustrated as the speaker is initially faced with a dilemma: there is a fork in the road, although he can only embark on one path. The poem is essentially an extended metaphor about how any decision that a person makes during a present moment will determine…

Introduction: To much time is getting wasted, speed limits need to change The average driver spends 101 minutes on the road each day think of the time that could be saved if the speed limits got raised. Driving on the road for 100 miles at 70 instead of 55 would save you about 25 minutes. Acording to The U.S Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration the average person drives 13,476 miles in a year so traveling at 70 instead of 55 would save you 53 hours in a year In 1974 the…

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Friedrick Nietzshe). In the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy the main characters must face this everyday Having ambitions, goals, and dreams is both exciting and one of the most difficult things humans will ever experience. Along the why mankind will also learn some of the hardest truths along the way. Showing us what a post-apocalyptic world can do to our present day humans, cultured environment, and accomplishments…

The narrative poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost has long been a well-received favorite. This story is based on the idea of things hidden from view. Two roads lie before the poet, but the poet is clueless as to where these roads will lead. In order to convey Frost’s message, “The Road Not Taken” relies heavily on the use of imagery, metaphorical language and metrical devices to bring to life this actual and figurative road. Through the use of these literary devices, the theme is set,…

resembles a road, one that is long and curvy. Just like roads, life is full stop signs and one must decide what direction to take. However, unlike roads, life does not provide a navigational system that directs someone to their desired destination. One must make decisions and rely upon those choices made to get them to their preferred destination. Robert Frost in his famous poem “The Road Not Taken” talks about a man who comes upon one of life’s stop signs and he must decide what road will lead…

Beep! Beep! Lets take a long historical ride down the well-known American road, Route 66! It is not a ordinary interstate road people take , well you can just say this road is pretty much incredible the way it represents the United States Of America. You can not find a road or highway like this anywhere else. This magical highway is a highway that will your breath away when you cruise down it. Route 66 represents America in a way nothing else in the USA does. Literally traveling down this…

When I was ten years old, my mother and I went on a month long trip to Quito, Ecuador to visit my father and other family. One day my abuelo (my grandfather) told my mom and I that he was going to take us on a trip to the edge of the Amazon rainforest. Although this probably sounds really interesting, I was against this trip from the first mention of it. However, since I was ten, my objection meant nothing and the trip happened as planned. We got up very early the day of the trip, a factor…