The Machine Stops

Snowboard Disaster The alarm started going off and I started to crawl out of bed. I was actually excited, but it was to early and to cold to be up. I grabbed my duffle bag, board, and some food. I got in the car and looked out the window processing the task I was about to go and accomplish. I had arrived to the school thinking this will be grand. I leap onto the bus expecting to sit with a friend. As I saw all the faces I some what recognized I noticed there was no spot for me. As I scanned the…

shining , there was a cool breeze, and there were some tiny birds in the trees. I walked to the bus stop. The bus came late as usual. I wonder what it will be this time. A old person crossing the street, a dog jumped out in front of the bus, but it was just that Jerry got stuck in the door again. As usual the bus was quiet ,well except for the girls in the back spreading rumors. The bus jerked to a stop when the bus driver hit the brakes. I got off like everybody else. The school is gray, dull,…

but excited at the same time. Closer and closer comes the bus. Sun shining into the car, the door opens and I hop out onto the pavement. There are other kids waiting for the bus too. Kids that are older than I, huddle in a circle next to the red stop sign talking. Brakes squealing, the bus comes to a halt and the kids start moving into the bus. Grabbing my hand, my dad takes me and leads me to the bus. Close behind, my mom follows taking photos of me. We walk up the stairs of the bus and…

I was heading home from my girlfriend’s house and it was taking a while. She lived well south of San Francisco and it was a weekend so the trains weren’t running. Instead you had to go to the station and a take a bus but the bus didn’t stop at every station and I had been at the wrong depot so I had to take a bus just to get to the place where I caught the bus and that bus didn’t come for half an hour so I sat on the long pews with the other passengers and waited for my ride home. I only saw my…

I woke up as the bus trundled down the road through the Ozarks of Missouri in the early hours of a winter’s night; it was frigid. I was wearing only jeans and a flight jacket. In the back of the bus, two old guys shared a paper bag between them. Well, being only seventeen they seemed old to me. The smell of booze and rancid men invaded the bus for a long ride from Kansas City to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, through the Ozarks. The sun was starting to come up, but the temperature was still below…

1. During group time, T along with the rest of his group were given the instructions by the gym teacher. She said, “I want you to see how many pull ups you can do. Don’t stop when you begin feeling pain, try and see if you can hold it a little longer.” T was the first person in his group to go. Before T went up to the bar, he turned his head half way to the side, just for his friend to see his face. He smirked and then quickly turned his head around and leaped toward the bar. The teacher asked T…

his and the reader’s mind of how unpleasant it was. This aids the reader in helping understand how much she has experienced. However, “had” is used to remind the son that the life being pictured was from before, and she is putting in effort now to stop it. Hughes also uses imagery saying “and sometimes goin’ in the dark/where there ain’t no light,” (12-13). This sight imagery is placed here because it explains how she has gone through everything, but has yet to back down from it. She says “dark”…

The current intersection we have in place is called a four-way stop where traffic is controlled by human discretion of giving the right of way to pedestrians and whoever stops first. Consequently, if there is a constant flow of pedestrians, then the cars and bikes will have to yield to all of them. This causes drivers and bikers to weave in between the gaps of pedestrians…

The transportation need of older adults in the United States has grown as the population rose by 9.7% between 2000 and 2010 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2013). According to Rosenbloom, many older adults in the United States prefer to drive instead of using public transportation system. According Rosenbloom only eight percent of older adults over the age of 65 uses the transportation system in comparison to sixty percent of older adults in the same age group that drives (2009). Some of the challenges…

outside force influences an individual’s behavior. Everyone has experienced an event that has shaped their beliefs or influenced their actions. These events can vary from a death to moving schools. This was the case with Sean. Sean waited at the bus stop as he replayed the last two weeks. Sean’s dad had recently moved them to a different state for his new job. Since Sean was an introvert, he dreaded the idea of starting over in a new city. Reluctantly, Sean walked up the steps of the…