The Road Back

The car screeched as my mother slowed down to turned off the main road onto my grandparent’s dirt driveway. The top of the trees arched around the beaten dirt road casting a shadow that soon blocked the sun from my view. The feeling of the road tossing our car back and forth like it weigh nothing, caused my stomach to rock. The rocking got so bad my mother slowed down to 15 miles an hour as she navigated her way up to the main house. My grandparents have a chunk of land next to the Whitefish…

The Road and its Large Cultural Impact in a Short Period of Time A man forced to go to his limits to protect the last glimmer of hope in his world, the story of The Man in Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road contributed to the birth of the ever-growing post-apocalyptic genre. Set in a time where the world is a place of depravity, The Man and The Boy are the two glimmers of hope. The journey down the perilous road to their idea of salvation inspired not only the other in the novel, but a large…

“No one has ever become poor by giving” (Anne Frank). In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a man and his son manage to give what they have, kindness and forgiveness, to those who they encounter during their travels in a post-apocalyptic world. Although many people in this world have become evil when they have nothing left, Papa and the boy maintain their morality and survive alone. Throughout the book, Papa and the boy demonstrate that, even in a difficult situation, it is possible to show compassion,…

Imagine a street that no longer needs traffic lights or traffic signs. A public space that allows both automobiles and pedestrians alike to share the road. Children laugh and play in the street, pedestrians cross where they please, and cars and bikes safely drive through to their destination (Hockenos). Although this street will not work in all instances it can and has been implemented before. In the Netherlands, a shared public space like this one is called a woonerf (Biddulph). This type of…

Ryan and I were anticipating the trip we had planned for weeks. We were finally leaving our hometown Frogville,OK for a road trip to Picher,OK. The town Picher was supposed to be a ghost town at night. So Ryan and I planned a trip to see if the rumors of Picher were true. Planning the trip took almost a month, but the hard part was getting our parents’ permission. The day we set to leave was rapidly approaching Ryan couldn’t wait, however, I was having second thoughts. Ryan talked me into going…

On the way to the appointment, I was familiar with the Azusa area and it all seemed rather easy. Once I exited the freeway I traveled north and was unsure of where I was going because all of a sudden it turned into a one lane road into the San Gabriel Mountains. The road was winding and I could tell that I was climbing in elevation.…

Essay One Rough Draft INTRODUCTION: Everyone has a dream in life; following it can be the most important thing in ones life. The Road Not Taken written by Robert Forest and Harlem written by Langston Hughes discuss the importance of following your dreams. Frost does a better job at expressing to his readers about going after their dreams unlike Hughes who leaves the readers unsettled. However, Hughes gives the readers a deeper understanding of the consequences one faces if they procrastinate…

pothole, simultaneously wondering how roads terrible these broken old roads are for your car, and why would you ever put yourself through this. And now onto the next problem: where on earth are you going to park! It is true, that current transportation in Hamilton makes it extremely difficult to get around the city, especially in the downtown area. Furthermore, the roads we do have are extremely rundown and in need of repair. This can be seen through CAA’s ‘worst roads’ campaign, as Burlington…

said there are hundreds of them,” the junior officer muttered. “Do you have an alternative strategy you’d like to propose,” I asked the escort commander, not concerned with his junior officer’s outburst. “Perhaps the most obvious solution is to go back to the inn,” the Black Horse’s commander answered. Count Vee turned around, and then yanked down his coat to straighten it. “The impact of prematurely leaving will destroy my mission.” The junior officer’s shoulders visibly drooped at the…

There are many theories that there was a girl that was killed on Gravity road and now forces cars that are in neutral and objects back up the hill so they don't go through the same tragedy she went through. A group of boys wanted to test this phenomenon and they decided to go on a road trip and test it out. they came to the stop sign and to their amazement it worked and they went back up the hill. There are many legends of what people think happened and one of them was a lady and her husband…