Three Day Road

1: While taking a vacation trip to Bulgaria this past summer, my whole family stayed at a town called Dobrinishte for a couple of days to swim in the mineral water pool there. However, one day, inclement, cloudy weather compelled us to alter our pool plans for that day and find another activity to do instead. Being new to the place, we had to ask the hotel owners if they knew of any interesting historical places around the area, and they informed us of a monastery up in the mountains about two…

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a story of a father and his son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Together, they walk through a wasteland searching for necessities essential for survival, while trying to avoid roaming bands of cannibals. Along the way their morals are revealed in the choices they make to survive. McCarthy develops the theme of morality by showing the conflict between the boy’s and father’s moral impulses, especially when moral choices affect their own and others’…

He slowly approached the road that seemed to stretch forever to the north and bent east after about a mile on the southern bound lane. He looked up at the power lines and followed them as far back as his eyes permitted. Squinting through the slight fog he could see the faint outline of the highland that he had been upon. He looked back at the sun-bleached, rotting road and sighed. Although he lived disconnected from society, he felt as if he connected to something else. He later realized that on…

position. The gold band of his wedding ring barely fits on his swollen finger, but he refuses to take it off despite the tight fit and the black nick in the precious metal. His khaki pants remain wrinkle free, despite Clarence having been on the road for the past three weeks. His grey button down shirt is tucked into the pants, and his navy sweater vest is lint free. His shoes are polished and shiny under the dash. His face is clean shaven, and his thinning blonde hair is neatly combed, every…

In the poem, The Road Not Taken by Robert Lee Frost, Frost is the speaker and he is informing the story that he experienced in the past, perhaps few years before. There are two roads that Frost can choose, but he is unsure which path he should take, and wishes to go in both ways. Although he finally chose the path to go after a while, he never was satisfied with his choice, and regretted and wish to go in other road. However, both path are same and the grass in both paths equally look fresh and…

there’s a type of walking only done by the devout. It’s a long, laborious, spiritually transformative walk known as pilgrimages. Rebecca Solnit, a writer, joined one of the pilgrims on her journey and wrote about her experience in her work, ‘The Uphill Road to Grace: Some Pilgrimages’. Henry David Thoreau, a naturalist and a philosopher, also wrote about this type of journey - albeit he doesn’t call it pilgrimage - in his famous essay, ‘Walking’. He described his daily walk into the woods and…

human injury, and considerable financial costs resulting from the vehicle damage (Gunson et. al. 2011). Interventions such as increasing driver awareness have had no considerable impact on DVC rates. For the ninth year in a row, the highest-risk roads in the country are in West Virginia, where drivers face a 1 in 44 chance of…

five times in my life: once at 12, I’d driven 20 feet in my uncle’s beater; once at 15 I’d driven back roads in a Ford Bronco; and thrice, recently, I’d practiced in parking lots and backroads using my grandmother’s old Toyota Sienna minivan. I had gotten a learner's permit a few months before, but finding someone to teach me had proved difficult. Four years before (three years, 11 months, 18 days), on my 19th birthday, my mother had her license revoked. I’d been sitting at the dinner table,…

The Government is divided into many layers, but is still a one big connected piece, just like a spider web. Without one of them, the Government would fall apart. Each layer plays a different role and supports a different system as far as the society is concerned. As each layer is peeled off, the governing system gets smaller and smaller. These layers escalate starting from the smallest governing body, Crestwood School District, up to city Government, County Government, State Government, and…

It came out of the northwest. It blew all day and all night. By mid-afternoon the next day four foot high drifts blocked our lightly-traveled country road. Not only was the snow deep, but it had been hardened to near concrete consistency by sustained 45 mph winds. The depth and hardness of the snow made it impossible for the township plow to bust through the drifts so we had to wait for the county rotary plow. We were blocked in for three weeks. SURVIVAL BOMBS As a typical farm family…