...In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, It is said that fear is the strongest motivator in the world. People in fear are willing to do whatever, go beyond any border and forget all rules. Fear can easily take over our mind and control our every move. But how much does it take to push a person beyond his limits? What kind of a fear can make us forget everything about humanity and morals? These questions are one of the main themes in Cormac McCarthy’s novel ”The Road” We are all afraid of different things. Some are afraid to lose their family and friends others on the other hand their money and possessions. Cormac McCarthy’s great novel ”The Road” tells us a story of a post-apocalyptic world where everything is destroyed and life is almost extinct. There are left only handful people, who are willing to do everything to survive. But some of them are willing to go further than the others. Fear influences every person differently. But how can some of us still maintain our moral values even though we might be scared to death? In ”The Road” the main characters, the man and the boy represent a group of people who does not let the fear control their minds. The man is constantly afraid of his son getting killed or starving to death. The boy is worried about his father and about being left alone in this terrible world if his father should die. Every single day they live in fear. They can never be sure whether they find food, whether they will survive the cold nights in the woods, or whether...
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...On the Road The main theme of the book and its common thread is the journey, seen as an element that breaks the monotony of life and brings the individual to deal with ever new realities, always looking for a new form of existence that could avert the danger of "boredom ". The journey takes on the function of true teacher of life for all the characters. It is not only meant as the material form of physical movement but also as a "virtual" journey through the use of drugs and abandonment in pleasures. All this, however, is not presented as a process of decay, but as a quest for a primitive instinct of human creativity and innocence now lost and suppressed by mod-ern conformism. The journey told in the book, however, is not just a figment of the writer: On the road, in fact, col-lects real travel experiences that the writer has made in over seven years with his friend and teacher of life Neil Cassidy (Dean Moriarty in the book). The novel, in fact, was written on a “scroll” by the writer within three weeks revising its travel notes, under the effect of Benzedrine. The trip, however, is not the only theme in the book. The other themes, in fact, are: the promotion of art in all its forms as a tool to uncover the truth, the search of love and the importance of friendship. As frame the entire novel, then, there is the per-ennial tension between the big cities and small towns, between life without brakes and inhibitions and tranquility of the family, between traveling and staying...
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...On the road The driver, vehicles and accident Number of drivers and vehicles continue to increase… Malaysia became one of automobile manufacturing countries since 1985 with the launching of the first national car. Production of the national cars increased from 80,000 to 240,000 units a year. Among the models are Wira, Waja, Exora, Kancil, MyVi, Viva and Alza. This scenario indirectly contributes to the increase in the number of registered vehicles and the number of registered drivers. Based on comparison between 2005 and 2009, the cumulative number of registered cars has increased by 31.4 per cent (2 million) and the cumulative number of registered motorcycles has increased by 27.6 per cent (1.9 million). Cumulative number of registered drivers recorded at 11.7 million, an increase of 17.8 per cent (1.8 million). Chart 9.1: Cummulative number of drivers, cars and motorcycles, Malaysia, 2005-2009 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Million Drivers Cars Motorcycles Source: Department of Road Transport Malaysia 132 Proton Perdana Proton Inspira Proton Saga Number of accidents also increased The increasing number of vehicles and drivers are often associated with the total number of road accidents. In 2009, there were 397,194 road accidents recorded compared to 328,268 in 2005, an increase of 21 per cent. Out of the total, there were more accidents without injury compared to accidents with injury. The percentage of injury accidents decreased...
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...Running Head: Biblical Comparison of The Road Biblical Comparison of The Road by Cormac McCarthy Joshua G. West Henry County High School Abstract The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006) is a novel that explains the struggles of a father and son as they thrive to survive in a post-apocalyptic society. Cormac McCarthy (2006) put a lot of details into the story and this world, but I believe he did not make up this. There are many clues and links between his story and what the Bible has so say about the rapture and tribulation period. From the beginning of the world they live in, to the characters involved in the novel, Cormac McCarthy’s (2006) novel could be described as parable of what the bible has to say of the end times. However, the novel goes deeper than just a comparison to the end times, it goes into saving your moral values, no matter how difficult your trials are becoming. Biblical Comparison of The Road by Cormac McCarthy Words often have a deeper meaning then what we first see or hear. In Cormac McCarthy’s (2006) prize winning novel, The Road, McCarthy (2006) wrote down the story of a man and his son struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Along their journey you see the mother walk out on them, robbers attack them and inner struggle in their own minds. If one takes a closer look at the story, they see several points which could all lead back to a single source and hold a deeper meaning. When facing a tough dilemma, it can be a quite difficult...
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...birds and the bees. But what happens when we’re the ones teaching our parents? In Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, we are met with the nameless characters, known as a father and his young son, who travel and attempt to survive post apocalyptic Earth. They set out to the south west in hopes to find people just like themselves, who are still morally correct in a world full of cannibalistic savages. The father shows the boy how to survive through making fires, dispersing their daily intake of food, sleeping in various locations, and other ways just to be safe and healthy. The father teaches him that they are the few morally correct people still left on Earth, as he wishes to teach his son as much as he can, before the father’s time runs out. The boy is seen as a God-like figure to his father as he is a beacon of light in a world full of darkness, the hope of the future, due to his correct moralities, as this reflects onto the father in various situations through the novel. It is quite notable that though the father plays an influential figure for the boy to look up to, the boy also is able to praise teachings upon his father to restore faith in himself. The bond between the father and son is one of the learning, as the father finds himself learning from his son. To start with the case of the son teaching his father, the two spot a young old man ahead of them on the road, to which the young boy insists on helping him, going against...
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...A relationship between father and son could be described as loving or hated. However in the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy, it is put into a completely different situation. The father and son of The Road are surviving for each other. From a post apocalyptic setting they are trying to reach the south. The father and son of The Road are left with no names, which makes it more mysterious. Within the book the father often times lies to the son about certain things. For the good of the son and humanity, it is a good choice to tell his son what is for the better. The better of things could be for the son’s future. The father and son go through a long journey to the south. The father believes that the south should be an easier place to be for the father and son to survive the deadly cold winter. The story tells of the father constantly telling himself that his son is the best thing that has happened and that he is the only light left in his life. They have to try to avoid many obstacles like those trying to steal their belongings or others trying to kidnap them to eat them. The father always seems to believe there is nothing left of his life except to keep his son safe and as happy as he can be. In parts of the book the son asks the father about their life. His son would ask if he would die what would the father do? The father easily answers that he would die also to be with his son. The father lives only for his son and would be willing to do anything for him. The father tells...
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...Ramisa Mehjabeen 766986 Mr.Seravalle Part 4 “On the road” by Jack Kerouac describes the huge cultural change, which began to take form in America during the 1960’s. The American pop culture included entertainment, music and sports. It was distributed across many forms of mass communication including newspaper magazines, television. Kerouac found the energy and excitement of jazz to be particularly inspiring. Beat Generation in the 1950s marked the beginnings of a major cultural turning point in the United States. Jack Kerouac dominated the literature world with a new sense of adventure during the counterculture movement of the 1960s.No author described the connection between jazz and the beat movement better than Jack Kerouac. On...
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...The Road to a Quest What is a quest? If unaware as to what a quest is, it is a long search for something. What makes up a quest? What primarily makes up a quest is a questor, where the questors are going, stated reason for the quest, challenges and trials, and the real reason for the quest. Quests can be seen anywhere from movies to books. In the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy for example. That is a great story of a quest and survival. An important part of a quest is completing it. In the story The Road it has everything to make up a quest, but The Man and The Boy could not complete it. The two questors are The Man and The Boy. The story never identified their names. The Man is a great survivalist. He has great skills as to tracking, and using the weapons around him. Everything he does is dedicated for The Boy. The book establishes this very early on, “When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out and touch the child sleeping beside him” (McCarthy 1). The Boy is very mature, and smart for his age. The book does not tell his age but it is easy to tell he is young. He is very thoughtful of others, and wants to help others. An example of this is, “We should go get him, Papa. We could get him and take him with us. We could take him and we could take the dog. The dog could catch something to eat” (McCarthy 73). They both may be different types of people, but they need each other. The place where The Man and The Boy are heading is to the coast...
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...Name: Tutor: College: Course: Date: Carrying light in darkness The short story, “The Road,” is an interesting story about an unspecific journey about an old man and a young boy who set out to wander in fear of the scary incidences that were happening. The land that had once been admired had changed after the apocalypse where animal and plant life had been completely destroyed. The human survivors had become cannibals and would rampage through the streets looking for human flesh. The old man and the boy seemed to be the only glimmer of hope in the land after the mother of the boy committed suicide. The journey of the old man and the boy reflects a journey of hope in dire situations, whose goals, are realized when a man with his family approaches the boy after the old man dies. This paper creates an analysis of how the old man and the boy were able to carry light through darkness. The decay of the land that the old man had been living in is evident through the ash filled ground, barren landscapes, cannibalism, and the loss of hope to the survivors. All of the inhabitants of the land had been demoralized and the only two surviving lucky inhabitants, father and son were struggling to make it through every day. The mother of the boy had given up based on what she had seen about the land and the daily struggle that she had to undergo on keeping herself and the unborn baby. According to an analysis of the mother, she did not want the unborn baby to experience what she was already...
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...Recycled Asphalt Product?? Basically R.A.P. is old asphalt that is ground into gravel that hardens/binds together when compacted. The best gravel to leave exposed for a long time is R.A.P. (Recycled Asphalt Product), a great product on any driveway, parking area or lane. There are three key requirements that must be satisfied for asphalt pavement recycling to be successful. Recycled asphalt pavements must: 1. Be cost effective, 2. Be environmentally responsible, and 3. Perform well. In 2007, the FHWA Office of Pavement Technology initiated an Expert Task Group (ETG) on the use of RAP in the construction and rehabilitation of flexible pavements for highways and roads. The ETG is comprised of experts on the use of RAP in asphalt paving mixtures from State DOTs, FHWA, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), and National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT). The purpose of the ETG is to advance the use of RAP in asphalt paving applications by providing highway agencies with critical information regarding the use of RAP, technical guidance on high-RAP projects, and direction on research activities. For more information on the RAP ETG, please see: http://www.ncat.us/RAP/. Recycled asphalt on the other hand is quite simply asphalt concrete which has been reprocessed by mixing the reclaimed asphalt pavement with new asphalt and aggregates. In some circumstances, a recycling agent is also introduced...
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...Disadvantages: There could appear technical problems lack of IT skills both teachers and students Mixed ability- some students are advanced and some are slow Classroom management-teacher could find it difficult to draw students' attention Slow Internet connection Not always appropriate materials for students http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/gozalutem/advantages-disadvantages-using-technology-classroom TAG ARCHIVES: DISADVANTAGES OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM Here are some counter arguments against English teachers being expected to use technology in the classroom: 1. Some teachers feel that they don’t want to have yet another new thing to learn. They have spent years learning about the language and dealing with the different designer approaches and fads in ELT. And now, they are being told that all the knowledge and experience they have accrued from teaching English is not enough if they are unable to get to grips with the latest device or online software. They feel that the ability to use technology has got nothing to do with learning English per se, and if such high standard and qualification are needed for learners to survive in the job market, then these learners should be taking classes in IT, and not be relying on their English teacher to provide them with such training. . 2. Teachers are not paid enough to spend all their free time learning to use new digital tools and implementing them. It takes hours to moderate a wiki or Moodle account...
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...Dimanche 25 juin 1916, je me trouvais, avec quelques camarades, au milieu d'un tintamarre effroyable, un spectacle extraordinaire : le bombardement des lignes allemandes par l'artillerie des alliés, qui venait de se déclencher pour la « préparation » de la grande offensive du 1e juillet. Quelques milliers de canons, dont nous ne voyions pas un seul, tiraient alors ensemble sur les positions ennemies, et leurs coups faisaient un grondement ininterrompu, avec des claquements et des arrachements bizarres, dans lesquels, aussi, les longs sifflements des obus passant au dessus de nos têtes, en voûte, mettaient des stridences aiguës de cent espèces différentes. Le ciel était gris et bas; mais l'air, empli d'odeurs âcres, était comme frissonnant des rafales de bruit, et un bouquet d'arbres, auprès de nous, agitait ses feuilles ; le sol, aussi, frémissait sous nos pieds; et, sur tout l'horizon, en face, dans les lignes allemandes, il nous semblait assister à une sorte de tremblement de terre. Au milieu de nuages de fumée noire et de poussière, des éclatements, des explosions, des gerbes énormes de terre et de débris, en éventail, qui rappelaient celles des vagues se brisant sur les récifs, des lueurs d'incendie, des bouffées rouges, des disparitions subites de grands arbres paraissant s'engloutir dans le sol. Rien ne répondait, de là-bas : aucun signe de vie Nous savions pourtant que des êtres humains, nos ennemis, y vivaient et y recevaient sans répit cette infernale avalanche;...
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...Summary John Baker, chief engineer of the Caribbean Bauxite Company was promoted to production manager of fast-expanding Canadian enterprise. His final task is the assessment interview with the successor, Matthew Rennalls, the able young Barracanian. Final interview didn’t have a success. Rennalls asked to accept his letter as a resignation.. The problem The Company productivity may fall down because of staff misunderstandings. Cast of characters • John Baker, chief engineer, 45 years old, 23 years served the Caribbean Bauxite Co. British. • Matthew Rennalls, 40th years old, talented engineers old. native Barracanian. Chronology • John Baker has a promotion preparations to leave the island. • John Baker’s and Matthew Rennalls met for an assessment interview. • Matthew Rennals writes a resignation letter. 1. Issues • On the one hand, Rennalls is a talented engineer, on the other hand he has a conflict with expatriates. • On the one hand Rennalls can influence the policy of the Co by his father, but on the other hand he is not the only candidate. • On the one hand Baker wants Rennalls to work for the Co, but on the other hand the Co can’t risk his image. 2. Options 1) Hive apologizes to Rennalls and invite him back to the company. Advantages: • Rennalls is a professional worker. He can influence the policy of the Co...
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...Jack Kerouac’s novel, On the Road, is about the journey of a young college-age man across the country in search of something more from his life in post-war America. The book revolves around a young man named Sal Paradise, and the whole story is told from his perspective. The rambling writing, while hard to understand sometimes, offers a detailed record of his pursuit and the ensuing antics. The story starts in 1947 where Sal meets a man named Dean Moriarty, a lively and animated man who was a “sideburned hero of the snowy West” (Kerouac 2). It was Dean who prompted Sal’s adventurous travels west. Along the way, Dean and Sal befriend Carlo Marx, an energetic young poet who shares the same view of wanting something a little more out of life. Sal’s journeys across the U.S. and to Mexico open his eyes to the good and bad, the up and downs in life. His constant stints on the road with madman Dean sometimes got him in trouble with the law. Other times, the trips allowed Sal to truly find out more about himself, and relate to Dean on a more personal level to share and connect The meaning behind the title On the Road lies in Sal’s innate desire for something more. The road in this novel comes to symbolize freedom and the solution to answer life’s problems. Sal constantly finds a refreshing sense of purity once he hits the open road, especially in the company of Dean, whose spirit was the catalyst for the voyages in the first place. However, once Sal and Dean get to Mexico City...
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...Imagine you are driving at night on a winding road. The snow is coming down and you cannot see, as you begin to approach a curve. You make out dim brake lights of traffic ahead, but despite the driving conditions, you feel safe. How can you feel safe under these conditions, you ask. Very easily, the way of the future will be Scott Brusaw’s Smart Road. Owned by Virginia Department of Transportation, the Smart Road will lead to safer highways and vehicles, more conventional travel, and less stress behind the wheel. Researchers will get to apply their creative ideas to real-life situations in a low-risk environment, while business developers could gain profitable partnerships and new projects. The Smart Road is a rare, state-of-the-art, full-scale, closed test-bed research facility which features weather-making capabilities, an experimental lighting system, pavement markings, road weather information systems, a signalized intersection, a differential GPS system, road access and surveillance, and a computer-equipped control center. It is the first of its kind with a long history and possibly an even longer future. It all started when the idea and the proposal for a connecting road from Blacksburg to Interstate 81 was introduced in 1985. Roanoke Mayor Noel Taylor favored the idea introduced by Roanoke-Virginia Tech Advisory Council in 1986. The following year the Department of Transportation was asked to consider short and long-term answers for traffic jamming along Route 460. Governor...
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