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    good or bad action. In The Road, McCarthy directly challenges those preconceptions by making us question the actions of the characters and injecting a healthy dose of uncertainty into the heroes’ situation. From the very beginning, the characters and their location remain ambiguous. This is done so that the characters are purposely anonymous, amorphously adopting all people. While on the road, the order of the day is unpredictability; whether they find a horde of road-savages or supplies necessary

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    southbound on N. Main St. (MO 11). The vehicle failed to stop at the stop signs on N. Main St. The vehicle traveled through a red traffic light as it continued south on MO 11. As it approached the intersection of MO 11 and Park Circle Dr., the vehicle turned left onto Park Circle Dr. The vehicle continued on Park Circle Dr. toward the South City Park. The vehicle still failed to yield as it traveled onto Inman Drive. Inman Drive turned from asphalt to gravel. As the vehicle traveled southbound

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    The trail was the main supply route used by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong to supply troops, weapons, and food in the south. When the trail was first beginning, it was one lane dirt and not groomed enough for cars to go on. Because of this people had to do all the work themselves. Most workers used bicycles to carry weapons and food to soldiers in South Vietnam (Targeting). “In August 1959, the first supplies from the North containing twenty boxes of rifles and ammunition were delivered to Viet

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    apocalyptic outbreak to occur just like it did in the novel of “The Road” by Cormac Mccarthy. Some would have to grow up in the new world not knowing how the old world was like and face it head on. In this novel a man and his son give each other hope by traveling south everyday trying to get to warm weather by following the road. Even in an Apocalyptic world humanity in the boy and man raises and prevails upon everything else. In the novel “the Road” there were two different types of people. The “good guys”

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    Man: A Journey of Hope among the Contradictions Inherent in Human Nature. A man and a child, father and son, are alone against an inclement nature while pushing a cart filled with tools, blankets, and things that they have found along the way to the south. About ten years before the world had been reduced to ashes by an apocalyptic disaster, which it is not known whether it was caused by a natural event or the foolishness of human beings. The world is reduced to a single color, gray, that of the ashes

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    wasteland and the few survivors are not to be trusted? If so, this book might be for you. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has a unique approach to this genre. The story takes place in an unnamed place, presumably the ruins of a once great Western country, which is very cold and inhospitable. There are few survivors, and most of them are evil. This book follows a man and a boy in their journey south, where they hope it will be warmer so they can survive in the wasteland that was once the modern world. Along

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    interest, he “led it gently to the road and stood with that companion, ready and friendly.” It draws him in. And for the first part he’s taken with it. He “admired” it. He “stood” with it. He was young and he saw the beauty as something he wanted. He was a teenager after all chasing his dream. These moments are him being a child this is him before the “good man” from later in the poem. You can tell he is taken with it from the way he “gently” leads it to the road, he is taking care of it. You are

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    Scavenging for canned goods or anything barely edible is that life of a man and a boy, their only goal is to reach to the south. In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a natural disaster that nearly wipe out all of humanity and leaves people on the verge of life and death. The main character, the boy, has lived his entire life in a post-apocalyptic world with cannibals roaming around unconsciously. The boy had no one to rely on except for his dad and never had any other human interaction with other people

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    and they are headed south. As the story continues the dou reaches the “road” that they were looking for and begins south when other survivors appear and our duo must hide for shelter for the night. As the father sleeps there are flashbacks, back to his wife, the two sitting in the kitchen before there are massive explosions and bright lights as what we can only a nuclear war begins, leading them into a nuclear winter. Then the father awakes and they begin along their journey south for many days until

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    this report, this report will be observing the upgrades of the Redoubt Road (which is 8.9km), planning about the upgrades, how to improve things and what effects it will have throughout the suburb. With these upgrades, it can support the people who are living and working in the area. Background Mill Road gives out an arterial road that’s connected to State Highway (east part) among Papakura District and Manukau City. This road is going through beneath pressure at its current and according to the

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