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genres of literature, as the place of the story and everything surrounding it are usually portrayed in a vague manner. In contrast, the setting of The Road by Cormac McCarthy is described masterfully as it seemed that the most important part for the author as he was writing to set up a great post-apocalyptic world. Many reviewers praise McCarthy's The Road for its exceptional writing "This is an exquisitely bleak incantation — pure poetic brimstone. Mr. McCarthy has summoned his fiercest visions to invoke

feel the dry, tasteless grit in my mouth from the wagons that fly by. Men and women walk past hardly giving me a sideways glance. Sometimes they’ll even mutter something under their breath. I know how I look to them a poor beggar on the side of the road that's not worth their time or money. As I reach up to shield myself from the incoming volley of rocks and dirt that the wagons fling, I feel cuts and scrapes all along my cheeks. I'm not yet 18 and look what I’ve become. I’m an emancipated man. I

because they have the right of way. He also talking about the three reasons why trains have the right of way. Number one is the fact that trains cannot just stop on a dime. They can’t just put on the brakes and wait for a person to drive across the road. Secondly, trains have the right of way because they can’t swerve to avoid a bad collision. They have to follow the tracks and cannot move without them. Trains weigh a ton. Literally weighing tons. When they hit a small vehicle it is like hitting a

Cormac McCarthy is the author of a post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, an award-winning Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The author argues that the road is the only significant path left that gives motivation to the people regardless of their circumstances, while exaggerating the world today through the representation of what the road, hope and fire are. First, this book is not a perfect accurate depiction of our current world because it does not show a representation of a government existing. The book

Peter Matthiessen, the author of “A Luminous Mountain Morning”, meets a severely crippled child outside the village he is travelling to. “A child dragging bent useless legs is crawling up the hill outside the village.” The author sets the tone by contrasting a bright sunny morning against a small girl covered in goat dung and mud. “A luminous mountain morning. Mist and fire smoke, sun shafts and dark ravines: a peak of Annapurna poises on soft clouds.” Matthiessen sandwiches the paralyzed

started to move to the suburbs. The highways were built to make travel easier and more affordable for the average American. The military would also benefit from from highways by being able to travel quickly across the country in an emergency. Roads before the Interstate Highway System were not safe and many accidents occured. Deaths totaled around 40,000 and nearly 1.3 million people were injured every year. (Weingroff). “In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway

From the two stories Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening written by Robert Frost and Still I Rise by Maya Angelou they both have something in common, and that is their struggles. The main idea in Still I Rise by Maya Angelou the speaker is talking about how people might dislike her. Also in Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening the speaker in the poem is in the beautiful but snowy, cold woods starving to death. These two main ideas both have definetly something they are struggling with.

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about a choice, and when we are faced with making a decision we have to choose one, but that also means that we have to give up on the other opportunity to do something else. That one decision can determine our entire lives. When the speaker chose “the one less traveled by,” the speaker says, “ has made all the difference.” The poem begins with a dilemma, the need to come up with a decision and solve the problem. When out walking, the speaker comes to a fork

The poem “The road not taken” by Robert Frost tells about a person at a fork in the road trying to make a decision on which road to take. The narrator of the poem tells the reader that their tone is reflective and contemplation. The poem also show that Robert frost uses figurative language to better his meanings. Therefore, Robert Frost uses metaphors and rhyme in this poem. As a result, Robert Frost uses metaphors to give an idea on how life can become a process of decisions that can better

In this assignment I will assessing how important it is that the Crossrail Project is managed effectively throughout the project planning and implementation cycles. The Crossrail project is still under construction that will be officially complete in 2019 and the aim for it is to provide a high-frequency commuter/suburban passenger service that will link parts of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, via central London, to Essex and South East London. Through this it will help their external stakeholders