Everyone knows the age old expression‚ “if you want something done right‚ you will do it yourself”. This couldn’t be more true in the case of Joe Kurmaskie‚ in his essay Rough Road Ahead: Do Not Exceed Posted Speed Limit‚ he learns this lesson the hard way. Armed with all the necessary equipment and knowledge he needs he foolishly takes “travel advice from a collection of old timers”. Another valuable piece of advice for joe could have been “stick to what you know” but the old men seemed “so sure
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In Jack Kerouac’s novel‚ On The Road‚ main protagonist Dean Moriarty symbolizes an "almost" immortal flame of youth that embodies the rebellious generation of uncertainty that describes 1950s Beat culture. Desirable of everything at the same time‚ from his numerable fixations with drugs‚ his incalculable romantic entanglements with women‚ or his superficial preoccupation to be seen as an intellectual‚ we get to know Dean’s liberating and pioneering personality as the "Holy Goof" as well as an apparent
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The Road Not Taken: a present made of the past’s little delusions In the poem‚ “The Road Not Taken‚” Frost seemingly presents the reader with a classic problem‚ but reframed in a literal forest scene. The problem is‚ how does one know they have chosen the right “path” on their journey through life? That is a question that haunts many‚ but Frost wryly notes that the question doesn’t really signify much of anything‚ as it is human nature to glorify the past‚ wrap it in a protective nostalgia‚ and
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(130 km/h) for the Autobahn Road traffic safety refers to methods and measures for reducing the risk of a person using the road network being killed or seriously injured. The users of a road include pedestrians‚ cyclists‚ motorists‚ their passengers‚ and passengers of on-road public transport‚ mainly buses and trams. Best-practice road safety strategies focus upon the prevention of serious injury and death crashes in spite of human fallibility[1] (which is contrasted with the old road safety paradigm of simply
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The novel The Road is about the relationship between a boy and his father after the apocalypse. The boy and the man struggle every day just to get a piece of food in their stomach to be able to stay alive. Staying alive after the apocalypse destroyed the planet that was once known to be Earth would be a major challenge and numerous factors would come into play. Some of these factors would be a food source‚ shelter and even more importantly‚ your companions. Who you’re spending your time with in the
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of years ago‚ such as the Royal Road of the Persian Empire‚ and of modern countries today‚ such as the Interstate Highway System of the United States. The presence of efficient roads enables a county to better defend its borders‚ have better access to trade‚ and also enables communication to flow freely. One empire in history best exemplified the effects that an efficient system of roads could have; this was the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire consisted of many roads that were built throughout its
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“What can you do to promote road or vehicular safety in the community?” Nowadays‚ our country is dealing with worst problems and it is because of the behavior of other people. They don’t know what discipline is. Everyday many people are involved in road accidents. Some are killed. So it is important for us to learn to use the roads properly and safely. If you look around these days‚ the number of road accidents occurs in our country is increasing day by day. That is the common problem
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Overview Of Current Road Safety Situation In Malaysia OVERVIEW OF CURRENT ROAD SAFETY SITUATION IN MALAYSIA Mohamad Nizam Mustafa Highway Planning Unit Road Safety Section Ministry of Works Jalan Sultan Salahuddin 50580 Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia ABSTRACT Road safety has long been considered as one of social responsibilities to the Malaysian Government. In the visibility of this responsibilities‚ multiples bodies concern on road safety have been formed within the government departments‚ private agencies
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pattern or road network and mostly described by regular street patterns as an indispensable factor of human existence‚ development and civilization. The route network coupled with increased transport investment result in changed levels of accessibility reflected through Cost Benefit Analysis‚ savings in travel time‚ and other benefits. These benefits are noticeable in increased catchment areas for services and facilities like shops‚ schools‚ offices‚ banks‚ and leisure activities. Road networks
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"Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History" The main focus‚ or thesis‚ of this article was similar to the likes of Andre Gunder Frank and Barry Gills; that the trans-civilizational and‚ less understood‚ trans-ecological exchanges along the Silk Road linked all regions of the Afro-Eurasian landmass- agrarian civilizations‚ the woodland communities to the north and steppe pastoralists- into a single "world-system" of trade that is several millennia old. Among these exchanges across
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