Alfred Road‚ who is well-known to drivers on the Maine Turn-pike‚ has reached his seventieth birthday and is ready to retire. Mr. Road has no formal training in finance but has saved his money and invested carefully.Mr. Road owns his home—the mortgage is paid off—and does not want to move. He is a widower‚ and he wants to bequeath the house and any remaining assets to his daughter.He has accumulated savings of $180‚000‚ conservatively invested. The investments are yielding 9% interest. Mr. Road also
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rebellious lifestyle sparked various different views; those that look up to them‚ and those that look down upon them. Jack Kerouac plays a major role in this time period pertaining to this lifestyle‚ authoring many works about it‚ one being On the Road. He uses the characters in this story to depict the diverse views on the Beatniks. This strong interpretation used throughout the novel sets the stage for many other authors writing on behalf of the Beat Generation. The characters he uses in this novel
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Freedom Road Born on November 11‚ 1914 in New York City‚ New York‚ Howard Melvin Fast was an American writer who typically wrote on history and politics. Not only did Fast publish books under his given name‚ he also used the pen names ‘E.V. Cunningham’ and ‘Walter Ericson.’ Fast married for the first time in 1937 to Bette Cohen whom he had two children with‚ Jonathan and Rachel. After Bette’s death in 1994‚ Fast married a second time in 1999 to Mercedes O’Connor. Fast wrote a variety of works including
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Life is a journey with a choice of many roads to travel. Everyone is a traveler on the roads of life and must choose his own path. In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” the traveler must decide which road is best for him. Does he take the path most traveled or does he go down “the one less traveled by” (19)? When one takes the road “ less traveled” (19) he is choosing his own path in life rather than following the mainstream. Frost gives support to the idea that the choices one makes in life makes
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alcohol‚ drugs and unbounded love. Their wild journey creates the unbreakable bond between them‚ which gives rise to the whole new generation. “On The Road” is an autobiographic book written by American writer Jack Kerouac. The novel is a legendary manifesto of the poet group called “Beats”‚ along with Boroughs’ “Naked Lunch” and Ginsberg’s “Howl”. “On the Road” was published in 1957 and tells the story of the precursors of
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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 character of Trace is interesting in the novel Thunder Road by Ted Dawe. Trace is interesting because he develops a close relationship with Devon‚ his low self-esteem and he changes from a follower to a leader during the novel. One interesting feature of Trace is his relationship with Devon. At first‚ Trace wasn’t sure about Devon saying‚ “I didn’t know who I was sharing a room with”. As the novel continued Trace started to spend more time with Devon eventually becoming so close that he feels
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English response: (which views?co In the road not taken‚ a poem about (possibly) an inner journey; I think that the concepts in the poem seem very vague. Because he just mentions that he comes across a forest of some sort‚ in autumn- He mentions that he comes in a “yellow wood” so that could be imagery for a forest set in the fell season.- and he says that he has to make a decision‚‚ and moves on from there‚ he doesn’t mention if it’s good or bad. I’d like to think that this poem was not meant
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In Robert Frost’s poem‚ “ The Road Not Taken‚” he is telling a life lesson between the lines. He uses literary elements such as alliteration(line 8) and personification(line 8) to make his poem run more smoothly. He uses lines of imagery to help the reader understand the poem and visualize the scenes throughout the poem. The poem is an entertaining story but at the same time‚ it is teaching us a lesson about our life’s choices. Robert Frost writes this poem during a time when most poets were leaving
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this school has become a cradle for nurturing and spreading ideas‚ thoughts‚ campaigns and knowledge on road safety to educate the general public and drivers with the objective of reducing mishaps on the Roads of Kolkata. Various studies conducted over the years by the WHO revealed that‚ in most of the developing countries of the world and especially in India‚ pedestrians are most vulnerable to road accidents‚ accounting to almost half‚ of the recorded fatalities every year. It has thus become imperative
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