...the left side of the road. This gives you the best chance to see traffic approaching closest to you and take evasive action when needed. • Cross Safely: Mom was right: look both ways before crossing any street. At controlled intersections, it is wise to cross only when you have the pedestrian crossing light, but even then, drivers and bikers may have a green light to turn and won't be expecting you to be in the crosswalk. Make eye contact with any drivers who may be turning. Give them a wave. Make sure they see you. In a car-walker interaction, you can only lose. • Walk Single File: Unless you are on a sidewalk separated from the road or a wide bike lane, you should walk in single file. This is especially important on a road with lots curves, where traffic has only a split second chance of seeing you before hitting you. While it can be enjoyable to walk down the road two to three abreast chatting merrily, drivers don't expect it and you may lose your best walking buddies. • Stay Aware of Bikes and Runners: Share the road and path with bikes and runners. Bike riders should alert you when approaching from behind with a bike bell or a "passing on the left/right." Listen for them, and move to walk single file, allowing them to pass safely. Runners should also call out for passing. Bike-walker collisions can result in broken bones or head injury for either — and you aren't wearing a helmet. • Be Visible: Wear bright colors when walking in daytime. When walking at night, wear light-colored...
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...Take this test! But don't scroll down until you finish! * First, write 1 through 11 in a column. * Then, in the first and second spaces, fill in any two numbers you want. * In the 3rd and 7th spaces, write down the names of members of the opposite sex. * Write anyone's name (like friends or family...) in the 4th, 5th, and 6th spots. * Write down four song titles in 8, 9, 10 and 11. Scroll down to see results. Do not scroll until you finish writing! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Results * The name in space 3 is the one you love. * The person in 7 is the one you like but can't work out. * You care most about the person you put in 4. * Number 5 is the one who knows you very well. * The name in 6 is your lucky star. * The song in 8 is the song that matches with the person in 3. * The title in 9 is the song for 7. * The tenth space is the song that tells you most about your mind. * And 11 is the song telling how you feel about sex! From the following sixteen facts, try to determine: A. Who drinks the water? B. Who owns the zebra? 1. There are five houses. 2. The Englishman lives in the red house 3. The Spaniard owns a dog 4. Coffee is drunk in the green house 5. The Ukranian drinks tea 6. The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house 7. The Old Gold smoker owns snails 8. Kools are smoked in the yellow house 9. Milk is drunk in the middle house 10. The Norwegian...
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...Katy Humphrey, was on her way to visit her grandparents. She had been driving by herself to meet up with her brother halfway to their grandparents. It was pitch black out and her car had ran out of gas. She had no cell service and at the last gas station she had passed a half hour ago said the next gas station is 300 miles away. She had no cell service and no way of calling anyone. The last gas station she passed, about an hour ago, was the between 300 miles. She had gotten out of her car waving her arms to see if anyone would stop and help her. No cars had stopped instead they kept on passing by. She couldn't see much with it being dark out but with the lights shining from the cars she an outline of a little car on the side of the road. She ran across the street to see if anyone was in the car. She couldn't see...
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...Critically discuss the lack of rural roads and its impacts on female headed households. Female headed households are households which are dependent on women for all the household duties, and managing of the house both financially and getting all the duties in the household done. (gupta, et al, 1997).This essay will therefore be focused on the challenges female headed household members get through on a daily basis,and issues of service delivery and access to services in relation to their surrounding environment. Female headed rural households deal with a wide range of challenges on an everyday basis, and because these homesteads are based in rural areas.one of the major issues for them is transportation. Due to lack rural roads transportation may be limited or very expensive for them to afford. (Biljana, et al, 2014). Moreover the lack of transportation hinders the efficiency of getting everyday activities done.this would then result in them having no other option but to walk long distances, to get everyday activities such as water and wood fetching,accessing healthcare and educational facilities,selling and buying products from the markets as a way of genereating income and getting employment. Moreover walking long distances would mean that they have to carry all the loads with them and the most efficient way of doing this is by head loading ,although carrying the heavy loads on an evryday basis may seem as a way of life, it also poses an enormous strain on their bodies...
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...Lifting Up While Helping Out I believe that ***** could benefit from a program that allows people in need to help other people in need. This program would be run by people who are not only needing help, but are helping others who are in need themselves. Driving through St. James on any morning when school is in session you are sure to see children walking. Some walk with their parents, some walk alone. One might think that the reason for walking comes from a desire for fresh air or exercise, but the observant passerby will notice that these same people are walking, regardless of the weather. It may be pouring down rain or below freezing temperatures, and you will surely see the same familiar faces, walking to school, cold and wet. Strike up a conversation with the carhop at Sonic and you will soon find that she is a widower trying to raise her mentally-handicapped son alone. She lives in the motel down the road because she doesn’t have enough money for a car or for the deposits needed to get into a rental property. She will tell you that she is slowly sinking and knows not what to do. I have heard the same desperation, over and over, throughout the years. All one needs to do is take the time to care about another human. Take the time to ask and you will hear their stories and feel their desperation. The program I would like to introduce would take these same people who so desperately need help and pair them up with others who also need help. Almost like a bartering system:...
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...As we all shuffled into the white charter bus like walking zombies at seven in the morning, I knew it was going to be a long, slumberous ride to our destination. We took our seats as Ms. Faucette counted all forty girls on the bus. Every morning she would welcome us with a, “Good morning ladies! Are y’all excited about today’s activities?” She was a cheery woman who tried to keep us all enthusiastic about the trip. Her plumped lips curved into a big smile on her porcelain skin, which seemed to glow in the dim light. While standing at the front of the bus, her large red pea coat made her small body look twice its size. She had wavy light hair with defined eyebrows that arched over her strikingly pale blue eyes and button nose. The only response she received was 40 pairs of restless eyes staring back at her. I sat on an aisle seat next to Kristy and hastily stuffed my bag under the seat in front of me before getting comfortable. The early morning mist lingered in the air as Hedley, our tour guide, drove us through the streets of London. As we made our way through the city, we passed apartment blocks and never-ending rows of houses, churches, bridges, and roads stretching along on both sides of the street. Although the United Kingdom trip was for educational purposes, I was not looking forward to sightseeing a pile of rocks when I could be using the time to shop down Oxford Street. Within half an hour, the whooshing sound of warm air coming from the air vent filled the bus and lulled...
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...On Thursday, June 9, 2016, I responded to 3457 Hillsborough Road, the Kroger’s fuel center in reference to a trespassing call. Upon arrival, I met Mr. Willie Marcus Brown an armed security guard with Dunbar Company. Mr. Brown stated he was at the fuel center. He exited his vehicle to purchase an item when he heard his vehicle’s door close and witnessed a white male in the driver seat of his vehicle. The suspect locked the doors and was revving the engine but could not place the vehicle in the drive gear. Mr. Brown at this point said he used his spare key to unlock the vehicle’s door. As he open the vehicle’s door he was struck several times by the suspect who was attempting to get away in the vehicle. Mr. Brown over powered the suspect and...
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...is located in the heart of Daphne, Alabama (Lake Forest Property Owner’s Association, 2014). Lake Forest is a community consisting of many roads that intermingle and connect to one another. When it was first built, it was designed to house the most people (White, R., personal communication, September 19, 2014). It has accommodations and services for various different activities throughout its community. Not only is Lake Forest located in the middle of a 27-hole golf course, but it also has 3 swimming pools, 4 tennis courts, a lake to fish in and boat on, a marina, stables for horses, a yacht club, a restaurant, and 3 playgrounds; it is also home to multiple different clubs and organizations such as a community women’s club, a garden club, a ladies and men’s golf association, senior couple’s golf association, a swim team, and a tennis association (Lake Forest Property Owner’s Association, 2014). Lake Forest houses a variety of different things to accommodate the majority of its residents, however, it is missing one obvious thing: a sidewalk. The Lake Forest Subdivision needs a sidewalk in its community to not only help to eliminate safety issues, increase physical activity, and to aid in reducing health issues, but to also connect its residents to the different amenities and also to one another. Reducing different safety issues on the roads in Lake Forest could be accomplished by adding a sidewalk throughout its community. Contrary to many residents’ beliefs, having a sidewalk...
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...I Used to Live Here Once, is the journey through life; comfort in the predictable elements of life. The theme of the story is best supported by two literary elements: symbolism and the point of view of the story. The point of view, third person omniscient helps develop the familiar tone of the journey. It helps the reader feel the comfort and security in the journey. The symbolism, for example, the fragility of the sky, helps develop this idea that even though there is predictability in the journey, there is still this element of uncertainty or hope. It’s like thinking you know what comes next in the journey, but when it actually happens as the traveler was hoping, there is this sense of relief and comfort. There’s nothing worse than walking a “familiar” journey that suddenly becomes “unfamiliar.” Even after reading the story I went back and read it again, knowing the end, and actually felt that I could relate even closer to the familiarity of the journey. As the traveler steps across each...
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...notice my vision is hazy, but where it’s not I see a bright blue sky with few clouds. The birds are chirping, animals scampering about, and butterflies flying through the warm summer air. Everything is beautiful so I go inside to get on shorts and a tank top. I start to walk back outside the sky is gray, there are big puffy black clouds, thunder and lightning cracks through the sky and soon it starts to pour. I think to myself how did this happen; one minute it’s nice out and the next it is like a bomb exploded in the sky. All of a sudden I feel like I am being watched. So I spin around to find a dark figure walking toward me with something shiny in his hand. I start running somewhere, anywhere but there. Down the road I decide to slow down, and I cautiously turn around to see how close he is; he is nowhere in sight. All I see through the foggy rain is an empty road with trees on the sides. Everything looks as if the world is about to end. I exhale in relief, and I turn back around to continue to walk. It wasn't long before I hit a dead end. Instead of turning back I walk straight through the woodland. Then it hits me like a brick. He came out of nowhere behind a tree. It was as if he had been following me the entire time and waiting for his chance to catch his prey; me. His eyes dark with anger and he looks tired from casing and then goes to grab me and secedes in doing so. I struggle to get out of his grasp and within a couple of minutes I get out of it and I fall to...
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...the article “ There’s Never Been a Safer Time to be a Kid in America,” by Christopher Ingraham, spring folds the spotlight parents are put on about letting their kids have free range while being unsupervised or having to be by their side while the child is wanting to go somewhere just down the road. This has parents contemplating on letting their child be alone even though there really is no reason to be dwelling over the worst that can happen. Marc Elrich, chairman of the Montgomery County Council’s Public Safety Committee, refers to Ingraham by stating “walked more than a mile on his own to school” and baffled that “All of our parents would have been in jail” if there was a problem with letting your kids walk safely down the road. Thus persuading the fact that kids should be able to be unsupervised because it is safer than it used to be; for example, child mortality rates have decreased, abduction rates have dropped, and children pedestrians being struck in traffic had fallen tremendously. The importance of imagery in this article is used to give the audience a sense of direction in order to see Ingraham’s point of view. He gives a clear analogy of how two siblings, 6 and 10, were walking home when they got picked up by the police and detain them in the car for three hours. Ingraham uses the words “searching for you frantically” to give the audience an image of what the parents would be doing if their children didn’t make it home. The image, “the sun sets, night falls,” gives...
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...It’s easier to ignore the truth and live in fear but once we get over our doubts, though it’s difficult we can change the darkness to light. We can live in truth and goodness but it’s scary, suffer through much and sometimes there are consequences but living the right way in truth without fear is worth getting there. Although this was hard to live by because my world was turning upside down. Asking myself why now? Why her? She meant so much to me and my family. My aunt was a loving person, always caring for others and focusing on the good. My aunt Jamie was a very passionate kindergarten teacher at Sugar Creek Elementary School. She loved the field of knowledge and brought it to the classroom. She sincerely cared for her kids and encouraged them to be better. She had an impact on almost all the students she had, everyone loved her as a teacher because she was upbeat and enjoyed the kids. The other teachers also loved working with her throughout the years. Aunt Jamie always did more than what was required because she thought that the kids should deserve more. Another great thing my aunt did was adopt a child who I am thankful for today to have as a cousin. Shauna was always part of the family because my aunt would invite her to the annual cooks forest trip every summer. Although one day she decided to ask Shauna if she wanted to officially be apart of the family and to live with my aunt, uncle and other cousins. My aunt was able to provide Shauna with a better life...
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...Milk It was a very calm and cold night of winter; my boyfriend and I were studying very hard for our last tests of the semester. We needed to buy milk, hence, we decided to make a little break and go to the supermarket. We got in the car while we decided that was better to go to Monroe, a little town next to our town, thereby, we could take some air. When we were on the road we saw a house full of police cars, we got nervous and just kept going. Suddenly a police car appears behind us, we didn’t know what to do, therefore, the police turn the lights on, they obviously wanted to pull us over. We finally stopped and they got out of their car, we opened our car windows and felt even colder. They started asking so many questions for hours, we didn’t know what was happening; the only thing we knew was that we are Chilean, they are American racist and they didn’t like us. They took Sebastian, my boyfriend, out of the car and kept interrogating us. I remember perfectly them saying, “What´s your name? Where are you from? Where are you going? Why are you going so far? Who are you? What were you doing at home? Why do you have this car? How did you get this car?” we felt like we were suspicious of a murder. After an hour of rude interrogation, neither Sebastian nor I understood what was going on, they just kept asking and asking. When the police finally decided to stop asking questions, they told us why we got pulled over, “We stopped you, because your light in the back is not working...
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...with high electrically charged walls, protected with over twenty advanced security systems, and the absurdity just goes on. From the moment I was born, I was protected like the most fragile and valuable being in the world. Not because they loved me with all their hearts, but because they were afraid of me getting kidnapped. As a result, I have lived twenty years without any exposure to the vast world out that where all life live. Instead I'm contained in this prison. Though I have received a profound education from the most well known educators in the world, learning all courses of science, math, philosophy, I felt as if I was more ignorant than a newborn baby. I stood there in the empty road. There were no sound, no people, nothing. I turned to the right, and I see a straight empty road. I turned to...
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...death. With the purpose of having fun and spending our time, my two cousins, Avinash and Avijit. and I planned to go for trekking to the world’s biggest mountain pass, Thorung La Pass. It was a breathtaking experience. In the beginning of our journey, it was fun. But ‘danger’ and ‘risk’ is a part of every trekking and we soon came to know this as we went higher altitude. Also the immature leadership and dispute between us led to the problem that we had never faced before. “How far is it now?” Avinash asked in a hushed tone. ”Probably, 2 hours more.”. I replied. It was the first day of our trekking and we were tired walking continuously for 7 hours. The weight of the trekking bag and boots added the exhaustion making every one of us look pale. We were all full of sweat. It was soon going to be night so we had to walk fast. Suddenly the weather became a bump on our road. The weather turned blustery. It started lightening and thundering with heavy squall. We were in dilemma how to handle the situation. But then I saw a small hut in the jungle, we rushed towards the hut, waited there for the weather to cool down. We heard some noise from the jungle deep inside. It was strange but fearful. We didn’t take a step from that hut then. My mind was full of questions. “Was that the sound of a tiger?”, “Are we safe here? “ . Hopefully, the weather cooled down and we saw lights far distant to us. We thought that we have hit our destination for that day...
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