The Road to a Quest What is a quest? If unaware as to what a quest is, it is a long search for something. What makes up a quest? What primarily makes up a quest is a questor, where the questors are going, stated reason for the quest, challenges and trials, and the real reason for the quest. Quests can be seen anywhere from movies to books. In the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy for example. That is a great story of a quest and survival. An important part of a quest is completing it. In the story
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Guardian sustainable business Technology and Innovation Reinventing the wheel: new tech turns regular bikes into hybrids – and a traffic tool The Copenhagen Wheel turns bicycles into electric hybrids, able to multiply pedal power, track your heart rate and monitor potholes. But at $800, it costs more than a bike Reinventing the wheel: smart bikes, if widely adopted, could change the way we think about urban transportation. Photograph: John Giles/PA Sponsored by: BT Elisabeth Braw Friday
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` Measuring Road Transport Performance 1. Aspects of Performance To a large extent the bottom line indicator of performance of freight and passenger road transport is the operating cost per tonne or tonne-km (or per passenger or passenger-km). Level of service aspects such as travel time, reliability, safety, comfort and security are also important, as well as environmental impacts. Trucks: In countries where large-scale intercity trucking operates efficiently in medium-income countries with
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Make America Great Again: Put Our Money to Good Use Growing up our parents try to teach us to spend our money wisely, but maybe our government never learned this lesson. We are 19 trillion dollars in debt and there is an abundant amount of programs and organizations that could use major tune ups here in America with that money (Boccia). Putting our money in the right places is what will truly make America great again. We already put enough into the military budget; the United States should focus
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diving down a road called Bloody Pond. They were trying to get to the next city to their hotel to stay in that night. They had only one thing on. That was their phone with the GPS to get to the town called Gills Vile. They have never been to Pennsylvania. They were driving down Bloody Pond. They saw a sign in the distance. They were slowing down to see what it said. It said Gills Vile turn right. They then took a right and were following the road. The GPS said to go down a different road but it was
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After difficulties and hardships, only a person’s true character remains. In Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road, the father and son balance between their earnest scavenge for food and a dying code of human ethics. Taking place in world with no resources remaining, the types of meals throughout the novel symbolizes the survivors’ changing, or persisting, values and integrity. Throughout their journey, the father and son’s shared meals offers insight into the old world’s enduring morals
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Take a drive. Take a drive about five miles south of the small town of Rolla, Missouri. Just past the Snake River Bridge you'll see a dirt road on the right with an old rusted, red street sign that reads "Route 4." Take this right and follow the winding rural road up the steep grades of the Ozark Mountains until you reach a small, modest farm at the top of the first ridge. This was my home when I was ten years old. Inside the walls of my family's log cabin was a life wrought with staunch rules and
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As the saying goes, the grass is always greener on the other side. This is the case in Gwendolyn Brooks’ “a song in the front yard,” which tells the story of a young girl who yearns to live a life different from her own. This is something that just about anyone can relate to, whether you’re rich or poor. This poem starts off with the narrator saying “I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life.” (Brooks). This metaphor sets the scene for the rest of the poem, which talks of her desire to “peek at the
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The skytran bus sped through the runway and latched itself up onto the magnetic rails high into the heavens. Sebastian High School couldn’t afford new buses, hence my class receives this worn-out rustic geezer instead. Near the walls, floral curtains drape the windows and carpet, blankets the tiled floor. Just when I grow tired, eating up every inch of scenery through the grimy window, we ascend higher and pass Helios city on the cloud islands. These monstrous structures dwarf our little-sized raft
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Road rage is loosely considered to be the act of using one's car to threaten the occupants of another car. Whether or not one intends to carry out the threat does not change the fact that it is an act of road rage which carries more serious penalties than merely driving too fast or constant lane changing. Why is road rage so prevalent today? Studies on rats have shown that overcrowded conditions induce stress and aggressive behavior, causing the animals to turn against each other. While overcrowded
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