Rough Draft #3 “Y’all stay away from the road!” yelled my step-dad. That’s what my family and I heard from standing in the field off the highway in the middle of humid Florida. The transmission on our burgundy suburban had gone out. My step-dad thought he could fix it with his mechanic background, but he couldn’t. I said, “Call a tow truck! Call a tow truck! I’m getting eaten alive by the mosquitoes.” About thirty minutes later, my parents finally took my advice and called a tow truck. This was when my sister and I learned to get along with our step-brother.
It was a hot, humid sunny Florida July afternoon when the transmission went out. We were on our way back from Cape Canaveral to watch the launch of the last NASA space shuttle go to space. It was a long drawn out drive because my family thought we had to stop and see every little tourist spot. All I wanted to do was get home. We made it about five miles outside of Lake City, Florida, and I thought we were stopping again to see a tourist spot. Little did I Know that an hour later, our suburban was in the shop waiting to get worked on. We were dropped off by our tow truck driver at the Best Western with nothing but our suitcases.
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Since we were stranded at the hotel for three days, we were forced by our parents to be nice to each other. We decided that it was best to not talk to each other because there was bound to be some things that shouldn 't be said. After one day of being cooped up, we couldn 't take the silence anymore. We ended up cracking jokes and play games with everyone. Every time after our parents told us to do something, Jake would always say “real talk.” It was the best said on that whole trip because we 'd gone delusional by not being home for 2 weeks. We realized that Jake wasn 't so bad after
Nevertheless, fifty yards from her dearest friend Estelle Louise’s dirt driveway, the truck’s bald tires skidded across a massive oil slick. As a result, the pickup spins uncontrollably in loose circles as it continues down the middle of the narrow country road, before it finally slithers sideways and abruptly stops. She guffaws when she realized the Chevy had
The title of the documentary is “Suburban America: Problems & Promises”. The intended audience for this documentary is individuals that do not know the history of how suburban areas came about, and how they have changed and grown dramatically over the years. It also explains the political impact that the growing suburban areas has on our government and how expanding these areas can change the outcome of an election. Suburban areas grew after the soldiers came home after WWII. Many suburban areas in the beginning were segregated.
Most things have positive and negative aspects, this documentary goes into detail on the problems and promise that suburban areas hold for the United States of America and its citizens. The approximately 55 minute documentary is titled “Suburban America: Problems and Promises” and was produced by American Public Television. The intended audience of this documentary is likely students studying material that concerns urban planning. This is due to the documentaries focus on political, social and economic issues surrounding American suburbia. The audience is shown suburban issues such as infrastructure, the environment, transportation, housing costs, the economy, and how the suburbs political power can influence the entire United States and its suburban landscape.
The documentary that we needed to watch for this essay is titled "Suburban America: Problems & Promise. " The movie is produced and directed by Ron Rudaitis, and its intended audience are students, community leaders, educators, as well as anyone who is interested in learning about the challenges that suburbs face, their history, as well as the role that they played in shaping the American society. The primary purpose of the documentary is to inform its audience about suburbia. The film briefly focuses on informing the viewer about the history of suburbs.
The summer rainstorms, over the past four days, have transformed the roadways, of Wrongberight a rural hamlet on the eastern shores of Virginia, into a never-ending slip and slide. It was late Saturday afternoon, when vivacious Clemmy Sue Jarvis, a petite woman of sixty three, cautiously pulled out of her driveway, and slowly turned south on to Flat Bottom Road. She maneuvered the rain soaked road with great care. Nevertheless, fifty yards from her dearest friend Estelle Louise’s long dirt driveway, her rusty Chevy pickup, kept mobile with hairpins, bubble gum, and duct tape, skidded across a massive oil slick. As a result, the pickup spins in loose circles as it continued down the middle of the narrow country road, before it finally
Will Krew Professor Rosado-Ramirez ANTHRO 101-6 2 March 2023 Argumentative Essay Often nicknamed the factory of sadness, Cleveland, Ohio has recently struggled to retain its population. In its early years, Cleveland, a key city in the Rust Belt, experienced immense growth with the manufacturing boom of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As a result, Cleveland’s population peaked at 900,000 residents in 1950; however, as manufacturing subsided across the United States in favor of a technological era, Cleveland’s current population has declined to below 370,000 (“Cleveland”). Although many cities with economies based around manufacturing encountered similar declines in the late twentieth century, many of these cities, such as Chicago and
The more I drove the more hope I found and in that hope seemed to be strength. After several more stops for food, bathroom breaks, gas and taking care of animal needs we finally reached our destination of the big city of Virginia Beach. Pulling into the driveway I was surprised by new friends waiting to help us unload the U-Haul. Unloading our belongings did not seem as difficult for me emotionally as loading them did.
Brown County Have you you ever wondered what it would be like to camp in the fall? Camping in the fall is fun, beautiful, and exciting. Brown County, Indiana is the right place for you. Brown County is located in Southern Indiana. It has a state park and many campgrounds.
It was an interesting ride you would never expect was down there. We were on our way to the plane intense was increasing rapidly. On the first plane ride it was just too intense I was so excited everyone was sleeping I was awake the entire ride. The only thing that I had on my mind is me getting there to the hotel. When we were done with the plane ride our first stop was in Texas.
As a young girl, around the age of 10 I lived in the Perry projects with my mother. Previously to moving there I would visit often to see my great-grandmother. When I would visit my grandmother there were not many other people that were African-American. The Commodore Perry Projects had been actually made for white people.
Kansas Bound On May of 2010 I went to Kansas City, MO to see my Grandma. This was my first long car ride since I can remember , nine hours going speed limit. First, we were in the rough side of Kansas, mostly because we lost signal and got lost. We couldn’t look out the side of the window or there was a fifty fifty chance we may or may not get shot.
PLEASANTVILLE – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Pleasantville (1998), the picture perfect example of a 1950’s America. Life is pleasant where everyone knows their place. The movie takes place in mid-1990s’, as David (Tobey Maguire), lives a depressed and mundane life. His salvation appears in the form of a fairy-godfather, as he and his sibling Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), are teleported into the world of Pleasantville, a utopia-like lifestyle that brings with it a pleasant existence, where life ran smoothly in “black and white”. This passion-less world is brought forward by director and producer Gary Ross and the ideas of change.
Downtown Durant is a charming place that showcases some of the oldest and newest businesses in town. When I had the chance to walk around, I got to observe how Durant has gradually been building up since its’ beginning in the late 1800s. Durant has accumulated a unique history, which I had a chance to learn firsthand by some local business owners and by observing and doing my own research. My group started our adventure on the east end of Main Street.
Read the following E.E. cummings poem carefully, and then in a well-organized essay, analyze how cummings uses language to describe the setting as well as to convey mood and meaning. In the uniquely constructed Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town, E.E. Cummings uses abstract grammar, symbolism and free indirect speech to subjectively describe a story of “anyone” living in a “pretty how town” that conveys the poem’s mood and meaning. The most distinctive and noticeable aspect of Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town is its syntax.
The desert seems vast, even endless at times, a small winged creature flew over it, not a bird, no, but something else. It saw hills towering to the size of mountains, waves arcing over each other, all of this, made of the same substance. White sand, plain and out stretching to impossible distances and spaces. Sand so drained and lacking of color that it reflects the sun like a blank sheet of paper held outside by a student at mid day.