Road to Perdition is a mob drama that took place in a Midwestern town during the depression era of the 1930s. ... John Baltake of the Sacramento Bee Movie Club suggested that Road to Perdition is an "impressive, uncompromising work in many ways, but it succeeds mostly as a haunting allegory about dying." ... Moreover, Baltake declares Road to Perdition "is the best film of the year." In contrast, Victoria Alexander of Rottentomatoes.com cited that "the failure of Road to Perdition lies in the pace and the main characters that are one-dimensional and lack introspection." ... Without a do...

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I was one of those boys who were born with a golden spoon in his mouth. When I was 3 years old, my dad had cars he put on the road for public transportation, though he was riding a Vespa motorcycle. He eventually acquired a lot of cars which were at the disposal of my younger ones and me. We had our...

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As in almost every post-apocalyptic world, hope plays a large role in the story. In Cormack McCarthey's, The Road, it is shown that in times of desperation, people often view hope in different perspectives. The boy sees "carrying the fire" as the good in humanity. However, the father views his son's...

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When we got there the roads had not been plowed but a truck, most likly driven buy some punk kids had already been down the road so we figured if they could make it so could we. So we drove about half way down the road this was done sideways most of the time. We park the truck in the middle of this road which is not much more than a two rut dirt road. ... And just barely make out that a vehicle had gone down the road in front of us. ... So about thirty minutes and a half mile later we get to a road that has been plowed. ...

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The road they were set out on begins as the path God as laid out for them. ... Instead, they end up traveling down a dirt road that will eventually lead to their peril. ... The road they head down is not straightforward and simple like the road before, but dangerous. "The dirt road was hilly and there were sudden washes in it and sharp curves on dangerous embankments" (1047). The dirt road represents sin, which seems to be worth it at first glance. ...

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People who travel for the first time to Ho Chi Minh City are surprised with large amount of motorbikes, bicycles and others like cyclos, buses, taxies on the road. ... People would admire the quality of roads in Orange County, for they are maintained very well; in addition, there are many sections of highways and freeways. On the other hand, Ho Chi Minh City have many national highways which do not really separate local roads; moreover, they are narrow, dirty, and cracked everywhere. ... That is the "center left turn lane which is located in the middle of two-way roads. ... The streets...

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Macey has been known to spend her weekends with her grandparents living on Shell Road. The road is known throughout the town for its beauty and respectable people. On the same road, Austin's grandparents live. ... There was a barn fire on Shell road in 1959; thus, Macey chose that as her topic. ...

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He also likes taking risks like when he called in the false report to get the sheriff watching the closed road to leave. Then he takes an even bigger risk when he drove down the closed snow covered road to bring his son home. ... She always plays it safe and probably would have never driven or even thought to have driven on a closed off road with snow on it. ...

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If I had lived in ancient times, would I have chosen to become a Roman citizen? I might have! Not everyone who applied to be a citizen was accepted, but anyone could apply. The Romans were fierce soldiers and wonderful builders. We would have built roads all over the empire, and all roads led ...

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Being the horrible family they are, they completely ignore the grandmother's warnings, and despite the fact, the whole family starts on a road trip toward Florida. ... Finally out on the road, the family meets several more occurrences that directly hint at the family's coming doom. ... The car reaches a dirt road that is eerie and looks like it isn't traveled very often. ...

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Danger seems inevitable when shallow travelers, who are embodiments of the self-interested materialistic society, embark on a road trip to an unsure destination. ... Her clothing, her perfection, and her attitude are seen as religious; however, it is ironic that she appears to be dressed to attend church, and not to partake on a family road trip. ... She is more concerned with her looks than her family's safety as she specifically stated that she wanted anyone who finds her dead on the road will know she was a lady. ...

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Uncle John let it float down the flooded road to show the world of all of the struggling they had suffered. ... Shortly after the baby's death and the ending of the flooding the Joads venture down the road and here they find a boy and his dying father. ...

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Divorce is a result of multiple things, but infidelity, financial strain and communication issues are the three most common issues leading to a the dissolve of a marriage. Infidelity, is also a leading factor in divorce rates. At times, when spouses do not receive the attention they desire, they fin...

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When Oedipus meets the man in the road on his journey away from his parents, he has no idea that it is his real father. ... Now there is a man in the road causing a confrontation in which he loses and dies. ...

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As the trip progresses the grandmother see's a little Black child on the road. ... As the family drives closer to their destination, the grandmother tells the family that there is a plantation with a secret panel off of a dirt road. ...

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The coffee trees on either side of the road had berries dark green plump with potential. The squirrels looked up curiously at the interruption of the deep bellow of a four-cylinder army green Jeep trundling along the dirt road with a nervous 12-year-old boy at the helm. ...

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Living out of a truck while on the road caused many problems for the Joads as well as all other travelers, such as sickness and often death. When darkness fell, they pitched their tents wherever they could stop, most frequently on the side of the road, and hoped not to be forced to move on by policemen. ...

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However, there are still numerous unemployed and impoverished individuals and it is a usual sight to see children pleading on the roads. The capital suffers from unfortunate infrastructure; roads are severely jammed and there are regular power outages. ...

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Stretching the dollar has replaced recreation as the American family's pastime. In an economy soured by a volatile stock market and mortgage lender meltdowns, two-paycheck families are busting the budget on necessities. Even conservative spenders are growing weary. During a recent small group dis...

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Have you ever been in a car accident before? I have. Let me tell you about the car accident that i was in. My step mom Kristy, my little sister Alison, and I were in our mini van driving to my Aunt Julie's house. It was a cold and partly sunny Sunday. Alison was only about one year old and sh...

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So my mom agreed and we got back on the road again, which I hated because I hate sitting in one spot for hours and hours. ... After we visited, got refreshed, and well rested we was back on the road again. ...

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Cars had been honking at one another, people screaming at car drivers as they cross the narrowly built roads. I had been astonished when I came to realize that there had been no traffic lights present on the roads. ...

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On my father's way to town he was run off the road by a vehicle that crossed over into his lane. ... The only thing at the time the officers could decipher was where the tire skids of my father's bike led off the road. ...

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My sister, brother, mom, and I took a taxi to the Dahieh where there was not even room for a person to stand in between two cars on the road. The Dahieh was filled with locals walking around , hundreds of rundown apartment buildings, unpaved roads that were probably not safe to drive on, side streets who's names could not be found through a GPS system, and stores and shops at the ground of each building. ...

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Traveling all the time, my dad sold vans, we got to experience a lot of the back roads of America. ... During most of our road trips my dad would always vocalize his thoughts about anyone and everything he seen. ...

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