Roads Go Ever On

The poem I read is called "Roads Go Ever On", I liked this poem because Tolkien talks about how roads go through everything and everywhere. For example, roads go over rocks and by caves where the sun never shines. I also liked how the author mentions how he wants to follow the road and does not know where the road will end or even begin. This is a very good poem, there are so many examples about roads going over things and also where they start and where they end. I like the last stanza because the author leaves the reader wondering about a new road and having a secret gate.

Synthesis Brainstorm

1. Culture
2. Traditions- How roads change/share traditions
3. Diseases
4. Road as a symbol of life and death
5. Transportation (roads and economic business)
6. Immigration

Newspaper Articles

The Economic Times

Road Safety is No Accident

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2004-04-09/news/27388199_1_road-traffic-road-safety-vulnerable-road-users

The New York Times

Getting Teenagers Home Safely

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/opinion/05wed3.html?_r=1&ref=driverseducation


Los Angeles Times

Roundabouts Lead to Road Safety, New Study Finds

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/mar/31/news/mn-45177

Scholarly Journals

Increased traffic exposure and negative birth outcomes: a prospective cohort in Australia.

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=6&hid=17&sid=83fa2d07-e6cc-4cb8-bff6-00d905df93fb%40sessionmgr12&bdata=JmxvZ2luLmFzcCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmU%3d#db=afh&AN=60420951

This article is about road constructions near homes and how the polution affects pregnant women. Road construction give pregnant women a negative birth outcome because of the polution they are breathing. The houses that are closests to the construction work are the ones that are being affected the most.


Potential Health Effects Associated with Residential Proximity to Freeways and Primary Roads: Review of Scientific Literature, 1999-2006.

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=6&hid=17&sid=83fa2d07-e6cc-4cb8-bff6-00d905df93fb%40sessionmgr12&bdata=JmxvZ2luLmFzcCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmU%3d#db=afh&AN=31758676

The article is about health effects with residents in traffic.The author talks about how polution makes people sick especially if he or she is stuck in traffic. There are examples of different polutions that are in the air, mostly caused by cars itself.

STOP THE ROAD: Freeway Revolts in American Cities.

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=6&hid=17&sid=83fa2d07-e6cc-4cb8-bff6-00d905df93fb%40sessionmgr12&bdata=JmxvZ2luLmFzcCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmU%3d#db=afh&AN=13637291

This article is about stopping freeways because they took over neighborhoods, parks, and sensitive areas around American cities. This erupted during the 1960s and 1970s where engineers had complete control of the freeways.

Government Documents

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archstories/late_roads/good_roads.asp

The article discusses the Good Roads Movement in Wisconsin, during the 1890s a movement to transform the state's country roads into decent thoroughfares began.

http://blog.accessfayetteville.org/triple_bottom_line/2010/06/states-road-decay-cited-in-death-rate.html

This article discusses the road death rate in Arkansas, it is one of the highest death rates per miles traveled in the country.

http://inyocounty.us/inyovdoi/closed_roads.htm

This article talks about four different roads in the town of GreenWater, there is Petro Cayon road, Lost Section Road, Last Chance Road, and Padre Point Road.

Roads

Regular Road

Positive Road

Negative Road

                                   

Possible Topics for Research Paper

1. Culture/poverty
2. Education
3. Struggle/health
4. Boundaries
5. Tradition
6. Disease/death

New York Time Articles

College does make students smarter but it also depends on the student. For example, the student has to be committed to his or her studies. They also have to focus on their major and focus on how long it would take them to finish college. In the article "A Different Type of Student" explains how students now have a whole different class environment whether it's using computers instead of paper or watching videos instead of reading about something. Yes, there are some students that are lazy and do not learn anything with this type of environment but students themselves discipline his or herself to learn and get smarter. If a student does not want to do anything about their future than that is their own problem. Most students do get smarter in college because of how they study and also how they know when to have fun and when to get serious about school in general.

Introductions

In Ted Conover's book, The Routes Of Man asserts that roads nowadays have a different effect than the one they had back then. Conover backs this claim up with examples of the way roads are used, for example Conover mentions that "The same roads that bring outside connection and knowledge to people starving...the same roads that carry cars symbolizing personal freedom" (Conover 3). Conover's purpose is to inform the audience of how he feels about the influence of roads in order to create consciousness about the outcome that roads have. This book and the book The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea have some similarities but mostly differences. They both use figurative meanings in book the books. For example how the devil's highway can lead a person to a different life. It is the same idea when reading The Routes Of Man because a person can take a different road in their life as well. The difference about these books is that one book uses figurative meaning most of the time which is The Devil's Highway. The idea of The Devil's Highway is to inform the reader of how he or she can take a journey into a different road, different lifestyle and he or she have never encountered. The author's tone is very mysterious because he leaves the reader thinking of what crime he is talking about and also who did it? A different question to ask the author would be about the title, is there a reason why it's called The Devil's Highway?

In the book A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit is about getting lost not just physically but also in a person's mental stage. Solnit also wrote this book based on her own life experiences and her history as well. The idea of her book is to have the reader think about how he or she is getting lost in the world either mentally or physically. What her book has in common with the other two books is also the figurative meaning but A Field Guide to Getting Lost is mainly getting lost mentally in oneself. One of the characters in her book is a photographer who photographs life itself and also how the person getting lost finds out more about him or herself in a different way. The difference between these books would be the stories even though they have similar examples they are all telling different stories. They all also have different settings for each of the books it is not all in one place. All three authors do have the same way of getting the reader's attention, it is by the way they begin their introductions and also by the way it ends. They all leave the reader wanting to read more of the books to see what will happen next.