Driving on highways pulls your back on time. He says that he could drive for days and never find anything else just likes that because it's only made by that small town by those particular people. Americans drove in Route from Chicago to the Santa Monica, California.…
Time Management Expert, Laura Vanderkam gave an inspirational speech on, “How to gain control of your free time.” During the opening of her speech, she tells a story about her own faults; being late for scheduled appointments, and how busy her own life is as a working mom. She emphasized on being able to put time in perspective, prioritizing what is important and how to accomplish your set goals. She references, “time is highly elastic, we can’t make time, but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.” In fact, Ms. Vanderkam emphasized that time is a choice, and if we tell ourselves that we are busy, it really means that it’s not a priority. The speech was clear, energetic…
The radios blasting, your thumbs are tapping the steering-wheel, and your speedometer needle is between 75 or 80 as you drive on the interstate. "Instead of enjoying the ride a person is trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible," is an opinion stated by the author about interstates and for most cases its true. Interstates bypass all the towns, cities, and highways that people would not notice unless they drove on the highways instead of the interstate. Interstates are long, mostly straight, flat roads that lead from one place to another. On the interstate, semis loom over you like giant beast, cascading you and your entire car in a shadow as it rides by. Certain towns, shops, or cultures can only be found on blue highways, roads written in blue on a map, these highways can take you somewhere you have never been before. "Driving on blue highways pull you back in time. You look around, and it is America in…
The world revolves around unseen forces that surround us. We don’t have a complete knowledge of why everything happens, and so much of what goes on in our lives is a mystery to us all. As we grow up, we learn more about what is happening and why it’s happening, but as a child, much of this cannot be explained. In Conroy’s memoir Stop Time, he documents his journey to adulthood, which is paved with moments of revelations when he begins to learn more about the world and how it works. Through his loss at the town yo-yo competition Conroy learns how to cope with the life he is dealt and make do with what he has.…
When I was sixteen I moved to Orlando from New York. I had to rapidly adjust to the slow pace life of Floridians. The adjustment that was hardest for me was getting use to the transportation system, because my family didn’t have a car and we also didn’t know how to drive, like most New Yorkers. In New York everything is within a short distance of one another, so there is no need for cars when you can use public transportation. A reason people don’t drive in New York as much as a person living in Florida the gas price is $3.55 and in New York the gas price is $5.50. In Florida the easiest way to get around is to drive. In New York, you continuously run into traffic gridlocks during rush hour. That is when the public transportation will come in accessible. In Florida there rarely is traffic, if so it’s very light. In New York, everything is within walking difference. So if you don’t want to take public transportation, you can easily walk from point A to point…
To make the long, dreadful drive, I risk my life, a lot of time, and I also miss out on doing fun things with friends. But what makes all of the driving worth it? I finally came to the conclusion- dedication to your family.…
We left the school at 10:30 a.m. on a bright and sunny Monday morning. Our original plan was to leave at 10, but Cutter was late. We managed to get twelve people and all of their luggage on a little, tiny route bus. By the time we reached Clarendon, we realized that our little buses main air conditioner had broken. We were very upset, and the reason we were upset is because we were going to be in a bus without an air conditioner for five hours. Even though it seemed like the trip took days, we finally made it to the Dallas area. In the end we calculated that it took us almost eight hours, and this wasn’t counting the hour we spent in Cabela’s. After we went to Cabela’s we went to our hotel and checked in. Since convention started the next day, we just stayed at the hotel and relaxed.…
Society should realize that being distracted for only the fewest seconds on the road can wind up to be the depending of one’s…
In this day and age, companies have been trying to find new ways to increase the efficiency of their employees. One way that businesses have been doing this is by promoting driverless cars for the future. In the United States alone there are over 250 million vehicles in use, and all of these vehicles create a lot of traffic (Hirsch). The massive amount of workers trying to commute creates opportunities for human error to occur which contributes to the average worker spending about forty-two hours per year in traffic (Dooley). If the average working person could work during this time, then he or she could get an extra week off of work; this would drastically increase people’s happiness because they would have more time to relax after work. Taking more time off also improves business because on average people who take more vacation are more likely to stay at their current job (Bajic). In the long run, it is cheaper for companies to have people take a vacation than to find new a person for a position. All of these issues could be solved by driverless cars. Even though the transition to driverless cars will have some…
If a person has a very busy life, and has a lot of work to do, the last thing they would want to do is waste their time driving around, completing…
2. Audience Relevance: As college students, between school, work, and other extracurricular activities we have neither the time nor money to spend in our cars wasting gas stuck in traffic.…
In the United States about every other marriage ends in divorce these days. The reasons are varied, but what matters more are those directly affected, the children. Fifty percent will witness their parents’ divorce before they are adults and one of ten of those children will see it a second or even third time. We know the nature of divorce can be an ugly mess for everyone involved, but who speaks for the little guy? Most times adults will control the situation whether it is moving to another town or school, or picking the days of visitation with the other parent; all of this without any say from the child. Some aren’t so lucky. Some will be cut and dry while others like a lot of the families I babysit will be a constant battle. My first job was four years ago for a family of two girls, two boys, and a dad. They were rebellious as a lot of kids are, but very sweet when they wanted to be. In any case, I stayed with them all four years and as I watched them grow I noticed more and more how their parents’ divorce negatively affected them. The youngest was only three when I first met her, and now at the age of six and a half, she often has night terrors. She would wake up, hardly able to breathe or talk, hot, and shaking, muttering mommy, mommy. The oldest, now fifteen, was trying to stay strong for his younger siblings, though once cried in my arms for all the pressures he felt saying how he hated his life. This is a devastating time in a child’s life when their family breaks apart, and this is something no child should have to go through. No child at the age of three would be able to understand the aftermath of a divorce; four years later she still doesn’t understand. Parent’s need to take into consideration the effect their decision will have. They know their child best, though it is unpredictable how children will become of it. Some say divorce can make their children stronger, and others will say that it is the worst experience a child can go through.…
Here I am captured in this irritating street where all I can do is listen to music and look at Facebook. I am waiting for cars to start moving and continue with their destination. Little do I know that ahead of me is a two hour traffic. I am already tired, bored, and furious. I cannot believe I took this road home instead of my usual route. Why do I have to try new things? I should stick to what I know. While I sit in the drivers’ sit I am still wondering why I had the bright idea of taking a new way home, a way that I had little knowledge of.…
i. Social ecologist Peter F. Drucker once said, “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” Never is this truer than when describing the importance of time management skills for people.…
Road tripping is supposed to be fun and exciting. It gives me an opportunity to jump in the car and explore something new. In the summertime 2008 when I got my 99’ Dodge Intrepid back from the previous accident, I begun my road trip to Yellowstone National Park in early morning. As I drove down the road, I soon realized that I had never been anywhere alone before. This was a new feeling for me, one of strength and fear rolled into one. My trip was nerve wrecking because I faced a certain problems with my car that I have never experienced before, but it taught me a lot about how to maintain my car.…