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    The rise in the number of road accidents and road fatalities is indeed worrying. Even the road safety campaigns aimed at reducing road accidents have met with little success. Only when there is a change in the mindsets of road users can we expect a decrease in the number of road accidents. The most reason that occur the problem is negligence of road users. The road users always pay inattention while driving on the road. They are using mobile phones or looking

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    The turbulent societal changes of the mid-20th Century have been documented in countless forms of literature‚ film and art. On the Road by Jack Kerouac was written and published at the outset of the counter-culture movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This novel provides a first-hand account of the beginnings of the Beat movement and acts as a harbinger for the major societal changes that would occur in the United States throughout the next two decades. On the contrary‚ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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    Design of rural road segment. Table of contents 1. Scope of design exercise. 3 2. Design data. 3 3. Horizontal road alignment. 3 3.1. Length of straight segments and angels of deflection. 3 3.2. Horizontal curves. 4 3.2.1. Calculation of curve length and tangent length. 4 3.3. Road chainage. 5 3.4. Determination of lane widening on curves. 5 4. Vertical road alignment. 6 4.1. Calculation of characteristic points on the road center line. 6

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     "The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” describes a traveler faced with a choice of which one of two roads to travel. He knows not where either road might lead. In order to continue on his journey‚ he can pick only one road. He scrutinizes both roads for the possibilities of where they may take him in his travels. Frost’s traveler realizes that regret is inevitable. Regardless

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    Road Rage The sun is setting as you put your car in drive‚ pulling out into bumper to bumper traffic. As you sit with a pounding headache trying to decompress from just another day‚ praying there will be a break in traffic so you can get home. Juggling work‚ school‚ and family is hard‚ and just think‚ you get to do it all again tomorrow. The bottled up traffic is beginning to clear‚ if you could just pass the car in front of you‚ you’ll be home in no time. You turn your head and glance to

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    by Cormac McCarthy‚ The Road explains the story of a boy and his father living in a post-apocalyptic world‚ ridden with cannibalism and diseases threatening their lives. McCarthy has constructed a world around the boy and father‚ showing aspects of human nature to warn readers of the importance within trust and the will to survive in humanity. Conversely‚ detrimental effects that lie within these aspects of human nature are shown. Examples are specifically shown in The Road through boy and the father’s

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    The speaker in Robert Frost ’s "The Road Not Taken" gives the reader insight into human nature with each line of poetry. While‚ Frost had not originally intended for this to be an inspirational poem‚ line by line‚ the speaker is encouraging each reader to seek out his or her own personal path in the journey of life. Romanticizing the rural woods of New England creates the perfect setting for the theme of self-discovery laid out and described by the speaker. Robert Frost ’s original intent in

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    The Road by: Cormac McCarthy Described the novel as a “gripping‚ heart-rending story‚ which explores the depths of despair and savagery beside the heights of love‚ tenderness and self-sacrifice.” Destruction‚ survival‚ isolation‚ and death are prominent themes in The Road. Most life has been wiped out by some unnamed catastrophic event. Cities are destroyed; plant life is gone; animals have disappeared. Civilization has broken down‚ and chaos reigns in its place. No matter where the man and the

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    Stray menace on city roads | | | | Written by Newspoint Bureau    | Tuesday‚ 29 March 2011 23:09 | Jammu Tawi‚ March 29Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) continues to retain an apathetic attitude towards the mounting menace of stray animals especially mules‚ cattle‚ cows‚ bulls and dogs on the roads of city and its adjoining areas. Stray animals including cows‚ buffaloes‚ bulls and dogs can be seen roaming most affected areas are those located near urbanized villages‚ illegal dairies

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    Variables for road accidents in Faisalabad Thousands of road accidents occur every day resulting in death or serious injury to drivers‚ passengers‚ and pedestrians. There are numerous reasons for road accidents. Here is a list of the major causes; 1. Bad roads – Have you ever driven on a paved road that felt like a dirt roads. Pot holes and uneven pavement can and do lead to serious road accidents by throwing you off course and out of control of your vehicle. Bad roads are not unusual in some

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