“SUNNY DRIVE FASTER!”, I screamed. Who in their right mind would ever drive at such a slow pace when there is a car tailgating you with people wearing joker masks inside? I mean sure, the road is slippery but that is still no reason to go less than twenty five miles per hour. It had been almost ten minutes since our first encounter with these strange people. But thinking about it, no prankster would ever go this far to prank someone. About seven miles out of the city where the road is curvy, dark and narrow, we were being chased with no help, whatsoever.
It was a chilly early March evening early on during the year. There wasn’t much going on in terms of events or activities that night with the exception of a group of guys who were about to
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In the 1970’s there used to be an old schoolhouse up there with around 20-30 kids. This part of Evergreen had not been yet developed so the school was deep in the backcountry. One day, the teacher came to her class mentally disturbed and out of insanity, hung each and every single one of her students and herself after the fact. The school was shut down and fenced off to the public afterwards. Pretty scary huh? Just wait until I tell you what happens on that road today. Drivers going down there at night will reportedly see a little boy maybe eight or nine years old randomly just standing amongst the trees a little bit off the road and when approached he disappears. There have also been reports of the school teacher just walking down the road in front of the car and when approached she says in a demonic voice, “ Get out of my woods!” Now the school teacher part I’d have to call BS on because I’m pretty sure in the four times I’ve gone down the road that has never happened. Also, if you were to pull over and turn off your headlights and turn them back on, you would see handprints appear on your car windows. Now that is seriously freaky! The final part to the legend is that a mysterious man in a white truck chases you off if you come too close to the schoolhouse gate. I personally have not seen the white truck during my times down the road but I have seen …show more content…
I nervously said to the rest of my friends, “ Alright, I think we should get back to the car.” Everyone seemed to be on the same page as me and ran to the car and slammed the doors shut the moment we saw four people step out of the new vehicle. The four people had these terrifying joker masks on and these lantern-like camping flashlights. They ran up to the car we were in and began to attempt to open the doors. Unfortunately, Sunny’s door was still ajar because he was the last person into the car and he was struggling to get the man with the mask to close his door. Meanwhile in the back passenger seats, Rishabh and Preet threw their sodas at the other two men’s faces which led them to stagger backwards as Preet was able to close the door. We were all screaming at Sunny to start the car and start driving as the other car had already driven off. What reliable people huh! We had the head start on them as we had began to drive slowly down the very slippery road back towards civilization. Adrenaline was coursing through our veins as we were still in shock as to what happened and were trying to make sense of what had just happened. We were all yelling at Sunny to go faster because he was driving really slow for some reason but he just told us to calm down and let him drive. The fear however came to life when we saw bright yellow headlights come up behind us maybe fifty feet or so behind us. We sped up for a good ten minutes after
When one usually thinks of a hearing a ghost story, the setting is dark with flickering light (such as around a campfire or in a basement with bad lighting) and, of course, it is nighttime. Needless to say, when I heard this story during the middle of the day on a Friday, I was a little taken aback. When prompted for any urban legends or ghost stories a white, female friend of mine immediately responded with, “Have you ever heard of de Sales Academy?” With my negative response, the nineteen year old student jumped into her story:
Many events took place in the 1960’s, but is this time period better than today’s society. The 60’s consist of love, peace, and war. The sixties include the Space Race and colorful clothing. People may say that it is safer or easier to live in the sixties, but it isn’t really , living in a society where that the time a male becomes an adult would be drafted to the Vietnam War or women not having basic rights such as having equality in the workspace . In the sixties President Kennedy and civic activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. These are only the few of the negative things that happened throughout the 1960’s. Today’s society is much better.
The 1970s can be best understood as a transitional period in America. Starting in the 1950s, the power of the youth was on the rise, through civil rights activism and anti-war protests. This decade’s ideal citizen seemed to be the person helping others. Then the 1980s are more financially centered and individualistic. This decade’s ideal citizen is the one who measured success by how much money they made. The 1970s proved to be a time of bitterness, cynicism, and increased interest in one’s self for most of the people in America. Some of the events that contributed to this were the Kent State Massacre, Roe v. Wade, and the economic stagflation that happened in the latter part of the decade.
There is a huge difference between life in the United States as it is today and in the 1950s/1960s. The greatest change is the way in which people lived back then verses how they live today and there are many things that influence these changes. For example, after World War II ended, there was a large increase in childbirth throughout the United States. As a result of this, many Americans moved to the suburbs in hopes of a better life. This would create not only more job opportunities, but some leisure as well. There also has been a significant change in the roles that both men and women played in society in the 1950s/1960s verses today. For instance, women are no longer looked upon as just a “House Wife”. Back in the 1950s/1960s, after a woman started a family her main job was to take care of the household while the men
Bruce Beresford’s film, Paradise Road, is based on the true historical events that followed the attack of the Vyner Brooke, where the hardships of the circumstances tested the characters in ways that both support and challenge the statement of ‘who we are is truly tested and proven when we encounter conflict’. Conflict is defined as “a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one”, and can be perceived in many ways. How someone perceives conflict is beyond their control, as it may be entirely influenced by others and their actions, their perception
The decade of the 1970s impacted the United States and left the economy in ruins. The stock market was a mess and people didn’t really want to have anything to do with stocks. The stock market lost about forty percent over a period of 18 months, that is a large sum considering how much money goes into them. Furthermore, in the Energy Crisis & Economic Collapse, the United States had to pay twelve dollars for a barrel of oil instead of the usual of eight. On the other hand, the impact happened through famous people, even through music and fashion. The 1970s hold people like John Travolta and three of the United States presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and James Carter. The 1970s was also the decade where punk rock and disco was made. Some of the fashion was even affected by the music styles. Everything that happened in the 1970s still holds an effect on us today, especially the economy.
“In the front seat was Gregg, driving, Sarah, in the middle, and Robyn, on the passenger side. In the rear seat was Jeff, behind the driver, Haley, in the middle, and Rachel, on the passenger side. EVERYONE was wearing their SEAT BELTS, as is our family habit. EVERYONE walked away from this accident with only bruises. The only blood was Robyn had small nicks from glass in a couple of places on her right arm and right leg.
Truck driving is a difficult job which requires great responsibility of transferring the goods from one place to other far place with proper safety. Genuine CDL training is required by every aspiring truck driver to attain essential skills as a professional driver. These training programs are meant not only help the students learn about the possible ways to handle and manage their trucks in most adverse traffic and weather conditions, but also, this training helps them to learn how to prevent any major loss of the goods during the transference.
The 1960s and 1970s was an influential time in history, especially in the music industry. Between these two decades many new music genres were created and legends that are still praised today were born. There are many similarities in the type of music that was listened to at these times but each decade is different and unique in their own way.
As James Flink points out in The Automobile Age, the village store and the local banks were the businesses most vulnerable to the new competition (47). Robert E. Wood, former vice president of Sears, explains how businesses moved to the suburbs, "When the automobile reached the masses, it changed this condition [the funneling of consumers into the town centre] and made shopping mobile. In the great cities Sears located its stores well outside the main shopping districts, on cheap land, usually on arterial highways, with ample parking space (Wollen 13)." Thus city centers came to be seen as sites of congestion, whereas the surrounding areas were regarded as accessible and convenient. The rapid proliferation of shopping complexes outside of the city center in the 1950s left down town a crime-ridden wasteland of vacated stores. City centers no longer featured traditional shops; instead they contained gas stations, parking lots, and inns whose focus was on the travelers and their cars (Wollen 13).
Imagine being a woman in the 1970’s. There are hardly any big or important jobs that you can have, and it’s hard to support your family. You’re shamed for wanting a higher education and wanted to be equal. If you get pregnant, you could be fired from your job. Abortion is looked down on and isn’t even legalized until 1973.
Life During the 1960’s The 1960s was crammed full of many impacting events and important figures. From Hitchcock releasing one of the greatest thrillers of all time, Psycho, to Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death, to the infamous Woodstock festival. This era changed history completely and made the United States think twice about its youth. Events of the 1960s are still impacting our country, as we know it today.
John Hillcoat directed The Road film in 2009. It is a frightening visual adjustment of the novel composed by Connor McCarthy. The movie starts by setting a dark, dull and cold state of mind in a convincingly reasonable post-apocalyptic world. The film revolves around the journey of a little family’s survival. The only main comfort to be found in the dark setting of the scene is the loving bond that exists amongst father and son.
I lived with my father for my entire life, but due to his work I did not spend much time with him. My father worked at a different city; and thus he comes home only a few times a month. My father is a mechanic. He works at a company that is distant from our home. This was due to the company being the only one and the first where cars were being assembled in Ethiopia. Sometimes on the weekends I used to go to his work place. He would give me a trip of the place; the station was filled with vehicles, trucks, and motorcycles. It was separated by sections. In each section there were only one type of vehicle and the assembly process was shown step by step. From a fuse to large engine of the car, components were getting attached.
The development of urban transportation has not changed with the cities; cities have changed with transportation. This chapter offers an insight into the Past and the future of Urban transportation and is split up into a number of different sections. It includes a timeline of the different forms of transport innovations, starting from the earliest stages of urban transport, dating back to the omnibus (the first type of urban transportation) and working in a chronological order until eventually reaching the automobile. However, these changes in Urban transport did not happen for no reason. Different factors within society meant urban transport needed to evolve; points will be made on why society needed this evolution. In contrast I will observe the problems urban transport has caused in society as a result of its rapid progression. Taking account of both arguments for the evolution of urban transport, I will look at where it will go in the future.