Showing posts with label Creative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creative. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Creative Writing
Here I am at 12 am in my tired frame The air is hot and stickyon the way to the dark summer streetscape I drink some clear liquid which goes down smoothly And walk to have swagger and to step In. The streets look for you, or me, or she Who tries to become me, it’sReflecting badly on me. I seeThrough it, them as They are sitting in the sand and sipped on clear liquid now 2 years almost ago, and the man took what I had away from me my dignity, & telling.Who would have thought that I’d be here, nothing in this world means everythingto me anymore, like it used to when we used to be together everyday.Up in the air is what we are now More than ever before? Not that it matters, to you in your disguised coateyes penetrating making sure your not notice & uncovered in that room. Not that you can decide between who was going to have to go. careening into uncertainty so. To go & to alone you alone imagine so to go. Not that person who from very first meeting I would never & never replace anyone Into the life of mine & so demanded to the world & who will never leave me. Not for you, nor money nor even for fame and fortune which is Only our human lot & means nothing. No not here There’s a song “living for the moment”. But no, I won’t do that I am 17. When will I die? I will never die. I will live to be 115, & I will never go away, & you will never escape from me Who am always & only a object. Despite this demeanor. Spirit Who live only to haunt. I’m only human, & I am living & I didn’t ask to You made me I came into your life to love And you betrayed me This is not how I expected you Dishonorable & untrustworthy no fate, nevertheless I am still standing The world’s will go on without you and me.
Creative Writing
Independent project
Route 128 or formally known as the Yankee Highway has years of history behind the roads on which many Massachusetts residence drive daily. The highway is a beltway around Boston. It is 69.1 miles long and was constructed between the years of 1936 to 1959. It was once called the “high way to nowhere” and passes through many towns and cities and connects drivers from Hull on the south shore to Gloucester on the north shore.
The concept of the route 128 was to pass through local streets of towns and not through the downtown areas. Many then called it the “highway to nowhere” but in its defense it would help connect people from Boston to urban areas. This highway was the first Circumferential Highway built during this time period.
During the time period of 1936 to 1942 parts of the new four-lane route 128 was built. Although with the start of World War II the high was put to a complete halt. In 1948 the construction of the highway resumed. Under the newly established Federal Highway Act (1944) the Federal government paid for half of 128.
Although the commissioner Callahan called for a six-lane highway with 12-inch lanes they highway was built with four lanes. This was thought to be useful for the next 20 years estimating that only 15,000 vehicles per day would travel on this road by 1970 but by 1955 the average already reached 30,000 vehicles a day.
In 1951 a 22.5-mile stretch was formed from EXIT 20 in Wellesley to EXIT 44 in Lynnfield. This stretch was built on hills on the outskirts of Boston. Different designs for bridges were used to accommodate the lands used. In 1953 the Danvers rotary at Exit 11 was built under difficulties due to swamplands. Lands on the outer parts of Boston slowed down the construction and forced a need to construct new and different roads and bridges. Even though it slowed down construction in some areas it was also a good location. This was because it did not affect homeowners in the area because it was in rural areas. Also the land was at a low cost and became very covenant to build on. It connected the city to the suburbs and helped the movement from the city to the suburbs by making this area of suburbs very covenant to the working class.
The overall cost of the highway was estimated around 63 million dollars.
The new highway attracted business along the highway that offered restaurant and automotive services. In the 1960’s the highway attracted many new businesses. It became home to new industrial parks that housed high-tech companies. The area was a good place for these offices because they had room to expand but they where still in a reasonable distance to places like MIT. It was then noted as “America’s Technology Highway”. The population in towns around 128 quadrupled in the 1950s and doubled again in the 1960s.
In my visual I represented the road signs and pictures of the highway in 1950 and the highway today. I represent the name “Yankee highway” in the visual because it is the original name. Also the word “rural” is used because the highway was built in rural areas outside of Boston. The picture that the word in placed over is a picture signifying this word. The picture in from the 1950s and the highway are shown surrounded by a dense layer of trees. The other chose of words that I used was “highway to nowhere” and it is placed over a recent picture of the highway. The highway is empty in the picture and looks ongoing possibly to “nowhere”. The other two pictures are road signs representing the Highway going to Gloucester, which was the starting point of Route 128. The middle picture has a sign that read “end 128”. This picture takes place in Gloucester and represents that the highways end, the other end to the highway is located on the South shore.
My research of this project consisted of finding the origin of route 128. I looked up how and when the high was formed and received information on why the highway was built. Through my research of route 128 I learned interesting facts about the formation of the highway. Although collecting information was hard at first I was able to find reliable sources online though search engines.
Route 128 or formally known as the Yankee Highway has years of history behind the roads on which many Massachusetts residence drive daily. The highway is a beltway around Boston. It is 69.1 miles long and was constructed between the years of 1936 to 1959. It was once called the “high way to nowhere” and passes through many towns and cities and connects drivers from Hull on the south shore to Gloucester on the north shore.
The concept of the route 128 was to pass through local streets of towns and not through the downtown areas. Many then called it the “highway to nowhere” but in its defense it would help connect people from Boston to urban areas. This highway was the first Circumferential Highway built during this time period.
During the time period of 1936 to 1942 parts of the new four-lane route 128 was built. Although with the start of World War II the high was put to a complete halt. In 1948 the construction of the highway resumed. Under the newly established Federal Highway Act (1944) the Federal government paid for half of 128.
Although the commissioner Callahan called for a six-lane highway with 12-inch lanes they highway was built with four lanes. This was thought to be useful for the next 20 years estimating that only 15,000 vehicles per day would travel on this road by 1970 but by 1955 the average already reached 30,000 vehicles a day.
In 1951 a 22.5-mile stretch was formed from EXIT 20 in Wellesley to EXIT 44 in Lynnfield. This stretch was built on hills on the outskirts of Boston. Different designs for bridges were used to accommodate the lands used. In 1953 the Danvers rotary at Exit 11 was built under difficulties due to swamplands. Lands on the outer parts of Boston slowed down the construction and forced a need to construct new and different roads and bridges. Even though it slowed down construction in some areas it was also a good location. This was because it did not affect homeowners in the area because it was in rural areas. Also the land was at a low cost and became very covenant to build on. It connected the city to the suburbs and helped the movement from the city to the suburbs by making this area of suburbs very covenant to the working class.
The overall cost of the highway was estimated around 63 million dollars.
The new highway attracted business along the highway that offered restaurant and automotive services. In the 1960’s the highway attracted many new businesses. It became home to new industrial parks that housed high-tech companies. The area was a good place for these offices because they had room to expand but they where still in a reasonable distance to places like MIT. It was then noted as “America’s Technology Highway”. The population in towns around 128 quadrupled in the 1950s and doubled again in the 1960s.
In my visual I represented the road signs and pictures of the highway in 1950 and the highway today. I represent the name “Yankee highway” in the visual because it is the original name. Also the word “rural” is used because the highway was built in rural areas outside of Boston. The picture that the word in placed over is a picture signifying this word. The picture in from the 1950s and the highway are shown surrounded by a dense layer of trees. The other chose of words that I used was “highway to nowhere” and it is placed over a recent picture of the highway. The highway is empty in the picture and looks ongoing possibly to “nowhere”. The other two pictures are road signs representing the Highway going to Gloucester, which was the starting point of Route 128. The middle picture has a sign that read “end 128”. This picture takes place in Gloucester and represents that the highways end, the other end to the highway is located on the South shore.
My research of this project consisted of finding the origin of route 128. I looked up how and when the high was formed and received information on why the highway was built. Through my research of route 128 I learned interesting facts about the formation of the highway. Although collecting information was hard at first I was able to find reliable sources online though search engines.
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