I had an idea yesterday waiting at a red light with absolutely no traffic coming from any direction. Let's go back to four way stops. When I first moved to Corona, I couldn't believe that there were double lane 4 ways, but traffic moved quickly and smoothly. Installing the red lights has created traffic snarls, wasted time and gasoline and ups my ire every time I have to wait for no good reason.
a land more kind than home Craft Essay Jane Ellen Smith First Semester 11/04/2014 The use of dialogue to create a sense of place and characterization In a land more kind than home Wiley Cash has given us a window into the family- centric, lesser educated-world of rural North Carolina and much of Appalachia. He tells the story of a small church that’s been overrun by a self-proclaimed, charismatic preacher who practices snake-handling and poison drinking as evidence of his being filled with the Holy Spirit. Three narrators give us their accounts--a young boy whose brother dies, an older woman who tries to protect the children of the church, and the sheriff, almost an outsider. Cash uses the native speech patterns and colloquialisms of his characters to help his readers see and hear the North Carolina hills. Many writers believe the best way to demonstrate the relaxed speech of Southerners is to drop the g s at the end of words in an effort to duplicate the softening of wor...
This is one idea I would run to. Sometimes I think municipalities spend money because have it. "Use it or lose it" mentality without consideratin of whether it makes sense or not.
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