The Tunnel My unforgettable senior football season was coming to a close. The whole team knew that this was the last game of football we would ever play together. After this game, it would never be the same. I had been waiting my whole life to experience what I was about to face in the next few hours. To me, and to the rest of my hometown, high school football isn’t just a game; it is a lifelong passion. I grew up watching my role models play the same game I was about to play where the football-frenzied
The Darkened Tunnel En route of my journey from home to my destination I came across something that caught my attention. A hole intruding into the side of a hill beckoned me to investigate. Curiosity drew me to the mouth of the tunnel where I was overcome by a dank odor. It wasn’t the most inviting of places, concrete walkway leading into the dark unknown and a large gutter extruding rainwater from somewhere within it. I stepped to the threshold to see what lay within. An old shopping cart
The Holland Tunnel The concept for the Holland Tunnel was developed in 1906.1 In 1906, a coalition of the New York State and New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission began studies for a bridge connecting lower Manhattan to Jersey City, New Jersey.2 By the end of World War I (1918), the number of cars and trucks on U.S. roads had skyrocketed. This trend did not differ in the streets of New York City.3 At this time the Hudson River ferries were carrying about 30 million vehicles each
Holland Tunnel It has taken engineers thousands of years to perfect the art of digging tunnels. Today tunnels provide available space for cars and trains, water and sewage, even power and communication lines. However, before cars and trains, tunnels carried only water. The first to use tunnels on a major scale were the Romans. Roman engineers created the most extensive network of tunnels in the ancient world. The Romans built aqueducts to carry water from mountain springs to cities and villages;
In Watermelon Sugar and Tunnel Music The clearest vision of reality is often the most abstract. While the rise of science and progress suffocate the notion of an extrasensory experience within the reading of literature, the phenomena persist. Meanings are communicated, participating in a magnificent cosmic-cultural aura, penetrating a communication of meaning, intent, and scandalously--truth. There is a process of intertextuality occurring, a conversation between authors, texts themselves, and
excavated tunnels in the earth for a myriad of uses. Engineering is an incredibly beautiful field, but at the same time it can be dangerous and threat the life of many people. In October 21st 1994, the tunnel under Heathrow airport failed causing delays of other works for the Heathrow Express Rail Link and for the Jubilee Line extension project on which the same tunnelling method was used as well as the cancellation of hundreds of flights in Britain's busiest airport. The construction of the tunnel was
In the short story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing a young boy named Jerry takes on the risky challenge of swimming through a narrow and long underwater tunnel on his holiday at the beach. It is an interesting story with a variety of remarkable characters. In the story, Jerry is on holiday at the beach with his mother, when he sees a group of older men diving through an underwater tunnel. This fascinates him so he starts practicing to hold his breath and dive until he can be like them. When
In both the short story Through the Tunnel, by Doris Lessing, and the article The Right to Fail, by William Zinsser, the theme of failure and success is explored through the character of Jerry, and Zinsser’s viewpoint on the flaws of America’s social system on failure and success. The short coming-of-age story follows a young boy named Jerry who is driven by a group of teenagers to be able to go through an underwater tunnel. American critic and writer, Zinsser, provides his readers with his own definition
Connotative Dreams in Sabato's The Tunnel In Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel, dreams reveal Juan Pablo Castel’s obscure and conflicting personality. Castel has lived a life of isolation, despair, and one that has been both solitary and lonesome. His existence becomes meaningful when a young lady named Maria takes notice of an abstract window within one of his paintings. Maria becomes his obsession; he seeks solace and refuge through her. Castel’s dreams unveil his true motivations for obsessing
It takes time to learn how to swim, yet one must learn how to tread the waters first. In the short story ‘Through the Tunnel’ by Doris Lessing, Jerry and his mother go through significant changes throughout their vacation in France. Childhood is similar to a shore on a beach; the sand is comfortable and safe from the rough waves beyond the sand. Adulthood, on the other hand, is where one would be jostled constantly by the waves until they learn to stay afloat. Life, which from afar would look black
Sri Lanka - Light at the End of the Tunnel? The Sunday, March 3, 2002 issue of “The New York Times” featured an article by Barbara Crossette, “The War on Terror Points a Country Toward Peace. The second sentence of this article stated: "A week ago, the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, one of Asia's most ruthless and totalitarian rebel movements, agreed to a firm cease-fire, with the promise of peace talks to come".[1] But are the LTTE planning on keeping their
The Willpower of the Tunnel: A Thematic Analysis of “Through the Tunnel” Doris Lessing, uses the theme “set yourself a goal and work for it” as she wrote “Through the Tunnel.” She did so by using two characters, Jerry, his mom, and the setting. The story tells about how Jerry wants to swim through the tunnel, but has to do work to accomplish his goal. Jerry, the young english boys helps build the theme as he shows determination, hard work and a positive mind set. Jerry obeyed his mother, as he thought
Growing up can be scary and is a difficult transition. “Through the Tunnel” is a children's short story written by Doris Lessing. The short story is about a young boy who challenges himself to go through a tunnel at the beach on his own. In “Through the Tunnel” the author conveys the difficulties of adolescence through personification and symbolism. Personification is used to convey the difficulties of adolescence in “Through the Tunnel”. In the short story, the rocks are personified as angry or scary
The Lincoln Tunnel is an amazing feat for when it was built. They did not have computers, they could not do simulations, they did not have advanced equipment. Ole Singstad was the engineer who built the lincoln tunnel. Everything had to be done by hand. They had to draw what they wanted the tunnel to look like. The two crews started one and a half miles apart. It was amazing that they could meet up at one certain point without knowing where the other group was at. There would have been no way to
grow up and become who you really are.” (E. E. Cummings) The story Through the Tunnel is about a boy named Jerry, who is trying to decide if he wants to stay a little boy under his mother’s watch or branch out and be adventurous with the things he likes to do. The author, Doris Lessing, uses Setting, Symbolism, Point of View, and Characterization to form a theme in Through the Tunnel. The Setting in Through the Tunnel is crucial to the plot. Based on the description in the story, the setting is
scale. Through “Through the Tunnel,” Lessing uses symbolism to emphasize how past experiences can affect maturity. Jerry, an 11 year old boy, finds older kids that he looks up to. The older boys, as Jerry describes them, are all “burned smooth dark brown.” Lessing portrays the older boys as having darker skin than Jerry and his mother. The difference in skin color implies that the older boys have something that Jerry doesn’t have, but he is determined
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Abstract The wrist is surrounded by a band of fibrous tissue, which normally functions as a support for the joint. The tight space between this fibrous band and the wrist bone is called the carpal tunnel (The Stay Well Company, 1999). The median nerve passes through the carpal tunnel to receive sensations from the thumb, index, and middle fingers of the hand. Any condition that causes swelling or a change in position of the tissue within the carpal tunnel can squeeze
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome The carpal tunnel is a passageway that runs from the forearm through the wrist. Bones form three walls of the tunnel and a strong, broad ligament bridges over them. The median nerve, which supplies feeling to the thumb, index (4th digit), and ring fingers (3rd digit), and the nine tendons that flex the fingers, passes through this tunnel. This nerve, also, provides function for the muscles at the base of the thumb (the Thenar muscles). Usually, carpal tunnel syndrome
beach, just to lay back. Doesn’t that sound like the most relaxing thing ever? Just like in this short story called “Through the tunnel”, and it is written by Dorris Lossing. This short story is about a growing little boy named Jerry. He is determined to go through a tunnel on his own to prove to his mother that he is growing and mature. In this quest to get through the tunnel, Jerry faces a lot of obstacles that involves the setting. The setting of this story impacts the story in many ways, such as
The Channel Tunnel (Eurotunnel) By: Jawad Alibrahim For: Professor Knutson Dec 3, 2015 CON 101 Abstract The Channel Tunnel is an undersea rail tunnel that connects Britain and France. It was conceived as early as 1802, but its construction began in 1986 and ended in 2004. Construction of project used labor from both countries. A total of 15,000 skilled and unskilled laborers worked to complete the project. The Channel consists of two main train tunnels and a third one in the middle used