Tunnel

When placed in a monotonous, tedious situation, it is only mankind's instinct to defer from the experience and find comfort in another. One desires a gateway to fulfilling their inclination, whether it is in a way to reminisce or to fantasize. In the novel The Things They Carried, O’Brien implements women as a metaphor for an idealist fantasy. It states that during an uneventful environment, one will be inclined to fantasize their own personal desires, to escape from the sad reality. Women are…

“I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.” (page 213). The tunnel is a metaphor of Charlie’s passage from adolescence to adulthood, from a wallflower to active teenager, from loner to loyal friend. In the…

will be fascinated after visiting the Colosseum, because it’s complicated with the ways of thinking in that time. The Colosseum shows the technology and techniques they use such as complete building this massive structure in a decade. How they build tunnels, rooms, pulleys and hand operated lift during that time, because the technology in the old time was not much influence but they could built it. There were about 80 exits, so it will solve the problems that the crowd were not organized and…

A huge misconception about mange, it is not due to poor hygienic living conditions, mange actually occurs over time due to an immature or weak immune system that is mostly common in younger and older canines (Gunter). There is an anatomy, occurrence, symptoms, treatment, and prevention for the most common skin disease in canines, commonly known as mange (Foster). Mange also known as Canine Demodicosis is a parasitic disease due to an excessive proliferation of demodex canis within the…

Intro: Anthem is set in a post-apocalyptic world where society has drawn into its shell and created armor around each citizen that keeps them safe but also restricts all movement. The armor is extremely intricate, extending even into the intellectual world where it binds and crushes an aptitude for cunning, any potential for proficiency, and capacity for effectiveness to an almost non-existent size. Equality 7-2521 is the main character who struggles to break free from the mold that society has…

Like Water For Chocolate By. Laura Esquivel In the book Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel tells a story about a young girl Tita De La Garza, who is 15 years old and lives on a ranch on the Mexico- U.S border, with her mother and two older sisters. Tita is the youngest daughter to Mama Elena. Although Mama Elena gave birth to Tita on the kitchen table, due to Titas weeping from the onions being cut, Nacha the housemaid and cook, is Titas prime care-taker. Nacha raised…

What is caste ? When Portuguese travelers visited India, they first encountered caste system or race based social discrimination in 16th century. They used a Portuguese term that is “casta” which means “race”. Today, the term caste is used to describe the division of societies on the basis of social hierarchy, not only in Asia but all over the world. It is believed that only four castes exist which are divided on the basis of Brahma’s divine genius. The four existing…

Jefferson University and Hospital, studied the brain scans of religious individuals like nuns and monks. He claims that the “tunnel” and “gate” of people who have had near death experience is easy to explain. As a person’s eyesight starts to fade, the peripheral areas, which are the sights that lie outside the central vision, are switched off first. That’s why people have a tunnel perception, because you can’t see outside of your central vision when near death. When a bright light occurs, that…

In John Updike’s short story “A&P”, the protagonist, Sammy works as a grocery store clerk. In the story, Sammy finds girls with bathing suit on walking around the store. Throughout the story, he, judge about girls behavior, actions, and thoughts. By doing that, he often makes derogatory comments. He thinks girls cannot stand up for themselves and always need men’s assistance to achieve a task. His action shows that he is a sexist who thinks that men are better and stronger than woman and women…

blind from hemorrhages in the back of his eyes. Langley then quit his job to look after him. After some attempted robberies and rocks thrown through windows in their house, Langley boarded up the windows and created booby traps in the passages and tunnels running throughout the ceiling high junk. On March 21, 1947, the police received an anonymous tip saying there was a dead body in the house. Unable to get in through the doors or main floor windows a police officer broke an upstairs window and…