Light at the End of the Tunnel When I graduated from high school I was like all the other low-life‚ lazy teenagers‚ not yet ready to be taken from my parent’s wings. I never realized the importance of furthering my education. I just knew I could “do big things” working as a Sales Associate at 7-Eleven for the rest of my life. After my first child it began to dawn on me that an education would be the only thing that would let me provide for my family in the ways I wanted to. How scary is that I
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The Light at the end of the Tunnel Time is a funny thing. One second you’re wishing to get through the day‚ and the next you are praying for just one more moment. My mom had been sick for years; she had more health problems than anyone I have ever met. When she was down at the hospital in Chicago over Spring Break undergoing a major surgery‚ my brother and I had high hopes that she would make it through successfully. When we were finally able to visit her on Easter‚ my parents had some big news
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materialistic and lacked any sort of emotion in it. Then‚ a small incident brings about his untimely death. Toward the end of his life‚ he is forced to come to terms with a fact that death is inevitable. When he accepts that‚ he sees that despite the fact that he lived his life the “proper” way in society‚ he had not had much of a life at all. Upon seeing the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel‚ he dies. Tolstoy gives a quick stab of satire‚ by making it painfully apparent that no one seems to care
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The Tunnel A British short story published in 1982 Becoming adult is a difficult process. While you are in a stage when you have to find yourself‚ which can be very hard itself‚ you also want to be on your own. Entering adulthood often implies rebellion within different fields. When we are starting to create our own identity‚ we are young naive and people you are great within the beginning often go in a completely different direction. Often because of our totally different backgrounds. In “The
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FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: A TUNNEL TO NIGHT OR LIGHT Authored By: ANMOL CHAWLA & NAMRATA BEHERA ABSTRACT Since the Industrial Revolution‚ humankind has sought ways to become more efficient in all realms of life from production at the factory to cooking meals at home. Today the mediating force between technology and humans is software. Life of humans has been enhanced and their standard of living has increased with the advent of new technologies. The creation of computer‚
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KUALA LUMPUR‚ MALAYSIA Case Study (Mixed Use Tunnel) Project Summary: Malaysia is a federation of thirteen states and three federal territories‚ located on the Malay Peninsula south of Thailand and the northwest portion of the island of Borneo. The country is home to over 27 million people‚ with roughly 1.6 million people living in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur‚ which is situated in the southwest part of Peninsular Malaysia and covers 244 square kilometers. The entire Greater Kuala Lumpur
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Through the Tunnel- Doris Lessing 1. The inner journey that the boy takes on his self-imposed physical rite of passage is his transition from childhood and emerging into young manhood. This transition is mostly symbolised in this short story by the Jerry’s experience of preparing to go through the tunnel after watching the other boys swim through the tunnel. Jerry practised holding his breath in order to get over the first barrier in achieving his desired destination‚ the light at the end of the tunnel
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Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing The narrative constructs an eleven-year old English boy‚ Jerry‚ who is on holiday with his mother in the South of France. He encounters a group of older‚ native African-French boys swimming along the beach. When they disappeared by swimming through an underwater passageway to the other side of a large rock in the ocean‚ he feels left out and rejected. Jerry makes it his goal to swim through the passageway to prove to the older boys his manhood‚ even if it meant
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places. Ukraine boasts one of the most romantic places in the world: Tunnel of Love. Located near the town Klevan‚ “The Tunnel of Love” became an unique attraction in the world. It was formed on the train tracks‚ through union branches of trees‚ turning into a tunnel of green vegetation. There is however one problem with this “tunnel”. As it passes a train track and should be on your toes if you want to visit him. The Tunnel which covers railway conducted over a length of about three kilometers
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TTYL Carpal Tunnel Thousands of people get this syndrome every year. People wake up in the middle of the night with agonizing pain in their hands and wrists. Carpal Tunnel is very painful and a hassle to deal with‚ but treatable. More and more people have gotten this syndrome because of the technology we use. When people repeatedly do the same motions over a certain amount of time‚ like texting‚ their hands and wrist start to ache and become inflamed. Constant texting and the use of a keyboard
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