Walls

The Boundary of our lives.

“But the wall is a good thing” _Don Tomlinson

May 2007

Don Tomlinson said this in a National Geographic article about the new wall being installed at the United States and Mexico after his brother said he felt sorry for the Mexicans. In Webster a wall is defined as many things. First it is a think and tall masonry structure making a protective barrier for the prepuces of defense or a structure that holds back a form of pressure. It is also defined as one side of a room or building connecting floors and ceilings as well as a material enclosed space. The final one is something that resembles a wall especially if it acts as a barrier or defense. To me walls are a protective barrier. In a building they keep the elements like rain, snow, ice, cold out and the inside at a nice dry temperature. Other walls like the bremer wall which is used in Iraq and Afghanistan to protect the bases from blast. Another good example is the wall between the United States and Mexico. The wall was designed to keep immigrants from entering the United States illegally. In a number of areas you cannot get thought the wall which is made of three walls. The first being made of twenty foot high reinforced concrete followed by a steel mesh wall, and finally ten yards later there is a cyclone fence topped with jagged concertina wire. These new walls have slowed illegal immigration greatly at the 1950 mile border. In the end walls do a lot to protect us from a number of things. If it was not for walls we would have a lot of problems. _DCL

References:

Webster

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall

Where U.S.-Mexico border fence is tall, border crossings fall

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0401/p01s05-usgn.html?page=1

Bremer wall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremer_wall

National Geographic

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/us-mexican-border/bowden-text/3

Picture

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/us-mexican-border/bowden-text/1