Descriptive Coffee

Descriptive Coffee
Coffee, the favorite drug of choice for Americans, and the life blood of many an overworked student
or mother. The revv to the engines that take us throughout the day, and without we cease to be alive,
heads floating about through life, with dull eyes and white noise for minds. For me a necessity, with
12.5 hours of sleep on average a week and the desire to do well in school, the incessant buzz to do
more and more, until I'm a teaspoon of butter being spread over a dozen pieces of bread, and the
very cells of my body longing for the hot drink just to get up in the morning. The pounding
headaches and mood swings that walk hand and hand down the street with the empty coffee pot as I
wake up and realize I'm late. The warmth that radiates through the cup into my hands, and lands like
a downpour into my stomach. The type of drink we would dare to drink in the summer heat,
although the iced version is also loved, and as well as the hot drink, many would brave a cold winter
night with this in their hand.
I sit here in a coffee shop writing this. My favorite place with warm air and the bitter sweet smell of
various caffeinated drinks, with warm orange lights and hardwood floors. The windows are big with
plants on the lip of them and vines outline the frame in a big bold green tangle. To my left sits a tall
skinny man, a white mug with drippings of foam and dark liquid dried on the side sits untouched to
his right, and the faint white of steam floating into the atmosphere from the
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Goodfellas: a Movie Review
[1] GoodFella's Born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York, Martin Scorsese is one of the
most eminent and momentous directors in the history of film. He graduated from NYU as a film
major in 1964. (Imbd). He has also admitted to being deeply influenced by the "French New Wave"
in Cinema, with likes of Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini as just some of his favorite directors.
His films vary from themes of the Italian American in New York to crime and violence. Just a few of
Scorsese awards comprise of the academy award for best director, the order of merit of the Italian
Republic, and three of his films are in AFI's top 100 movies of all–time. ( N.Y. Times). Some of his
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Another part of the scene shows Henry Hill, Jimmy Conway, and another associate talking in
[3]private, with almost no light on their face talking about a potential heist. This lighting and fixed
camera angle adds to the suspense and secretive nature of the film. Henry and his date Karen arrive
at the Copacabana nightclub. Once they arrive the start a long walk through the back of the
nightclub. By emphasizing the continuity of time and space, the long takes build dramatic tension
and allows for the focus of the movement of the characters through the space of the Mise en scène 4
(Pramaggiore 5 133). This long walk through the Copacabana effectively builds up suspense and
astonishment in the viewer. It also raises attention to the respect, and connections Henry Hill has in
the mafia underground. Henry and Tommy get to the airport where they are going to pull of a huge
heist. The camera quickly flashes between different actions by Henry and Tommy, for example them
opening a door and sneaking in, or walking out of the room with suitcases. Directors use this kind of
technique to show action and increase anticipation. Scorsese also uses the tilt shot in this scene
when they are walking out of the room with the suitcases to show the rise of Henry and Tommy in
the mafia. Later on in the scene the camera is zoomed into the money to once again show Henry's
materialism, and it builds up to reveal a theme later on in the film that money

Compare and Contrast Essay the Tell Tale Heart and the...
In both the "The Tell Tale Heart", and"The Black Cat", the stories end with a death of a person.
Some events in the murder are similar and different. In this paragraph, I will talk about the story,
"The Tell Tale Heart". In the beginning of the story, the narrator wants to kill an old man, who lives
with him, because of his vulture eye. He decides that he will watch the old man at night and shine a
light on his vulture eye. If he sees the eye he will kill the old man. In the first seven days, he does
not see the vulture eye. But on the 8th night he makes a slight noise and wakes the old man up. After
a little while he charges into the room, which then the old man screams, and the narrator kills the old
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When he, his wife and a servant escaped from the house, all of his worldly possessions burned in
front of his very own eyes. The following day, he visited the ruins and saw that one wall did not
cave in. On the wall, he saw a great imprint of a gigantic cat with a rope around its neck. This
brought the narrator to believe that during the fire, someone threw the cat inside one of the houses
windows when the house was on fire. Since the cellar was made of concrete, it was not destroyed
and they decided to live there. After some time, they find another cat with a splotch of white on his
chest. They decide to adopt him and bring him home. This cat followed the narrator everywhere and
everywhere. This eventually angered the narrator again. When he was in the cellar with his wife the
cat made him trip and he was about to kill the cat with a fatal blow with an axe, until his wife
stepped in the middle and the axe slammed into her skull, oozing of blood and killing her instantly.
He decides to put her body in one of the walls of the cellar, like the monks of the middle ages did.
For the next three days he does not see the cat. So he ends up thinking that he is finally a free man.
When the police arrive on the 4th day, they check all the nooks and crannies in the room, and they
do not see any evidence of a murder. When they are about to leave though, the narrator starts to brag
about how well his house is constructed. When he taps the part of the wall where

Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God Analysis
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Rhetoric
On October 5, 1703, in East Windsor Connecticut, Timothy and Esther Edwards welcomed their
new son, Jonathan Edwards, into the world. From a young age, Jonathan was provided with an
excellent education from a highly qualified individual – his father was a minister and a college
prepatory tutor. Jonathan Edwards was accepted at Yale college just before he turned thirteen. He
was interested in a wide variety of studies including natural science, the mind, the scriptures, and
theology. He graduated from Yale in four years as valedictorian and obtained his masters three years
later. Unable to accept the "horrible doctrine" (Edwards), of predestination, Edwards finally found
peace and accepted this controversial teaching in 1721. He went on to assistant pastor a large church
in Northampton with his grandfather. The same year, he married Sarah Pierpont whose piety he had
long admired (..). Two years later, when his grandfather passed away, Edwards became sole minister
of the Northampton congregation. However, after many years of converting the lost and
participation in the Great Awakening as a key preacher, his congregation began to weary of his
intense sermons and his habit of calling out sinner by name from the pulpit. However, his most
famous sermon was first delivered in Enfield, Connecticut on July 8th, 1741 and was entitled,
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". Edwards' use of rhetoric in this message has been admired

The Black Cat By Edgar Allan Poe
A man who has abused his pets and killed his wife is sentenced to death, but were these
transgressions made in the clarity of mind or was it an act of madness? In the short story THE
BLACK CAT by Edgar Allan Poe, we follow the ramblings of a man who is sentence to death on the
very next day for his act of murder. Do not take his ramblings to heart as he is an unreliable man but
see for it what it really is. The beginning of the story starts out in a jail cell where the narrator is
hours away from his death. He says that he wants to recount the events that placed him in this
predicament. Since the day he was born, he has been noted for the docility and humanity of his
disposition and these qualities flourished as he grew older. He marries a woman who shares his
likeness of animals, and they have adopted abundance of pets. His favorite was a black cat named
Pluto. The narrator starts drinking and his personality traits change to a detestable person. He begins
to abuse his wife and pets verbally and physically. One night while intoxicated, he believes the cat is
ignoring him so he grabs it by the throat. Frightened the cat bit his hand, which angered the narrator
so he took a pen knife and cut out one of its eyes. A few days later, he is overcome by a guilt and
perverse impulse to hang the cat from a tree in the garden even though he knew it was wrong. That
same night his house caught on fire and he lost everything. The next day he returns to the burned
down house and sees a

Adaptation Of The Tell Tale Heart
Chamber Theatre performed "The Tell–Tale Heart" with great talent, finesse, and emotion. Edgar
Allen Poe was a remarkable author with a tragic life story that allowed him to delve into the darkest
concepts of literature. We believe that everyone who was involved with the production of the plays
presented them tactfully. However, we chose to examine the production of "The Tell–Tale Heart"
because the adaptation of the story on stage was exquisite.
The setting of the play helped to develop the mood. First of all, the abundance of props brought the
story to live successfully. For example, the bed and door created the forgotten, quiet feeling in the
old man's room. Next, the floorboards were lifted up so it actually looked like the ... Show more
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For example, he swayed his hand to and fro while one lantern was centered on him, creating a
shadow on the wall. When the narrator was executing his "ingenious" plan for murder, he slowly
entered the room, crouching down for what seemed like an eternity, and opened the lantern to shine
light on his victim, showing his vulture–eye, therefore giving the narrator the motivation to kill him
and giving the audience an uneasy feeling. The narrator's body language showed tension as he was
anticipating the right moment to kill the old man and as he was lightly conversing with the police
officer. During the majority of the play, the narrator would laggardly ascend and descend the stairs
which captured his increasing uneasiness. The actor's true skill in portraying his character was most
perceptible as he carried out the murder of the old man. He kills and dismembers him happily,
clearly showing the audience that the character is in an unhealthy mental state. Additionally, the
narrator continually explains to the audience that he is not insane and attempts to prove it by
explaining his master plan of murdering and hiding the old man. However, the more the narrator
explains to us how sane he believes himself to be, the more we believe he is not. To represent a
change in setting, the narrator opens an imaginary door and paces up and down the stairs. To show
time progressing, the narrator

Double Indemnity Book And Movie Comparison Essay
Double Indemnity is a well representation of the dark film both visually and verbally. The film and
the novel were both presented with thorough description to get the metaphorical feel that there was a
dark side to the story line, which was the whole purpose. The dark aspect of the story line can be
first seen in the novel. The full visual scene is when Walter one of the main Characters talks about
the "House of Death" or Mr. Nerdlinger's house. Yet, in the film the first scene is Walter knocking
on the door of where he works, all mysterious, covered hardly any lighting that shows his face or
any of his body. Walter is mostly presented in the dark, and walks in the dark to his office. In both
the film and the novel Walter is telling the story describing every single aspect of his encounters. In
the film Mr. Neff, Walter, is shown to be injured when he enters his office. I was hard to tell but
once he only started to use his right hand it was easy to tell that he was injured by a bullet on his
upper left mid shoulder. After that Walter started to tell his version of the murder case, the film
showing flashbacks as he started to record his dark confession.
Double Indemnity film is quite ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
On major different that stood out to me is close to the end Walter meets Phillis in her home rather
then the park, when Walter plans on killing her. In a way it kind of metaphorically fits with the novel
when it first starts to describe the house as the "House of Death." There were other differences here
and there but those differences made the mood and setting of the story change more than

Similarities Between Hero And Beowulf Superhero
Superheroes are unique and have abilities to do things that ordinary people cannot. A superhero does
not have to have physical abilities. A superhero is a overall strong individual, whether their strength
is mental or physical. Superheroes are unique and can vary in abilities. Beowulf is a superhero like
the well known superheroes in television. Beowulf has similar characteristics to Incredible Hulk,
Superman, and Spider–Man. Although Beowulf shares many characteristics, he also has many that
makes him unique. Beowulf is strong like Incredible Hulk, but does not hurt anyone unless
necessary. Beowulf is brave like Superman, although he is not as big. Lastly, Beowulf is daring like
Spider–Man, even though he cannot shoot webs from his ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net
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Beowulf's strong abilities allow him to lift a sword made for the giants. Although Beowulf is like
Incredible Hulk, they also have differences. Unlike Incredible Hulk, Beowulf is not mean. Beowulf
cares for his country and only strives to protect them. Incredible Hulk is mean, and bullies anyone in
his way. People run away from Beowulf, just like they would Incredible Hulk. People runaway from
them because they are scared of their strengths. "Grendel's one thought was to run from Beowulf..."
(Raffel, 1963, l.330–331). Beowulf is capable of lifting very heavy things, and which make him
very powerful to the world.
Secondly, Beowulf is daring and wild like Spider–Man. Beowulf is daring in many ways, and is not
afraid to try new things and take risks. Beowulf will do whatever he has to in order to keep his
country safe including going into a lake full of monsters. As stated in the book, "He leaped into the
lake..." (Raffel, 1963, l.467). Spider–Man is different from Beowulf, in the fact that he can swing
from building to building using webs that come from his fingers. Beowulf and Spider–Man are
similar by the risks they take. Beowulf takes many risks to save his country. "Beowulf resolves to
kill Grendel's monstrous mother..." (Raffel, 1963, p.52). Beowulf is daring and takes many risks.
Lastly, Beowulf is brave like Superman. Beowulf and Superman are both trying to help save their
areas. Beowulf is trying everything he can do to save his country including doing things

My Porch Description
There was a tiny home invader on my porch. I came home from school to find a very large and
intimidating spider spinning a web on the side of my porch. Naturally, I quickly ran inside, i was
about to get a tissue to deposit it far, far away, from anywhere near me, but I stopped. Why was
there a large spider on my porch? It was just sitting along the side of it, completely exposed. It was
probably a good place to catch flies since it was near the trash can, but it was left completely
exposed. The side of my back porch was right by the door to go inside, Wouldn't it build a web
somewhere safer? Why here? Curious, I went out to look again, staying well apart in case it tried to
jump. The web stood out, a gossamer orb against the pale yellow of my porch. In the center the
spider– a she, I suppose– rested. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
There are two elm trees growing in front of my house, giants. My house was built in 1871 and the
street, Elm Street, named before that. It's possible those two trees have been growing for centuries.
An elm tree can supposedly live to be 300. By that estimate, my trees are barely halfway done. In
the morning, the early October chill pushed me to dash from the house and get to school without
stopping to philosophize about spiders. When I got home, again there was the similar flash of fear
and apprehension upon seeing her. She hadn't attempted to jump at me, or even crawl closer, but she
was still vaguely threatening. Inside the house, in spiderless comfort, I looked up what this brown
banded little spider might be. Online I came across a picture that a was perfect candid of the tiny
home invader on my porch. When I followed the link, I had a name: the Banded Garden Spider.
Argiope trifasciata was an orb weaver, thankfully not poisonous, jumping, or dangerous in the
slightest. Their diet was commonly flies, aphids, wasps, bees, and grasshoppers. It made sense why
she was near the trash can where flies

Comparing Macbeth And Throne Of Blood
Justin Martinez
Mr. Ortiz
English 12
27 February 2017
Comparing Characters from Macbeth and Throne of Blood There are many similarities and
differences between Shakespeare's Macbeth and the play, Throne of Fire. They both contain the
same plot, however many comparisons revolve around the characters and their individual actions. A
good example of this would be the differences between Macbeth and his Japanese version Washizu.
Most of the story they mirror each other, until the events leading to their deaths, and also how they
are executed. The witches show another difference between the two stories. They are both found in
the forest, contain the same prophecies, however the amount of witches and spirits between the two
stories are different. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
"The Tragedy of Macbeth". The Language of Literature British Literature. aaaaaEvanston Illinois:
McDougal Littell. 2006. Page 358. Lines 137–139.
Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of Macbeth". The Language of Literature British Literature.
AAAAAEvanston Illinois: McDougal Littell. 2006. Page 385. Lines 92–94.
AAAAAEvanston Illinois: McDougal Littell. 2006. Page 416. Lines

Interpreting A Child's Perception Of Halloween Masks
Two tall blurry figures of a man and women seem in the background. Both seem to be walking away
from the two small children that seem to be in Halloween costumes. The tall wooden buildings that
lurk in the shadows, behind the children, give the surrounds a gloomy view. There seems to be very
little to no human activity and debris covering the ground. The small male child is wearing a white
skull mask that has black lines for the eyebrows and cheek bones. The mouth on the mask is open
showing the top and bottom row of teeth. The mask covers all aspects of his face leaving no hints of
what his facial features look like. His clothing is a long sleeve dark–colored one piece with Mickey
Mouse covering the outfit, he is also wearing dark brown shoes. ... Show more content on
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He has both arms up in the air above his head. His right hand is open as though he is waving to
someone. His left hand his grasping an object of some kind. The other, that is standing slightly
behind him, is a small female child. She is also wearing a mask that covers all aspects of her face.
Her mask appears to be a white female's face with the eyes blacked out. The mask has light brown
eyebrows and dark brown straight short hair. The female child is wearing a long sleeve white and
black dress with a pattern of bats and spider webs on it. The length of the dress stops a little above
her ankles. She is wearing white stocking with black flat heeled shoes that resembles Mary Janes.
Her left hand is open as through she too is waving. Her right arm is propped on the little boy's
shoulders. Her body is tilted and her head is looking straight forward. Both children's hands or
showing giving us the hint that they are either Caucasian or

Analysis Of Charles Dicken In Great Expectations
Charles Dicken was a white, Christian man who ripped and tore his way up the social hierarchy,
who turned his grimy rags into eternal riches. The fruit of his labor has been transcribed into dialects
and languages that transcend Anglo Saxon society. He is crowned a prince of Victorian literature and
the cerulean sapphire on his crown is his Great Expectations, a bildungsroman at its finest. First
published by Chapman and Hall in 1861, it follows a boy's transformation into a man in a rotting
industrial world. In the end, however, Great Expectations is a novel that exposes the incorporeal
essence's ability to decay but also its resilience, its ability to change: even if a sentient being is
barren of emotion, it can still bloom in the midnight sun. Pip is an orphan, bred in a land of
thunderous skies and wetlands. He found his smile running through the emerald grass and his frown
at his parent's headstones. This countryside was his womb, a misty bog that fed him and tucked him
into bed at night. Indeed, Pip himself wails that he " had seen the damp lying on the outside of [his]
little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night. . . The marsh–mist was so thick, that
the wooden finger on the post directing people to [his] village–a direction which they never
accepted, for they never came there–was invisible to [him] until [he] was quite close under it. Then,
as [he] looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to [his] oppressed conscience like a phantom

Five Walt Whitman poems. Metaphors, diction, syntax, form,...
Walt Whitman's poetry is relatively formless and his random patterns have a significant effect on the
meaning evoked from the poems. Whitman has a constant theme of the link between nature/natural
experience and humans. He expresses his emotions and opinions through his poems. Some of his
poems are very personable, which makes them very easier to understand and more enjoyable to
read. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is a poem about the sharing of experiences. All humans are
somehow connected through the common experiences they encounter. It has no rhyme scheme or
form and it is end–stopped. 1 Flood–tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west––sun
there half an hour high––I see you also face to face. Crowds of men and women ... Show more
he rest in strong shadow, Saw the slow–wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south,
Saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water, Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of
beams, Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water,
Look'd on the haze on the hills southward and south–westward, Look'd on the vapor as it flew in
fleeces tinged with violet, Look'd toward the lower bay to notice the vessels arriving, Saw their
approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the
ships at anchor, The sailors at work in the rigging or out astride the spars, The round masts, the
swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants, The large and small steamers in
motion, the pilots in their pilothouses, The white wake left by the passage, the quick tremulous whirl
of the wheels, The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset, The scallop–edged waves in the
twilight, the ladled cups, the frolic–some crests and glistening, The stretch afar growing dimmer and
dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks, On the river the shadowy group, the
big steam–tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay–boat, the belated lighter, On the
neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the

Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Essay
The greatest art in films is by the means of the ability to create an emotion in the viewers of the film
and by the means of and imagery. Alfred Hitchcock, for a long time, has been a household name
since he began filmmaking. Hitchcock has been able to accumulate a well–known and distinct
cinematic techniques making him stand out as one of the best filmmakers around the globe. What
makes Hitchcock's films 'must watch' movies are how he draws his viewers' emotion and leave them
in suspense (Maher 246). Hitchcock's The Birds is an American horror–film dropped in 1963. The
film is loosely rooted in the 1952 story of Daphne Du Maurier and focuses on a sudden series,
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Among the visual techniques employed in these films is the lighting. Even though it is a pathetic
fallacy, the lighting atmosphere is very bright and colorful in the film. The Birds is set in many
scenes to reflect the characters' behaviors in the scenes (Maher 248). Again, towards the end of the
bright lighting, a dark color is presented to create an eerie atmosphere. For instance, an excellent use
of lighting is offered in the dead farmer's scene. Here, lighting symbolizes the mood in the scene. It
starts with Lydia trekking down in a very bright sunlight, the light dims as she approaches the door.
Inside the house, there is a window with natural light although no false in the house. Even so, the
absence of light suggests a bad situation, which the audience is left to figure out. The director uses
this to create unease with the observer.
The use of lighting in today's cinematography has great impacts on the intended audience. The main
characters in modern movies are usually directed in key lights. Generally, the lights on these key
objects are brighter than the fill light and the backlight. Light is targeted to give clarity of the image,
to quest for better realism and to create an atmosphere of emotions (Cohen 127). Lightings, in
particular, are fundamental tools in manipulating the audiences' response to narrative events and
characters.
The use of camera narration is another Hitchcockian technique that heightens the level of suspense
in both The Birds and Identity

Narrative Essay On Web Warriors
Yeah, I know you guys know the story of how the 'Web Warriors' began. But either way, I'm Alpha
Stark or Spider Girl. Next up is my boyfriend Jack James or Spider Man. Then there's the guy who
hates my guts Max Teen or Black Spider. Next there's Jacob Greene or Red Spider. Finally there's
Austin Smith or Iron Spider. All of us has a place on the team because of who we are. So let me get
to the point, it's been about a year since we've been on this team and we've had only the easy gig
stuff. But 'The Mess' started with Houseparty with me, Jack, Max, Jacob, and Austin. "Nope, not
gonna happen," I say to them. "Either you do it, or Megan does it," Austin says rolling his eyes. "As
much as I hate Megan, she can go do it. I wouldn't ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
I roll my eyes at him and call one of the jets. "Where's Shadow?" I ask Draco. "Upstairs, but I doubt
you'll be able to help him," he says walking into the tower leading the way. "I won't be able to, but
my dad would," I say as Draco opens the door to Shadow's coorters. "What the hell?" Spider Man
asks looking at Shadow laying in his bed. I pull Draco out of Shadow's coorters and shut the door
and stare at him. "kungani akazange yini ngitshele ukuthi kwakwenzeka futhi!" I say to him in Zulu.
"ngoba i akacabanganga uzoyithola ukuboza ngaye!" he says to me. "lena yiyona ndlela Gonna
bagcina befa!" I yell at him as I cross my arms. "Umm, Draco, what the hell is that?" I ask looking
at a light coming from outside is coming up the stairs. "Crap, we've gotta go," he says to me. I swing
the door open and Shadow's attacking everyone. "ARATNA HORA!" I scream to Shadow and he
falls to the ground. "What did you just do?" Black Spider asks. "We need to go, now," Draco says
looking out the window. "What are those?" Red Spider asks. "Hunters, they might be looking for
some of the tech I took," Draco says to us. "That just proves you're a dick, you know that?" Black
Spider says to

Essay on The Literary Works of Vladimir Nabokov
More so than that of most other comparably illustrious writers, a number of Vladimir Nabokov's
works beckon near polarizing discrepancies in interpretation and actual author intent amidst literary
circles. In a letter to the editor of The New Yorker, he concedes to constructing systems "wherein a
second (main) story is woven into, or placed behind, the superficial semitransparent one" (Dolinin).
In practice, such an architectural premise is complicated further by his inclination to dabble in the
metaphysical and occasionally, in the metafictional. Nabokov's inclusion of meticulous description
and word choice coupled with his reliance on unreliable narrators–in "Signs and Symbols," "The
Vane Sisters," and "Details of a Sunset"–– permits him ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
So did the son die, finally successful at his attempts to "tear a hole in his world and escape?"
(Nabokov, "Signs" 601). According to some of the conspicuous motifs present throughout the story–
the stopping of the train, the tardy bus, the relentless rain, a crying girl, misplaced keys, a graphic
description of a dead bird, the family's tragic history of misfortune, the three playing cards
symbolizing death–––the answer seems almost indisputable. Nabokov's pessimistic word choice in
specific descriptions–"hives of evil," "malignant activity," "swollen veins, brown–spotted skin,"
"darkly gesticulating," "monstrous darkness," etc. (Nabokov, "Signs" 598–604) only serve to
confirm such a response. Still, other details may be present purely by random chance, ultimately
meaningless (almost obsessive incorporation of numbers, trivial excerpt concerning the aesthetic
difference between "O" and the letter 0 (Lane 150)) and stretched almost to the point of absurdity by
critics searching in earnest for a connection. Carroll, for the latter camp, argues "a cipher can be a
nullity just as easy as it could be a key" (117). The

Transgression In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
It is often suggested that Gothic originates from the margins and presents a challenge to dominant
culture. Is Gothic always transgressive? This essay aims to analyse the transgression displayed in
gothic texts that expose realities which society chooses to 'abject'. (Kristeva, 1: 1982,) The classic
texts, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, will be engaged
to observe the realities that lurk beneath the polished Victorian society. Both these Urban Gothic
tales display the transgression of moral codes, and question the superficiality of Victorian society.
They both similarly document the escalating anxieties towards the Fan–de–siècle by depicting
different forms of transgression. These transgressors within Gothic Literature break away from the
repression society imposes upon them. It is imperative to apprehend ideologies and moral codes of
society, and to question their origin and existence. Therefore it is important to understand what leads
these characters to transgress. If the Gothic does ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Butler and Cohen's theories of the body as a cultural 'locus', and the monster as a 'projection' of what
society chooses to 'abject' have been engaged with Kristeva's theory of the Abject. Considering these
theories one can argue that these ideologies, monsters, and evil generate from within society itself.
The foundation of society is composed from these facets of human nature, and the Gothic raises
them to the surface demanding them to be addressed. Society abjects what it fears forcing it to the
margins, and therefore the Gothic originates from the margins. Society is perpetually 'repelling...
rejecting itself. Ab–jecting'. (Kristeva, 1982: 7) Although, these abjections metamorphose into
monsters that will 'always return' and they will continue to if we do not confront them. (Cohen,

The Haunted Trail Of The Park
When one normally walks through Balboa Park, most of the time it is a peaceful venture. But
sometimes it is just not so. During the month of October, a small section of the park becomes a bit
more twisted with faints screams echoing throughout the park. All originating from a small one mile
stretch of park, only known as The Haunted Trail. During the month of October, and especially close
to the 31st, many try to make it through the trail. A few nights prior to Halloween, a small group of
individuals journey to the park to experience the joy that is The Haunted Trails. Two to be exact.
The first being a young woman by the name of Samantha. For her journey through The Haunted
Trails, she decided to wear a crimson–red sports jacket with a plaid–styled skirt. Since she is of an
adventurous nature, she believes that she does not scare easily and the trails should poise no
challenge at all. While the other individual joining her on this adventure is a young man by the name
of Mike. He decided to go with an old slightly tattered olive–green army jacket and jeans. And
similarly to Sam, he is a man of action and is not afraid to venture into some fears. As with everyone
who visits the Haunted Trails, the first thing everyone must do is buy some tickets. And with most
aspects of the trails themselves, you must wait in line to get your tickets. So the two brave souls do
just that. After a solid twenty five to thirty minuets, they are finally towards the front of the line.
Soon a

The Stone Age Poem
The poetess realistically depicts the burdens of domestic life, sickness, her ageing and decaying of
body, and the anticipation of death in the final passage: I shall be the fat–kneed hag in the long
queue The one from whose shopping bag the mean potato must Roll across the road. I shall be the
patient On the hospital bed, lying in drugged slum And dreaming of home. I shall be the
grandmother Willing away her belongings, those scraps and trinkets More lasting than her bones.
Perhaps some womb in that Darker world shall convulse, when I finally enter, A legitimate entrant,
marked by discontent. (Gino) The Stone Age, one of the finest poems in this anthology, strongly
expresses the note of rebellion against male domination. The wife resents the restraints imposed on
her. The husband who is described as an "Old fat spider" weaves "webs of bewilderment" around
her and confines her within the four walls of domesticity. She painfully complains. You turn me into
a bird of stone, a granite Dove, you build round me a shabby drawing room, And stroke my pitted
face absent mindedly while you read. She dislikes him as other men haunt her mind. Yet, as day
dreams, strong men cast their shadows, they sink Like white suns in the swell of my Dravidian
blood. (The Stone Age)
In the absence of the husband she knocks at another's door. She asserts her individuality and
challenges domesticity. A note of rebellion and defiance is strongly expressed in this poem.

A Universal Truth Of Human Expression
A universal truth of human expression is the inability to fully reveal ones depth of emotion through
outward expression. A smiling man might be crying on the inside, a blank face can be the wall of a
dam, about to crack from the flood of anger or grief. Our lives exist solely within our minds, our
bodies are just vehicles for our souls. Knowing this to be true, I can only imagine how I would look
to a spider hanging from a web on the wall of my bedroom at one in the morning on October 4th,
2015. It would see the past–midnight moonlight pouring in through the window over my bed like a
spilled bucket of neon paint, drenching me in cold blue light. It would see my closed eyes and still
face. It would see the rise and fall of my ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
I park far enough away from the sleeping house as to not wake his parents or brother, not minding
October's air stinging my skin as I trudge to his house. I have done this before. I had not attended his
funeral, nor had I visited his grave. I could not find him lying in a cold casket in a church he'd never
been to in the house of a God he never believed in. I could not find him in the ground, underneath
soil he never walked on and a tombstone bearing words he never spoke. But pulling myself through
his window, five feet from the ground, I find him here. He is everywhere. The familiar scent of
coffee grounds and spearmint is so heavy with memory that when it's weight hits me, I wince in pain
from the nostalgic agony. Everything was as he had left it: bed unmade, leather jacket draped over
the chair, well worn converse – graffitied with song lyrics – next to the door. All were waiting for
him. I was their equal; as dust covered and abandoned as the rest of his belongings in his dark
bedroom. I gently sit on his empty bed, not wanting to disturb this preserved shadow box. I close my
eyes; this is where he would be if he were alive, having a dream he would probably tell me about the
next day. I roll onto my side, like he would, and come face to face with the picture on his bedside
table – his favorite one of the two of us, the happiest friends in the world, their

Essay on Oscar Wilde's Success at a Gothic Novel
In this essay I will be looking at how successful Oscar Wilde was at creating a gothic novel. I will
be using Edgar Alan Poe's short story
The Fall of the House of Usher and the film Bram Stokers, Dracula and the
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In this essay I will be looking at how successful Oscar Wilde was at creating a gothic novel. I will
be using Edgar Alan Poe's short story
'The Fall of the House of Usher' and the film 'Bram Stokers, Dracula' and the earlier version
'Nosferatu' as reference pieces to the gothic form. Other pieces I shall be looking at are Goya's 'The
Sleep of
Reason Produces Monsters', and Henry Fuseli's 'The Nightmare'.
What is gothic? The dictionary defines gothic as 'the style of
architecture ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
I shall now be looking at the novel its self and certain gothic passages in the novel with reference to
Edgar
Alan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. The story is about a young man in his early twenties
and how he sells his soul to the devil for eternal youth and beauty. When he does this the newly
painted self portrait of himself ages instead of him, this then allows him to explore his greatest
fancies and not worry about his soul and the repercussions it shall have upon his friends nor his soul.
This already shows signs of the gothic genre, as he is able to become completely free. In the end it
destroys him and he dies. In Chapter 16
Oscar Wilde writes about how Dorian Gray visits opium dens. The opium dens almost take Dorian
Gray out of reality and into the dream world.
On page 177 Oscar Wilde writes an amazing line that is very gothic '...the streets like the black web
of some sprawling spider. The monotony became unbearable, and as the mist thickened, he felt
afraid.' This is just like how 'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the house that the Usher
family live in you can find this in the first two paragraphs of the story. When we first meet Dorian
Gray he is a young naive boy untouched by the world but the day he meets Lord Henry, the
extremely illogical, destructive and selfish friend of Basil Hallward,
Lord Henry says something that changes Dorian Gray's life forever.

The History of Vampires
The vampire is one of the oldest mythological creatures in the world. It has been around for
thousands of years and is found in nearly every culture. There are many different kinds, the red–
eyed corpses from China, the Greek Lamia– a woman with the lower body of a winged serpent, the
Penanggalang in Malaysia– a woman with a detachable head, etc. The most commonly known,
however, is the Romanian vampire, it is used often in pop culture, from movies, to television, to
literature. The myth of the Romanian vampire became popular after the publication of Bram Stoker's
Dracula, After which it evolved to symbolise many things such as sexuality, eternal damnation,
eternal love, and the human longing for immortality. The Romanian vampire is ... Show more
Another way someone would be identified as a vampire is if they lived an unusual life. People who
practiced witchcraft, committed suicide, or were excommunicated by the church were certain to
come back as vampires after death. If none of these signs were apparent during their life, a person
could be identified as a vampire after death. If the corpse was buried face down or was jumped over
by a cat, there was a chance that person would come back from the dead. Another indication from
the grave would be if there was a small hole near the gravestone. It was believed that a vampire
could enter and exit through a small hole near the headstone. This might be because of the fact that
vampires were believed to be able to dissipate into a mist, or fog, and travel in that form, making it
easy to slip through the hole near their headstone.
Also in J. Gordon Melton's book The Vampire Book: Encyclopedia of the Undead, it was said that
since people lived in such fear of these vampires, there were many precautions taken. For one, garlic
would be placed in the mouth of the suspected corpse or millet seeds would be put in their coffin.
This was because it was believed that the vampire would be postponed from coming out of the grave
because it would need to take the time of eating it before leaving the coffin. Sometimes a distaff
would be driven into the ground over their grave in the hopes that if the vampire were to try and
escape,

The Court Of Abandonment: A Short Story
"Where have you been?"
Xia Jiang arrived at The Court of Abandonment several hours after Jingyan returned, his entire
disposition irritated and furious. This time, he arrived without a cortege of soldiers, but his presence
itself cowed any servants working around. When a servant, the boy with a thin face brought in their
tea, Jingyan dismissed him before his trembling caught Xia Jiang's attention.
From the looks of it, Xia Jiang had been around the Court of Abandonment in the past days while he
was unconscious at Su Zhe's residence. Presumably looking for him and bullying his servants when
he didn't find him. Kneeling at the low table, Jingyan calmly placed a white go piece on the large
chessboard, not answering the question as he focused on where to place a black piece.
He'd started the game with Zhanying, but lost in thoughts, he'd begun playing himself. ... Show
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"I have no interest in scheming for the throne because all the blood spilt will be the blood of
innocents or the blood of my family," said Jingyan. His royal father controlled the stage far more
than anyone else imagined him to care and Jingyan was well–aware of the fact. If he'd even shown a
sliver of intention to overthrow the Emperor's hand chosen crown prince, he would've been disposed
of.
When Xia Jiang scoffed at his words, Jingyan said, acrimony sharpening his tone into something
cynical and biting, "My Royal Father was the one who sent men to try and convince Prince Qi to
rebel thirteen years ago and associated him with the rebellious Chiyan Army when Prince Qi refused
to rebel."
If the revelation surprised Xia Jiang, his expression was schooled in a matter of seconds. By the
time Jingyan looked up after placating his own emotions, Xia Jiang looked expectant as he said, "I
caught a high ranking member of Mei Changsu's spies. A man named Tong Lu tried to assassinate

Gun-Personal Narrative
I'm awakened by sudden loud footsteps. Groggily, I roll over and yawn as my eyes adjust on the
digital clock that sits atop my nightstand. The big red letters read 2:17. Something downstairs
crashes and I bolt upright. I swing my feet over the edge of my bed. I know right now you're
probably thinking I'm that stupid girl from the horror movies that goes to the danger instead of away
from it, but I'm tired, and hungry, and not thinking straight... So I go downstairs. As I tiptoe down
the steps, the house becomes silent, the way it should be at 2:17 in the morning. All the stomping
around has stopped and now the only sound was the soft thud of my feet on the carpeted stairs. Once
I reach the bottom of the stairs, I wake up fully and realize, ... Show more content on
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In this turn of events, there was a monster that escaped its holding cell in the lab. Around 3:00 this
morning, the monster was captured by a man named Larry. Now we will go to Deborah, who is live
at the scene with Larry. There is a scene of a female news reporter standing next to Larry. Larry is
beaming and waving at the camera like a little kid as the reporter asks him questions about the lab
he works for, about the monster he captured, and how he captured the monster. She finishes by
saying what a brave hero Larry is and Larry literally takes a bow and says thank

The Applicant Poem
Introduction According to Allen Ginsberg's quote, "poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's
that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public,
that's what the poet does", the common poet "makes the private world public", or in other words,
processes his or her personal life into stanzas of interconnected words. Bearing this in mind, Sylvia
Plath, alias Victoria Lucas, was an American poet who portrayed an entire life soiled with problems
regarding Ted Hughes (her ex–husband), Otto Plath (her father), and herself in between the verses of
her poetry through the use of literary devices. In order to understand the subjects, language, tone,
and purpose of her poetry in maximum depth, readers ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Even the earlier poem, "The Beast" (Appendix B), reveals a marriage resulting in imprisonment.
The poem contains extensive animal imagery, beginning, "He was bullman earlier, / King of the
dish, my lucky animal" (1–2). His achievements are odd; an example is the lines, "The sun sat in his
armpit / Nothing went moldy..." (4–5). As the first stanza progresses, she becomes more unsure of
him, evident by its final line, "I hardly knew him" (10). The shorter second stanza reveals his true
self. He has become "the bowel's familiar" (13) and is represented as a dog due to phrases such as
"Mumblepaws" (12), "Fido Littlesoul" (13), and "The dark's his bone. / Call him any name, he'll
come to it" (14–15). A dog is a common animal in comparison to the first stanza's "bullman." His
power has been diminished, yet as the final stanza reveals, she is stuck with him. In Chapters in a
Mythology, Judith Kroll discusses the poem as a "split between past and present" that contrasts "an
initially idyllic past with a present fall from grace" (97–98). Plath's experience with marriage
transfers from an ideal promise of happiness to a heartbreaking conclusion in both her life and in the

Descriptive Essay: Cranberry Heights
Selene is a ten–year–old who has an older brother and a younger brother, so she is the only girl and
in the middle! She is a very outgoing unicorn. Selene enjoys to eat fried chicken, ice cream, and
(when she's in the mood) cucumbers. She loves to write, sketch, and read in her free time whenever
she is not watching movies or television! Overall, Selene is beautiful in her own cross–eyed way! I
was sitting half asleep in my biology class, watching the clock tick. After what felt like years, the
bell rang. I dashed out of school to catch up with my best friend, Nancy. We usually walked home
together since we both live two blocks away from our school, Cranberry Heights. "Hello, Irie!" she
said. That's me, fifteen–year–old Irie Payne. We walked and talked, and before we separated, we did
our handshake and said ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Ayza woke up Mike and said, "Did you hear that? What was that noise?" Mike said, "I don't know.
Let's go check." They went downstairs and saw the shadow of a very tall person. Suddenly, they
heard a voice saying, "Hello, kids!" So they ran upstairs to their mom and shouted, "Mom, there is
someone downstairs! We need to get out of here!" Mom went downstairs to see what their yelling
was about, but nobody was there. They noticed that the person they saw before was from the picture
hanging from the hallway. Mom said to the kids, "Go back to sleep. No one is here." The next
morning, Mom headed to the grocery store. While Mom was gone, Ayza and Mike explored the
house. They saw footprints leading to the basement, but they were too scared to go down. When
Mom came back, she saw the footprints and followed them downstairs. Suddenly, she stopped and
stared at a tall man with a knife. He attacked her, and she fell slowly to the ground. The kids went
down and saw their mother on the floor. The man had no face and was all white. He yelled, "I'm
Slayer

Benghazi Analysis
Dustin Reynolds
Mr. Munoz, Ms. Walker
U.S. History, English 12 CP
10, May 2016
Benghazi: Does It Really Matter? Why Benghazi? Did Benghazi have anything to offer? Yes, there
was a point in attacking the United States consulate in Benghazi. Some people believe that this
attack was planned to coincide with the day the World Trade Center was destroyed. Others believe it
the "Innocence of Muslims"video released on Youtube that caused the uproar of violence. Political
blogger Kevin Drum wrote in his article Yes, the "Innocence of Muslims" Video Really Did Play a
Role In The Benghazi Attacks; " ... the best evidence we have from witnesses on the ground is clear:
the "Innocence of Muslims" video inspired the initial attacks, which then escalated ... Show more
Benghazi: The Definitive Report is a book written by Brandon Webb and Jack Murphy; the very
first sentence of their prologue goes like this "The deadly attack on the consulate in Benghazi,
Libya, symbolically coinciding with the eleventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September
11th, 2001, triggered a confluence of events that spilled into U.S domestic politics, military covert
operations and a number of classified CIA programs." (Webb, Murphy 1). Benghazi, although it was
a terrorist attack on United States single handedly changed so many things in the U.S that it
influenced the public opinion of many things. Benghazi exposed how the C.I.A and Obama were
illegally supporting the transportation of weapons into an unstable country to pursue their own
interests. Benghazi proved to the U.S that even though they may have helped the countries does not
mean they are friends. It has shown that smaller organizations have risen in the background, allowed
to take hold because the United States was only paying attention to the groups letting themselves be
known. The U.S realized their fatal mistake of minor security and increased consulate security
globally. Ambassador Chris Stevens and all the others that died had a purpose. When these people
died they became part of something bigger, starting a chain of events that continue into the modern
day United

Art Gallery Review
I went to the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas, located on 3275 Industrial road (major cross–
street Desert Inn) which opened in August of 2008. At the museum it holds, erotic art, exhibits,
different timelines and a lot of illustrated history of erotica. There were many tasteful pieces of
artwork, whether it be painting, magazine covers, posters, figures, and sculptures. I was also very
excited to have actually seen the piece called "Venus of Willendorf" that is featured in our book on
page 164. I took my time looking at all the different pictures to see which I would choose from to
write about. Then I observed one, it was untitled, made in 2008 and the artists name is Fang. I did
research on the artist and did not find much on her ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
He wasn't the best artist and this picture definitely could be his work. It was a picture of a pink male
penis on the left of the painting and on the right was of an open mouth with the tongue on the tip of
the penis. This is said to be the only erotic art Walt Disney has ever produced because he knew his
best friend was into erotic art. Overall my experience at the Erotic Heritage museum was very
pleasant, nothing too distasteful. I found this place to be comical, and a great place to get knowledge
about sexual behavior. There were many different pictures and news clippings, and information on
the erotica. There were lots of statues and old art showing different cultures views on sex. There
were different views of women's vaginas on the walls and also homosexuality views as well. I also
saw the first "vibrator" as we call it today but back then it was the fifth electronic appliance. I
enjoyed all of the art that I reviewed about for all the uniqueness of it overall. Throughout the whole
two floors of the museum I was not disgusted by any of it mostly because I have a very open mind
and think "outside the box". It all was displayed very well throughout the museum and all of the
staff was very

Cherokee County: A Short Story
23 Cherokee County
Georgia Country
Gasping for air, and pushing an invisible 'something' away from her, Charity sat up with a start,
gulping air into her lungs. It felt as if her breath was suddenly squished out of her; however, it was
not a scary feeling. She remembered a dark shadow hovering over her, then consuming her,
momentarily smothering her. At first, the shadow radiated love, compassion, and understanding–
feelings that returned once she could breathe again.
Charity lay there a minute and then got up to pee. As she walked toward the woods, she looked up at
the moon– a halo surrounded it, but in the center, there appeared to be the shadow of a man... She
stared at the moon a moment, trying to separate the man figure from the other ... Show more content
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Then the woman went inside, lay down and gave up on life...
"Me and my strong son's will make sure you and your love receive a proper burial," Charity said
aloud, wishing she knew the couples names so she could mark their graves. Standing there beside
the dead woman's bed, she decided that this was where she would wait on Henry; he should catch up
to them soon. She wrapped the corpse in the bed linens, talking to her the entire time, telling her
about herself and her children. When she finished, she tied it snugly and then got the older boys to
help remove it.
After they removed the woman's body and buried her out back, beside her husband, Charity stripped
the bed and remade it with linens she found in a chest at the foot of the bed. While she, Charles, and
Martha swept and cleaned the cabin of spider webs and dust, she sent John and Uriah, since they
were the oldest, out to explore the surrounding area to see if there were any folks living nearby.
They came back about an hour later, very

The Postman Always Rings Twice as Film Noir Essay
The Postman Always Rings Twice as Film Noir
Tony Garnett's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) seems a quintessential film noir. The title
suggests a fateful conclusion for the two main characters–a flawed drifter named Frank (John
Garfield) and his restless female conspirator, Cora (Lana Turner). Garnett's crime drama is crafted
with the stylish devices usually characteristic of the film noir genre–low–key lighting; a flawed,
inept hero; and an archetypal femme fatale. Certain thematic codes are also persistent: psychological
conflict, paranoia, fate, and moral ambiguity. Three telling scenes communicate the noir stylistics
effectively–where nearly all of the devices converge simultaneously: (1) Frank's first meeting ...
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Then Cora's lawyer, Arthur Keats, joins them in the hospital room. Frank watches as the D.A. bets
Keats $100 that Cora will be convicted for the murder of her husband. Frank, with a pale, sweaty
face, watches with shame while the lawyers hastily look over his signed statement and exchange
niceties. Keats approaches Frank, who squirms with agitation, blurting out, "I know I shouldn't have
signed it that letter." Keats just rubs it in his face and says, "Shut up...The less you know the
better...I'm handling it...you don't count now." Frank is helpless.
On the day of Cora's arraignment, Frank is wheeled into municipal court in a wheelchair. His head is
bandaged and his arm is in a sling, and the court procedure and lawyer tactics dismay him. He sits
ashamedly as Cora reacts with a furious face–realizing that Frank has betrayed her. After the
arraignment, Frank is wheeled into an antechamber where the criss–cross of shadows are again
present. Frank's wheelchair and bandages are very real physical confinements, but the criss–crossed
shadows seem to symbolically express his mental paralysis.
He is quiet and his face is full of numb shock. He does not seem to trust anyone now and is
smothered with feelings of helplessness and inadequacy. When Cora and her lawyer join him, Frank
is further alienated. Cora walks circles around Frank as she scolds him as a liar and a "so–called
man."
Here Frank's psychological conflict seems to peak. Frank

Adversity In Bread Givers
What's the most common adversity of an immigrant? Struggling to cope with embedding oneself
into being servant to two masters. The term "masters" used here are figurative objects where two
distinct form of societal expectation collide with each other and one can't completely ignore either
side. Sarah, in Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers, as an immigrant, faces adversity to implement her
personal pursuits in assimilating with the American Culture against her native culture where the
father plays the authoritarian and dictatorial rule in the family. Being servant to two master brings
one nowhere but Sarah fights on her stand and brings out the outcome to be otherwise.
There are nations, even up to this day, fathers are considered as the head ... Show more content on
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PSSSSTTTTTTT, like seriously?
"I know I'm a fool. But I cannot help it. I haven't the courage to live for myself. My own life is
knocked out of me. No wonder Father called me the burden bearer." This was regarding Bessie, this
shows how Bessie's life was shaped through the influence of religious teachings, forcing herself to
stay loyal to the societal expectation and giving up her personal pursuits. She calls herself the
"burden bearer" because it was the religion and/or societal teaching for females in Judaism should
dedicate their lives to men's. This was, in fact, the case in which every female figure of the
Smolinsky family has suffered throughout the book. Sarah, too, was suffering from such conflict
until she realized this is not what she sees herself into if she is to make herself break out the poverty
and the so called "religious obedience".
Now, Sarah feels that her personal pursuit relies on getting herself embedded in the American
culture through getting herself educated. This dream, however, is to face the negligence of her
family, leaving her strong will to be the only tool in need to fight with the ancient molding of
cultural dilemma which taught to treat women like they were the dolls in the house and are to be
treated whatever the man's in house wished to treat them as. If one raids out the whole book to find
the very cause of her family being negligence will find the need for her family's food and warmth as
equal as the societal expectation

The Night
Gasping for air and pushing an invisible 'something' away from her face, Charity sat up with a start
and began gulping air into her lungs. It felt as if all her breath was suddenly squished out of her
lungs. It was not a scary feeling. She remembered a dark shadow hovering over her, then consuming
her, momentarily, smothering her. At first, the shadow radiated love, compassion, and
understanding– feelings that returned once she could breathe again. Charity lay there a minute and
then got up to pee. As she walked toward the woods, she looked up at the moon– a halo surrounded
it, but in the center, there appeared to be the shadow of a man... She stared at the moon a long time,
trying to separate the man figure, from the other shadows– he was clear as day, but then he merged
with the shadows. A sort of eeriness settled over her, but she continued to the edge of the forest and
used the bathroom. When she stood, she felt unbalanced and woozy. What a mysterious feeling this
was– it was as if her body was not her own... She had never felt this way before... Even though, she
felt odd, it was as if she could see more clearly than ever before. Even in the darkness, she could
define each limb, every branch, leaf, even the blades of grass growing from the ground were
brilliantly clear to her... She returned to the wagons and stoked up the fire. As it caught and blazed to
life, she sat cross–legged and gazed deeply into the flames. Within them, she saw Two Feathers,
sitting by his fire just

Islam In The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages had one dominant religion, Christianity, until Islam began. It is the Muslim
religion. Islam is based on the claims of a man named Mohammed. When Mohammed died, his
teachings were gathered into a book called the Koran (Quran). His intrepid successor Abu Bakr with
a vast victorious army conquered cities and forced the people to convert to Islam. This is how Islam
widely spread through out the Middle East. Islam is now a major world religion. This is the story
Muslims tell today.
Mohammed disliked the bustling city of magnificent Mecca. He often traveled to the scorching
desert to be alone. On one of these occasions he clammed that he heard beautiful music being
played. He gazed up and spied an angel descending down to

Elie Wiesel's Rabasn: A Narrative Fiction
Rabastan: Flicked, short motion of his thumb against his forefinger, that piece of filth she had
missed from the table, uncaring as to which surface it was to sail to next– dispassionate gaze barely
lifting from the table top long enough to assure that she had observed him doing so. Correcting that
which she had been asked to do, to fix. Personal objects, dirt, and all manner of other he didn't want
to examine too closely littering the surfaces of this apartment that he had followed her back to–
serpentine gestures and back alleyway paths as if she could shake off whatever shadow it was she
felt no doubt trickling down the edge of her spine. Was a creature bathed in deception and suspicion,
shouldn't have at all been surprised that it was such ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
"Has your energy depleted Bridgette?" Amiable, despite the apparent lack of care he was affording
either her or her visage, his thumb trailing across one of the faces blinking up at him from that page.
Rubbed half–semi–circle into that image, lips pressed together with a fondness that didn't translate
properly onto his features. "Should you prefer, at any point, we can further discuss things– your
conversation has always been anything but engaging darling, perhaps you'd rather conserve your
strength for the latter?" Was a slow swivel, his nail pressing into the very center of that face,
eyebrows just barely lifted as to the conversation he was verbally carrying out, that 'no' just near
beneath the decibel needed for the utterance at all. Paused, in his own reply, slow roll of his eyes
upwards to that back that was presented him– whisper of something behind that reflection of his
eyes just before she shifted her weight from one foot to the other. [I] "No sir."[/i] Better– tap of his
fingers against his table his only response as his gaze fell once more– that barely recognized rip
within those pages from where that crescent shaped nail had dug into it... irritated, that flick of the
paper over, face now covered

A Short Story : A Story?
All of James' life he thought that he was just a simple man and that he would die, perfectly ordinary,
in his small village. For 18 years he had lived life as it came to him, growing up in Thornwood. His
life was peaceful and dull. Every day since he was young he gathered edibles and alchemy
ingredients from the forest, to be sold at a small price. It was an easy job that he was good enough
at, but for a long time, he had held a secret dream, to leave this place. If only he had more money,
more power, he could do whatever he wanted. Then one day everything changed. James didn't know
it, but he had eaten a heralding fruit that he mistook for an ordinary berry. These mystical fruits
brought out latent magical powers in living creatures, turning men into mages and animals into
legendary beasts. For months he had been carrying around a powerful magic ability without the
slightest notice of it. James left his wooden house that morning well rested and ready for a long day
of gathering. His worn linen tunic was warm in the morning sunshine. He made sure to say hello to
his neighbor, Cassandra, before he left. She always took the time to water her garden in the morning.
Cassandra's long blonde hair flowed beautifully in the morning breeze. She looked up from her
watering and her baby blue eyes met his. "Good morning Cassandra," He said waving to her. She
smiled back to him, "Oh, good morning James!" Her smile made his face grow a small shade red.
"How is your

Journal Analyzing the Byronic Hero and Lord Byron’s...
A Journal Analyzing the Byronic Hero, Those who Closely Resemble the Hero, Byron's Writing
Styles and Literary Criticism
(Journal entry 1, Defining the Byronic Hero)
The Byronic Hero is a term derived from the poetic narrative, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Lord
Byron. Though the idea of the Byronic Hero originated with the creation of Byron's characters,
Byron himself possessed the physical features associated with the Byronic Hero. These features
include dark brooding eyes, dark hair, pale skin and a slender frame. The Byronic hero derived from
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, strays away from the typical "hero" role by possessing dual
characteristics of good as well as evil, "And had been glorious in another day: but ... Show more
The elevated emotional state of the Byronic Hero leads him to be or appear egocentric and
introverted "hating the world he had almost forgot", characteristics which deter from the
standardized hero who "fights for the good of man–kind." Guilt from the past also plagues the
Byronic Hero, "for he through Sin's labyrinth had run, nor made atonement when he did amiss..."
(Byron,C.H.181). The haunting illusion to past wrongs or sins taints the Hero and casts a shadow
over his overall character and deeds. Due to his past the Hero often carries some form of defect
(physical or physiological), a " heart and harp have lost a string..." (Byron,C.H. 210) that further
isolates him from society.
(Journal entry 2, Ichabod Resembling the Byronic Hero)
No characters outside of the characters created by Lord Byron himself could fully encompass the
idea of the Byronic Hero, though many narratives have since been created which bare notable
resemblance. Washington Irving created such a character when he wrote the story, The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow. Though Ichabod (the main character within the Irving narrative) embodies qualities
of the Byronic Hero, he fails to fully mirror the concept. Ichabod's physical persona is described as
"tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out
of his

Alfred Hitchcock Identity And Identity
The greatest art in films is by the means of the ability to create an emotion in the viewers of the film
and by the means of and imagery. Alfred Hitchcock, for long time, has been a household name since
he began filmmaking. Hitchcock has been able to accumulate a well known and distinct cinematic
techniques making him stand out as one of the best filmmakers around the globe. What makes
Hitchcock's films 'must watch' movies are how he draws his viewers' emotion and leave them in
suspense (Maher 246). Hitchcock's The Birds is an American horror–film dropped in 1963. The film
is loosely based on the 1952 story of Daphne Du Maurier and focuses on a sudden series,
unexplained powerful and violent birds attacking the people of Bodega Bay (Maher 247). In this
movie, the fact that viewers do not get to know the details of the birds makes it an interesting but a
suspense film, which evokes thoughts of the audience to know much about the birds. On the other
hand, Identity, which was directed by James Mangold in 2003, revolves around the life of ten people
who seeks refuge in an isolated motel when a vicious storm breaks out in the desert of Nevada
(Falsafi, Khorashad, and Khorashad 2521). As they seek refuge, a serious murderer, Taylor Vince
awaits his execution for killing a group of motel guests. This paper, using terminology resources and
cinematic techniques, seeks to expatriate the similar technique styles adopted in the two films to
enhance suspense. The cinematic techniques

The Falafel Of Imminent Philosophical Wisdom
The Falafel of Imminent Philosophical Wisdom
"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No
matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they 've all got unimaginable,
magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds.Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands
maybe." (The Sandman5) Author Neil Gaiman: one of the most renowned authors ofmany novels,
comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and filmsin modern
British history and winner of multiple Eisner, Hugo, Newberry, and Nebula awards. Well known in
American culture for works such as Coraline, The Graveyard book,American Gods,Good
Omens, and The Sandman, Gaiman is a treasure to all of humankind."He's 5′ 10″ ... Show more
Lewis,J.R.R.
Tolkien, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gene
Wolfe, and G.K. Chesterton.This exposure to great mastery would ultimately lead him into the wide
world of literature.Around the age of twenty, he went to quench his natural thirst for writing,
undertaking the job of being a journalist and a book criticin England.Journalism was what Gaiman
had hoped would help him develop and refine his literary skills and further gain allies, which would
later aid him on his journey to be a published author. While working as a journalist, Gaiman
beganwriting his first book, whichwas a biography of the band Duran
Duran. He would later move on to other novels, and comicbooks. Gaimanended his journalism
career in 1987 duetoBritish newspapers regularly publishing untruths as facts.Now out of work for
journalism, he took up freelance while collaborating with his long–time friend Dave McKean, who
worked in the graphic novel spectrum of writing, on a graphic novel known as "Black
Orchid". From this experience,he caught DC Comic's eye, who then hired Gaiman to put a twist on
what would then become another of Gaiman's more famous

Description And Imagery In Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'
Allyson A. Rodriguez
English 2323. C01
Professor Havermale
April 23, 2018
Dracula
In the novel Dracula, Bram Stoker uses vivid description and imagery to set up a classic
representation of a gothic novel. Although most people know the novel as a telltale story of a
vampire and the many powers he possesses to overtake the innocent. I believe that Stoker portrays
the characters in the novel to formalize a struggle between what they know as reality and what they
experience as delusions of a weakened mental state where many of them question their sanity.
Stoker does this through the characters' encounters with the Count with feelings of insanity,
forgetfulness, trances and imprisonment in order to facilitate Dracula's torment on his victims. ...
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Van Helsing who is an old, wise and educated man is determined to get rid of the Count. He knows
much of how to rid vampires and has sworn till death that he will kill him. He joins forces with
Jonathan Harker, Quincy Morris, Arthur aka Lord Godalming and Dr. Jack Seward to save the world
from Dracula. Even after all he knows and has seen he still questions his sanity, "You may at the
first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad–that the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at
the last turn my brain" (523). Even Dr. Seward feels the loss of sanity amongst them, "I sometimes
think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait–waistcoats" (392) and even
questions himself, "I am beginning to wonder if my long habit of life amongst the insane is
beginning to tell upon my own brain"

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