Worst Nightmare Essay

shift I could not knock on her bedroom door when I had a nightmare because she was out protecting the public. I learned quickly that being a police officer is dangerous work and that the possibility that she might not come home one day is an ever-present one. Unlike many cases I have heard of, I never rebelled against my mother and her chosen profession. It is easy to see why many children of first responders do rebel. The parents see the worst case scenarios in the world and are presented with…

During the span of our humanly years we all have things that make us jump, things that may go boo in the night giving a very big fright scare. Maybe something off of Nightmare before Christmas. Either way a phobia is an extreme irrational fear of something. Firstly, ladies and gentlemen I present to you automaton-phobia. Anyone afraid of ventriloquist dummies, wax dummies, scarecrows, and so on have this fear. In short someone with this fear can’t handle anything that falsely represents a…

just plunge back down to where you started. Whether it be due to your actions or another’s, it hurts like nothing else. In Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King,” Oedipus goes from living the dream of his lifetime all the way to down to agonizing in his worst nightmare. Oedipus is a tragic hero because he suffers a huge reversal in fortune, all because of the errors he made resulting from his tragic flaws of anger and arrogance. Oedipus’s reversal in fortune is his plummet from the mighty King of…

consequences and repercussions happen as they do in reality but end just as the curtains close. A dream has the similar ability to create a separate existence but for this to be compared to a dream it should defined as a nightmare. Shakespeare has Macbeth turn his life to a waking nightmare to demonstrate moral and psychological ruin in a man and teach the consequence that comes from the evil committed which begins it all.…

Did zombies represent slavery during the Hattian revolution? Looking back at the Hattian revolution which was during the 17th-18th centuries. During this time slavery was going on and they would get Hattians and Africans to come to France and harvest sugar plantation fields. Slaves were worked to death within a few years causing the French to capture and import slaves(mariani). Masters were getting sick and tired of their slaves killing themselves so they would take advantage of what they heard…

confinement on the prisoner. It even showed some guard’s tendencies to abuse their power and threaten the inmates with time in the SHU if they didn’t behave. At first, it was spoken about in the show as if it’s some unknown world full of their worst nightmares, but later on, we get an inside look on what the conditions are like in the SHU when the main character, Piper, gets sent in there. From what I saw, it was difficult to figure out how much time has passed. I know that this is just a…

When a reader views texts in perspective, he or she draws on the words, characters and their actions while viewing the content personally. Drawing on religious motifs and ideas, Alice Sebold presents a remarkable, complex, and comforting vision of heaven, as the platform from which Susie Salmon was raped and murdered; by a neighbor at the age of fourteen. Heaven indeed has many “mansions,” one of which is the “wide wide Heaven,” which can provide one’s every desire. The powerful Deity also…

Every time we take pills, we are actually gambling with our lives. Drugs that are considered safe are in reality, harmful. It is our worst nightmare because with a few pills, drugs can ruin our lives and futures. Dr. Peter Gotzsche, the Director of the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen and an author, was interviewed about drugs. He said, “Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Our drugs kill around 200,000 people in America every year, and…

The Doctor’s Plague Reflection The book “The Doctor’s Plague” was a verminophobe’s worst nightmare. It was set in a time when germs weren’t discovered yet. No one understood what caused the sickness and the society resorted to primitive ways of explaining phenomenon. It was a time when bleeding and use of leeches were still being used in medicinal practices in mid-19th century Vienna. This book describes the story of how doctors used to spread childbed fever to many pregnant women in the…

As we all know, termites can be highly destructive. These little insects are the worst and can threaten the foundation of your home and turn your life into a nightmare. Unfortunately, not many home owners pay much attention to these creatures and because they are so tiny, many only realize a looming problem when it's too late. Did you know that millions of homes are attacked by termites every year? Given the destructive force these termites carry with them, inspection could save you thousands of…