Crawling

swallowed awkwardly, face contorting as a flashback occurred—him looking on in horror as her body shuddered involuntarily as the fury she’d unleashed, a cauldron of deadly talents, undoing all that they’d done, with a dismantling tectonic wave. A skin crawling sensation intensified, triggering him to rub his fingers into loose fists. He hastened his steps until they walked side by side. Her hand found his and held it, but he untethered his fingers minutes later. He passed a hand along the…

creeping women. What is really happening is her mental state is a projection of that wallpaper on many levels. For example, she says “Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over” (Gilman 654). The Women trapped in the pattern of gender roles are the ones she sees with their heads trapped in the bars, while the creeping one is her. She creeps around trying to find freedom from her husband, tearing…

"We will be married in a great church. And in the pearl he saw Juana with her beaten face crawling home through the night," (Steinbeck 71). Even though Kino beat Juana because she was trying to throw the pearl away and he wanted the pearl so they could get married, without the pearl there was no hope. So, Kino attacked Juana only because he loved…

What could one week without screen time do to students you might ask? Nothing if you're oblivious to the problems in this economy but let’s paint a picture that we would be seeing in the duration of this week. Books are piled high as they find no end. Notes and paper all over the desk tumbling down to no avail since you still need to finish the history research paper that you chose to procrastinate on. Only an hour left to finish it and give it to the professor time is ticking. You have yet to…

Grendel, from the novel Grendel, and the monster, from the novel Frankenstein, are two very complex characters. These two characters both symbolize the outcasts of the world, they are both hated because they're abnormal, ugly, and un-human. Grendel and the monster in the beginning of both their novels are completely alone. The only contrast is that Grendel is only loved by his mother, and the monster is loved by no one. Grendel is this hairy, tall creature who frightens everyone who comes near;…

San Francisco Quake of 1906 On April 8, 1909, a catastrophic earthquake crippled the San Francisco and most of northwest California: sundering the northern two-hundred and ninety-six miles of the San Andreas Fault from northwest of San Juan Bautista to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino. Causing over three thousand deaths and turning one out of every eight houses into rubble. The initial tremors destroyed the city’s water mains, leaving firefighters with no means of combating the growing…

True Evilness of a Man Many may say boys can be more vicious and rebellious compared to their opposite sex. With human’s naturally bad nature or a child’s lonely feeling caused by the constant absence of an adult role model. Individuals affected may slowly become corrupted by these ideas. William Golding, in the novel, Lord of the Flies, uses the characters Ralph, Jack, and Piggy to demonstrate how the boys behaved to “the darkness of a man’s heart” during their time on the island. The boys…

whom she had an affair and was in love with. Not only did she drink blood to kill Elizabeth, but she also stabbed herself with a needle to connect Elizabeth to witchery. A young and naive girl, Abigail believed if Elizabeth was gone, John would come crawling back to her, but Abigail was unable to see that John truly loved Elizabeth and merely had a moment of weakness with…

LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938. LSD is typically either swallowed or held under the tongue, usually on a substrate such as absorbent blotter paper, a sugar cube, or gelatin. In its liquid form, it can also be administered by intramuscular or intravenous injection.The effects of the drug were not known until 1948 due to the fact that no one could explain it’s mystifying effects. It was introduced commercially in 1947 by Sandoz Laboratories under the trade-name Delysid as a…

example of a classic hero. Heroes are not made without challenges, some of which they face early on in their journey. Hercules and Atalanta meet their first struggle as children, with the goddess Hera sending the former “two great snakes [that] came crawling into the nursery” (Hamilton 228), which Hercules promptly kills, and the latter being “left on a wild mountainside to die of cold and hunger” (Hamilton 246) by her father. In mythology, those who grow up unusually, like Hercules, Atalanta,…