Hypnotic

Diagnostic Criteria The current diagnostic and statistical manual of mental health disorder (DSM)V which was updated in 2013, placed diagnostic criteria for disorders such as Autistic disorders, Asperger syndrome, Pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified into an umbrella which is now called ASD ("Autism Speaks," 2016; "CDC," 2016). Under the current DSMV, diagnostic criteria for ASD has five criterions A through E and the child must meet the requirements of each criterion to…

Puffy white flakes of snow blew toward and across the windshield as we drove down the highway. It was still only October and yet the Alaskan landscape was blanketed in white. This far north the first snow had arrived early and stayed, not melting away like it usually did in Pennsylvania. "So much for global warming," joked Scott, over the CB. "You're lucky I'm not Hank," I warned. I'd said it as an unconscious reaction to what Scott's comment. I immediately regretted it. "I'm sorry…

PROLOGUE ********************* I can hear his tortured screams as the flames lick his skin. The odor of burning flesh fills my nose--intoxicating me. I don’t feel any wrong; I have no regrets. As the house collapses into itself, I can already feel relief seeping into my body. I can feel the burden being lifted off of my shoulders; I am weightless. ----------------------- They told me that it was the right thing to do. They told me that it was the…

How pathetic! He went into a hypnotic state because of his tramp wife. My plans are the Holy Grail! I indeed mock your feebleness; who on this planet gives into a trance caused by the thoughts of a diminutive worth of a wife? How does a man of high nobility and reputation fall lower…

Chapter Eighteen A Dizzying Blur of Woozy Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. The way Chance saw it escape was futile. “Look, we’re tied up.” He walked over to a window and glanced down. “And we’re on the third floor. Unless you’re suggesting we hurl ourselves through the glass and dive to our deaths. Besides, this place is infested with guards.” I realized he was right. Men were prowling like packs of wild hyenas, lurking in the shadows, waiting to devour us whole. “If we did manage to flee, which is…

Upyr, upier, sanguisuga, brucolacus; this demon of the night is known by many names around the world (Steiger 81). However, it is more commonly known in english by the name of vampire. The vampire is considered to be the most famous monster in the world. Many cultures around the world tell tales about the dead coming back to life to feast on the blood of mortals. These tales inspired many works of literature, allowing the myth of the vampire to spread far and wide, increasing their popularity as…

In Plato's view of the transmigration of the soul from body to body, however, there is a difference. Plato claimed the soul tends to become impure during these bodily inhabitations although a minimal former life knowledge remains. However, if through its transmigrations the soul continues doing good and eliminates the bodily impurities it will eventually return to its pre-existence state. But, if the soul continually deteriorates through its bodily inhabitations it will end up in Tartarus, a…

an emotive word that Poe constantly uses, illustrating longing and despair. The word is filled with this sense that nothing will get better, no matter how badly the speaker wants it to (Fultz, Wright, and Castle). Through his carefully organized, hypnotic rhyming trochaic octameter, Poe tells the tale of a man longing for his lost love, being driven to the brink of…

Spoken language holds more information than written. This is because while speaking, an audience is able to understand the feeling of the speaker as there is tone and body language. In written language this is not known as its just plain text. The speakers feeling are also shown by paralinguistic features which are body language, posture, eye contact and hand gestures. As well as this, spoken language contains features like fillers and hedges. All this is adds emotion to speech which is…

There is an unpleasant experience out in the world that plagues the unfortunate in the midst of the night. Not nightmares, something quite different in fact- sleep terrors. Also known as night terrors, these are recurrent episodes of abrupt terror arousals from sleep, usually beginning with a panicked scream and may include sleepwalking (American Psychiatric Association). Like sleepwalking, sleep terrors are considered a parasomnia—an undesired occurrence during sleep (American Psychiatric…