Pit bull is the common name for a type of dog. Formal breeds often considered in North America to be of the pit bull type include the American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, American Bully, and Staffordshire Bull Terrier It is a generic term often used to describe all dogs with similar traits and characteristics often known by the public as Pit Bulls. Pit Bulls have great physical and mental characteristics that make them excellent partners for responsible, active, and caring…
attention of his parent, or in this case giver of life Frankenstein, all while being blissfully oblivious to everything else. Typically this type of behavior would be viewed as innocent or even endearing, however instead the words jaws and wrinkled are used to describe the scene. “Jaws” evokes a darker, more menacing animalistic aura while “wrinkles”, typically associated with the elderly who are closer to death, are a sign of decay of the human body, both a stark contrast with the image of a…
Is Chewing Gum Safe or is it a Sweet Deception? Today 59 percent of people who live in the United States chew gum which means that an estimate of 100,000 tons of gum is consumed each year (Mercola). Most people chew gum for stress relief, to achieve fresh breath, and to overcome cravings or simply just for the taste. However is there more to gum than what meets the eye? Is chewing gum even safe? Well I hate to be the one to pop your sugar coated bubble but chewing gum is very harmful for the…
insidious tone. Victor vividly describes the scene of him creating life from the dead, how he was amazed at first but then was disgusted. The author’s use of synecdoche presents the body parts used , such as the “eyes that were fixed on [him]”(19) and his “jaws that opened”(Shelley 20). The intentional use of body parts by Frankenstein describe a whole to portray the significance of identity. Victor was able to built the monster and create life from decaying body parts from different people. He…
teeth than a normal person. Symptoms of progeria begin to appear in the first year or two of life. A lot of the symptoms include slowed growth, with below-average height and weight. Some more symptoms of progeria include narrowed face, small lower jaw, thin lips and a long and pointy nose. Plus, a very large head almost too big for your face, and big eyes in which the eyelids don't completely close. Also including, spotty wrinkled skin, with some visible veins, and a high-pitched voice.…
McMurphy is the tragic hero portrayed in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. By being fundamentally good and displaying a flaw that leads to his downfall in the book, McMurphy easily fits between Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero and the Modernist definition. McMurphy is a fundamentally good character, even though not noble of birth as stated in Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero. McMurphy is full of personality, independent, and life affirming. In the beginning, he seems more…
the Soviet Union at the time, rose up to being the dictator of Animal Farm by getting rid of his rival by trained dogs. In the passage it states, “They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws”(Orwell). Similar to Napoleon, Stalin threw his rival out and sent an assassin to kill him. which depicts that power hungry Stalin eventually rose to dictatorship through secrecy, deception and use of military force. In addition, Napoleon is…
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale was a honorable film to the Christmas Horror genre, unlike most that involve a psychopath murder going after naughty people. Rare Exports had a genuine story that leads to marvelous things yet in the ending had me jaw dropped. Amusing scares that had me suprised, with great cinemtagrophy of beautiful Mount Korvatunturi this film has alot going for…
Do monsters lurk under the place humans sleep at night, or in the closet that lies to the right of a bed,waiting for night to fall upon the world? Lurking through the moonlight is what they do, just a matter of where the lurking continues. To find delicious blood to feast on as their only request, but maybe slaughtering a few innocent people along the way would elevate their expectations for the experience creating an exhilarating exploit. Waiting patiently for night to fall, monsters stay…
Plague doctor When the Black Death began to spread across Europe and parts of Asia, the search for cures and treatments became desperate. After multiple bouts of plague across decades by 1656, plague doctors became notorious for their foreboding wardrobe. They often wore long leather suits, glasses, a pointed mask that looked like that of a birds’ head or beak, and finally, a long pointed cane or stick was held to keep the infected at “safe” a distance (Link 1). These physicians were…