Lurk

Una ocular lupo 250-450 feet below the earth's surface, this deadly creature lurks. It can only thrive in total darkness. Scientists don’t know much about these elusive creatures. Characteristics Una Ocular Lupo have only one eye that has X-ray vision. Their sharp slightly blue tinted teeth are designed to rip and tear flesh easily. They are a light black with a blue nose and red tited feet. Their dagger like blue nails inject cyanide into their victim's body at will. Their big feet let…

overtaking their spirits entirely until all the boys thoughts had been composed with the need for meat, power, and blood. “We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves” (Levy 84). Uncontrollable evil lurks within us all, something we can not help, the ones that define what is wrong and what is write in a modern day civilization are the ones like Ralph, but Ralph’s civilized self and way of think had soon disappeared and was almost completely…

The ocean is known as the lifeblood of the earth covering more than seventy percent of the planet’s surface with only five percent that has actually been explored. With that being said do you ever wonder how many shark species lurk in the water? It is known that they’re around four hundred and forty known species of sharks around but the basking and the goblin shark is two interesting ones that have been found. The Basking shark is seen all throughout the world they stay in warm waters close…

Marx succinctly describes the history of society in terms of class struggle as “oppressor and oppressed. “Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman” and now the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, all which stood in constant opposition. The bourgeoisie is the “oppressor” in this case, being the social class who own the means of production and are concerned with withholding capital and wealth to ensure their economic supremacy. The proletariat refers to…

Steinbeck offers a detailed description of the surroundings, including the spotted botete, or poison fish, that lay in the eel grass beds. This time poison was symbolic of the evil that can lurk under what appears to be beautiful. The pearl was beautiful, luminous, and resplendent; it was perfect. Yet all it brought was corruption and destruction, poisoning the beauty. When we get to chapters 5 and 6, Kino’s innocent nature is already poisoned…

In the epic of Gilgamesh, what the displeasure and the pain can lead people to do. Gilgamesh and the goddess Ishtar were both disappointed by the situations they didn’t expected. However, they reacted in diverse ways. Gilgamesh was a strong and courageous king. He had no fear and was an oppressor by some gods. He had a strong mine and look invincible. He surpassed all kings defended his comrades and protected his troop (p. 100). During his life, he found a friend Enkidu and together they…

What is it that we want to feel when we go to watch a horror film? Of course, we all want to be terrified, or at least we are prepared to be frightened in some way. But what is it that terrifies us, or essentially, incites in us some sense of horror? Is it the presence of horrible creatures, or is it the presence of ghosts, or other types of supernatural creatures, that scares us? Of course, the supernatural is in all these things. Human beings normally fear the supernatural because things…

In both “What It’s Like to be a Gang Member” by Bill Lee and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks gang life is portrayed as dangerous, hard, and useless demonstrating that joining one is not worth it or good. In “What It’s Like to be a Gang Member” by Bill Lee. Lee quotes “the gang I was in was responsible for the golden dragon massacre.” Because of gang life Lee was part of a mass killing and has to deal with the trauma of being in a event like that also there were lots of weapons and he could…

When most people wake up they hope something good will fall upon them, but most don’t think of the burden that might lurk behind the blessing. This statement could be used as the moral for John Steinbeck’s book The Pearl. The Pearl is a story of a fisherman named Kino whom found a pearl beyond price and doesn’t at the moment understand the dangers that might result from it. As mentioned earlier I believe John Steinbeck paints a very noticeable moral. Kino is a family man that wants nothing but…

Sharks Need Love Too Cold-blooded killers, heartless monsters, vicious beasts: these are a few descriptions that are used to define the most feared predator of the sea, the shark. The reputation the media has put into our heads is making a species so vital to our marine ecosystem become closer and closer to extinction when sharks are not even interested in humans in the first place. Here is a paper showing the very rarely showed, good side to sharks. Reputation is defined as: the beliefs or…