Pendulum

When the genre of horror was first introduced, it used the mind against itself instead of gory, jump scares that only lasted for a little while. The use of death and dying is a common idea that horror writers use to achieve the thrills they want their readers to feel. Edgar Allan Poe and J.S. LeFanu are two authors who have mastered the art of using the mind against itself in their horror stories. Writing in the same era, they both use the same techniques but with differing views on how the…

Earlier in the day on October 21, My very good lady friend Julia was having a party at her house in Warson Woods for her birthday. She’s a daughter of a successful doctor in Saint Louis. She was the typical preppy Villa girl all coiled up in Daddy’s money. She invited All of us SLUH boys in my group over to her party. We were all ready to blow off a tremendous amount of steam from our stressful of first quarter midterms. That week composed of sleepless nights, endless supply of Redbull, and…

Philbrick, Nathanel. Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. U.S. Viking Penguin 2003. The author wrote in detail about the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838 (U.S. Ex.Ex.), an unprecedented naval operation for a nation with a navy less than half the size of Great Britain’s, and consisted of six sailing vessels and 346 men, making it one of the largest voyages of discovery in the history of Western exploration. The Ex.Ex.’s ships…

Living in complete freedom is the philosophy that is the foundation of anarchism. The rediscovering of the anarchist philosophy inundated the minds of British youth in the 1970s who felt that the British government was suppressing thier freedom with frivolous laws. There are several schools of anarchism such as anarchist-communism, collectivist anarchism, social anarchism, individualist anarchism, and mutualism, which all influenced the explosion of the punk rock movement. Nevertheless, it is…

Manju Kapur’s fourth novel The Immigrant (2008) is a story of two immigrants, Nina and Ananda. Manju Kapur chose Canada as the background for her novel The Immigrant and discusses the Indian diaspora in Canada. The novel explores the issues of cultural conflict, alienation, dislocation of Indian culture, diaspora and quest for identity. It reflects the loneliness and the search of self being experienced by the immigrants. The beginning of the novel poses the identity issues of the immigrants by…

The inferiority of black people was one of Hawthorne’s presumptions that were indisputable to him just as, after several years of living abroad, he satisfactorily confirms and is comforted by an anti-Semitic repugnance he had always felt for black people. He once wrote down his opinion for the New England Magazine in 1835, ''performing their moderate share of the labors of life without being harassed by its cares.'' (Historical Journal of Massachusetts) In 1836 for the American Magazine of…

Making the decision to have a total shoulder replacement should be a topic discussed between the individual considering the surgery as well as the individual’s family, general practitioner and orthopaedic surgeon. Who Needs to Have Total Shoulder Replacement Surgery? Initially, the majority of individuals with arthritis in their shoulder will be prescribed conventional treatments, such as mild analgesics and physical therapy. However, if these conventional treatments fail and an individual’s…

In the chapter Kinematics of Particles, we studied about various relations among time, position, velocity and acceleration of a particle. When we have a relation between any two parameters, we can calculate remaining parameters. In Kinetics of Particles, we applied Newton’s second law of motion ƩF = ma. The fundamental concept is when external forces acting on a particle are balanced (zero resultant), the particle will be in equilibrium. But when external forces acting on a particle are not…

Today’s observation took place on the most beautiful golf resort of Naples, Tiburon Golf Club at the Ritz Carlton Golf Resort where my subject currently works. The golf resort is made up of two lengthy courses one called the black course which is the hardest and the other the gold course which is the easier of the two. Today my subject Jason is playing the black course which has a rating of 69.7 and a slope of 133 this only explains the difficulty within the course. Each course has eighteen…

Drugs made up for everything I was missing in life.” Ike asserted, “my drug use has had a positive impact on my life. Although drugs have their uppers and downers, Drugs have kept me balanced throughout my life. Without drugs my life would be a pendulum of stress.” Mirza revealed, “There are so many positive outcomes that have resulted from my drug use. My mindset is more positive. My dreams are more vivid. My future doesn’t look as dim. Everything has become more clear to me, all because…