Real death

Pouring another vintage single malt whiskey, William Dewhurst had been stewing on more than just alcohol. A lot had come to his attention in the last twenty-four hours. He sat in his home study though he had to catch a flight in a few hours. The walls were blood red and all the furniture was fashioned in thick, dark oak. He only had one piece of artwork in his study, a canvas of the iconic “Napalm Girl” photographed by Nick Ut which for some reason or another gave him tranquility. The rest of…

Nothing is etched in stone until death. Death marks the beginning of the end for any living thing on Earth. The morbid idea of departing from the vivid experiences on this planet, ceasing to exist and think, and being blindfolded of the experience after death strikes fear into the hearts of all human beings. Each day lived is another day closer to the end. We fear this. We die for an eternity. We fear this. The probable pain unbeknownst to us before death. We fear this. The mental illusion of…

feeling and these glimpses every time I was on the road, so terrible to the point I would cry silently to myself and have to close my eyes. I did have a concept of reality versus my states of rumination, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t feel all too real. When I would take a shower I would see myself slip and…

from a real one. The main issue is that Shakespeare could feel identified and he just modified some characters and give it a special touch that makes this play so successful and giving the main credits to him. Besides, it is not proven at all that Shakespeare made plagiarism. The main topic about this literary work is how death surrounds this setting. In some cases this famous present death is caused purposely in order to achieve new things and also some characters wants to produce death to…

Two amazing authors with very different writing styles have written about the wilderness and its many unknowns. One of the authors, Jon Krakauer, is the writer of the article, Death of an Innocent, which is a non-fictional piece about an adventurous boy who met his doom in the Bush of Alaska. The other author is Peter Stark, the writer of Thirst, a story about an abandoned man in the Sahara desert stricken with dehydration. Although they both wrote about the outdoors, their writing style is what…

emotions in todays society. Mainly because suicide is becoming something that is prevalent in almost everyones lives. Suicide is very controversial for reasons that include moral and religious beliefs. On the other hand, assisted suicide also known as “Death with dignity, sparks an even stronger and more complex debate for the same reasons. However, the difference between suicide and assisted suicide is that suicide is not against the law, whereas assisted suicide is illegal in all but three…

of sixteen he had been the leader for two years, which inevitably makes him eighteen if Tris Prior is sixteen. In the movie actor Theo James was cast to play “Four” in real life was actually 29 years old when they…

There are many stories about the terrible and horrific plague. A Journal of the Plague of the Year is a story that reflects it. Daniel Defoe was the writer of the story. Also, he experience the plague. Luckily, he didn't get infected with it and therefore was able to write about the incidents caused by it. The story takes place in London, England. The setting itself is very dark and gloomy, and from the story one gets a feeling of creepiness and spookiness. With this story Defoe wanted to create…

The general muses over how her mother died and how “her walking cane” planted in her memory blossoms “each spring stolidly forming / four-star blossoms”. The general visits the room of his mother in the palace where he sees the beautiful curtains for the windows and a parrot in the brass ring. But he feels dejected because his mother is not in the room to enjoy all the luxuries of life. Rita Dove beautifully captures the mind-set of the general. He searches for a person to kill. The following…

regular and controlled) juxtaposes the complex message behind it; how even though everyone knows that death is inevitable, they should fight against it. The refrains are both used in the last stanza, with full-stops at the end of each, forming a rhyming couplet to emphasize that that stanza contains the main message of the poem; how important it is for him that his father continues to ‘rage against’ death. The rhyme scheme is traditional, and each stanza features two quatrains of rhymed iambic…