Shrunken head

their relationship it is the central focus and driving force for their survival. Day in and day out, the duo travel in a wasteland and encounter some horrific situations like “the wall [that] held a frieze of human heads, all faced alike, dried and caved with their taunt grins and shrunken eyes” (90). The mother sensed that it would be like this before she took her life and said to the man “ [you] won’t survive for yourself” (57) but for their son. He was the only reason to survive in this…

As said by the three-time Olympic champion, Gail Devers, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In the non-fiction book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini’s unrelenting strength in the face of unimaginable horrors emulates the words spoken by…

lived its final days in Taiwan, just as its rooster, who’d died several months back. The tabloid even showed a photo of the poor thing. It looked nothing like the Rhode Island Red, or the Leghorn I was used to seeing in my life. It looked scrawny, shrunken, and nothing like it was supposed to look. Chickens were gone now, them, along with the world’s other fowl and eatable mammals. Just like most of the other animal life on the planet, the seas being dredged and raped for food, were at a…

The Story of “The Family That Couldn’t Sleep” Do you love a good mystery? D. T. Max has written a beautiful medical mystery that shows how one disease, known as fatal familial insomnia or FFI, along with other prion diseases helped to change the medical world and how we see genetics. You may be wondering exactly what a prion disease is but have no fear I will be explaining that later in my essay. One thing you should know to get you started is that a prion is a protein that does not always…

or the person who will not falter from their will? Sitting in the out-patient session I attend at the clinic, I was half listening to Abigail. Abigail was a member of the contest. Speaking out from beneath a sky blue jumper, exemplifying her shrunken head, I was contemplating the advantages of anorexia. However, it was when Abigail piped, “Three days” my attention re-ignited. “So, you only feel comfortable with eating a meal every three days, am I right Abigail?” replied the psychologist.…

They found him under a big cottonwood tree. His Levi jacket and pants were faded light-blue so that he had been easy to find. The big cottonwood tree stood apart from a small grove of winter bare cottonwoods which grew in the wide, sandy, arroyo. He had been dead for a day or more, and the sheep had wandered and scattered up and down the arroyo. Leon and his brother-in-law, Ken, gathered the sheep and left them in the pen at the sheep camp before they returned to the cottonwood tree. Leon waited…

you to meet my - mother, Amelia Bones. I can explain everything to you later," Harry laughed and although Amelia thought her daughter was a bit - different for speaking to the owl as though it understood the moment she was present the owl turned its head to stare at her, its golden eyes blazing into her own. For a moment the owl didn't look away until finally it seemed satisfied and it gave a soft bark of greeting to Amelia. Strange, she thought as the owl turned back to her daughter, nibbling…

Throughout Heart of Darkness, civilization and savagery are two contradicting themes that exist mutually. However, civilization is not a permanent state; it can drift to its opposite side very easily under the power of jungle. Joseph Conrad characterizes Marlow, Kurtz, the manager, and many other roles to demonstrate their moral and values during their experiences in Africa. The traditional western principles are constantly challenged by the nature and the people. At the beginning, Marlow lives…

Post-colonial literature deals with the effects of colonization on cultures and societies through literature. This term has been started using after the Second world War in terms such as the post-colonial state and has carried a chronological meaning, designating the post-independence period. However, from the late 1970s the term has been used by literary critics to discuss the various cultural effects of colonization. It was Gayatri Spivak who first used the term Post-colonial in the collection…

Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good,…