Sleepwalking

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness doesn’t feature many women throughout the work, and those that are featured are either deemed unimportant or are belittled by the narrator. The word, “woman” appears in the novel seven times, six if you exclude the description of a painting. Throughout these few descriptions of women, Marlow either marginalizes European women or eroticizes the native women of the Congo. Through these narrations, Heart of Darkness illustrates the natural oppression of women in…

Top of Form Growing up I felt bad for my little sister. For one, if you didn 't like sports you were on the outskirts whenever a big game was on. I love watching, participating and talking athletics. I breathed and bathed in statistics of the games. My sister Dayna, however, did not. She loved theater and acting and anything that she didn 't have to get ‘down and dirty ' for. The point is when there 's a game on, you were either in the living room screaming at the television, stuffing your face…

Grace Naqi Mrs. Richter Honors World Lit. 101A 18 November 2014 Lies, Deceit, and Bamboozling in Shakespeare’s Macbeth One could easily call Shakespeare clever, far beyond his time, and even a genius. He exemplifies all of these qualities in his writing of the famous dramatic tragedy Macbeth, about a man who yearns for glory and is willing to do unthinkable acts to achieve his goals. One reoccurring motif in Macbeth is the characters’ natural inclination to deceive others. In Macbeth,…

Wuthering Heights and Macbeth During today's time, there is destructive love caused by many different things. Upon reading the two pieces of literature Macbeth and Wuthering Heights you can see that they share a common theme with present day relationships. The theme of destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. These traits are shown by the characters are shown by the characters and…

Causes and Effects of Sleep Deprivation Sleep can be defined as an obligatory period of physical and mental relaxation, where consciousness, thought, and voluntary movements stop and sporadic dreaming occurs. No one knows why or how humans and other animals sleep, but it is certain that the type of sleep influences quality, quantity, and the effectiveness of wakeful mental and physical activities (Thompson 1). Daytime languor, due to sleep deprivation is a major complication for fifty percent of…

A Sleeping disorder refers to a medical disorder in the sleep pattern of an animal or a person. Sleeping disorders exist in various forms and are categorized depending on their causes and impacts especially on human beings (Lautenbacher, 2012).These disorders can be brought about by an assortment of issues, ranging from teeth pounding also known as teeth grinding (bruxism) to nightmares. Some sleeping disorders have serious side effects and are sufficiently substantial to interfere with normal…

Late into the night, a girl falls into a deep sleep. After a while, she has a dream that she is trapped in a dark and dreary basement. She begins to cautiously wander around looking for a way out as her heart is racing. All of the sudden, she hears a loud crackling sound. She hastily turns around to see what had made the noise. To her surprise, she saw a large, bright orange flame expanding out over the whole width of the hallway behind her. By looking intensely at the flames, she notices…

Dracula is a horror novel set in Europe in the mid 1800’s. The book starts with Johnathon Harker heading to Transylvania on a business trip to sell Dracula, a wealthy count in Transylvania, real estate in London. After strange incidents of Count Dracula attempting to suck Johnathon’s blood, and imprison him, Johnathon escapes. The novel then switches to Mina Murray’s, Johnathon’s fiancé, and her friend, Lucy Westenra’s, points of view through their letters. It is mostly just gossip, but there…

Shadow Times 32 days 14 hours 22 minutes That’s how long it takes them to take over. First, you think it’s just dreams, then you start sleepwalking, when you aren’t asleep, but then the worst part is when you start doing the things you thought were nightmares, but not knowing that you did. This is the Shadow Times. ⬥톗톘⬥톗톘⬥톗톘⬥톗톘⬥ Tiona’s mother was worried about her when she refused to go to school. “Tiona, is somebody picking on you sweetie?” Tiona’s mom was sitting on her bed next to her…

Divergent, it is a kind of people that are out of control from the world. Many people think Divergent are dangerous and weird, so people do not like Divergent. If they find out any, they kill them instead. The author of this trilogy novel is Veronica Roth, who’d been writing this story since she was studying in the university. Divergent is an adventure story, including youth and love. I chose to read this story because it is also a famous movie, but I’ve never watched it before, most of my…