Smell

Many accounts have been told about the Holocaust—truly a black mark on the history of mankind. Two that are good resources are Night and Life is Beautiful. Both are from the perspective of a young survivor and detail their experiences while living in their peaceful hometown and finally in concentration camps set up in Nazi occupied Europe. Night, by Elie Wiesel, begins when Elie is 12 years old. It covers the events he and his father went through trying to survive. They are forced to live in a…

reader have the vision of that hunk of meat in their minds. As a lifelong dog owner, Hodgman’s detailing of each brand she chooses and exactly what it looked and smelt like, brought back countless memories of opening dog food cans and that pungent smell hitting me, yuck. The essay just isn’t about a person’s decision to eat dog food, it’s true point is to inform the readers of just how false the advertising is for the food. What are meat by products? Why is soy beans used? Every time I…

Rupi Kaur was born in Punjab, India, to a Sikh family. She immigrated with her parents to Canada at four. Kaur can read and understand Punjabi, but she can’t write it. Punjabi doesn’t have uppercase or lowercase letters. Instead, all letters are treated the same. Kaur uses this idea in her writing. She writes in all lowercase, and this gives a sense of equality. No letter is more important than another. Also, the only punctuation that exists in Gurmukhi script is a period; the only punctuation…

long 17 years of being alive, playing football, shooting guns, passing time with loved ones, my first girlfriend, but on thing that will always stand above the crowd is the smell of beer. Not the sweet smell of Bourbon, or the harsh smell of Whiskey, or the savory smell of Wine, but the rotten smell of cheap beer. It was a smell that followed me everywhere in the early years of my adolescence, so much so that I began to believe that it was the social norm. Alcoholism runs rampant through my…

it. Even taste and smell have already developed even before the child is born. From the day they are born, an infant already has the ability to show that they might dislike a smell or taste. This is because the amniotic fluid before birth and breast milk after, have gone through changes in terms of their taste and smell, which is caused by the a change in the mother’s diet, this provides the child a variety of experiences that assist to stimulate the senses of taste and smell to influence the…

War is a very controversial topic around the world, many people agreeing upon the need for war, but then others seeing the idea from an entirely different perspective. Sara Teasdale very blatantly puts her opinion out in her poem “There Will Come Soft Rain,” where she clearly paints out a beautiful scene to the reader, before abruptly connecting the peaceful flora and fauna she was describing, to this idea or war and the Earth. Teasdale’s poem, using familiar imagery, continuous structure, and…

“Woah, what is that revolting smell?” It took me a second to perceive the rancid smell but when i did I knew exactly what i was smelling, unfortunately the smell was all too familiar. The mix of body odor and gym socks tied up in the overwhelming mask of cheap perfume and cologne pervaded the air right as i stepped foot in those double doors. I was back in the place i had dreaded seeing again since June and 3 short months later here i am again, this was the sweet, sweet smell of high school. …

a major part throughout the short story and has many negative events attached to it. In the beginning of the short story one of the first scenes in the nursery was described as “The hot straw smell of the lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the air. And now the sounds… the papery rustling of vultures. A shadow passed through the sky” (Bradbury 1). The imagery being described of the current setting…

personality. Like that story, The Veldt is about a nursery that can change to look like whatever the children want it to look like. In the majority of the story, the nursery is Africa, “The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of the animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air.…

Many people simply vaccinate all their cats at the same time: that way, they all have the same smell and won't react negatively. However, you can also rub an item from your home (such as a sock) on the recently vaccinated cat to help it regain the scent of your home. Utilizing Desensitization Most of your cat's problem behaviors during a vaccination…