The Downward Spiral

In the world of sports, head coaches are the most important people off the field. They make the decisions that can ignite a team towards victory, or spiral downwards towards defeat. Due to this fact, they are the some of the most scrutinized people on the team, with the media placing as much pressure on them as they do players. If the coach is successful, they will be revered by the media and the fan base as long as they can continue at a certain measure of success. If a coach is unable to…

negative influence, by forcing Macbeth to do something that he probably doesn’t want to, that causes a spiral into their eventual downfall. In the middle of the play Macbeth hires murderers to kill Banquo, not the most masculine way to go about killing someone, but, this shows that Macbeth is trying to be masculine and by killing Banquo. His strive for masculinity shows that he is stuck in this downward spiral caused by masculinity, which underlines Shakespeare’s objection to masculinity.…

In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, there is an issue of mental that is openly ignored due to the view the town has of Emily. The people in the town never seem to confront the apparent mental issues that are going on. They seem to pity her, but go the extra mile to not actually confront the issues. While they are curious about her life and what goes on in the house, they do nothing to help her even to the detriment of other people. The house has not had visitors in years…

In the third installment of Hogarth’s series A Rake’s Progress, Hogarth uses the act of Tom’s watch being stolen as a signifier of the rake’s imminent demise. Tom is seen cuddling with a prostitute whom he hired and appears to be enjoying his time. Unbeknownst to him, this prostitute stealthly took his watch earlier and is depicted handing it over to her accomplice, another one of Tom’s hired prostitutes. Hogarth intended for his viewers to see the irony behind this situation as two people who…

1) David Stojcevski was incarcerated in 2014 and died approximately two weeks after he was detained. National Public Radio reported just recently the account of David. A growing issue in the criminal justice system is the lack of rehabilitative infrastructure to necessitate a safe environment for existing and potential inmates. In the case of David who was suffering from several mental illnesses that called for medication. David’s parents are suing the Michigan jail system for negligence.…

breath, but my breathing is so fast i feel as if my heart could beat right out of my chest. I flutter my eyes to try to clear the vision from my mind. My memory is still painfully clear; as if it was just yesterday when i was thrown into this downward spiral, and it's all because of one stupid incident, which i am destined not to forget. The very thought of the subject is enough to send my pulse into overdrive. Tossing and turning, I finally manage to get my mind onto another train of thought,…

Film during the Great Depression took off after the stock market crash of 1929. The Great Depression, lasting from 1929 to 1939, caused a downward economic spiral that led to bankruptcies, mass unemployment, and complete misery. However, Hollywood struck gold by finding something that the entire public craved: movies. Known as Hollywood’s Golden Age, the production, creation, and viewership of films increased rapidly. Hollywood was able to take advantage of the dire situation of society; movies…

July27, 1981 six-year old Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida. Revé Walsh, his mother, allowed young Adam to busy himself with a video game display while she shopped. A few minutes later, she returned to the display to find her son missing. What she did not know was that, there had been an argument between Adam and a group of kids at the display that resulted in them all being put out of the store where little Adam was abducted. About a month later, two…

Elvis Presley’s Death: Real or Fake? Would the family of a celebrity truly lie about a celebrity's death regardless of how many fans they have? Will they have the press in on their lies if they do? On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley was found dead on the bathroom floor of his Graceland mansion at the age of 42. He was pronounced dead after arriving to a nearby hospital. Although all sources give information on this death, many believe that Elvis faked his death instead of actually being dead.…

After the prohibition era however, Rothstein’s life began a downward spiral. “When Prohibition ended so did his untouchable status. Always a gambler at heart, Arnold lost over three hundred and twenty thousand dollars combined to a cadre of Californian gamblers named Nate Raymond, Al Thompson, Joe Bernstein, Martin Bowe and Meyer Boston during an early September weekend. On top of that he had lost over one hundred thousand at the racetrack and most of his heroin shipments began to dry up or…