The Howling

It 's intimidating enough to feel the burning eyes of the various doctors in the room watching me, but the sight of the syringe with a large needle in the short grumpy old nurses hand makes me feel very unsettled. "You will only feel a slight pinch in your arm okay." Said the nurse while she grabs my upper arm and tries to find the dot she drew on my arm earlier camouflaged in the faint freckles up and down my arm. I take a deep breath as she brings the syringe , filled with the "magical"…

The Prominent Features of Human Body Idioms Human body idioms mainly express the relation between one’s body and the exteriour world by making connections between the functions of a particular body part and the general understanding of that specific function in relation to phenomena occuring in the world we live. (Jinming 54) For example, an idiom such as „know smth like the back/palm of one’s hand“ expresses the degree of familiarity with a certain fact or object, similar to the way in…

It is important to note that Rowling lets Harry make mistakes and succumb to the temptation of using the Unforgivable Curses. The key to this honest understanding of how and why Harry makes his decisions comes from Rowling’s ability to create believable situations where Harry makes the believable choice, as Lana A. Whited and M. Katherine Grimes describe in “What Would Harry Do? J.K. Rowling and Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theories of Moral Development”: “Although Harry’s dilemmas involve creatures and…

SOME LOVE WE CAN NEVER HAVE We live in a world where there had been an old debate of whether love listens to mind or heart. It depends on the person, the motive, the truth in the love. But still sometimes we wonder our minds around every possibility how we can win in love and every time we fall for some angel and act dumb. We are one among the sea of people in this world waiting for their love story to be drafted, edited and get applied in life. Then we spot someone in the crowd and our mind…

Dracula- Fear of the Unknown All living creatures fear the Dracula character. Fear stems from not understanding the unknown and the differences that Dracula had. For example, how Dracula’s physical body looks to Johnathan Harker who is the protagonist who that becomestrapped in Dracula’s Castle. Jonathan Harker explains how Dracula looks and that is when the fear enters Jonathan Harker’s soul: “With peculiarity sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips whose remarkable ruddiness showed…

automobile, a Patek Philippe watch, and a diamond ring for his significant other. For young Phillip, everything was going smoothly. What can go wrong? He was all in for the opulence, until a telephone started to mindlessly ring as if somebody was howling in front of him. He reached for the phone, deprived of his luxurious thoughts. Philip answered the phone, crying “Hello?” His mom, Catherine, lilted “Phillip, my son!” “Ma! I’m having an exceptional time in New York!” he chirped. “Nifty!…

Introduction Oregon is famous for many of its different outdoor attractions. From the Columbia River Gorge to Multnomah Falls to Crater Lake, Oregon has attracted tourists and residents alike to soak in a little sun (or snow) and play in a few small pieces of our great big world. Another attraction known to Oregon is Mount Hood. Located in northern Oregon, Mount Hood takes claim to being the highest in the state and about 10,000 people attempt to summit it each year making it the second most…

Quiet footsteps echoed off the alley walls. In the distance, the sound of a dog howling and glass shattering could be heard. Theo walked home alone down the empty alley, music blasting in his ears. Unfortunately for Theo, today was the day, the day that he dreaded every single year. The memory was so clear in his mind, it replayed in his head over and over again. The blood, the screaming, and the stench of death in the air, that's all he remembers from that day. *Flashback* Blood covered the…

Howling at the Skull: An Analysis of the Intellectual Institutions in Allen Ginsberg’s Famous Poem There were many events in the 1950’s that cause poverty to the community for instance; there were rebellious youth, wars, and government system issues. Society was very unorganized like the Howl mentioned some of the events that occurred that time period. In addition to this, there were also some other issues that became popular during the 1950’s. The beat generation, for example, became popular…

As the sun eroded and dusk began to set in the Texas desert, Axel Rhodes was slaving away alone in the caves. Axel was a miner, and as the dust would come off the rock, the small particles would irritate Axel’s eyes as he slammed his pickaxe against the solid granite stones. After hours of mining, Axel found a chest, lit up his lantern to illuminate the buried chest. Axel opened up the chest to find a mask at the bottom of the chest. He brought the mask up to his face, and felt an extremely cold…