The Lurking Fear

So you’re driving down 35 trying to get to a doctor’s appointment, running late and just like that traffic is slowed to a crawl! What's the cause? An old lady doing 20 hogging two lanes. What a Pain! Now imagine the equivalent for children, for example people who walk really slow in the halls. If driving too slow is illegal why can walking too slow be? Just like adults there are punishments for being late in school and if it's not their fault they will still get in trouble for it. I believe this…

within Europe between 1347 and 1400 killing 25 – 50 million people. During this dark era, people ran like beheaded poultry in fear. No religious officials or medical physicians could truly grasp the concept of the plague. The plague was truly a widespread panic that touched every corner of Europe and left chaos in its wake. People responded to the disaster with immeasurable fear. Anarchy ran loose and leadership was spread thin within most towns and villages. Many of these leadership issues…

monster might make you think of a lot of a different things. When most people hear it they think of vampires or something in life. Another type or monster that you would think off is a zombie. Zombies are pretty thought off today and a lot of people fear them. “Modern monsters” today is very different now than it was in several years ago. Today monster is a very broad word, because it can mean so many different thing to different people. Most people used to think that almost all monsters were…

to ask where it was. My wrists were chained to the wall. Montresor chuckles as he chains my ankles and neck to the stones. It sends an uneasy feeling flooding through me. I can feel the soberness leaking back into me like an old friend. I Screech as fear floods through me as I realize I am chained. The cold, silver shackles imprisoning me. My shoulders quickly get soar in the chains. The room is dimly lit by the torch and shadows cast on the walls and the ground. Montresor has walked over to a…

Facing Vulnerability: Why Not? When most people think of vulnerability they think of things such as fear, humility, and a sense of helplessness. This comes almost as a normal thing for many. Therefore, these things can cause personal issues that have potential to lead into things such as anxiety and the idea that people have to be perfect in a sense. However, for myself, I believe vulnerability is something much different. Being vulnerable to me is a time of strength for two reasons: I learn…

It was a dark and windy night. I, Anthony Marston, was in the living room with all the other soldiers. We all were discussing about how we were going to get out of Skull Island. Some soldiers gave terrible ideas while others gave brilliant ideas. Instead I suggested to stay on the island and find out why it is all over the news. We also were trying to figure out who lured all of us onto the island as well. I then feel a lot of thirst, so I get up to get a drink of whiskey. While I am at the…

overdrive and provide acute specifications of what the author intends top convey. The figurative language in this poem develops the relationship between the speaker and the swamp by describing more in-depth the fear and respect that the character has for this environment. Rather than simple fear and respect, the reader begins to understand the appreciation along with the calamity that the speaker holds for the swamp and the swamp brings to the speaker. This figurative language feeds off of the…

Shantay’s Letter S Faults…every single human being has to have at least one. “The Scarlet Letter” is a piece of literary work that shows how the faults every person has can be used to brand them for life. Whether it’s being too malicious, being too closed-minded, or even talking too noisy, everyone has one. Someone could be the most ordinary person that nobody would think differently about, but even they have flaws. Some individuals may think that they only have one flaw, but it is not the…

A Guide to Reading Cause or Effect Essays A brief look at humans reveals more than the eye can elicit. For starters, King defines the natural state, a refined trait of humans, insanity, to be something that we have come to quarter in our spiritual abode. Even more so, he goes to on state “if we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree”. The ramifications to what degree sanity is defined by is its ability to abide by society; a social norm, of which watching horror movies suffices.…

Front, Paul kills a man using a knife seeing his face and the look in his eyes. He later says “We always see too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death” and later “how could you be my enemy”. The guilt and pain seen in this part is clear, he had just taken the life of a man and realized that they weren’t very different. Imagine the effect that would have on you if you had just done…