The Slightest Touch

That being said, merely anyone is at risk for being diagnosed with anxiety. It can take the slightest thing to trigger the disorder into full motion. Take illegal drugs into consideration, they alter our minds ability to think and function normally. After repeatedly taking body altering substances, you could easily set off your brains ability to…

the biggest fan.” I interject as she pokes my chest playfully. “Scrooge.” She sticks her tongue out “Oh the pain... I can’t bear it!” I feign my hurtfulness, putting my hand on my heart as our crystal glasses filled with warm coffee clink. My lips touch the top of the glass and I feel it slide down my tongue and into my stomach. “This feels like cement.” Andrea says, letting a drop of the beverage drip down from the corner of her mouth. A blush creeps onto her cheeks as her hair covers her face…

In the book, Great Expectations, we find that Estella has many issues. If she wasn't a fictional character, she would be diagnosed with depression, being a psychopath, and having antisocial personality disorder. Estella is suffering from depression. Estella is often lonely. “Depression is a disease of loneliness. Many untreated depressives lack friends because it saps the vitality that friendship requires and immures its victims in an impenetrable sheath, making it hard for them to speak or…

Survival through the Love of Language The Handmaid’s Tale is a speculative fiction novel set in a futuristic dystopian society where the manipulation of language, and the erasing of personal identity are the main weapons of control. Through Offred, the narrator of this story, the reader is witness to the struggles of maintaining a sense of self identity, and a connection with others within the constraints of this patriarchal society. Although all citizens of The Republic of Gilead are subject to…

wolf causing it to cry in pain. Quickly the wolf turned to smoke and rose into the air, letting one last bellowed howl out indicating it had not yet been killed. The darkness began to fade from the forest. She looked at her fingertips and began to touch them. They were warm from whatever had shot from them. Her eyes went back up to the man that had been impaled by the black goo. The spikes melted back into a blood like substance and he fell to his knees. He began to cough as he tried to catch…

Have you ever had a moment when you realized you were wrong? If you have you can imagine how I felt when I found out the harsh truth about, in my opinion, one of the major issues that has been overlooked in this country. No one really thinks about it until you really need to, but it is bigger than the “black live matter” movement that is plaguing our country right now. Don’t worry, we still have time to change it just takes a handful of people to make a difference. I just need your eyes for a…

torture me/My soul’s at liberty” (“No Rack” 1–2). She is saying that she cannot be tortured because she has a soul, her true self, and nothing can ever touch it. Furthermore, “You cannot prick with saw,/Nor rend with scymitar” (No Rack” 5–6). These lines refer to Dickinson’s soul. They say that no weapon, not even a saw or scimitar, can do the slightest damage to it. Her body can be killed or injured, but not her soul. In other words, the soul is stronger than the body, as stated in the lines,…

Okay I was shocked, I knew she 's feisty but, damn! I didn 't see Bella in class, I know I told myself I would stop caring about what she does or do but I was worried. I mean, come on, she has been going on about how she can 't miss class or anything important for that matter. I decided to see if she went back to the dorm, instead I found a crowd of people in the hallway. I push myself pass, to see what was going on and there she was. Bella 's knuckles were connected to some chick jaw. I was…

In Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes questions the trustworthiness of his beliefs, doubting what he believes as true. He reflects on the falsehoods he believed during his lifetime and motions to remove those foundations in order to build a new foreground of knowledge. Descartes found a way to build a new foundation for necessary truths (innate ideas that cannot be false) by reconstructing the ideas he previously known. Instead of initially throwing out everything he previously knew,…

salesman could have acted the way he did because of past experience and/or because of the terrorist attacks that happened in the US just three years prior to the making of the movie. I hope that in my paper I clearly showed everything I wanted to touch on clearly and…