I lay in bed hour on hour in the poorly heated hospital and watched the night come, then the day, then the night, then the day, and no time of night or day seemed lost to me, for I could not sleep, but could only cough out wads of blood-tainted phlegm and saliva that rose from my injured lungs like blobby bubbly monsters to remind me of my rendering flesh. ... Nothing to offer them but the war and a cold, slow death. ... I said nothing in reply and he said not another word until the middle of the night when I drifted into sleep momentarily, for all my sleep was momentary, and opened my eyes...

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One of his eyes fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees-very gradually-I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever" (pg 36). It is here when the author first shares what is driving the young man and proves he is going insane; the eye, in his mind it made a cold calculated man out of himself, a once caring tender young man the old man had known. The young man believes that the eye physically turned his blood cold. Humans are all warm blooded creatures so for the young man's blood to run cold and not just heartless cold, but tempe...

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It was a cold winter night in February, (February 14, 1994 to be exact) we were all snuggled up in the basement watching television. ... When I finished I notice that I had some blood in my urine. ... I went up to my mom and whispered in her ear, "Mom I've got blood in my pee! ...

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Hero's Journey Essay Bean Trees After surviving and conquering many blood battles, Samson was considered by many to be a great hero. ... She now had to always think about what would be best for the baby, "I can't really pay for a room, and I wouldn't even bother you, except I've got a child out in that car that's wet and cold and looking to find pneumonia if I don't get it to bed someplace warm" (Kingsolver, 29). ... That was a sign of selflessness, because she is thinking about how cold the baby must have been. ...

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"One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-a pale blue eye .Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold .I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever (Poe)." ...

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In the story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway, one of the most shocking moments occurs when Mrs. Macomber shoots her husband, Francis. Hemingway leaves the reader to answer the crucial question of whether or not it was intentional. Throughout the story the Macombers h...

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I sat for some time as Ma cooked, I looked 'round her house and I figure she must' have it nicer now cause of her new marriage and all. I miss Ma, I haven't seen her in years, and Ma always looked real young for her age. As I sit, I think of the train ride here, it was a long ride and folks di...

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The scent of freshly cut wood and decaying leaves hung heavy around her nose, which was cold from the crisp fall air. As she walked down the winding, wandering dirt path, the leaves cried, crackled, and crunched under her feet, reminding her of all the happy falls spent with her grandparents in the ...

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The death of the three girls in the book Fury greatly shows Rushdies point that social status cannot protect people from the harsh realities of the world. Social status cannot protect one from lust or a need to belong. It cannot protect one from the long to escape from the mundane in unsafe or un-u...

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Doystoyevsky's Crime and Punishment has been described as a psychological thriller that challenges the mind from beginning to end. It causes one to put self in the position of the main character and identify with the intense guilt that he felt. The story follows a young Russian intellectual who, as ...

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Descent into Madness The descent into madness takes place in both story's the Tell Tale Heart and The Yellow Wallpaper. Madness is defined by the Winston Senior dictionary as being mentally ill, or being unable to behave in a reasonable way. In each story the main characters undergo dramatic chan...

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Professor Chargois asked me to pick three poems and tell how they changed how I see something in life. I thought to myself, I can do this. When it was time to actually do it, I actually could not fine three poems, at first. I decided to choose three out of the poems we discussed in class. The th...

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You don't look a bit like you have common blood. ... How can she tell, simply by looking at him, that he doesn't have "common blood"? ... "She said she thought it was going to be a good day for driving, neither too hot nor too cold, and she cautioned Bailey that the speed limit was fifty-five miles an hour and that the patrolmen hid themselves behind billboards and small clumps of trees and sped out after you before you had a chance to slow down. ...

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"The Tell Tale Heart" is a story, on the most basic level, of conflict. There is a mental conflict within the narrator himself. Through obvious clues and statements, Poe alerts the reader to the narrator's insanity. The insanity is described as an obsession, which in turn leads to loss of contro...

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I will be executed tomorrow. There is nothing - no excuses, no plea for forgiveness, no last minute stay of execution - that will help me escape this sentence of death. What I did was done with such malice, such cold-blooded intent, that even I find it hard to believe that I am capable of such bruta...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

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