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What makes people seek for experiences that make them feel scared? Fear is the expectation or the anticipation of possible harm, so why do people like it? There is a hormone called dopamine, that is released during scary and thrilling activities, according to David Zald, some individuals may get more of a kick of this hormone than others. Lots of people enjoy scary experiences, because of the feeling that they have after these situations. As reported by ABC News, in “Spooky Business American Economy”, people spend about 7 million dollars in Halloween, looking for costumes, decoration objects, and also in haunted houses. People enjoy scary movies, roller coasters, and haunted houses. Similarly, people enjoy thrilling literature, as Edgar Allan Poe and Louise Erdrich poems, “The Raven” and “The windigo” respectively. Both of these authors write and explore death and the ambiguity of what will happen after death, by using concrete examples of imagery and symbols, structured paragraphs, and a certain type of diction.

Fools Crow, Written in 1986, Fools Crow by James Welch Written in 1986,is taken place in Montana during an era where the whites were starting to take over land in the western part of America. The main character, Fools Crow, is a man who starts out as scared and not much of a leader. He now becomes a leader of the Lone Eaters who is courageous and brave who would do anything for his tribe. For the Lone Eaters, nature is important to their way of living. Nature in the Lone Eater community is used in practical ways of living life. They also live in a spiritual way by using Nature. The Lone Eaters in Fools Crow use nature in a practical and spiritual way in their lives to show how the Indians live.

The crows are very spiritual beings in Monkey Beach, they have warned and foreshadowed Jimmy’s death. This makes sense because discussed in class that crows are considered messengers in Haisla culture. It appears that the crows act like the spirits of Lisa’s ancestors. When she is on the beach with the spirits, “Mick breaks out of the circle and dances”(374). The image of Mick and her ancestors dancing around the bonfire can be linked to: “The crows fly in circles… they are dancing” (372). Since farewells between Lisa and her ancestors were exchanged the crows are no longer there when Lisa returns to reality.

Barred owls are large, stocky owls with rounded heads, no ears tuffs, and medium length rounded tails. Barred owls live in large, mature forests near water. Spotted owls are dark-brown, large owls with rounded heads, the wings are broad and rounded, and the tail is short. Spotted owls also live in mature, large forests but, are sensitive to habitat disturbance. Now, Barred owls and Spotted owls are in a intense war for homes.

I thought long and hard about the article I wanted to present. I read several articles before I found the right one that was most relevant to where I wanted to go with my dissertation. So, the title of my article “’Eagles Don’t Fly with Sparrows”: Self-Determination Theory, African American Male Scholar-Athletes and Peer Group Influences on Motivation” by Carlton Harrison, Brandon Martin, and Rhema Fuller (2015). These authors conducted research to denounce the preconceived notion that African American male athletes does not value academic achievement.

One Massive Paragraph “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,” a famous line from Edgar Allen Poe in his most popular poem, the Raven. Edgar Allen Poe was a very famous writer with multiple problems and tragedies in his life. In many cases Poe's personal life was apart of most of his stories. Most of them involved death, mystery and Alcoholism. Edgar Allen Poe had a very rough childhood with both his mother and step-mother dying of tuberculosis, which might of lead him to write about death.

H is for Hoodini a owl that does magic show in comedy places with a pig,Jason, a multimillionaire, and a monkey. When the owl does the magic shows he'd always makes jokes like. What do you call a owl that runs for president? He always says Hoddini. The people always laugh because it always funny because he always makes it funnier and funnier by change a world. Hoodini he never been outside because he is always inside making jokes to tell people at the comedy place in his tree. You will image that that people will not be able to get inside of his tree because it is too small for them but no the owl is the same size as a regular human.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin follows the life of Edna Pontellier and how her thoughts begin to be that of independence. Edna realizes that she has the ability to control her life and be who she wants to be, free from the pressures of what is considered right in her society. These realizations occur to her as she visits the Grand Isle and the sea as well as birds help illustrate the awakening and want for freedom inside of her. Chopin uses the motifs of birds and the ocean as symbols to develop the theme of self identity and freedom from society within the novella The Awakening.

The invitation of the Raven into the house commenced the oppression stage. The raven as described by the narrator was enchanting and took away his sadness and made him smile. However, once it spoke the word “nevermore” the narrator should have considered this as a bad and paranormal sign because birds, such as Raven’s do not talk (line 48). Despite the momentary happiness the narrator felt when the Raven arrived in his room, it did not last long. As described by the narrator, the raven was a satanic presence that was psychologically torturing him. Take for example, the raven supernaturally delivered Lenore’s scent to the narrator to torture him of her memories, since scent is the strongest when associated with ones memories. More importantly,

Birds are the main theme in the novel The Awakening. Many people when they read the first statement, should be perplexed and try to grasp the concept of how birds can be the main theme of The Awakening. However, throughout the novel, we see many examples of birds appearing in the text. Many great authors use the power of symbolism to establish a connection between an object that seems ordinary to a human counterpart whose actions and intentions are masked by the way the actions are executed. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses birds to represent the different parts of Edna’s life and how they relate to her throughout the text.

The writing of the American colonies changed greatly from the time of settlement on the new land to the 18th and 19th century. The literature styles expanded, visibly due to the cultural, religious, and political shifts that were taking place in the colonies. As events progressed so did the literature and coming out of the enlightenment period, which was characterized by the optimistic pursuit of happiness principle, was the paradoxical literary style known as gothic. Gothic literature was not innovated by Americans but in fact started across the sea in Britain and eventually influenced American authors to pen along the same style as well as create new innovations and changes that reflected the unique setting of the American landscape of the

Throughout the novel, Ozeki has mentioned several different animals including a: fish, cow, and a cat. One example of where Ozeki mentions a fish is a fish is when Nao paints an image of a big fish (NOW) swallowing a little fish (Naoko) (p.98). The fish represents confusion between the past and the present as this is THEN, and their nothing which is NOW (p. 99). The symbol of the fish also represents a recurring theme of suicide as she feels obliterated with the past/present and her father’s habits as he contemplates suicide. The crow symbolizes Ruth's need to get away from where she lives. The Jungle Crow is symbolic to how Nao used to live somewhere where she fit in but now is out of place. Also, in many cultures crows symbolize death, so in this book the crow could be symbolic for the fact that living somewhere you don't fit in just can result in death. In the novel a neighbor died when a large branch fell on him during a storm, and Ruth looked out for a crow (p.146). The mentioning of the cat Pesto and Chibi seem to have significant parts of the story. In the novel, Pesto climbs on her when she was reading the diary, and he was “always looking for attention” (p. 28). Although, he seems to be a distraction for both Ruth and her husband Oliver, he also serves a pivotal point in their lives when he goes missing (p. 330). The other cat named Chibi, who is referred to as the “Guest Cat” changes the narrator’s and his wife’s life who live in a rented Tokyo house. However,

The novel the Awakening by Kate Chopin is based on different kinds of “awakening” that are experienced by the main character of the book Edna Pontellier. Dependent on the title of the book it indicates, Edna’s transformation and growing consciousness. The caged birds and the sea mentioned in the text are symbolic. The caged birds symbolize Edna’s process of trying to gain knowledge of her own abilities, character and feelings. On the other hand the sea symbolizes Edna’s freedom and her final stage of (“awakening”) self-discovery.

In The Awakening, feminnist author Kate Chopin depicts the views and the roles women in society must undertake. Readers meet a woman who awakens the independent nature within herself and goes against the social norms during the 1800s. Protagonist, Edna Pontellier is an unhappy wife and a mother of two in Southern New Orleans who has an affair with another man. In the final chapter, she stands naked on the beach, and commits suicide in the ocean. Chopin uses birds, the ocean and the absence of clothes to illustrate Edna’s awakening journey as finding a woman's voice, and independence.

The Raven was a very confusing poem to read. I had to really decipher each line to completely understand what it was about. I still don’t fully understand the poem but I have a good idea about what the message of the story is. The poem takes place on a dark night in December. The main character is an unnamed man who is sitting in his home.