Nightmarescape Research Paper

Months ago I had a date, we went to panda express after walking around Des Moines all day. I was so nervous I got the sweet and sour chicken even though I hate it. The first bite was mushy and gooey, but not the kind of gooey you like your brownies to be, it was the kind of gooey meat is when they name it “roast with gravy” and give it to you during a 2-hour flight. The crust felt like wet bread and tasted tart almost like it was fermented for too long and it immediately made me want to puke. Trying to swallow the bland doughty chicken was torture but from across the table I could see my date smiling as they exclaimed: “This chicken is so buttery, isn't it delicious?”.

Horror, what is it, according to literary historian J.A. Cuddon, it is “a piece of fiction in prose of variable length…which shocks or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing.” This sets the guidelines for how the generic horror piece is written, as long as it can scare the reader in one sense or the other, or cause them to loath a certain part or character, then it can be called horror. The horror today has roots stemming from old folklore and religious traditions which had elements that dealt with death, the afterlife, and the demonic, along with the things or thing that embody a person. Horror during the 18th century was called gothic horror and this particular type of horror was invented in the

Seven year-old Chandler Grafner found dead in the closet of his foster parents home. Denied food and water and left to indulge in his own urine and feces until he died. Chandler is only one of many cases caused by the negligence of the foster system. Majority of foster children are left without a loving healthy home. Although the system is here to help many fail to realize the system is dysfunctional. Many children are abused, raped, and neglected. This causes the children to experience depression and conduct in bad behavior. I believe the negligence of the system causes effects the children for the rest of their life.

This year Waverly High School's Music Program, under the direction of Ms. Wilson, put on an outstanding performance of this year's musical, Little Shop of Horrors.

Why do people watch horror movies when they know they are going to experience negative emotions? Why do people want to put themselves through that? Furthermore, Stephen King, an author of many horror books, has his own opinion on this, this referring to people and the need to watch or read horror. He wrote an essay, “Why We Crave Horror”, that explains why people want to experience those emotions that are a part of the Human Condition. Stephen King rightfully claims that people crave horror to show that they are not afraid, also to re-establish their feelings of normality, and to have some fun.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following witnessing or experiencing life-threatening events such as military combat and serious accidents. PTSDs are marked with clear biological changes and psychiatric symptoms and there is now increasing evidence that the persistence of this disorder may be related to the inability of patients to overcome the fearful experiences through a process called extinction. PTSD patients also likely develop other mental illnesses such as depression, drug abuse and problems with memory and cognition. Several studies have shown that deficits in fear extinction contribute to PTSD. The classical conditioning

Hannah is a 30-year-old divorced, mother of one. Hannah describes herself as a practicing Muslim with strong spiritual/religious beliefs. Hannah has no history of mental illness.

Fears and Desires: the Repressed in Cat People and It Follows Horror films have always featured repression in one way or another. In Robin Wood’s essay "An Introduction to the American Horror Film,” he analyzes the role of the repressed and the “Other” in horror films. Both Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) and It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) are exemplary of repressed emotions surrounding female sexuality. In Cat People, the surplus repression of sexuality and xenophobia is clearly displayed through the main “Femme Fatale” character, Irena (played by Simone Simon). In It Follows, the surplus repression of female sexuality is also demonstrated, though in a more blatant way through the protagonist Jay (played by Maika Monroe) and

Everyone would think only serial killers happen to be in horror movies, but it can become reality. Real people in this world are capable of doing such a thing. Stephen King states in the article “Why We Crave Horror”, it's part of a “human condition” or that some are just mentally ill in the fact of thinking that it is something normal. In the story “Strawberry Spring” they talk of a serial killer “Springheel Jack” who has taken another victim from New Sharon College. It makes a connection with reality by in Troxler Effect (unbelievable-facts.com) stating after a woman watching a documentary on a serial killer who tortured and killed women in the basement, she then realized she was actually living in the same apartment.

A long time ago, before WWII, the Great Depression, even the Civil War, a human’s life was very hard when they had to work to stay alive. Now the world is growing and population is increasing because of something people use every day. Technology. Technology has been around since the 1840’s, and the first computer was built in the 1910’s. One product that is still in the testing phase may be the key to safer technology is called Nightshock. This piece of technology is from an Adafruit kit, a common electronic device that can be coded and utilized to perform services. This piece of technology will be used for a service of protecting joggers at night, improving their quality of life by keeping them safe, and improving the world Economically, Socially,

Thesis: The Evolution of Nightmares consists of information on the development of nightmares effecting us starting as a child, and ending as an adult. Introduction: I. The other night, the night before my first college exam, I had a terrible dream that I overslept and was late for class, causing me to completely miss the midterm. II. This terrible dream could classify as a nightmare, I woke up in panic and sweat, and in fear that it was true.

Dark paradise is what I live by. It is what I call being raped at a young age and it being both a catastrophe and a terrifyingly pleasurable scary period in my life. Crazy right, why both pleasurable and scary at the same time. That I don't know the answer to myself. But I do know that ever since then my life, the way I viewed the world wasn't the same. I would say that means I matured at the age of five the age where children fantasize what they want to be when they grow up, who's their crush at school? who's the smelliest person in class? who's their favorite teacher?. Of course, I knew all of the answers to all of these questions and more. More specifically the first one, What I wanted to be when I grew up? And the answer to that was many

One night on a dark and stormy night a group of friends took a walk in the woods. There names where Evan,Mckenna,Brandon,and Hollie. They were walking one night in the woods and they came to a barn. They walked into the barn because it was pouring.

A previous article talked about the lack of basic survival skills among Millennials, and how technology has replaced certain physical skills that some in older generations took for granted. The technology was there so why not use it right, if technology allows you to use a chainsaw to cut down a tree why would you use an ax, or if we went back in time 3,500 years you may have used a bronze ax.

Terror in Horror Genres: by Nicole birch-bayley is about how society influence different aspects in horror genres like zombies. Looking back zombies weren’t that popular. Zombies were not that aggressive also. But when the terrorist attack happen in September 11th, 2011 everything changes. The violence that happened was unforgettable. Since then, Zombie movies had gain its popularity. Zombies were also much more aggressive.