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    Lucid Dreaming For many centuries, people would think of dreaming as curses or blessings that we can not fend off or operate. Lucid dreaming, a dream in which a dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming; they may be able to control the dream by exert amount. In this dream stage, we perform superhuman features that would be impossible when we’re awake. While a person dreams, these wonderful things become a temporality reality. Researchers says that a average person dreams four to six times a night(insert)

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    well as depicting visuals of Coleridge’s nightmares. Coleridge uses a combination of alternate and couplet rhyme schemes in the second stanza, which can be interpreted to his new current fear of sleep. Currently, sleep for Coleridge is a vast pit of his past wrongdoings and he no longer wants to revisit them. Coleridge begins with not really praying in comfort and silently, but aloud and in ‘anguish’ and ‘agony’, almost pleading to someone to make the nightmare and its aftermath stop. Within the third

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    THE FORTH KINGDOM 7 The Dark Empire had been planning their ascend for many cycles. Runners moved through the land from the underworld and filtered throughout the towns and small villages. They portrayed themselves as peddlers and merchants to the people. Doing whatever, they could to agitate the people, creating unrest among them. They did this in such a way that it had gone unnoticed for a long time. With their sorcery

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    FORTH KINGDOM 7 The Dark Empire had been planning their ascend for many cycles. The runners moved through the land from the underworld and filtered throughout the towns and small villages. The creatures portrayed themselves as peddlers and merchants to the people. Doing whatever, they could to agitate the people, creating unrest among them. The strangers did this in such a way that it had gone unnoticed for a long time

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    THE HOUSE OF VANITY presents as a supernatural, short thriller. The setting of the manor helps creates an ominous and gloomy tone fitting for this story. The storm also adds to the chilling ambiance. The story is driven by themes about vanity, destiny, fate, free will, and the idea of evil. While there are definite strengths in the short, the short would also benefit from building upon those strengths. As mentioned, the setting is eerie. The idea of a fortuneteller/clairvoyant is a smart story

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    A Monster Calls: The Significance of Truth “The short term pain of accepting the truth is much better than the long term pain of believing an illusion”- unknown. In the novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, a 13 year old boy, Conor O'malley, deals with inner struggles when accepting his mother’s fatal illness. Conor experiences hardship when coming to terms with the truth so he chooses to suppress it with denial and this worsens his grieving process. Conor undergoes a troubling state

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    Compare and Contrast Essay of the Opening Scenes of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas This essay compares and contrasts the similarities and the different parts of the opening scenes of two movies of Tim Burton which are Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The scenes will be explained in details through the gothic elements and his unique style. Here is an outline of the essay’s main sections; 1. Introduction • Information about Tim Burton and his unique style

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    little after 3 in the morning. I groaned, remembering I had school today. I got up, knowing I wouldn 't be able to get back to sleep. I turn on the shower and stepped inside, letting the stinging warmth wash over me and erase the reminisce of the nightmare. I 've had this dream many times before and it always resulted in me never finding out who was under the cloak nor actually receiving the final blow. The familiarity that I felt from the person also puzzled me. Was it someone that I knew? I sigh

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    Rape: A Short Story

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    the end, not some crazy dream? Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming. It's not so easy to stop from screaming, but words escape me when I try to speak. Tears, they flow, but why am I crying? I don't believe that there is never an end to the nightmare." Humans never stop to think what the consequences of our behavior will be. We go about day after day, too preoccupied with unimportant things that we never stop to think what the result of our irresponsible actions will be. We have not jet come

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    Being Mexican Essay

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    The reason he viewed it as an adventure was because he had migrated once to the United States and the journey was smooth. There were no complications. The nightmare began the second day when the guide decided to leave the group in mercy of faith. The guide who was to take make sure they crossed over to a safe place, decided to leave the other group of immigrates because one man was sick. He had a liver problem

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