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Fear and Confusion in films Psycho and Carrie In horror films, there is always one scene that opens up the perceived realm of normality to that of fear and confusion. Directors and authors alike use these scenes to show the change in the pace of the film. In both the movie Psycho (1960) and Carrie (1976), shower scenes are used to mark this epic turning point with sexuality, blood and voyeurism; the most important ingredients to horror. The idea of sneaking around

My hands started to shake with immense speed. You would think that I just witnessed a great tragedy. In a way, I guess I have. The tragedy of a man’s broken heart. Tears welled in my eyes. I can 't believe he could, and would ever write something like that. Guys don’t write letters, but that idiot did. I think everyone tends to know too much. During that ceremony, I was broken. Just seeing him hold her hand crushed, and to think he merely did it to make me jealous. He was such an idiot. But, I

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey is a novel about death, survival, and relationships. There are several themes that are visibly evident in the story. A theme is the subject of a piece of writing, as described in the novel. Some of these themes are, “trusting one another is what makes us human”, people are defined by the choices they make”, and “Family is worth dying for”. Each one of these themes are indisputably established as the story progresses. To begin with, the theme, “trusting one another is

Martha Irvine, a graduate of the University of Michigan published an article titled Queer Evolution which talked about how the word “Queer” itself has evolved into the mainstream. Originally the word’s definition was to describe something as odd or weird. Society utilized the word “Queer” as an insult to the LGBTQ community. As more sexual orientations are being discovered, “Queer” became a more accepted word in the gay community in order to make things simpler. Irvine’s essay showed that whatever

In modern day society, “the closet” is known as the figurative place where queer people decide to hide their queerness. Someone who is “in the closet” is a person who is queer but has chosen, for one reason or another, not to disclose this information about themselves. In her graphic novel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel uses her father’s own closetedness to express her idea of the closet and explain the formation of her own identity as a lesbian. Towards the end of Chapter Four,

My initial inspiration in becoming a vegetarian was simple: eating animals is not essential to living a healthy life and I would prefer to avoid engaging in a discordant relationship with nonhuman animals and the natural world. Theretofore, I had been an eager, indiscriminate consumer of nonhuman animals, often outfitted in leather footwear and annually swathed in my winter wool. Thenceforth, family anticipated and dreaded my finicky dietary demands and envisaged the emaciated shell of a once healthy

At the Abbey Theater in Dublin, Rory O 'Neill, a LGBT activist and drag queen known as Panti, confessed that he was a homophobe like everyone else. Panti explained that "to grow up in a society that is overwhelmingly homophobic and to escape unscathed would be miraculous.” As a black man, I am very aware of racism and how it operates whether institutionally, internally or personally mediated. As a "gay man," something I am still trying to deconstruct, I have been oblivious, perhaps intentionally

A Struggle to Learn From the time when I was a little boy, growing up in Graves County, Kentucky, I have had problems with my reading and writing. Things never seemed to click for me, a trait that the teachers attributed to a mild case of dyslexia mixed with a healthy dose of attention deficit disorder. I knew, however, that no disorder was the cause of my distaste of reading and writing. Rather, there was nothing really interesting surrounding me that would grab my interest in the classroom

Have you ever been in a really tough position because of a friend? I can say that I have and learned a valuable lesson about trust. My story goes back into sixth grade, back when I was wimpy twelve year old. When I look at my trust issues today, a lot of it comes from my experience at that specific time and place. I think it’s safe to say that everyone has had there “Aha Moment” about keeping secrets. For some people, they learn it an easy way, for me and for many others they learned it hard the

In Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler, Pearl a mother of three kids, Ezra, Cody and Jenny try to navigate through life without her husband who left her. Cody the eldest of the children is reckless and short tempered. Ezra the youngest has a likeable personality that everyone enjoys and he constantly attempts to keep his family together. Cody being the eldest always felt that he should have been given more or the same amount of attention than his siblings. Pearl makes efforts to try to