Stephen Storace

ALS and Its Effects on Stephen Hawking Most people cannot grasp the number of names there are for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). ALS is called Lou Gehrig's disease in America, Motor Neuron Disease in England, and Jean-Martin Charcot’s Disease in several other countries. ALS is a serious disease involving the destruction of nerve cells and muscle tissue (Abramovitz 12). This terrible disability has corrupted many lives, including Stephen Hawking’s. Being such a complex disease, patients, such

Michael Zomber: Article About This Person Michael Zomber is a renowned author, filmmaker, collector and philanthropist. He is best known as the History Channel featured historian. Zomber spends a lot of time preserving and protecting historical antiques such as the Japanese samurai sword by collecting, storing and selling the antiques. According to the website MichaelZomber.com, Zomber has been collecting antique arms and armor for over 40 years. His stories are well documented on History Channel’s

The book, “Salem's Lot” by Stephen King is a gothic literature with monsters, a small group of heroes, and very intense emotions, and a gloomy decaying setting throughout. This book has a great balance between suspense but a great twist of action to keep you reading. The book excels in engulfing you with monsters and emotions and is a very good read. Kings most used element of gothic literature in “Salem's Lot” is intense emotions. Throughout the book he gives us suspenseful hooks and never ceases

The Castle of Ontario contains many elements of male gothic. The most blatant of these elements being the terrorization of a female victim as in the case of Manfred pursuing Isabella, explicit images such as the gruesome scene caused by the helmet falling on Conrad, prison settings such as the chapel holding Isabella or Theodore’s imprisonment, supernatural and tragic undertones everywhere such as in the case of Milfred’s undying love for an unappreciative prince, and the eventual death of Theodore’s

In the essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King, the author talks about the benefits of the horror movies on human beings. He argues that we all behave like mad people by performing weird things like talking to ourselves, showing disgusting faces and having odd fears. Comparing the horror movies with roller coasters, he states that young people are more fascinated by these adventures to prove the point that they can do this and are not afraid of taking challenges. He argues that we get

Stephen King wrote the short story “Why We Crave Horror Films” explaining why our mind gets so excited during horror movies. He continues to make the statement “the horror film has become the modern public lynching” (paragraph 6) showing that no matter what generation a person is in the excitement of gore will always exist. King proves this statement discussing emotions and psychiatric points in his work. King first shows how his comparison of public lynching and horror films is true by discussing

all long to write like someone else, maybe it is like authors such as Mark Twain , J.R.R Tolkien, Ernest Hemingway or Shakespeare- although I think the last one is much more like a dream than an actual aspiration-but I desire to write like Stephen King and Stephen Krashen , and even attain to imitate the manner in which they seem to analyze information, and translate such material in a form of a well-developed argument. As a consequence, it seems that the purpose of this summer assignment was accomplished

Stephen King’s quote, “what’s behind the door… is never as frightening as the door… itself,” encompasses the idea of suspense in the horror genre. Suspense, which creates tension, is the most critical component of the genre. Stephen King declares that the suspense and tension leading up to opening the door is more horrific than what is actually behind the door. It is the suspense that erects fear in the reader. All horror stories stress the idea of suspense. For instance, The Masque of the Red Death

Avatar Archetypes “I guess that’s the thing about a hero’s journey. You might not start out as a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to,” (Kami Garcia). The movie Avatar, released in 2009 and directed by James Cameron, is an example of a main plot and a subplot carried by the hero’s journey and has many examples of other archetypes. Avatar is about

Brian Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa uses the effect of absence and presence to create a heartfelt and tense ‘memory play’ set in Ireland in the summer of 1936. Michael lives with his mother and four aunts, along with his Uncle recently returned from Africa. Friel’s choice to have an absence of a strong family unit is important and it will be considered how this sets the tone for the play. Next, this essay will go on to examine the way the characters unfulfilled desires add to the overall effect