Mad Shadows This novel "Mad Shadows" is less fictional then it is authentic. In today's world, it is obvious how most people are influenced and admire others mostly because of their physical beauty. However this novel exaggerates this point to a great extent to be realized. Isabel...

This story takes place at the end of the 19th century, when science and reason began to emerge. In Bram Stoker's "Dracula" the protagonists deal with a force beyond their knowledge. Throughout this story, three characters live through an experience similar to one another and come to r...

Civilians in Vietnam If I Die in a Combat Zone, a chilling depiction of what life was like in the war between the armed forces of the USA and the Vietnamese in the late 60's and early 70's. The way the soldiers lived their lives, minute by minute, not day by day is a chilling insight a...

Heart of Darkness, unarguably one of the best novels ever, on the subject of imperialism and the madness that it gives birth to. The novel deals with the subject of madness not in terms of medical lunacy but lunacy that originates from becoming very powerful, from corruption of soul and from higher ...

Tell-Tale Heart "TRUE!--nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all occur within this short story. ...

Tell-Tale Heart "TRUE!--nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all occur within this short story. ...

Tell-Tale Heart "TRUE!--nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all occur within this short story. ...

OK... I'm going to ask you to listen very carefully. I'm going to be real straight forward here and I don't want you to think there is any underlying feelings here so take this word for word. The second worst thing you could do to me is not talk to me. The absolute worst thing yo...

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Hamlet, the philosophical and enigmatic central character of Shakespeare's Hamlet, is a character that deliberately decides to trick his enemies by affecting a mad personality, but in doing so, is changed by his facade. Hamlet, after entering the "unweeded garden" of Denmark, is affected by the e...

The strength of his rational mind is not diminishing the pains of his emotions. On the contrary, the speaker is losing his sanity as time progresses. In the past, perhaps, the speaker's rational thought processes allowed him to cope with failed romances. However, in the presence of this lo...

The scariest thing for many kids at the age of five, is attending to kindergarten the first day of school. The terror for them is the ugliest feeling because they are going to be separated from their parents, and they ignore the unknown without them. After attending, and get to know every kid, they...

Miss Emily supposedly suffered from a type of mental illness that caused her to believe certain people to be alive that in reality were not. However, there is logical evidence throughout the story indicating that Miss Emily actually was aware that the people were dead but trued to hide it so that ...

Dead Men's Path The villagers were very superstitious they even had their head priest come and talk to the new headmaster about this little problem. As far as the school property being destroyed I think it was both the souls of the ancestors and the newly dead. You also can't count ...

Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye, Much sense, the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority In this, as all, prevail: Assent, and you are sane; Demur, you're straightaway dangerous And handled with a chain. - Emily Dickinson Know...

Living Doll's by Gaby Wood may not be the most fascinating account of robots you have ever read, but it is certainly an original one. Wood collects the robotics-related true stories and puts them together to show that man's fascination with artificial intelligence and artificial life is anything...

I would love once and for all, take this junk and throw it out of my mind, body, and spirit, it has changed my ways of thinking, loving, and living, I can't express enough how I hope there is a valuable lesson in all of this. Why do people say junk? Well that is now exactly how I see it as JU...

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD I had just been whipped. I can remember it all to well. The master had always been nice to me but now he was being different. His wife had gone away a few months ago and he had used me to be his belly warmer. I was then carrying his child and he still had the nerve to beat me. ...

Role Models Role Models are a part of everyone's life. They help us get through life's ups and downs and teach us to become successful people as we grow. Someone that does just that is my mother. My mother is a very important woman in my life.. She is very helpful and trustworthy to me. ...

I hop into the passenger's side of my best friend's car and simultaneously buckle my seatbelt and crank up the A.C. Matt and I begin to laugh about how we're never going to find a summer job that pays more than seven dollars an hour. I can hardly even see him through my squinted eye...

Dear Darin, We have been friends for quite a while now, and I just want to say thank you for being there when times got tough. I know you more than I know anybody and I'm so glad that we started hanging out together. Lately I've been thinking about the way that we always compete with each oth...

Truth is defined as Honesty: the real state of things: FACT. But how do we know if there is any truth in the world at all today? What if we mistake the actual truth with illusion? I do believe that illusion is necessary in human existence. I believe that without illusion in the world we would ...

When coming to Clarion I remember one question that came directly into mind, "What can I do to be a master student?" I thought about it and tried to come up with a person that I could try to relate myself to and follow their successful ways. Although Malcolm X wasn't exactly who came ...

Another Version of Society "A little world; an individual man or a community that is a miniature universe or a world in itself"; a microcosm... Phineas and Gene, along with the other boys of Devon School formed a universe of their own during World War II. In A Separate Peace, John...

The technology of the future will do things that seem "mad" to most of us today. Our ability to create artificial intelligence is increasing exponentially. In the labs of prestigious institutions across the country, scientists try to create a computer that will replace the brain. This futuristic...