Impending Doom

“Beyond this place” (9) refers to the afterlife or after death. Line 10 says “Looms the Horror of the shade” with the “shade” again meaning death or hell. Then in line 11, Henley writes “the menace of the years”. Here he is talking about old age and the impending doom of his death. A summary of lines 9 through 11 is that the “place of wrath and tears” (9) is describing his trial-filled life, and even though the trials of life will end when he dies, there is only the doom of hell on the other side, and the “menace of the years” means he is getting old, and his death is…

beings are utterly helpless and survive without control over their lives. In this scene, as “This Bitter Earth” by Dinah Washington is playing as non-diegetic sound, Stan is the one who seems to be in control as he is violently herding the the sheep to their deaths. However, as the sheep are forced to obey him, he himself is also a sheep. Stan resonates with the numb lives of the sheep through the mundanity of his work at the slaughterhouse, through the relationship with his wife and children…

student Seung Hui Cho giving the rate of death 32. Had the same mind like Eric, no enjoyment whatsoever a blank expression. “Describe by ex classmate as loner who rarely spoken to anyone of mental health problems.” ( No Author “Massacre at Virginia Tech leaves 32 dead” A&E Television Network) The doctors believe Eric was diagnosed as a psychopath because everyone thought he was going to be someone in the future, maybe ending like his dad to be in the marines, but once Dr. Fuselier have gone…

April 20, 1999, 24 people are injured and 15 people are killed including the shooters. The shooters are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Nobody knows why they did it exactly. Some people say it was because of bullying, violent video games, or even ‘dark music’ bands. I believe that Eric was a psychopath and Dylan was just depressed and here’s why. Dylan Klebold was depressed. We know this from his diary entries as he talks about suicide many times. Dylan wrote in his journal: “Thinking of suicide…

Life, death, and reincarnation are the recurring theme of the most notable poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson. Throughout the poem Dickinson traces her descent sanity into madness which has made the poem terrifying for both the speaker and the reader. At the beginning of the poem, Dickinson has express her feeling of grief and pain through the use of an extended metaphor, “felt a funeral in the brain” and in rest of the poem, she lives a life, passes away, and reborn again…

“I don’t know. I’m making this up as I go” said by Indiana Jones, perfectly describes how Steven Spielberg wanted the movie to be charismatic, charming, and funny as he admitted that this was, “the first movie where I actually shot the movie without thinking.” From native tribes and snakes to Nazis, it seems Indiana Jones can’t keep himself out of trouble when it comes to searching for lost treasure. That being said, his adventures are a roller coaster with twists and turns that you would least…

Indiana Jones, the main character in the first film Indian Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark, is an archaeologist that goes on a hunt for the tablets which contained the Ten Commandments. The purpose of this paper is to conclude that Dr. Jones is not a true archaeologist, but instead a looter. This paper will focus on his behaviors in the first movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark to give evidence to support the theory mentioned. The definition of archaeologist is “the scientific study of prehistoric…

created a creature, by means of his research. Despite their differences, both Never Let Me Go and Frankenstein possess similar conventions, including the convention of the sense of mystery and dread, or an impending doom. By definition, the genre of Gothic…

Impending Doom: Embrace or Escape? Both Thanksgiving by Jon Loomis and Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers forecast impending doom. In Thanksgiving the imminent doom for the Wampanoag Native American group is the invasion of their land by the Puritan English settlers. While in Shine, Perishing Republic, America is destined to collapse on its corrupt and overly empire-like foundation. Both of these poems engage with the topic of impending doom, through detailing the subject’s level of…

Guilt is the driving force of life for the husband of Dorcas Bourne. On the other end of the spectrum, love seeps out of everything act and notion said by Dorcas. As depicted in the short story, Roger Malvin’s Burial, Nathaniel Hawethorne utilizes the virtuous character of Dorcas in the last few pages to intensify the horrific, sacrificial death of her son. First, to start the scene, Hawethorne has Dorcas spreading out a “snow-white cloth” on a tree for dinner {73}. These specific words allude…