...Cardinal's Posts You may not think of sleep disorders as a mental problem, but nothing can mess up the mind like a few sleepless nights. The fact is, not nearly enough is known about what goes on in our minds when we are asleep. Where do dreams come from? How about nightmares? Let's look at a few sleep disorders. Perhaps the most common is insomnia. Lying awake hour after hour, night after night. That sort of behavior can lead to all sorts of problems. Many times the problem is either stress or depression. Of course, the more sleep we lose, the more stress and depression dominate our lives. If the problem goes on long enough, it can lead to a fear of going to bed because sleep is so elusive. Sleep apnea is not only a destroyer of sleep; it's a destroyer of life. Imagine waking up in the night gasping for breath. Imagine this happening hundreds of times a night. The problem is, most of the time victims of sleep apnea don't come fully awake, but it's enough to cause broken sleep and sleep deprivation. Narcolepsy causes hallucinations. You see things that aren't there. If that's not enough to boggle the mind, narcoleptics also suffer from cataplexy. They're unable to express any strong emotion - fear, grief, anger, even laughter without falling to the floor, their muscles no longer under their control. Dreams, nightmares, night terrors. What causes these aberrations of the mind? Stress? Depression? Perhaps. But everyone dreams, even if the dreams aren't recalled. Science...
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...Intriguing, bump-in-the-night spine-tingling terror is the only way I can think to describe this collection of horror stories. You’ll find serial killers, witches, the boogey man, zombies, zombie babies, hologram pumpkins, trolls, frightening fairy tales, and raining octopuses (yes, I said octopuses). There are several that stand out for me, such as Neighbors: A voyeuristic couple is intrigued by their neighbors kinky bedtime habits, and decide to invite them over to ask about their secrets… and share a few of their own. In Dead Flames, two zombies discover each other as “Adam and Eve of the Apocalyptic garden.” In Lost Soles, a man’s obsession with shoes turns deadly. In Skin Deep, Mark has an unusual ability to see demon like monsters that...
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...Bump in the Night: The Vampire Bat Authors Note This essay of a memoir has been submitted on April 7, 2013 Oh my god! This did not just happen to me. I find myself locked outside of my apartment with just my underoos on. I'm around eleven or years old at this time in my life. My mom and I have been in our apartment for about a year or two at this point so know my neighbors petty well by now. I had just moved to Maryland from Savannah, GA a few years ago. I'm slowly adjusting to being a latch key kid because my mother was a corrections officer and worked odd shifts sometime early morning or the midnight shift. I have two older brothers Mike who is the oldest at 7 years older than me and Toby who is 6 years older than me. They are not living with us at this time. My mom has been working these odd shifts for a year or so at this time so I was used to being home alone. There were rules I had to follow to keep myself safe. I'm pretty sure all latch key kids parents made them live by these rules as well. Never open the door from anyone but my mom or my brothers unless given direct instructions from either one of them. Don't give the impression that I might be home alone. Sometimes I would leave the television on or radio in the living room to give the illusion that there is some activity going on inside our apartment. This being home alone at night had become standard operating procedure at this point. There were just a few things that really bothered me when she...
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...The Hero in the Night What goes bump in the night? A question kids will forever eerily ask themselves as they lay down at night. The dark corner of the room, what's underneath of the bed or who or even what is lurking behind the closet door. There's just something unsettling about what we cant see. The minute the lights dim my mind begins to wonder about what could possibly be gleaming at me from its hiding spot, waiting for its chance to pounce on me like a defenseless animal on the plains of Africa. Overcoming your fears isn't always easy, but facing them head on is the only way to feel comfortable in a situation that once made you uncomfortable. This night was like every other. As the night draws to an end, mom and dad yell its time for bed. After years of sleeping with a night light, I start to feel brave. I mean what can honestly be so frightening, and also be afraid to shows its self in the dim glare of my little night light. After finishing my nightly routine, brushing the teeth and saying my prayers, I reach over and turn out my night light that I found so much comfort in. Laying in bed thinking of everything that I need to accomplish for the next day and practicing lines for the few girls that caught my attention I start to doze off. Tossing and turning throughout the night I find myself awake at exactly 1:30. It is then I realize the mistake I've made. The glow of hope that usually coax me back to my sweet dreams is no longer there. To scared of what might be accompanying...
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...intersections and struggle to defeat their fears as they interweave in and out of each other’s lives. It depicts how African-American, Caucasians, Hispanics, and Asians collide in different times throughout the film. It differs from other films and has an impartial approach to the issue about racism. Rather than splitting the characters between offenders and victims only, the cast is shown as themselves being racists in diverse circumstances and conditions. Paul Haggis wrote this film after a life experience of his own – one night, coming home from an evening out with his wife, he was approached by two black men who took the his car keys and drove off on his new exotic car. Realizing they also had the keys to his house and his address, he called an afterhours locksmith to come and change all the locks at his house. Ten years later, he woke up in the middle of the night and remembered what had happened that night – no longer fearful or angry, but now curious; what were...
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...there was paper/garbage on the floor. “ You know Medgar went to war in the United states of America? He risked his life in the Second World War.And you know what else?When he...
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...A Good Night’s Sleep - A Scottish short story The story deals with George Lockhart who is trying to sleep but has a hard time doing so due to the noisy city life and his insomnia. He lives on the third floor in a tenement building in Edinburgh. He is a teacher of Community and General Studies, and he misses his ex-wife Elaine “He tried not to think of Elaine, his ex-wife, sleeping in their old comfortable double bed – alone?” (p.1, l. 41), and has a son named Ben with her as well. He notices every sound from the people and cars out in the street to the neighbors. It makes him more frustrated and less tired. He finds a homeless adolescent girl on his doormat and who is geting some rest. Instead of staying humble when the homeless girl is being confronted by George, she gets irritated and has a rude tone every time she answer him back. At the start of their conversation we feel that Georg is a bit shocked, and therefore asks a lot of questions because he is curious to know why there is a homeless on his doormat, which only gets her more upset and she sees George as an wealthy man (p. 3, l. 89-92) that only contributes problems in to her attempt to sleep, and he has to be dealt with somehow in a way that doesn’t end up in her having to leave and find another place to sleep. She doesn’t see him as one that could actually help her in some way. She has a very pessimistic attitude. The reader can clearly see from the start of their conversation that she is sure that he doesn’t...
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...Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham synopsis: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham "It's All About Loving Your Parents." Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is a lavish movie that deals with the issues of class distinction and the roles of women and men in marriage. It opens with a grown Rohan (Hrithik Roshan) finishing his boarding school education and returning to visit his grandmothers before he goes home for Diwali. His grandmothers, haunted by the memory of Rohan's estranged brother, Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), sit Rohan down, and in their grief, tell him the story of his family. Yashvardhan Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) is a famous, wealthy Indian businessman. He and his wife Nandini (Jaya Badhuri) adopted a baby, Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), and raised him as their own. Nine years later they had a natural son, Rohan (Hrithik Roshan), and considered their family complete. Rahul was raised as the beloved eldest son, and promised his father he would always uphold the respect and traditions of the Raichand family, and always do his parents proud. However, love intervenes... On his way to deliver medication for Daijaan, the nanny who raised both him and his brother, Rahul sees a beautiful girl, Anjali Sharma (Kajol) celebrating India's cricket win in the street. Enchanted by her exuberance, he watches her dance and then follows her into her family's sweet shop. There, she mistakes him for the prospective groom of her best friend. Thinking him to be Ashfaque the poet, who is set to marry her friend, Anjali recites...
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...of course upset about the incident -“I’ll kill the big basterd if he comes around here again”, Leon kept saying.” (p. 2, l. 12). Tony keeps telling Leon, that he should just forget about the incident, but Leon won’t let it g o. On the night of the incident, Tony has a nightmare involving a witch (p. 2, l. 5), wich he keeps refering to as being the cop. The boys bump into the cop the day after, and the cop follows them on the highway home, and stops them. While the cop is talking to Tony and Leon, Tony doesn’t talk to or look in the eyes of the cop, because his parent’s learned him not to look into the eyes of the witches. The next day, Leon and Tony goes for another ride in the car. They get very far out on the meadow, before they realize that the cop is following them. They stop the car, and the cop and Leon gets out of the cars. Inside of the car, Tony gets more and more freaked out, in his belive, that the cop is the masked dancer or the witch, wich he dreamt about. He sees the cop threaten Leon, and shoots the .30-30 rifle and kills the cop. Both Leon and Tony panik because of their sudden and unexpected murder, and decides to put the cop into his car, and set the car on fire. When that’s done, Leon gets pale and shaky, and asked Tony, what was wrong with him. Tony answers: “Don’t worry, everything is O.K. now, Leon. It’s killed. They somethimes take on strange forms”. Narrator/point-of-view The narrator is a first person, lyrical I. The story is told from Tony’s...
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...Take back the night, held on Thursday, April 9th, encapsulated the essence of unity, belongingness, liberation, expressivity, and audacity. Opal Tometi, one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matters movement, spoke about her movement and other controversial topics, in front of the Franklin and Marshall student body and faculty. She reiterated numerous sociological elements by addressing the different “isms”, including racism and sexism. She began and ended her speech addressing a quote by Martin Luther King Jr: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Tometi expressed the importance and the power of the Black Lives Matter movement. She projected race from a subjective dimension; a dimension that we created and positioned ourselves to extrapolate meanings about different elements concerning race, class, gender, etc (Tatum, 1997). She conveyed her love for each and every body, regardless of race, gender, socio-economic status, religion, and age. While she talked...
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...desires are seen to be almost identical. Chungking Express does not follow a linear model, but rather follows a very abstract plan, where cause and effect aren’t quite as evident as in many Hollywood movies. In fact, one could say that Chungking Express relies on what is deemed as ‘chance encounters’ by the viewers. David Bordwell defines the plot of Chungking Express as one that ‘is built out of a daunting number of minutely varied repetitions of locales and routines. As these cycles compare characters and situations, cause and effect become less important than parallels among congruent or contrasting aspects of love’. (2000: 283) The sense of a constantly reoccurring ‘déjà vu’ between people and placesemerges from the start of the film. At the beginning of Chungking Express, while Cop 223 is chasing a criminal down a crowded corridor, he passes the woman who will become his love interest in the story, the ‘Blonde Woman’, announcing in voice-over that, ‘at our closest point, we were just 0.01cm apart from each other. Fifty-five hours later, I was in love with this woman’. At the end of the first ‘love’ story, after Cop 223 has received the Blonde Woman’s paged birthday message, he enters the Midnight Express where he bumps into Faye and this then launches the next love story, with the voice-over, ‘six hours later she fell in love with another man’ – once again drawing perfect symmetry. All four of the main characters appear briefly in the first love story of the film, providing...
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...I. What is STD? * STD stands for Sexually Transmitted Diseases, contracted through any type of sexual activity. * Over 65 million Americans are now infected with an incurable STD. * 29 million more become infected with STDs, * almost 4 million of these are teenagers. II. How many types? * here are more than 25 major STDs * The most common are: Chlamydia, HPV & Genital Warts, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis B, Herpes, HIV (AIDS), Syphilis, Trichomoniasis. * Only Syphilis and Gonorrhea are treatable. III. Chlamydia or “Silent Epidemic” more like a woman STD * Infect the urethra in men and women, rectum, throat or eyes. * Any type of sex. * Symptoms are Thick yellow or clear discharge from penis, pain or burning when they pee, or pain or bleeding during sex. * Simple and painless urine test at the clinic. * It can be cured with anti biotics. * Condoms or monogamous with someone who has tested negative for Chlamydia. * Worst; no babies IV. Hepatitis B * It is an infection caused by a virus that infect liver. * In 2003, 1.25 million people in the US have hepatitis B. * It is not as common as in the past among young people because there is a vaccine for it. * It live in blood or semen, Sharing needles, drugs, nail clippers, razors, or toothbrushes. Tattoo or piercing with infected tools. * Symptoms ellow skin or eyes, No appetite (they don't want to eat), Feeling extremely tired, Brown or dark urine...
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...Great Gatsby Summary How It All Goes Down Our narrator, Nick Carraway, begins the book by giving us some advice of his father’s about not criticizing others. Through Nick’s eyes, we meet his second cousin, Daisy Buchanan, her large and aggressive husband, Tom Buchanan, and Jordan Baker, who quickly becomes a romantic interest for our narrator (probably because she’s the only girl around who isn’t his cousin). While the Buchanans live on the fashionable East Egg (we’re talkingLong Island, NY in the 1920’s, by the way), Nick lives on the less-elite but not-too-shabby West Egg, which sits across the bay from its twin town. We are soon fascinated by a certain Mr. Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious man who owns a huge mansion next door to Nick and spends a good chunk of his evenings standing on his lawn and looking at an equally mysterious green light across the bay. Tom takes Nick to the city to show off his mistress, a woman named Myrtle Wilson who is, of course, married. (Fidelity is a rare bird in this novel.) Myrtle’s husband, George, is a passive, working class man who owns an auto garage and is oblivious to his wife’s extramarital activities. Nick is none too impressed by Tom. Back on West Egg, this Gatsby fellow has been throwing absolutely killer parties, where everyone and his mother can come and get wasted and try to figure out how Gatsby got so rich. Nick meets and warily befriends the mystery man at one of his huge Saturday night affairs. He also begins spending...
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...out. A big one is the prom. The prom is a symbol for the teenage years summed up in one unforgettable night. The individual gets dressed up to not look good for themselves but to be accepted by his or her peers and, of course, his or her date. By the end of the night hormones are raging to make a decision based on what everyone else is doing. Everyone has gone through it, and it might possible be the most difficult transition in an individual’s life; the transition from childhood to adolescence. This is the time the body, mind, and thought process all go through different and difficult changes. Biologically the body is moving away from childhood and taking the steps necessary to be an adult. This is called puberty, and it happens to the individual’s body. Psychological and social development goes hand in hand with this transition. All of the adolescent’s decisions, thinking, and making write or wring decisions are influenced by his or her peers. The individual is doing what he or she can to fit in and be accepted by his or her friends. During the transitional period between childhood and adulthood, the personality of an adolescent is beginning to develop and also change. The changes are often influenced by all of the stresses of body changes, weight gain, and puberty. Furthermore many adolescence tend to have the issue of self- criticism. One might be worried about the huge bump on the tip of the nose from acne, or in some situations something is too noticeable and would be an...
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...because everybody thats in cars that are passing him are staring at him very oddly. Keith sees a homeless kid that looks like in his 20’s and he’s holding a sign saying “I'm homeless, need shelter, and food.” Keith was thinking about giving him food and a place to live, keith went home and went into his closet and found his big box from his puppet show when he was 7, and then went into his kitchen and grabbed a few sausage burritos that he had left from last night dinner and put them in...
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