The Beast Haunted House Molly Dice COMM 207-12 Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about The Beast Haunted House in Kansas City, Missouri. Introduction Attention Material: The Beast is the largest haunted house in America. The Beast is rated one of the Top 13 Haunted Houses in the nation. One reasons why The Beast prevails over other haunted houses is because it less about gore and more about messing with your phobias, such as abandonment, darkness, and other psychological horrors. (America
Zadie Smith's multicultural, post colonial novel has been widely discussed in the literary world. At the age of 25, Zadie Smith captures the immensely believable lives of an aging Bangladeshi Muslim man, a too-concerned middle-class white woman poking her nose in all the wrong business, and an adolescent half-Jamaican girl with self-esteem issues. Over the span of about 30 years, the three families in the book undergo a wide web of separate but somehow connected circumstances, and Smith became
What do a seventy-year-old minister, a laboratory scientist, an electrician, a female vocalist, an armed policeman, a pregnant lady who is hysterical (and I don’t mean funny), the pregnant woman’s husband, a famous writer, a professional athlete, and a high school girl all have in common? They are the last ten people left on earth from a widespread bombing attack. There is one bomb shelter that can provide just seven people food, water and oxygen. How can I choose who lives and who dies? There are
Mass hysteria can be defined as, “The sociopsychological phenomenon in which a large group of people exhibits the same or similar hysterical symptoms simultaneously” (“Mass Hysteria”). Hysteria replaces logic and reasoning with insanity, clouding people's judgment and perception of what is happening. Absurd and unreasonable behavior takes place that is not understood and cannot be medically explained or treated. Mass hysteria occurs more often than people believe when large groups of people are fearful
something was inhibiting the resolute mind-set during those two years of neutrality. German propaganda is what planted the seed of indecisiveness into the minds of Americans. “I didn’t believe all her stories; I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical.” (Larson, p. 54) In the Garden of Beasts Schultz tells Martha, Dodd’s daughter, of what is actually occurring in Germany; the Nazis are mistreating and having genocidal actions toward Jews which was well concealed behind Hitler’s speeches and morale-boosting
T.S Eliot, a man known for his dedication to literature, was a determined poet that was willing to overcome any obstacles to achieve a higher place in the literary world. Eliot’s poems, not for the faint of heart, dealt with his more troubling life experiences, such as depression, illnesses, and the complex society of World War One. These trials and tribulations lead Eliot into a state of collapse, which was fueled by his wife Vivien’s illness, and started publishing at night. Eliot was notorious
In this study of revenge and revengers in two Elizabethan revenge tragedies the two plays I shall look at are Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, and The Revenger's Tragedy, by Thomas Middleton. I shall look first at the playwrights' handling of the characters of the revengers, and then at the treatment of the revengers by other characters in the plays. Although having similarities in their underlying themes, and in their adherence to conventions, these two plays present contrasting pictures of the