Kyle's demeanour and expression remained soft as they exited the alley, leaving behind the acrid smell of burning fabric, and stench of roasting flesh. Even if Adam was discovered before he was burnt to a crisp, and shrivelled to more than a bag of bones, the flames would destroy any physical evidence that Zai had left. He gripped her hand, and kept one eye on the path in front of them, and the other on Zai, ensuring they stayed in the shadows in the event they encountered any passers-by who were attracted to the bright-red arterial blood spatters that coated Azairah's face, hands and clothing. In the darkness, the stains blended in to her black dress, and caramel skin. Their footsteps echoed off the pavement, and Kyle awaited for Zai to turn …show more content…
"It's over, we're safe." Kyle whispered as he took the keys she proffered, then entered the vehicle without a further word. He held no compassion for the young man they'd left dead in the alley, nor for those who'd mourn his passing. The only one who truly deserved empathy was Azairah, and as he pulled out on to the deserted street, and that emotion was evident in his expression. He maintained his grip on the wheel, and foot on the gas as he scanned her face, which faded in and out of shadow under the passing lights. "How do I feel?" He repeated her question, almost inaudibly, and pulled his gaze back to the road, away from the blood-soaked woman beside him. Could he describe it? Just as it appeared he may not respond, the Army veteran took a deep breath, and began to talk. "I feel …show more content…
"It's not too personal. Until Lisa, it didn't excite me, mentally yes, but not sexually; however with Cole's girlfriend, although I never laid a finger on her in that way, it was different, as I was doing it for you, and had finally discovered another reason to live, other than for myself. For the first time in so long, I was needed, and the knowledge sexually aroused me; it's difficult to express." Kyle slipped his hand from Zai's as they entered the locality of Eden, and shifted his eyes back to hers. "That may all sound crazy talk. How can any homicide be rightful, and how can I be turned on by a woman's screams? Am I not more morally corrupt than those I label as
Sleep deprivation is a common condition that occurs if you don’t get enough sleep. In case of sleep deprivation people have trouble falling and staying asleep for a long period of time. In order to understand how serious sleep deprivation can be, one must need to know causes and consequences of sleep deprivation, how much sleep do we need? What does sleep do for us? And how we can cure sleep deprivation.
She thought about her family, and the neighbors, and the town, and the dogs next door, and everyone and everything she has ever met or seen. As she began to cry harder, she looked out the window at the stores and buildings drifting past, becoming intoxicated suddenly with the view before her. She noticed a young woman at the bus stop, juggling her children on one side of her, shielding them from the bus fumes.
When a person's faith is also an alternative for their culture and morals, it proves challenging to take that sense of security in that faith away from them. In Night, Elie Wiesel, a Jewish student living in Sighet, Transylvania during the war of 1942, uses his studies in Talmud and the Kabbalah as not only a religious practice but a lifestyle. Elie and his fellow civilians are warned, however, by his Kabbalah teacher who says that during the war, German aggressors are aggregately imprisoning, deporting, and annihilating millions of Jews. When Elie and his family are victim of this aggression, Elie realizes how crucial his faith in God is if he is to survive the Holocaust. He vows after being separated from his mother and sisters that he will protect he and his father from death, even though as death nears, Elie gradually becomes closer to losing his faith. In the end, to Elie's devastation, Elie makes it out of the Holocaust alone after his father dies from the intense seclusion to malnutrition and deprivation. Elie survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience--first by believing in God, then resisting his faith in God, and ultimately replacing his faith with obligation to his father.
Experts estimate that 11 million people were killed in the Holocaust, six million of them being Jews; that is approximately two thirds of the Jewish people in Europe killed from 1933-1945. Elie Wiesel, a man who survived the Holocaust himself, wrote the memoir Night in order to remind the world of the horrors that went on through those years, and how humanity must never allow them to happen again. Throughout the book, someone Wiesel discusses often is his own father, Chlomo, whom he remained with throughout the experience. Wiesel tells of what they endure and eventually tells of his dear father’s death. Through all the pain Wiesel suffers in the Holocaust, his father remains his greatest driving force.
Reading is on the decline and our reading skills are declining right along with the amount of reading we do. This is happening right across the board through both genders, all age groups and education levels, people are busy and they just do not have time to read books that they are not required to read for school or work. There are serious consequences to this neglect of reading that will continue to worsen if ignored. We need to take notice of what is happening to our culture and stop this situation from continuing, we must act to correct these issues that we are faced with. These things are discussed in the essay “Staying Awake’’ by Ursula K. Le Guin who uses the NEA essays “To Read or Not to Read’’ and “Reading at Risk’’ to support her argument that there is a decline in the amount of time that we are spending on reading and our ability to understand what it is that we are reading.
Her ability to use incredibly graphic details poetically just enhance the experience for the reader. Her car ride is a solemn one, and readers are introduced to the disturbances inside of the car as well as outside. Olds is able to express to readers the issues her father has with drinking while associating it to the death outside of the car as well. She is able to bring readers into the dark car with her, witnessing the wreckage, the cars strewn over the highway, and most importantly the body of the woman. While the accident wasn’t any fault of the car she is riding in, she is up front with readers how her father is not quite sober, and just missed hitting someone himself. Olds is able to use the graphic imagery of the accident and the somber interior of the car to express the family struggles she endured as well. Sheltered by her mother from the scene outside, she is left reflecting on the life that is represented on the road. Readers can feel the dark turn of her thoughts as she compares the carnage on the road as “…glass, bone, metal, flesh, and the family” (Olds). It is this ending in which Olds allows readers to understand the complexity of feelings that were associated with the accident on the dark rain covered highway. Reflecting on the
According to Rudolf Reder, one of only two Jews to survive the camp at Belzec, Poland, he describes the circumstance during his time at the prison camp, “The brute Schmidt was our guard; he beat and kicked us if he thought we were not working fast enough. He ordered his victim to lie down and gave them 25 lashes with a whip, ordering them to count out loud. If the victim made a mistake, he was given 50 lashes….Thirty or 40 of us were shot every day….” This quotation shows the SS guards treat the Jews inhumanly. As these Jews acclimate to the situation, their primitive survival instincts become stronger over time. They put their lives as their first priority and will do anything to survive. However, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Shlomo the protagonist adversely demonstrates more commitment to family than to himself in the concentration camps. Before World War II, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party gain popularity by promising to make Germany a rich and powerful nation again after their defeat in World War I. The Nazis publicly blame the Jews for Germany’s loss of World War I and the Great Depression, resulting in promoting the anti-Semitism. Although he admits to the power of the instinct for self-preservation, because of his commitment to his father throughout the prison camp experience, and because of his reactions to others sons who do abandon or turn on their fathers, Wiesel apparently favors commitment to family over commitment to self-preservation. Eliezer never attempts to show commitment to family until the deportation to Birkenau.
The body and brain are changing machines, where states of consciousness shift with zealous nature to allow our human anatomy to flourish. Schedules of the circadian rhythm function differently for everyone yet, is an important part of functioning for the human anatomy/mind. For the average person, however, the cycles we go through usually speak for a sleep rotation. But sometimes, even with these measured rituals, we find ourselves at a loss when we realize how fragile our circadian rhythm can be, caused by "insomnia," " jet-lag, " or even "weekend-lag."
Although Night and the Perils of Indifference are very similar in a way, they are also very different as well. Both the speech and the story are extremely powerful, both having a strong message. The story Night is strictly the point of view of the young boy in the concentration camps, and everything he endured during that time period. He only talks about what is going on in his eyes, not what’s going on around the world, or how the world is reacting. The main message in the story is not to give up. Yes, the Jews in these camps had lost all hope in their god and their fellow men, but that didn’t stop them from feeling any less Jewish. Although some of the prisoners did give up, Elie never quit and kept fighting for his life. Although the story is about young Elie withstanding the concentration camps through
The moment he reached he went to the studios but it was closed. Alas! He had stayed in Millennium Biltmore hotel for the night. He found her in paramount pictures, his heart skipped a beat in the fraction of a second that he saw her and couldn’t believe what his eyes have seen. She was the most beautiful women, the ideal creation of God which only exists in the utopian world. As a Corbury junction engineer he felt that she had the right chemicals to make him fall in love with her. After looking at her in a peculiar manner he came back to his senses and told her while in grieve “ I don’t know how to say this to you and I am so sorry but but uhm someone who was really close to you is no longer here.”. The only thought that was going in her mind was not to be her father but deep down she knew it and started mourning. They went to starkfield together and Zeen provided her with more than adequate comfort and support. It was late at night when they had arrived and Zeen had offered her to stay in house and she accepted as she didn’t have anywhere else to go. Together they did all the arrangements and had conducted the funeral very well. As days passed the soreness had slowly started to decrease for
We live our entire life in two states, sleep and awake1. These two states are characterized by two distinct behaviors. For instance, the brain demonstrates a well-defined activity during non-REM sleep (nREM) that is different when we are awake. In the study of sleep by Huber et. al., the authors stated that sleep is in fact a global state2. It is unclear whether this statement means that sleep is a state of global behavioural inactivity or the state of the global nervous system. The notion that sleep is a global state of the nervous system served as basis for sleep researchers to search for a sleep switch. The discovery of the sleep switch, in return, provided evidence and enhanced the notion that sleep is a global state of the nervous system. The switch hypothesis developed from the fact that sleep can be initiated without fatigue and it is reversible1. It was hypothesized that there is something in the brain that has the ability to control the whole brain and initiate sleep. Studies have found a good candidate that demonstrated this ability3. They found a group of neurons in the Ventrolateral Preoptic (VLPO) nucleus. It was a good candidate because it was active during sleep, has neuronal output that can influence the wakefulness pathway, and lesion in the area followed reduce sleep3. The idea that there is something that can control the whole brain and result sleep state supports the idea that sleep is a global state of the nervous system.
In Men in the Off Hours, Anne Carson’s Essay On What I Think About Most offers a perspective on error that is contrary to popular belief concerning failure. To begin the poem, Carson utilizes a piece by Aristotle and the concept of a metaphor to prove that mistakenness is valuable. Specifically, Carson shows how a metaphor enables the mind to experience itself making a mistake, allowing the mind to learn and grow from its own errors. During the rest of the poem, Carson analyzes an ancient Greek poem that contains both computational and grammatical errors. Carson goes on to claim that poetry is the creation of errors that are beneficial to readers, and that imperfection is human nature.
Various factories, hospitals, police units, and firefighting squads are required to have people on call during all hours of the night. While this requirement does benefit the greater population, it requires a set of employees to stay up all night: working. Although these shifts are necessary for companies to produce products, or to be alert in case of emergencies, there are many downfalls to working this extra time. The care for and safety of employees should be top priority over the amount of product, profit, and similar factors. Understanding the risks that employees face when working night shifts is one issue that should be made more apparent to the supervisors and corporate workers of companies, enabling them to take necessary precautions
“Wilson,” I called out, receiving no response. “Wilson?” He stayed slumped in the chair, eyes casted on the ground, refusing to make eye contact or any other sign of acknowledgement. “Wilson!” I yelled, causing him to flinch, his eyes finally meeting mine. There was sadness clear as day in his eyes, but no, he did not deserve to be sad. He did not have any reason. He didn’t love her. He couldn’t provide for her. Not like I could- or would.
It dawned on me, then and there, that Aaron had seen in me the same pain he had felt all his life. No, he had never lost his mother, but he knew what sadness was, the kind of sadness that leaves you breathless and unable to do anything but lay, helpless and hopeless, in bed. Our stories were so different, but our emotions were exactly same. We all felt, deep down, that there were so many battles being fought in our heads that we didn't think we had a chance of winning,