Nightmare
Essays

The exponential growth of the Internet has created an astronomical number of options for communication, connectivity, entertainment and knowledge attainment, right at the fingertips of any connected individual.

Indeed, everyone has the tendency to retreat to his or her inner world every so often. This is especially true if life in a person's inner world is more fun or serene than the reality that he or she has to live in.

One out of every three United States Army and Marine Corps personnel that have served tours of duty in Iraq since the beginning of the recent conflict there almost a decade ago has sought treatment for some form of…

An Existential Examination of the Essential Blackness and Dread

Man was dispossessed of Eden," (Faulkner 246), since the loss of the Civil War, the American South has always carried a sense of bitter nostalgia within everyday life and events. Southern authors, like William Faulkner,…

A Formal Analysis of Gender Roles in John Carpenter's Halloween and Guillermo del Toro's Mimic

In Tim O'Brien's the Things They Carried and the stand-alone chapter, the Man I Killed, the main character is a noble soldier who is disillusioned by the harsh realities of war. In Brian Turner's poems, Here, Bullet and…

Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron or Captain of Industry?

The 1993 film Menace II Society follows Caine during a bloody summer after his high school graduation. Entreated to cruise the streets with his friend, the ticking time bomb O-Dog among others, Caine is drawn into the…

This paper examines, in short, why dreams exist. In the quest to explain the significance and purpose of dreams, the paper examines the issue from both a scientific and a psychological point of view, the latter of which is not mixed with any superstition. It is thus found that dreams not only help an individual understand him or herself but also help an individual become more creative and increase memory abilities in a person.