Essays Tagged: "waking up"

The Hamster, an essay on a personal experience

d do. I poked the poor creatureseveral times to see if it still had any life left in it. Instead of waking up and moving aboutits cage, the hamster lay there motionless, like a little stuffed animal. ...

(4 pages) 138 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Home is where the heart is

ouse belongs to you, but you belong to a home.' (C. Marks)The first memory that I have of a home is waking up one cold Saturday morning in my bunk beds. I jumped out of bed, and went down stairs to th ...

(4 pages) 220 1 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Computers in modern society

make life easier and allow us to be lazier. These devices are in most daily activities ranging from waking up to an alarm clock that is computerized to watching the news before going to bed on a compu ...

(4 pages) 172 0 2.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

African Literature. Speaks of short stories such as 'In the Cutting of a Drink' ,'The Return', Chipasula's poem 'Those Rainy Mornings', Aidoo's 'In the Cutting of a Drink', 'The Return' by Ngugi wa

e. Then she would begin cooking porridge. In the second section of the poem the speaker talks about waking up 'out of the nagging nightmare.' Then the speaker describes his aunt a little bit more, 'he ...

(5 pages) 37 0 5.0 May/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The effects the Bosnian war (1992-1995) had on children.

Lost Children of BosniaImagine a 10-year-old girl falling asleep to gunshots and waking up to the thud of a violent grenade. She risks her life on a daily basis just to fetch food a ...

(5 pages) 69 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Poetry response to the lyrics from the song "Shooting Up In Vain" by Eagle Eye Cherry

the overall shady feeling of this poem. The imagery begins instantaneously in the first sentence. "Waking up as the sun goes down" (1), demonstrates an almost demonic quality about the protagonist in ... almost demonic quality about the protagonist in this piece of writing, giving the image of someone waking up at sunset and preparing to begin their day in the shadows.The authors used many images to ...

(1 pages) 23 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Great Depression.

the Great Depression and what inevitably pulled the American People out of it.Imagine for a moment, waking up one day to find yourself on a dirty floor, a pile of rags, or maybe even the street. You l ...

(11 pages) 430 8 4.4 Jul/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The importance of a father.

it by a car. He suffered severe brain injury, and the doctors have ruled out any possibility of him waking up again. When I look at him lying in bed, frail but peaceful as if he were asleep, it's hard ...

(3 pages) 37 0 0.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Analyse Of American Beauty.

e I feel the director (Sam Mendes) takes a typical worn out story of a forty something year old man waking up and realising that life has not turned out the way he planned and follows him as he sets a ...

(4 pages) 94 2 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

How we dream....

t was believed that people had dreams in periods of light sleep or in the morning to keep them from waking up too quickly. In the early 1950's Professor Nathaniel Kleitman at the University of Chicago ... Eye Movement and non-rapid eye movement.In the first phase of sleep the brain waves slow for their waking frequency, also know as Beta, to the more relaxed state of Alpha. In this state your muscles ...

(3 pages) 95 1 3.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The Bird

he floor several times to see if it still had any life left within his poor little body. Instead of waking up and moving about the room, the bird remained in its apparent inert state, like a miniature ...

(4 pages) 15 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The influence of Dreams.

s dreams there would be no meaning to our existence on earth.Without dreams there is no point of us waking up in the mornings, or even for us going to sleep at night, because dreams alter our everyday ...

(5 pages) 49 0 3.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Psychology Research Report on Insomnia: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments.

nsomnia is the complaint of inadequate and poor-quality sleep because of difficulty falling asleep, waking up frequently during the night with difficulty returning to sleep, and waking up too early in ...

(4 pages) 146 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Beginning my life and Jack's Midlife (MidLife)

he just a few shorted months ago. The themes that Cooper is trying to communicate with us are about waking up and losses in Jack's life. Sometime around age of 40, Jack "wake up" in a way and at a dee ...

(4 pages) 19 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Reasons People Don't Want To Go To School

Many people do not want to go to school these days. Reasons can be from waking in the morning to eating the food in the cafeteria. Its not that people do not like school an ... not like school and wish it would not be mandatory, it's really the things we need to do in school.Waking up around 7:00 AM every weekday is very hard. It usually means that everyone would be sleepin ...

(1 pages) 75 4 2.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Were the Crusades political or religious?

the name of "crusaders" which means "marked with the cross". This was the beginning of the Europe's waking up to use their growing power to look outside Europe and dominate more lands for religious, e ...

(5 pages) 118 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The principal has announced a new policy. Ten absences a semester in any class will result in a grade of D or lower.

s more responsible.Fist of all, students who do not attend school because they just don't feel like waking up and not going to school that day are not being responsible. Therefore, they should not get ...

(2 pages) 31 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Veronica's Morning

The date was February 23, 2004; waking up at 8am for class was every college student's nightmare. My roommate Veronica's eyes were s ... ooze button on my loud alarm clock in hopes for the alarm never to sound again.Seven minutes later, waking again to the most annoying buzzing sound on earth. The plan failed, the alarm didn't break, a ...

(2 pages) 17 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Child labor on the united states

through the late 1930's, many children lived tragic lives. Children as young as five years old were waking up at six in the morning and walking to work, whether it be in a factory or a mill or anywher ...

(6 pages) 115 1 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Assam Earthquake

t lets go of the stress in sudden fits. We call these earthquakes. On August 15, people were waking up to celebrate three years of independence from Great Britain, but at 2:40, nature had other ...

(2 pages) 25 0 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences