Mind Essays

A bad experience in my life would have been the time where I broke my arm in primary school. It was painful and a shit time because I couldn’t really do anything but sit and watch my friends enjoy themselves. During primary school in year 5, I was running to …

In society today it is very hard to be ones own individual self. Peopled tend to see other people as either individualists or conformists. If a person doesn’t fall in with the “in” crowd then you are considered to be “weird” or “un-cool”. Ralph Waldo Emerson made this apparent in …

‘Journey to the Interior’ by Margaret Atwood is a text that uses physical or material things to demonstrate an inner journey. It uses the metaphor of the Canadian landscape to explain the journey of life and the inner journey of self-discovery. The title ‘Journey to the Interior’ implies of a …

Did you know that we consume one-third of our life sleeping? Or, that we change from periods of deep sleep to periods of light sleep about five times during the night? Or, that we only dream during the period of light sleep, which is usually around morning hours? Not even …

I found the reading “The Symbolic Language of Dreams”, written by Stephens King, a very interesting story to write about. King stated a quote in his introduction saying that dreams are a useful way that help people find the nature of their problems; or, find answers to their problems in …

 “Blue Winds Dancing”, the story of a man’s internal conflict is revealed by Tom Whiteclouds’ telling of the young man’s thoughts while he is at school, his observations during his trip home and his reaction to the people when he arrives home. In the beginning of the story (paragraphs 1-10) …

The main characters from the stories Of Mice and Men and “The Scarlet Ibis”, Lennie and Doodle, have similar dependencies, yet are completely different people. The writers of the book Of Mice and Men, John Steinbech, and the writer of “The Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst, outline characters that in certain …

“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens is a poem which creates a unique dramatic situation through an effective imagery, and which compels the reader to employ another way of thinking in order to both understand the poem and realize its very theme. The first thing that is noticeable about the …

To borrow means ‘to take and use something that belongs to somebody else, and return it to them at a later time.’But is this as clear as it’s presented in the dictionary? Does this action lead to unpleasurable consequences? Borrowing is a doomed cause. It ends with its beginning, like …

Edward Scissorhand, is a comedy, romance, sci-fi, which revolves around a love story between Kim, a messed up teenager, and Edward, a freakish mixture of childlike humanity and shear destructiveness, doomed never to grow up or share a home with other creatures. The film is an odd mixture, and at …