Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies.

This essay is so honestly written. I think just as he does. As the saying goes, "great minds think alike." I think people do crave movies that create a false world of their imagination. Since everyone is really actually a little insane in some sort of way, our imaginations run endlessly in our minds. What we think and what we wish to do, illegal things, horrible things, that we cant because of the consequences of reality, are all portrayed in horror movies. Even little things, like hurting people when they hurt us, or living on another planet because aliens have attacked our own. All things we think about and wish to do but cant. We crave horror movies as an emotional release.

A Fable for Tomorrow, by Rachel Carson.

This story is sort of sad. The way she compares in great detail the beautiful, sunny, flowery little town to the disgusting, gloomy, sad aftermath. At first you dont really notice what she is trying to do, or what she is even talking about. But as you read the story and come to the conclusion, you notice how bad humans are destroying the earth. Although this story is fiction, it happens in reality. People do destroy the earth. And i wish that the town she described existed, but i havent heard or seen any like it.

Embalming in the USA, by Jessica Mitford.

This essay is so weird. Its disturbing. To just think about the process of embalming a dead human being. All the removal of the bloody, gushy insides. The insertion of the embalming liquid. The preparation and attatchment of severed and missing body parts. The make-up. Its quite disgusting and morbid. But the detail and order in the essay is really amazing.

The Death of the Moth, By Virginia Woolf.

I love the description in this essay. The way she highlights the moths attributes. The way she describes so in depth the colors and the actions of the moth. She tells about how the birds are outside flying and how she compares regular moths tp the moth in her house. It is kind of sad how she tells about how the moth tries so hard to escape and resume his little life outside. How he keeps crashing into the window and finally, lays down and dies. He sort of gives up hopelessly. Like she says at the end, the moth finally lets death consume him. as if death was stronger than he was.

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

This is my favorite essay in the entire book! It is extremely sarcastic and funny, which is definitely my style. He talks about how we should have children and SELL THEM! Of course he is just tryong to make a joke about our socety, but in a diabolic way, it makes a lot of sense. He makes fun of rich people and talks about how rich people don't care or are aware of the less fortunate. He makes the comment that rich people are so full of themselves that they would even purchase childrens meat to eat. I think the more fortunate or lucky or richer people should help those less fortunate than them. And stop being so damn spoiled and self centered. Because they will go to hell.

Cultural Baggage by Barbara Ehrenreich

I really liked this essay alot because I agree with her completely. I believe that you are your own culture. Like, not to say that culture has gone down the drain because you still have the influences of your origin, but when youre 18 I feel like you design your own culture. When youre 18 you decide what religion you wana be, what you wana do with your life, what types of food you wana eat, and anything else that comes your way. So youre influenced by your current surroundings and environment. I believe I am apart of the nothing culture also, although I am tremendously influenced by my immigrant cuban family.

College Pressures by William Zinsser

Being a college student, I can relate to the essay about the pressures college students face. The money issues, the amount of stress that comes with trying to balance our lives with our schoolwork. Sometimes its really difficult for some students and easier for others. Some kids have no idea whats going on, some are procrastinators and need alot of help changing from the igh school mindset to the mature, colege mindset. In this essay we see a few letters left to one of the deans at the school. Some are funny and some are not. He did a good job describing the dificulties some students face in college and I think a lot of students would agree and others can really understand what we students go through.