Let’s face it, word of mouth distorts, but that was not the only problem. In jungles, dense vegetation blocks most lines of sight and forces visitors to make sense of fleeting glimpses of movement, strange animal calls, and mysterious prints in the mud.
Ancient humans were sitting ducks in the backyard of these amazing hunters, and surely became easy meals more often than not.
The Aché people of Paraguay hunt with bows and arrows to this very day and, unlike humans in most other parts of the world who sit alone at the top of the food chain, they are hunted. Jaguars share much territory with the Aché and eat many of the same small mammals that the Aché depend upon to survive.
With modern technology, this world that the Ache share with the animal kingdom is an amazing study. Being able to study and record statistics of their tribe can give us a glimpse of what it was like for all humans thousands of years ago.
And that was in the 1800s. Ancient humans had it much worse
Without much protection and much knowledge of the landscape or its inhabitants, the new explorers were easy prey for seasoned killers.
the reality is that predators capable of eating people are mostly endangered and often terrified of even coming close to us.
More people in the world need to understand this, most animals are just as scared of us as we are of them.
In the midst of the darkened jungle, it sniffs the wind and catches the scent of a lone human not more than a mile off. Saliva dripping from its sharp fangs, it eagerly sets off in search of its prey.
The wordplay is spectacular in this opening line and definitely draws in the readers attention.
Father Alt also came frequently from Ettleben, his new parish, to participate in the rite. Anneliese felt well, continued with her studies in Würzburg, and came home to Klingenberg every few days for exorcistic sessions.
At least for awhile things looked up in her life.
He added another anticonvulsant to her medication,
The physician adding even more medication for this girl blows my mind, why keep recommending her to take more of the same medicine if the ones in the beginning were not helping at all?
These problems became even more obvious when with her father she visited a shrine to the Virgin Mary in Italy, in San Damiano.
It baffles me as to why the father would take her to a shrine of Virgin Mary knowing that she acted extremely peculiar to the one in their own living room.
The last two high-school years saw Anneliese increasingly apathetic and depressed.
The depression is inevitable in this case, due to the episodes themselves and all the different medicines she was talking at this time.
Although the frightening visions happened several more times, she did not tell the neurologist about them. Her EEG results were normal, and in August, she was discharged from the sanatorium
Although I can understand why she didn't tell the doctors about her visions, in fear of feeling crazy most likely, but if you do not tell the people who are trying to help you everything that happens then they will not be able to help you.
Vampires are without a doubt the single most adaptable monster that mankind has ever dreamt up. Unicorns and griffons have come and gone within the dreams of man, yet the vampire has remained.
So many fabrications and stories of vampires across the world have caused them to stay relevant throughout time.
n 1576 the plague was ravaging the Italian city of Venice; it was believed by some to be spread by vampires.
Without a true answer to a huge problem, folks of past times tend to wonder and speculate too much, thus, creating chaos with crazy ideas such as blaming the plague on vampires.
Since the dawn of man, there has been the belief in supernatural vampires. Just like flood myths, every society has had vampire myths as well.
This is what I find most interesting, the fact that throughout all walks of life and different cultures, supernatural myths are consistent.
Modern man, for all his achievements and developments in the fields of science and technology, knows that there is no such thing as a vampire, and yet ... there is that little voice in the back of our heads or in the twitch we get in the bottom of our stomachs at night that whispers, “But what if...”
The, "what if" aspect is always great for curiosity but should not influence our mind when it comes to fear.
Perhaps there is still some primitive part of our brain that is hardwired yet into fearing this life-taking entity of the night.
Our mind takes control of us when dealing with fear, especially in our modern society that has been fed exaggerations by pop culture. These exaggerations have thus given a majority of people a fear of something they have no proof of even existing.
The terror was not stalking them from outside their camp, but from within.
A terror from within is much more terrifying than a terror from the outside.
Sometimes dead is better. She has saved her life, but lost her soul.
The moral of the story in 2 sentences.
She didn’t know what we wizened adults have come to understand: it is usually someone you know, usually someone in the family.
Danger lurks throughout the world, but the most dangerous things are the ones that are closest to us and have the biggest impact on us.
It is this innocence that is almost her undoing.
Her carefree view of everything around her may come back to haunt her in a deep dark forest like the one where her grandma lives.
The girl, Little Red, is an innocent, like Adam and Eve in the garden, and her innocence protects her from fear.
Her innocence can only protect her from fear for so long, eventually, her innocence will not be enough to protect her from something scary.
What we can do is to examine the traces left in cultural sources to determine what was considered important enough to remember as a culture, how meaning was shaped, and to what end those memories were employed.
Piecing together the facts to find the true meaning and context of past events allow us to use them in the correct context in the future, which is huge if you want to use such past occurrences in the future.
Schoolbooks reinforced norms, warning against deviance by showing the path to righteousness, and they played a crucial role in establishing the memory and meaning of symbols meant to serve as positive, moralized examples for the development of nationalism.
This is exactly what our new found country needed at this time, enforcement of guidelines for things that were right and wrong.
Americans evoked Salem witchcraft to vividly illustrate the folly of a course of action by either fellow citizens or their government that they believed to be extreme, irrational, and capable of destroying the nation itself.
Learning from mistakes and using the mistakes of older generations to build and become greater in unity and love in the present day.
Ask any American when that association began and he will undoubtedly point to the 1950s era anti-Communism crusade. While McCarthyism reigned in Washington, congressional witnesses routinely decried the frenetic “witch-hunt atmosphere,” and commentary on the investigations used such titles as “Salem, 1950.”
We study and preserve events such as the Salem Witch trials because they help us learn for future occurrences such as the Red Scare in the 1950's so we as a society can better handle these situations and not allow history to repeat its self.
Why have Americans preserved the memory of Salem and excavated it so persistently?
Americans have preserved the memory of Salem because of the many questions surrounding how the people of that time get so bad, and the reasoning why the entire ordeal happened in the first place, these questions are the reason why the Salem Witch trials are still commonly studied and discussed in modern literature.
It could not have been further from the gnashing, human-destroying creature of myth and literature. In reality this is a gentle giant that is easily scared and pecks at its food
Incredible what some literature can do to the reputation of a creature, what was once seen as a diabolical man-eater is now known as a gentle and curious giant.
The monster needed no embellishment - this creature was scary enough
Simply gazing upon a creature like this would evoke fear into any human, it is nothing like anything else we see in the world and its enormous size is icing on the cake for this intimidating creature.
"about the most alien thing you can imagine,"
Never really thought of it this way, but it is true. The creatures of the deep sea are so rarely seen and explored that they become a sort of real world alien that lives with us in the seas.
The deeper we travel into the ocean, the deeper we delve into our own psyche. And when we can go no further - there lurks the Kraken.
The ocean is such a mystery, of course minds will wonder of what truly lies beneath the surface.
"Monsters say something about human psychology, not the world."
Very true, especially for those with creative minds.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Question everything and allow your mind to become stronger, and if you ever are fooled, learn from it and move on.
Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right.
One of the many great aspects of science.
A teacher who has some good idea of how to teach her children to read is forced by the school system to do it some other way—or is even fooled by the school system into thinking that her method is not necessarily a good one
Unique techniques should be encouraged in all facets of life, especially education. The same old way of "teaching" becomes boring, switching things up and having fun with a new perspective of learning allows young minds to learn and have fun at the same time.
And I think ordinary people with commonsense ideas are intimidated by this pseudoscience.
Simple minded people are intimidated by anything that is not normal or ordinary to them; therefore, one must learn to not be conformed by this world, but be transferred by the renewal of their mind on a daily basis.
We obviously have made no progress—lots of theory, but no progress—in decreasing the amount of crime by the method that we use to handle criminals.
That is always how conversations like these work, no progress, just lots of "what ifs".
I went into isolation tanks (they’re dark and quiet and you float in Epsom salts) and got many hours of hallucinations, so I know something about that.
Something I have always wanted to try, these isolation tanks allow for ones imagination to go crazy and dream of being wherever you want to be and truly allows one to think and feel something unique.
I meet lots of people who sooner or later get me into a conversation about UFO’s, or astrology, or some form of mysticism, expanded consciousness, new types of awareness, ESP, and so forth.
Conversations involving these wonders of incredible things expand far beyond the common thinker and allow one's mind to open up and think more critically about every facet of life.
f you ever wonder why you have to take philosophy in order to major in biology, this is why. When you graduate with that 4-‐year Bachelor of Science degree, you’ll not only be able to work for a biotech company or environmental engineering firm but you’ll actually have the nuanced skill set to manage complex environmental projects whose costs include people, communities, and cultures too
So many things are in our best interest by those in power at the university, and that has been hard for me to learn since coming here because I tend to question everything for its purpose.
At what point will you need to persist in spite of failures, set backsand rejections?If you are a student-‐athlete, you already know how that goes. Athletes don’t quit every time they lose a game or a match. They get up. They practice again.They get older. They compete against more talented athletes. They lose. They practice again. They get older. And by the time we might call an athlete “successful” (in college sports, in the Olympics, or professionally), he or she has likely logged well over 10,000 hours of practice.8Do the math. That’s eight hours a day, five days a week, 52 weeks a year, for five solid years.
Time and dedication are all that is needed to be successful, dedicate yourself and use all your time toward your goal and success will come.
Where is the creative thinker in you? Failing a course because you missed an exam may not be something to celebrate, but look around. What do you see? An idea for a different major—the field you should have been majoring in all along? A new time management strategy? A chance meeting that leads to a fantastic internship op
Personally, I have learned to ask myself questions about everything in my life. From just my first semester of living on my own, getting a job and going to college, it has made me appreciate my life more, yet more importantly it makes me wonder what my purpose is, and everyday I question more to find the elusive answer to that question, but that is what college is all about. Find yourself and then work constantly to be your best self.
The Marshall Experience13Harry PotterJ. K. Rowling published Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stonein 1997. If you are 18 now, you are too young to have witnessedthe beginning of the Harry Potter phenomenon—but old enough to notice its effect on older siblings and friends. And if you didn't eventually take up reading the books yourself, the movies most certainly drew you in a few years later. Wherever you belong in the Harry Potter universe, you know that the books and movies shaped an entire generation over the last 18years. If you have a winning idea, J. K. Rowling's story ofsuccess would be a good one to follow. As she tells it, the idea for the orphaned wizard-‐to-‐be popped into her head during a long train ride from Manchester to London in 1990.7She finished themanuscript by 1995 andeventually signing a contract with Bloomsbury Children's Books. In 1996 she received a £2,500 advance on the book (about $4,000), and in 1997 Bloomsbury launched an initial print-‐run of 500 copies. By 2001,the book had sold over 11.6 million copies and Rowling was reportedly a billionaire. She is the first and only billionaire to have come by her fortune through writing. Rowling’s story seems to bear out everything we believe about successful people: talent, hard workand some well-‐timed luck equals success. But did you notice the details? Go back and reread the paragraph I just wrote. Look at the dates. Idea à1990. Manuscript finished à1995. Publisher secured à1996. In print à1997. Author becomes a billionaire à2001. Five yearsof writing?That’s more time than you plan tospend at Marshall getting your bachelors degree. Would you risk working on a project for five years, knowing that it wasn’t a sure t
When passion is this strong, yes. Simply put, if the brain believes it will happen, it will happen. No matter what obstacles show up along the way.
ood? Did you follow your friends here? Or do you think college will give you a ticket to a good job? Do you want to change careers altogether? Do you love to learn new things? Or are you doing what your parents want you to do?
These questions are incredibly important for freshmen, because in a lot of cases students are inclines to do as their parents say, or simply follow their high school friends because that's what everyone else you know is doing. Once a student finally asks themselves tough questions like these, the sooner one can find out their true intentions in college and for the rest of ones life.
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