The author's main purpose was the explain that the Community Service Council was effectual to high school students. The personal backstory was to add more evidence of the effectiveness.
I don't really know. I've done this since I was 4 when I used to get nose bleeds that lasted a good while. I got them until I was an adult when a specialist cotterized(sp?) a blood vessel in my nose. I got them even then, but not as often and not as persistently.
I also put ice cold ice packs on my forehead.
I suppose you are swallowing blood that has been exposed to the air. That means it is carrying oxygenated blood. Other than being prohibited in the Bible, I don't see anything really wrong with it. When you look it up, it says that it can bring about vomiting. That never happened to me.
The correct answer is - The insane live in a reality of their own.
The narrator's reality isn't the same as the old man's reality - this is because the narrator is insane. However, he wasn't always insane - what drew him to madness is the old man's 'eye of a vulture.' He became fascinated with the eye, started hating it so much that he wanted to kill the old man, which he did. After that, his madness didn't go away - it just grew stronger until he admitted his crime.
They are opposing ideas, so yes. A dream is NOT reality and vice versa. Yes the phrase is an oxymoron.
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