Essays on Cellar

A short synopsis: title, main characters, general plot

The Red-Headed League relates the case of the red-headed pawnbroker Wilson, who became a client of Sherlock Holmes after a chain of bizarre events occurred to him, leaving him baffled. The assistant of Mr. Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, who spends a lot of time in the cellar of his pawn shop, told him about the job advertisement that was hiring only males with red hair. The job was easy and well-paid and Mr. Wilson easily landed the job, as the color of hair satisfied the interviewer from the Red-Headed League. Mr. Wilson had to work only four hours a day ...

Part 1

In “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning we meet the narrator who is a Duke. The duke is meeting an emissary in order to discuss marrying the daughter of a very important man. As he is giving the emissary a tour of his home he stops to admire the portrait of his dead wife. The Duke begins to speak of his dead wife with affection. This quickly turns into bitterness when he goes on a rant about the fact she engaged in behaviors that he found distasteful. As he goes on he reveals that he “gave commands; / Then ...

Introduction and Thesis Statement

St. Aquinas believes that way is sinful and waging war is unjust. He argues that “those who take to sword will die by the sword.” According to him, war is a detriment of peace and therefore a sinful endeavor. However, St. Augustine explains the validity and the justifiability of war. He believes that war, to some extent, is just and necessary (White 269). However, for a war to be just, it has to follow three conditions. A just was must that that has been sanctioned by the highest authority. It will be unjust to wage war at a personal ...

Classic English Literature

Ian McEwen’s Cement Garden

“I am only including the little story of his death to explain how my sisters and I came to have such a large quantity of cement at our disposal. (McEwan 1).” The four siblings in this story namely, Jack, Julie, Sue, and Tom bury their mother’s corpse in a casket and cement it in their cellar. Derek, Julie’s boyfriend does not get along with well with Julie’s family, and with Jack in particular. Derek, somehow gets to know the secret of their mother’s death and her corpse lying the cellar ...

The Outline

Introduction The title, the author of the poem Introduction to the poem Thesis: In the poem, Mary Oliver presents a conflict between sentimental and practical and employs the literary and figurative languages to contribute to the central idea of keeping the family traditions.

The use of the literary language to present the logical and practical reasons

The use of the figurative language to depict the sentimental reasons The contrasting images in the poem Conclusion “The Black Walnut Tree” is a short poem of thirty-five lines by Mary Oliver, written in free verse. The poem is included in the collection called “Twelve Moons” that suggests Oliver’s searches for connections. The author continually ...

Neuro-functional pathways and Connection with Diseases

Types of Memory Traditionally, there are three types of memory defined: short-term memory (STM), long-term memory (LTM) and working memory (WM). Hebb defines the short-term as the mechanism of continuous reverberation of stimuli and information in cellar systems and as a result neurons excite one another for some time after the original stimulus (Nadel and Hardt, 2010, 253). In other words, STM is an ability to hold information about the stimuli for the brief period. If this reverberatory activity leads to restructuring of synaptic connections, the long-term memory appears. LTM is an ability of human brain to storage the ...

I was not there, however, I trust history; and as I read this story my images of slavery become stronger and stronger. I could picture the slaves in the belly of the ship and compare it to the workers in the cellar of what is known as the kitchen; and the only difference between the two is the place and time. The very first sentence of the story grabs the reader; as it describes the service entrance and compares it to a “rat hole.” Unfortunately, the story does not get any better; the circumstances under which these workers work ...

American Past

Bridget Bishop was the first woman to be hanged during the well-known Salem due to accusations that she practiced witchcraft. The case against Bridget Bishop includes deposition taken mainly from lay people who came forward to accuse the Bishop Bridget of witchcraft. She had some of classic attributes that made her New England neighbors to incline being associated with the witch. She was alienated from the religious faith of the community because she never attended worship services. Moreover, she ran a tavern where excessive drinking and game playing were common. She was seen as embodying relaxed sexual traits because deponents ...

The classical Greece period spawning between the fourth and the fifth centuries is one of the most syndicated periods in Greek art. This period had an immense influence on the foundation of western civilization, therefore, influencing to a large extent, the Roman Empire. In our study for instance, the Romans continued in the worship of Nike Athena, the goddess worshiped in the Nike Athena and renamed her Victoria. Athens became a gathering place for great artisans, for they brought their works together in an area of Athens known as the Acropolis. The entrance is a giant gateway called the Propylaea. Stepping through ...

Business Proposal

Executive Summary The proposal is on winery industry in Canada called Wine Valley. The industry will major in supplying various types of wines. Picking on winery industry is because of fewer entry barriers and progressive demand for wine in the previous years. The existing firms do not have strong customer loyalty that may make it difficult for new firms to enter the industry. Competition in the industry is also not too stiff. There will be various jobs within the industry. Some of these jobs are; wine maker cellar hand, wine educator, and many more. Having wine educator in the ...

[Date (January 1, 2014)]

It was Friday morning; the busy shoppers were doing their last-minute errands for Halloween. The store was bustling with chattering people, enthusiasm was in the air. It was cold and windy outside but the warmth inside the grocery store provided a relaxing heat for a comfortable browsing of candies that would soon go on sale as quickly as the occasion was over. One family got their carts full for the day. It was a cheerful lot except for one tall and pale-faced girl wearing a smug expression on her face, her full attention on texting. She was a very ...

“Instructor’s name’

‘Subject’ “The Birth-Mark” and “The Cask of Amontillado” – A comparative study Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two important contributors of the nineteenth-century American literature. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most celebrated authors, posthumously though, of the past century. Some of his stories are almost autobiographical, and though he lived in a previous era, his ideas were far ahead of his time. Nathaniel Hawthorne is an author, whose works are even today cited for seeking ethical guidance. His stories urge the reader to analyze his moral confusions. This essay is an attempt to compare and ...

Inequity

Comparison often gives rise to inequity perception or feeling within employees. This is quite similar to the case at Plantir, where the management observed dissatisfaction and lack of motivation in the employees which eventually resulted in the retirement of Colin (production manager). Although, the company was able to gain its desired objectives (i.e. increase in the level of sales and the generation of cash) but the obsession to increase sales and profit to reduce cash pressures led to the dissatisfaction of several employees, even including the production manager. The sales team was awarded with lucrative bonuses and rewards, whereas ...

Introduction

Caravaggio, also known as Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived between the 1571 and 1610. He is recognized as the paramount and the most prominent artist of the Baroque style. Despite of being connected to controversies of scandalous lifestyle, Caravaggio was a genius of artistic work that has won his position in not only history of art but also in the contemporary imagination. It is due to this that his contributions were forgotten until 20th century that his contribution to the development of Baroque style among other Western art (Cable, p.55). Baroque is an Italian style that was developed in ...

Literature Studies

- The theme of Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is a parent’s love. Hayden wishes to express that often we do not realize the importance of our parent’s love until later in life. - The subject of Robert Frost’s “Out and Out” is a boy who has a fatal accident. The theme of the poem is existential contingency. Because of the mundane nature of how the boy was injured it is meant to engage the readers in thought about the suddenness of death. Since he was also young, the author wants to express that one never truly ...

In December of 1996 the United States fell in love that was never to be requited. Six year old JonBenét Ramsay, the beautiful and talented child beauty pageant contestant was found murdered in the wine cellar of her parent’s Boulder, Colorado home. Lying on the floor of the wine cellar, covered in her blanket, JonBenét’s wrists were bound above her head, duct tape covered her mouth and a nylon cord was looped about her throat. For more than a decade after her murder, the case of JonBenét Ramsey’s homicide remains an unanswered question in the ...

1. Name three instances of social injustice in “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”.

This short story presents a situation of inequality among social classes. The story suggests that privilege must come from the suffering of others. A child lives in an abusive, isolated setting as opposed to the prosperous townsfolk. The child in the story is a metaphor for ethical dilemma. The child is abuse and neglected for the benefit of others. The child had its humanity stripped away by these citizens. Called only “it” this child is representative of the downtrodden in society. Social conditioning led ...

The Black Cat is the story of a married man who has a love for animals that grows as he himself grows older. This man ends up getting pets of all kinds and developing relationships with them but his closest relationship is with a totally black cat by the name of Pluto. Pluto and he are inseparable in the beginning. Pluto follows him mostly everywhere he goes and their bond becomes tighter than ever.

The man soon starts to develop an addiction to alcohol which throws off his relationship with his wife and the pets he has acquired through his prior love ...