Essays on Coincidences

Summary

The article explains the concept of the sixth sense and reasons as to its existence. A number of reasons and explanations are given in attempts to shed light on the sixth sense phenomena. Ordinarily, the sixth sense is felt as a third person often having an effect on the person. In some cases, it stares at the person while in others it speaks to the person. This feeling often could be eternal and within or external. In general, people tend to associate the sixth feeling to spirits, luck, witchcraft and psychic powers, among others. It is assumed that the sixth ...

The president who succeeded Abraham Lincoln was Andrew Johnson as the president of the United States. After his was swearing in as president, he faced the issue of how to handle the defeated confederate states that supported slavery. There were radical republicans who were against granting black slaves rights to education, to vote and rights to own property. Johnson’s greatest concern was Abraham`s postwar policy. Andrew faced an imminent impeachment when he fired the secretary of war. Lyndon Johnson succeeded john F. Kennedy as the 37th president; Lyndon was faced with the challenge of providing continued stability ...

According to Laurence Perrine, there are two primary purposes for any literature – to entertain and enlighten. While entertaining is the easier part, Perrine opines that a literature should do more than just entertain, if it is worth scholarly scrutiny. Thus, a fiction can be categorized into escape and interpretive literature. An escape literature is one, which mainly aims at entertaining and intended as a time pass. Whereas, an interpretive literature aims at making the reader delve more intensely into the world around him. While an escape literature aims at taking its reader away from his world for a while, an interpretive literature takes ...

Analysis of Autobiographical Character of the Novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Introduction Charles Dickens was one of the most popular English writers whose novels were known all over the world. His name was associated with realism trend in English classic literature. The two novels, David Copperfield and Great Expectations, are considered the most autobiographical of all other works created by Charles Dickens. This paper is devoted to the analysis of autobiographical facts of Dickens’ life in comparison with the life of the main hero of his novel Great Expectations, Philip Pirrip (Pip). Many critics cannot achieve a unified opinion with regard to the statement that Great Expectations is autobiographical. ...