Essays on Horror

Gothic literature encompasses horror stories as well as darker supernatural forces. Such literature focuses on the destructive desires and irrational aspects of human nature. The term Gothic literature is derived from the unrestrained, majestic, grotesque or savage medieval architectural styles. Gothic literature is, therefore, associated with barbarism or savagery. “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga is an example of gothic literature.

Vampirism

The blood -sucking spider-like creature in The Feather Pillow depicts elements of vampirism. The awful spider-like blood sucking creature, which is swollen with victim’s blood, depicts clear aspects of vampirism. Specifically, the creature inhabiting the feather pillow ...

The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film, directed by William Friedkin. A potent adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel, The Exorcist tells the story of a young girl who is possessed by a demon. The film caused a great deal of controversy when it was released as many people felt that the violence, blasphemy and young protagonist were inappropriate and damaging for audiences and for society. Admittedly, the film does not have the same shock value today as it did in 1973, partly because the cinematography and special affects now look dated and unrealistic, and partly because many ...

Assignment #4: Parties and Elections

The paper will examine the party platforms from the end of the 20th century and hence the year 2000. The examination of the Republican and Democratic platforms will show the similarities and differences between the platforms represented by the running candidates Albert Gore Jr. and George W. Bush. Bush has won the 2000 presidential elections with 271 electoral votes compared to the 266 electoral votes won by Albert Gore, Jr. The first differences seen in the platforms is the length since the Democratic platform with 24.220 words is shorter as the Republican platform with 34.555 words (The American Presidency ...

Global warming describes the gradual increase in Earth’s and its oceans’ temperature that changes the Earth’s climate. It shows that the Earth’s temperature increases due to the effect of greenhouses gases such as extensive emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) due to different factors. It is observed that human activity is the important cause of global warning that influenced the physical mechanism of climate change.

Effect of greenhouse gases in changing the Earth's temperature

Scientists have identified a record variation in Earth's climate dating back hundreds of thousands of years. Significant difference in Earth's climate has reported during the present day and the last 650,000 ...

Slavery was a part of the American culture for almost a whole decade (1776-1865), and during that time, many people had to suffer inhumanly for the only solid reason of being a bit different from someone else. There is no way of wiping the past from the memories of those who have struggled, which means that the terror of slavery will always be a part of the human history. As the experience shows, world history is far from being pretty. It has presented its evils so many times that merely counting them would take ages. Every major society, every ...

Gothic Literature Gothic novel originated in England, in the last quarter of the XVIII century. It opens up a world, freed from the everyday plausibility. This world is fantastic, with a gloomy color and plot, covered with historical and geographical romance and sinister atmosphere. Gothic novel is more than two hundred years; it has changed, has become modern, but have not lost its essential characteristics – pleasant horror, tension and excitement.

British Gothic Novel

Gothic novel in England has been very popular since the XVIII century. The “father” of this genre of literature is considered to be Horace Walpole, with the novel The ...

Book Review: The Village of Cannibals, Rage and Murder in France

Corbin, Alain. The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Introduction

Historian Alain Corbin explores the political and social significance of the killing of a young French nobleman in the remote village of Hautefaye in France. Corbin’s chronicle describes the gruesome event that happened in broad daylight involving the villagers accusing the young nobleman of shouting republican slogans that angered the villagers. What followed in the trail of events is the sparked indignation of the entire country. Rumors of cannibalism have circulated in the country and the author’s fascination of ...

In this paper, we will explore the psychological impacts of two human-made disasters. One that happened during the First World War, and the other one is a recent terrorist attack in Paris, in 2015. The Lusitania Disaster was an attack from the German army to a British ship liner coming from New York to Liverpool, UK. The terrorist attack in Paris however was not a war attack, so people were not expecting anything as such. However, it can be argued that we are on a war today, that begun by several attacks of radical Islamic groups against the West. ...

Hitler and the Nazi party came to power in 1933 by 1939 they had begun their quest to invade and rule all of Europe. During this time, unknown to the rest of Europe Hitler and the Nazis were also implementing their “final solution” which was the systematic execution of Jews and any others that they deemed not suitable to exist in the ideal society that Hitler had been selling to the German people through his speeches and propaganda (Kershaw, 2008, pgs. 36-43). Once the Allied forces defeated the Nazi forces and Hitler escaped his judicial fate by committing suicide. ...

Thesis Statement: Although progressives responded to the ills of inner cities and working-class immigrants with significant reforms, they mostly failed to address the horrors of Jim Crow rule in the South. The first set of reforms, which sought to curb the social problems that plagued the United States during the Progressive Era, revolved around an understanding of the communities as a key component in providing the necessary solutions. According to Eric Foner, part of the changes encompassed improving the democratic government by not only “weakening the power of city bosses” but also giving the ordinary citizens more influence on ...

I have to admit that prior to this course I thought little about the subject of sex trafficking. And on the occasion I did consider it, I was likely guilty of victim-blaming. It remains hard to imagine that in this world, there still exists such a thing as slavery, and yet I know that it does exist. The idea of sex slavery sounds fantastical and something from a medieval horror. It brings to mind images of women who somehow are hard to sympathize with and therefore it is easy for us to dismiss it, ignoring the horror it really ...

Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens

Prometheus Bound is an oil painting showing the punishment of Prometheus. It was being painted between 1611 and 1618 by Peter Paul Rubens. This is a joint work including the eagle painted by the animal painter Frans Snyders though Kimball notes that Rubens himself stated to be an original by his own hand (67). The artist himself described his work as “the flower of my stock (Atkins)”. The Greek play Prometheus Bound was the basis of the painting. The painting is a prominent example of Baroque art. It is the central piece in the PMA’s exhibition “The Wrath ...

The Lost Boys is a vampire movie that was released in 1987 and even after almost 30 years it still remains one of the most legendary movies about vampires, despite the fact that many other similar movies appeared after it. The movie became so successful that it won a Saturn Award for the Best Horror Movie and gathered over 32 million dollars in the American Box Office. The Lost Boys changed the perspective and images of vampires, and has made vampires more attractive by making them almost sex symbols. It is even possible to say that probably without The ...

Compare and Contrast Classic Horror Movies to the Type of Horror Movies We See Today

Compare and Contrast Classic Horror Movies to the Type of Horror Movies We See Today

Introduction

Horror movies encompass a genre of films that are geared towards eliciting and provoking an emotional response from viewers by preying on their fear of the unknown inclined on the primal emotions. The genre of films has been in existence for an extended period estimated to more than one century (Jones, 2005). Horror movies just like any other kind in the entertainment industry have changed and evolved over time. The paper focuses on the similarities and differences of the classical horror films vs. the ...

One of the key differences in the film Interview with the Vampire and some of the other films in the vampire genre is that Neil Jordan’s adaptation of the Anne Rice novel is about what life for a vampire would be like. Through the experiences of the ancient Lestat, his novice Louis, and through the poignant eyes of Claudia, one sees both the joys and the frustrations of life inside a body that is immortal – without aging – but also without many of the consolations, particularly emotional in nature, that humans get to experience but are beyond the reach ...

Paul Fryes discusses how the American politicians ignore the problems of the Black people as one of the largest disadvantaged groups in the world and how the Black people cannot create a response to the ignorant politicians by developing a political strategy as a group of all Black voters. As known, political parties give attention to the groups providing a financial contribution to their campaigns, the size of voters in the group, and loyalty of voters in the group. The main aim is to collect the highest possible financial support and collect most of the votes for politicians. The ...

Charles Yale Harrison was a soldier in WWI and his book Generals Die in Bed is a reflection of his war experience. He dedicated his book to the Canadian, Australian and German soldier that died in the woods near Amiens in 1918. It is hard to know exactly why Harrison wrote the book just as no one knows for sure why Leonardo Da Vinci painted the famous Mona Lisa. But certain reasons can be speculated that fit well with Harrison’s writing. Harrison hated war and realized that soldiers are mere pawns in wars that do not even understand ...

Writing Exercise #3

This writing exercise has three parts. Use this form to complete all parts and then submit it using the drop box in the Week 3 Module. Part 1: What overlap in subject matter, theme, tone, voice, diction, mood, or meaning do you see between Denis Johnson’s short story “Car Crash While Hitchhiking,” which is the opening story of Jesus’ Son, and William Stafford’s poem “Traveling Through the Dark”? The overlap between the two poems is felt, firstly, in the subject since both poems refer to the Vietnam war and losses sustained in it. Furthermore, these losses ...

Genre theory explanation, genre conventions and attributes

A genre helps people classify films according to its category or type. It is convenient as viewers know what to expect when they see certain iconography at the advertising bill for instance. Different film genres possess familiar story formulas, character types, settings, and iconography etc. (Goodykoontz & & Jacobs, 2014). Main film genres are: westerns, gangster films, mysteries, film noir, horror, fantasy, science fiction, romantic comedy, musicals and documentaries. In this paper, the fantasy genre will be discussed on an example. Fantasy genre is always a story which lets its characters escape from reality, experience situations where they act beyond the ...

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Introduction Vampires are mythical creatures that appear in ancient folklores. Most cultures have their own version of the vampire although they share a common characteristic; that is, the lust for human blood. There is no particular gender to the vampire character. Male and female vampires do exists even in ancient literatures, making the vampire one of the most gender neutral characters. The depiction of the female vampire in human culture, however, is an interesting way of looking into the development of women, particularly on how society views women and their social status over the course of time. ...

Varney the Vampyre Analysis

Varney the Vampyre by James Malcolm Rymer is a very early vampire story that predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 50 years (Dracula n.p.). James Malcolm Rymer was apparently the given name for a writer of many popular novels and stories in London in the 1840s through the 1860s. He wrote and published works under many names however, but one of his specialties was novels and stories about the supernatural, horror, and terror. He was a “hack” writer, meaning that he wrote voluminously on many subjects for popular publications. “Hack” is generally defined as “a mediocre and disdained writer” (“Hack ...

Introduction

The notion of "nothing" is one of the most important and controversial concepts in the history of humankind. Its etymology is quite interesting for the consideration, as it can discover many different mysteries associated with the most important knowledge. In addition, the perception of this idea may be absolutely controversial, if one talks about it in the framework of religion and philosophy of the Western and the Eastern worlds. Nothing is everything, and at the same time, it is a lack of everything. This notion has a negative connotation; it denies everything to what it is opposed; moreover, it ...

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The Walker Within: How Zombies Define Humanity Since it first hit comic store shelves in 2003, The Walking Dead has captivated readers, gaining even more prominence when it was made into a television series by the same name in October, 2010 by AMC. The allure of zombies as a trope is strong; they offer an antagonist that is truly unrelenting and impossible to reason with, while their ability to carry on despite massive and traumatic injury allows for high levels of blood, guts, and gore, appealing to the horror fans that are the zombie genre’s main audience. ...

What are your thoughts on Nietzsche’s ideas about exuberance?

Nietzsche has a valid point, while there are moral lines that one should never cross, such as murder and rape. This is because if there were not some kind of line drawn humankind would debase themselves like animals, seeking only their own pleasure and desire to the detriment of others. Even though the idea of a soul existed long before Christianity, there was no concept of a heaven. The closest that any pre-Christian religion came to was the Elysian Field in the Greek and Roman religions. The Elysian Fields were a place that very few people went to as ...

There has always been a fascination with the occult and paranormal when it comes to various works of fiction. Authors love to create these creatures that seem to come from the darkest nightmares and send chills down the readers, or viewers, spines. This has been a fad since that continues to grow and be expanded upon which allows old legends to be remade into grisly renditions or for newer monsters to take the scenes. One of the most iconic and popular horror creature in the American film industry is Freddy Krueger. Freddy made his debut in 1984 when he ...

I. Good Samaritan A good Samaritan, named after the biblical parable, refer to a person that voluntarily and with no expectation of reward or thankfulness provides help and assistance to a person in need. In criminal justice this is often exhibited in a person who helps a victim. For example: In 2014, Angela Radtke was first arrested then released for breaking into a car when police learned that did so to save a baby that had been locked in to car during a day of high temperatures. In 2013, Charles Ramsey helped three women missing for years escape from ...

Soldiers, upon coming home from the battlefield, are regarded as heroes and are awarded with medals and achievements. However, these soldiers do not see these things as apt compensation for the things they have seen and done in the battlefield. Their lives which have been embroiled in active battle have warped their personality and view of the world that some fail to adjust to a normal life. Though some people exhibit more severe cases of PTSD, the cause of this can be rooted out as the result of their killing people and of seeing other people get killed. The ...

Insrtuctor’s Name

“Answer the question, Jane Thomson,” Miss Smith says courteously, coldly, implacably, thus wiping the grin off my face. It is my friend Lucy’s sixteenth birthday, and we have been talking about her birthday party that she is going to throw on Saturday night. Naturally, we have been giggling and grinning from sideburn to sideburn as we usually do when we sit next to each other. That is why we did not notice our Geometry teacher come up to our desk. “Silence!” Miss Smith hisses, turning on the class. Terrified, my classmates watch us in dismay. A sudden hush ...

When one reads a text, one is limited to the perspective that the author has decided to provide the reader. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the masters in making his audiences perceive that the person telling his stories was not somebody that they could actually believe in. The narrator in “The Black Cat” is this kind of character, so one is left at a loss when reading the tale. From the outset, one can see that there is something wrong with the narrator, which is confirmed throughout the story. In general, one could offer many different interpretations for ...

English 1101-06

Why people love horror movies? In the society, many people love horror movies because they contain an essential truth that most of the guardians and parents do not tell their children. Some parents usually encourage and comfort their children by urging them that everything is going to be all right and nothing to be worried about. While such people lie to children, the horror films do not. The horror films provide the full measure of what people suffer and experience as adults, and hence creating a significant sense of trust. Monsters in the horror movies present facts that are ...

The novella, Heart of Darkness is, in the literature world, considered one of the greatest cultural literary works of the 19th century. Conrad takes us through the experiences of the European colonialists in the heart of Africa. The clash of the European and non-European customs form the basis of Conrad's writings. The book has garnered a lot of criticism from African scholars who argue that the book negatively targets the African nation and the African people. The book, according to Chinua Achebe is a mockery of the African people. It ridicules the customs of the native Africans, terming Africa ...

Introduction

When growing up, my mother always insisted that I should always THINK before speaking. You may think that I have poor grammar due to the fact that I have capitalized every word in ‘think’ but far from it, it is correct. I am grammatically correct. You see THINK is an acronym. My mother always insisted that my words should always inspire and motivate and not discourage people. She therefore used the acronym THINK to gauge my sentiments. Are my words truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary and kind? However, it seems that very people have forgotten this acronym as most of ...

Introduction

As a presidential candidate, one would express and present himself as a totally different person in order to gain votes from the people. One of the known Republican Presidential nominees is Donald Trump who gained much attention from the public as well as from the Democratic Party. Mr. Trump, based on his political ideologies, holds a different view when it comes to leading the country if elected as the President of the United States. The purpose of this writing is to present the reasons as to why some of the members and leaders of the Republican Party put them ...

The film, ‘Apocalypse Now' is a 1979 American movie, which bases its settings In the Vietnam War. The film draws its plot and characters from the book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, an explorer of the Congo, who puts down his experiences in the heart of Africa. The film and the novel both emphasize on the native savages depicting the latter as objects rather than human beings whose character deserve an exploration just like other characters. This essay reviews the ‘Apocalypse Now' film based on the differences and similarities between the film and the novel on which it ...

Annotated Bibliography

Introduction The correctional system in the United States is a complex and overcrowded problem in recent times. The staff in these facilities is often undertrained and overworked. They lack the professional experience and due to heavy attrition rates, are unable to operate any reliable mentoring programs. This gap increases the stress which exceeds the paradigm of work and invades the private lives of the correctional staff. This paper unlocks the psychological problems that fester correctional staff in the United States. Annotated Bibliography 1. Lambert, E. G., Minor, K. I., Gordon, J., Wells, J. B., and Hogan, N. L. (2016). ...

Shaun of the Dead's narrative follows a classic pattern of equilibrium, disequilibrium and equilibrium. This scene is part of a sequence that establishes the disequilibrium in the narrative by establishing a post-apocalyptic setting that the main characters must contend with. This clip opens at 51:51 and ends at 53:56 (“Shaun of the Dead”). It begins with Shaun racing outside of his house away from a zombie who has attacked him. His friend Ed comes following after, with his car key in hand. Two unassuming guys are suddenly in an unfathomable situation and taken by fear as they narrowly escape ...

Introduction

Many people think that there may not be any rhetoric in a movie. The movie is an object of entertainment. That is why many researchers do not take it for serious. The thing is, the main objective of the movie is to transmit a certain information. And we can only measure the success of the movie by measuring the success of transmitting. We do not always comprehend it, but in most cases we are touched and influenced by the rhetoric means and technique used in the movie. Our task is to research the key characteristics of rhetorical principles applied ...

In this document, a critical review of the film ‘Tetsuo: The Ironman” (1989) directed by Shiny Tsukamoto is done. The main objective of this paper is to determine the formal content, historical and political significance of the film. There is a prior focus on the issues of propaganda in cinema and stakes of political modernist art. Tetsuo is a Japanese film that is pictured on the mainstream of Japanese cinema that become dead at the end of 1980s. Japanese cinema has undergone numerous of phases. However, this document emphasizes on the creative crisis that was faced by Japanese cinema ...

Bicycle Thieves, also referred to as The Bicycle Thief is a film that tells the story of a father seeking to find a bike that has been stolen throughout Rome. The film has often been considered to be one of the most well-respected in the neorealism genre. Specifically, because of its depiction of harsh realities of life post World War II, and its effects on the conditions and psyche of individuals. A horror thriller masterpiece, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is noted for its distinctive subject matter and for spawning what is considered to be an extremely successful subgenre of the ...

Recently, the cable television station HBO aired the first season of a series called True Detective which was filled with uncanny, eerie, and weird imagery, symbols, and dialogue. The show became a major hit, and brought a great deal of attention to the various American literary traditions of horror and weird fiction. One of the major writers mentioned as an influence on the show was H.P. Lovecraft, one of the most famous of American horror writers. However, H.P. Lovecraft was himself part of a tradition that went back to nineteenth century American writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote dark ...

Miraculous might be the most popular elements in visual culture throughout the history. The term first appears in the religious context, and is now widely adapted in popular culture including films, TV shows, and animations, etc. Synonyms of miraculous include: supernatural, magical and marvelous etc. The audience of those miraculous visuals, whether religious or not, is always attracted to this interesting element. It is different from the violent or the sentimental since the visuals target a really wide range of audience, regardless of age, race, sex, and taste. According to Hood, “ever since we are born, we generate knowledge ...

The poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” was written by Wilfred Owen in 1917, during World War I. He was killed on 4 November 1918 during the battle to cross the Sambre-Oise canal at Ors. Several lines, if not the whole poem, can be paraphrased quite easily. In essence, the narrator is suggesting that had anyone experienced the same horrors as he had, they would not glorify war. Lines 1 and 2 can be paraphrased as, “We were doubled over from pain and the inability to move; we were sick, coughing continuously, and swore while trudging through mud and muck. ( ...

Captive narratives form an important aspect of the history of colonial American literature as the writers are able to present stories that are rich in the suffering, thrill danger and adventure of relating real life experiences that are associated with Colonial America. The story of Hannah Emerson Duston brings the readers to a world where a woman as abducted from her home and faced the trauma of having to endure time with the Native Americans. Being from Massachusetts, Duston actions are surprising. She kills two women, two men and six children in their sleep so that she could escape ...

English

The cult classic 1958 film “The Blob” starring a young Steve McQueen, is not only interesting to watch, it also gives the viewer a number of insights into that era. The milieu in Post World War II America is the dominant sign in the film. The era is the signified and there are a number of signifiers. The film begins with the theme song “Beware of the Blob, it creeps and leaps” and the viewer is made aware of the fascination for monsters that Americans had during that period. Spook movies as they were called were very popular and ...

In 1985, the Dire Straits sang about their desire to be on MTV, watching the channel from a working class person’s point of view. MTV has dominated society and promoted countless number of bands over time, creating the rock star generation and pushing the music business toward commercial success. Music television is a prominent part of modern society, as every hit song has an accompanying music video, and these videos are becoming more and more productive. Before music videos were such an important part of society, television was at the forefront of creating a movement to put musicians ...

____(3) 1.  Select which category [in parentheses] this documentary fits into and explain why you think it best fits that classification. (awareness/social concerns, biography, research/informative, investigative) This documentary fits best into the category of awareness/social concerns because the slave trade was a terrible event that more people need to be aware about because it destroyed the lives of many African families for at least 400 years. ____(3) 2. Discuss at least three major themes within this documentary, using examples from the film to support your choice. Your discussion should consist of a paragraph for each theme and ...

Intensified Research of Ridley Scott

Intensified Research on Ridley Scott There have only been a handful of filmmakers who had been able to stand out from the crowd of great film personalities that ever flourished in Hollywood. These filmmakers may not be the ones who made the most popular film in the world or the ones who made the most critically acclaimed or commercially successful films yet. Instead, these people are the pioneers that proved how significant movies can become for popular culture by influencing almost a couple of decades of filmmaking and/or lifestyle choices. Works of this handful of filmmakers, hailed as classics ...

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in his novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” talks about several themes in relation to war. He uses meta-fiction and writing about writing as a major style in which to relay his message. The memories of the war keep getting off his mind. He wants to write the story but in other times he feels that it is not necessary. Vonnegut applies meta-fiction in his writing in order to bring the various effects of war: psychological and physical. Through the use of various characters in his work, Vonnegut is able to depict clearly the situation during the war. It is ...

Georges Bataille was one of the brightest minds in France. He is well-known in the philosophical circles as one of the most extraordinary minds of the Western philosophy. The author of such notable ideas as base materialism, limit-experience and the accursed share had a visible influence on a certain raw of philosophical schools and social theory. His unusual and, in some way, innovative idea of human sacrifice goes through all his philosophy. It’s known that Bataille wasn’t only the eager follower of the ideas of sacrifice but he also inaugurated himself as the sacrificial victim together with ...

Global warming refers to a system of climate changes that are responsible for causing an increase in the average temperature of the lower atmosphere which affects the average thermal gradient of the Earth. Global warming may have a great variation among the causes, but it is most principally associated with human interference, specifically with the release of excessive amounts of greenhouse gases”. The most popular and common definition of the global warming is “Warming caused by human activity.” (Weather Street) There are several gases in the Earth’s atmosphere which are responsible for the increase in the global temperature ...

Ghost stories and narratives can take many different forms and change according to history, location and culture. What is considered scary in one culture could be dismissed as a fantastic tale or a comical narrative by another. The cultural values and everyday narratives of the people in a certain location determine what is scary and what is not. The West and the East have different cultural values and beliefs. They differ not only in simple matters such as greeting a stranger but also in the principles that govern their conduct in life and business. These differences are also evident ...

Introduction

There are a number of ways by which the media forms communicate with their audience and tend to convey the underlying themes and ideas using them. Specifically, in the case of films, the use of visual content, sound, construction of a shot and it’s editing, performance, recording, etc. It is obvious that an effective use of visuals aided by supporting multimedia always results in a deeper impact on the audience as the visual has a deeper response generation from the brain. This concept, when strategically used in the making of films results in tremendous changes in terms of ...

Art has long become an integral part of our lives. At the present stage of the social development cinematography occupies a special place, as for the representatives of mankind it’s the most affordable and favorite kind of art. The great advantage of the art, including cinematography, consists in the fact that it can give people some special feelings and emotional experiences that they cannot or simply fear to experience in the real life. The world of cinema has become valuable for all people - starting from a mischievous child and ending with old car mechanic. Moreover, there is ...

Vladek's Mental Illness in Art Spiegelman's Maus

In recent years, a lot of comics are very mediocre, quite often they have similar super-heroes and antagonists. Not many comics evoke some powerful emotions, not many of them have a strong sense of compassion for the characters. They shock the readers very rarely. One of the graphic novels, which cause such a feeling, is "Maus." This is a comic of Art Spiegelman. He used the stories of this father. This is the book about the life of one family, about the survival of the mind and body in conditions where the word "destruction" is not an abstraction, but ...

Introduction

The best poems are usually those that reflect real life experiences and are written by people who went through the experiences for which they write. Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) a world war 11 veteran majored in writing poetry about war and the life of soldiers. He was also a revered literary critic whose opinions of other poets were stark and at times highly controversial. His poems carry themes such as the hardships of being a soldier, the power of the state and the horrors of war (Lehman and John, 8). He specifically wrote numerous experiences about the World War 2 ...

Some people are annoyed from their roommate and they want to get revenge on them by annoying them. For example, some roommate take your stuff without telling you or do not wash their dishes after using. I have found four ways to annoy your roommate, which are unplug the internet or change the password, turn up the volume, cook something smells bad, and have your friends over often. Unplugging the internet or changing the Wi-Fi password is a surefire way to get your roommates angry. Not only are they locked out from completing their coursework and any tests or ...

The Host, better known as Gwoemul has been categorized as a genre film due to its combination of "outbreak" narrative, monster movies, news reportage, melodrama, and comedy. The film generally brings out the situation in South Korean political, army dictatorship as well as the economic state of affair. The film proprietor Bong Joon-ho tries to relate the current situation to the historical happenings in the country. He explains the action of an American scientist of ordering the disposal of 120 liters of formaldehyde in Han River that is used by Seoul residents. The results of the chemical disposal are ...

Chronic back pain is one the key health problems encountered especially in primary care. As such, proper evaluation of patients with a history of back pain is an essential step that guides and enables healthcare professionals to come up with suitable interventions as well as management strategies. In the light of this, the evaluation should include a comprehensive history assessment as well as the physical examination. Among the key components to include in the patient’s history assessment includes; a brief description in regard to the onset of the pain, duration, pattern and intensity of the back pain, activities ...

The story, The Cask of Amontillado, is surely one of the finest works of literature even penned by a creative artist. This literary work by the stalwart author, Edgar Allan Poe, goes on to engage the avid readers and stirs them to the very core with the portrayal of sheer horror that marks the end of the story. This story is about the theme of revenge and shows the male protagonist who is also the narrator of the story trap another character named Fortunato. ““The Cask of Amontillado” remains one of Poe’s most popular short stories and a ...

Are twenty-first-century Americans more democratic than the Founding Fathers and would the U.S. profit by adopting New Hampshire´s Constitution? Are twenty-first-century Americans more democratic than the Founding Fathers and would the U.S. profit by adopting New Hampshire´s Constitution?

It would seem pretty straightforward to conclude that 21st century Americans are more democratic than were the framers of the Constitution. After all, only a relatively small minority of Americans were eligible to vote when the country first came into being. To start off, no women were allowed to vote. Of course, slaves were not allowed to vote either, ...