A Study in Scarlet

is included in the queer category. While this term was intended to be degrading, more recently that has started to change. Unfortunately, the stigma that surrounds Hester in The Scarlet Letter is still present in modern day society with queers, creating significant hardship for all parties involved. In both The Scarlet Letter’s 18th century society and in modern 21st century society, social norms have been strongly crafted and influenced by religion. Intolerant adherents to strict religion…

Why are you interested in joining the Scarlet Ambassador team? I am interested in joining the Scarlet Ambassador team to share my love for Rutgers with prospective students. I know of the resources and opportunities that I have received since attending Rutgers and am truly proud of my university. It is my hope that by sharing my successes, failures, and experiences with prospective students that I will help them make a decision on a college that will positively impact me in the way that…

Puritans in The Scarlet Letter believed that a community was only as strong as each member in it. If one member sinned, they all had to be punished for that sin. It’s this belief that brought each member to have a strong religious conviction. They knew that if they didn’t…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a story entirely focused on public shame. During the time of the Puritans in the mid-1600s, ignominy was one way punishment was granted unto those who had committed sins. Ignominy, though a foreign word to many, is no old topic. Seen in nearly every aspect of society today, public shaming nearly completely controls the image society gives to those who have done wrong. The reputation of a poor action is on the shoulders of the wrongdoer for nearly the…

The Salem Witch Trials occurred in Massachusetts during the year of 1692. The Witch trials began due to Puritan people accusing people in society a witch. Although the Salem Witch Trials are a part of our nation’s history; people also study about the witch trials in American literature through the eyes of Cotton Mather, a Puritan minister (Cain 225). Nathaniel Hawthorne is another very popular author studied in American Literature that also reflects on the Salem witch trials, but in a…

against the Netherlands, WikiLeaks releases over 90,000 internal logs of the US Military to a variety of news sources, and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) premiered the long anticipated A Study in Pink, the first episode of Sherlock. The first episode is a television adaptation of A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first short story of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock has currently three seasons on DVD, and another season premiering on January 1, 2017. From the opening scenes of…

corner. The Story is about a Giant Narwhal that has been going on a rampage and the United States government sends professor Pierre Arron and the French marine biologist just happened to be nearby so he received a last minute invitation to join to study, hunt, and kill the beast but further down the story a storm hits stranding the crew on an uninhabited island that they have to survive. Luckily the captain Nick was a survival expert and taught the other members of the crew how to forage and how…

autoimmune diseases which cause a type of bacteria called group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus that leads to an inflammation in the connective tissues like brain, heart and joints. The disease seems to be linked to scarlet fever which is also involved in sore throat infection. Rheumatic fever and scarlet fever can be treated with penicillin injection to kill the bacteria while Azithromycin can be given for those who are allergic to penicillin. Scientists have been trying many trials to stop the…

cocaine habit: “He held out his hand as he spoke, and I noticed that it was all mottled over with pieces of plaster, and discolored with strong acids” (18). More problematic still is the detective’s famous cocaine habit, which is hinted at in A Study in Scarlet, and made explicit in The Sign of Four; the latter novel opens with a detailed description of the detective as he shoots up…

The characters in The Scarlet Letter all have different experiences dealing with sin, causing different outcomes. Hester Prynne starts off as a sinner, rejected by her community, who is accepted back into the society. Chillingworth, on the other hand, starts off as a respected member of the community, but eventually becomes described as the devil itself. Dimmesdale is the fellow perpetrator to Hester’s sin, but cannot repent due to his position in the Puritan society. In each of the cases,…