A Study in Scarlet

in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He was the youngest of seven children. From an early age, Edison was always interested in inventing things. Edison’s father was exiled from Canada for being a political activist. When Edison was young he got scarlet fever. As a result of the fever, he developed hearing loss that progressed to Edison being nearly deaf by adulthood. At age seven Edison and his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. In Michigan, Edison was enrolled in a public school. He…

For today’s society, more people go online to connect via a social networking site than to outside chat with each other. We always share photos and videos and posting stuff, people tend to do this within a social networking site these days. So social networking site is very important for everyone. The person I will describe is my friend. She is a mixed-blood. Her mother is a German, and her father is a Chinese. Her name is Lilia Wang. Frist time I met her in chemistry class. She had the fine…

The novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley and first published in 1818, articulates the story of Victor Frankenstein, a man who was driven by ego to craft an immortal creature that ultimately brings his own destruction through the murder of his loved ones. The novel was written in the 1800s, where the accepted beliefs of gender roles had men and women delegated to separate spheres of belonging, with the female sphere centralized around the home and family. Mary Shelley’s argument is that…

Required for Children?”). This proves the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing disease and in saving lives. Receiving vaccinations is not only worthwhile but safe as well. Before a vaccine is licensed, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducts studies of effectiveness and reviews safety before administering the vaccine (“Vaccine Safety: The Facts par. 5). The FDA, along with other organizations like the CDC, regularly test inoculations to ensure quality and safety, as well as review…

The majority of what we as humans experience on a daily basis comes from our sense organs. How we experience these things going on around us is based on our perceptions. Perception is the process of recognizing and interpreting sensory stimuli, from our sense organs: eyes, ears, skin, nose, and tongue. Our vision comes from our sense organ, our eyes and travels to the part of the brain that processes vision, the occipital lobe. From there what we see is a perception of what we are getting from…

a heavy burden for an individual. Corrupted by his unwillingness to do the righteous action, he becomes indecisive since there is a high possibility of becoming ridiculed by his society. Such a theme certainly exists in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Arthur Dimmesdale seems to have no consideration regarding the punishment of his lover, Hester Prynne, who has given birth to his child. Throughout the novel, however, he realizes the reality of which he becomes involved after the events…

In the eighteenth century, romanticism bloomed from men’s love towards nature. To capture its beauty, romanticists often wrote novels stressing emotions and portraying nature as a pure soul. While nature represented an innocent girl, science imitated a reaper that violates nature’s boundaries. Romantic novels then recorded the battles between logic and feelings. These novels, for example, Frankenstein, a Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley, exposes the unethicality of knowledge by describing…

extraordinary works for the deaf community. I have used various websites to research on my topic and know more about his work and how he did it. He is regarded as a visionary leader by Gallaudet University, who became deaf at the age of 8 due to scarlet fever (Gallaudet University , 2014). Also, he has contributed to the deaf community by preserving and developing…

their best to act sexy and keep their smarts out of the picture in order to achieve a trophy wife look. This letter was written in the 1800’s yet women in the 21st century still have this behavior, they are still told not to worry too much about studies all they have to do is find a man who has a degree and can support them. Although this mentality is vanishing, you can see it most commonly taught to second generation…

“The Minister's Black Veil” Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne's “The Minister's Black Veil” is regarded as one of the earliest and greatest examples of American short fiction. Like many of Hawthorne's stories and his novel The Scarlet Letter, the story is developed around a single symbol: in this case, the black veil that the Reverend Mr. Hooper wears to hide his face from the world. The story's macabre tone and repressive early-colonial New England Puritan setting are familiar elements in…