A Study in Scarlet

The year was 1999 and the Backstreet Boys had just released their song “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely” off of their album entitled Millennium. In that song the group explored what it truly meant to be lonely in a heart-felt song that yanked on the heart-strings of everyone in America and even made many Americans feel as if they were lonely. Although Mary Shelley wasn’t in a boy band nor did she create a catchy song, she did however create a novel that explored the life of a mad scientist…

Music has always been a great way to voice out one’s thoughts in regards of worldwide events. Past and future musical artists seized the opportunity to use their musical abilities to reach out to their audiences―trying to get their listeners to support what they may believe is morally correct at the time. Thus, it is no surprise to hear of past artists like Joan Baez who used music to stand for what she, and many others believed, to be morally and politically correct. Joan Baez was born on…

According to the bible, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is the main religious leader for Harry Potter. He was the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, thus, known as Professor Dumbledore. He was a half-blood which is a muggle (human) as well as a wizard. Besides, Professor Dumbledore was also described as an epitome of goodness. Harry Potter plays a huge role in this religion. Harry is known as the greatest disciple of the witch and wizardly world. He was a half…

The concept of one’s identity has been analyzed through various fields of study and in relation to many works of art throughout time. How an individual sees the world and themselves is generally based upon particular influences that have created the individual identity. Much of this identity is credited to the influences of the environment which include culture, religion, political, familial, and legal characteristics of the time period. There are also arguments that give biology a large portion…

Sigmund Freud developed a model of the mind in which he described the aspects of the mind’s structure and function. Freud uses an example of an iceberg to correlate with the levels of the mind. On the surface is consciousness or the tip of the iceberg. This consists of thoughts and memories that are derived from meaningful thinking and conscious understanding. Below the surface and arguably the most significant region is the unconscious. This contains the processes that are thought to be the…

However, through the settlements of the New World by Europeans, unfair treatment from state and federal government, slavery, and suffering (diseases like smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, and scarlet fever. All imported by the Europeans, to which they have no immunity) the Native Americans population is just a fraction and their ways of life have all but disappeared. Many policies and treaties have been broken and led to disappointment for…

Baseball is America’s favorite pastime. Transformation of baseball has drastically changed over the years. From the players being skinny and tall or chubby and short back when baseball first emerged, to baseball players having veins protruding from their biceps and the size of the thighs being comparable to the circumference of a tree trunks. The sport of baseball changed in the late 1990’s and even into the 21st century. But this was a change that looking back at it now, some may say it had an…

China led the world for centuries in scientific and agricultural development from their early production of gunpowder to the first cultivation of rice and millet. However, China 's early success was disturbed by centuries of famine, unrest, and war, and Europeans took the reins of world technological development. After WWII, the communist regime wrested control of China and a strict socialist system was implemented. Leaders like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping have transformed China from a…

in existence supports color theory. It has proven that there are definite cognitive reactions that trigger emotions when various reflections of wavelengths are perceived by cones- and in poorly lit environments, rods- within retina of the eye. One study published in the 2007 Journal of Experimental…

school and found out that his mother has passed away due to kidney failure and heart disease in the year if 1929. Karol was only 8 years old at the time, so imagine how heartbroken the poor boy felt. A couple years later, his brother, Edmund, died of scarlet fever. The cause of his illness was because he was a doctor, and a young patient under his care got Edmund sick. By the year of 1932, Lolek had lost his elder brother and his mother. To make matters worse the young child also lost his father…