A Study in Scarlet

In Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein, there seems to be some issues with gender. While this novel was written during a predominantly patriarchal time for women, it is interesting how Mary Shelley, a female author, would submit to portraying female characters as powerless figures. As the daughter of the “first feminist,” Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin “a radical philosopher,” Mary Shelley seemingly misrepresents women in her novel. Additionally, Mary Shelley excludes females as a whole…

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe as we all know it did not have a good life. Death was the center of his life. Women figures in his life always died from tuberculosis. Each death always brought a poem of his love. Poe belongs in the Romanticism period based on his works. Poes journey begins January 19, 1809 in Boston. He is born as Edgar Poe his parents are Elizabeth Poe and David Poe Jr., he was one brother who is William Henry Leonard. Both of Poes parents are actors. “They travel a lot…

America and believed that they were responsible for the higher rates of hypertension and kidney disease seen among America’s inner-city poor. Both LeDuc and Childs were the first scientists to apply polymerase chain reactions (PCR) to the diagnosis and study of Hantaviruses, which advanced the diagnosis vastly with the ability to perform PCR analysis in order to identify which species of Hantavirus was causing unusual outbreaks. The importance of this rate is the ability to determine the…

difficult to do because of Holmes’ nature. Watson, the narrator throughout the books, states quite often how much he knows of Sherlock Holmes. Often times, the language he uses to describe Holmes is similar to that of a person who is in love. In A Study in Scarlet,…

The Sympathizer and the two sides of every issue Everything having multiple sides, one of the major themes of The Sympathizer, is an important aspect of many works. In The Sympathizer, this theme appears in many areas, but one of the most important ways is the narrator himself. The narrator is, as he puts it, “a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. … I am simply able to see any issue from both sides.” (Nguyen 1). Close to the end of the book, the importance…

cholera, no doubt spread by the contaminated air and water in the crowded slums of the city. The overall effect was one of a thick smoky cloud that obscured visibility, blackened buildings and be smutted faces. The heavy darkness was portrayed in A Study in Scarlet, when the Scotland Yard detective had to strike a match during the daytime in order for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to be able see a word painted on the wall (Edzilch). Another example of the dense London fog is given in The…

University of Mexico he enrolled at the National School of Plastic Arts located at the university itself. At the age of 18 he began studying at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art, which is also known as La Esmeralda. After his studies in college he lived in Paris. While living in Paris he studied and worked which not only strengthen his abilities as an artist but also became and influence for him to do the art that he does today. Although the movement by which his art is…

Food and sexuality are associated throughout the history in many different ways. For example, in many cultures, it is believed that chocolate is an aphrodisiac due to two chemical elements it contains. One is called tryptophan which builds serotonin in bodies, and other is phenylethylamine, which can act as an aphrodisiac if a person is in love (O’Connor, 2006). The function of food for human beings is crucial for the life because without food people are not able to survive. According to Natalia…

A phrase that I’ve become all too familiar with hearing is, ‘You can’t like both Ohio State and Michigan’. As a native to southern Ohio, it was inevitable that I would grow up to be a die-hard Buckeye just like my parents. There used to be a running joke between my dad and his friends that we’d know the world was ending the day a Rogers child decided to attend ‘that school up north’. If this was true, the world would have ended the day of my high school graduation. As I walked across the stage,…

There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, “If I work very hard and diligently, how long will it take for me to find Zen?” The Master thought about this, then replied, “Ten years.” The student then said, “But what if I work very, very hard and really apply myself to learn fast — How long then?” Replied the Master, “Well, twenty years.” “But, if I really, really work at it, how long then?” asked the student. “Thirty years,” replied the…