A Study in Scarlet

Sherlock Holmes hit the streets of Britain in 1887 with Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, A Study in Scarlet. These stories became instantly popular because of Holmes’ keen observation skills and spectacular crime solving ability. He, paired with Dr. Watson, takes on numerous crimes and takes on the most intelligent criminals, such as the brilliant Professor Moriarty. Dr. Watson takes on the role of narrator as he follows and records all of Sherlock Holmes’s moves during these crimes. He travels with…

Besnik stood at the door of the tent in which he had been a guest for the past few days. He had decided to leave as the sun was peeking over the horizon, because he would have hated to say goodbye to the gracious family that had taken him in, and wanted to wake before the dog. He slung his brown sack over his shoulder, and started his long trek down the dusty snaking path that made its way laboriously from the suburbs and rural areas to the cosmopolitan urban areas through the unrelenting brown,…

The primary source that I decided to read about and study was “Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India”. In the Western Civilization course, we were taught about the different explorations that many men were apart of in order to explore and create relations with other countries in the world. Vasco da Gama was in charge of leading a Portuguese exploration to sail from Portugal to around the tip of Africa and to India. His task was to find a route that could lead to open up European enterprises for…

It was a Saturday afternoon in December and frighteningly cold out. Becca had gone to the ice rink to watch Ashley skate. Sitting on the bleachers, freezing, wishing her best friend was a gymnast or even a pianist, she reached up and pulled her hat over her ears. She peered through the glass wall, out to the ice, and quickly forgot about her frozen extremities. Ashley’s coach stood scrutinizing her as she sped across the ice, jumped high in the air, spun around into a blur of beautiful colors…

To know what the invention really is, you need to know the man behind it all and because of that, I gave a brief history of Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb. Well the first one that was practical to use at least, in my essay you will learn about how the light bulb came to become what it is today. I wrote the past of Edison life following up to his scientific discovery and how we use it to this day. You will learn how important lights really are to the world and why we should be…

As infants were told to express our highlighted emotions and to show our talent to the world without hesitation, but as we grow older things change, were each put into the process of being molded into what society wants us to be and our ever step is judged and counted for. Fear and frustration fill our thoughts, second guessing everything we do because we don't want to be outcasts if we make any kind of mistake. Katherine's Point of View: ( I will switch the Points of Views but so I don't…

sin being forgiven, “All sins? Even divorce? Didn’t Jesus cover that with His blood, too?” Divorce seemed to be the branding the sin that always stayed with a person. The obvious extra pounds a person carried was just a part of being human, not a “scarlet letter.” In honest reflection on these inconsistencies I experienced in my church community, it is a wonder I continued to attend every time the…

Choice of Narrator In the introduction of Ethan Frome, the reader learns that the narrator is an engineer sent by his employers to work at Corbury Junction. The narrator symbolizes what Ethan wanted to be; an engineer not anchored to Starkfield. He also was very observant and interested in Ethan. He wondered how Ethan ended up the way he did. He meets a man, Harmon Grow, and he tries to get more information about Ethan from him. One thing he said stuck with him forever, “Guess he’s been in…

SELECTED TEXT CHAPTER IX. Second Report of Dr. Watson THE LIGHT UPON THE MOOR Baskerville Hall, Oct. 15th. My dear Holmes: If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now crowding thick and fast upon us. In my last report I ended upon my top note with Barrymore at the window, and now I have quite a budget already which will, unless I am much mistaken, considerably surprise you.…

Week #13 Reading Response Question 1: What did I learn about the nature and activity of God? In Isaiah 1:18-20 God sees the sins of the people of Israel and they are scarlet colour, but He promises to make them white as snow I 'd the will only obey Him. He will even feed them. However God tells Israel if they don 't listen to Him, they will be devoured by their enemies. God was revealing the need for Israel to rely upon Him. He was demonstrating that they need to depend on Him or be vanquished…