Bridget Jones

novel I found I was drawn more and more to this idea of an author becoming a murderer, and from this I spawned the idea of writing from a murdering author’s perspective, and possible using the murders as inspiration for novel writing. Bridget Jones’ Diary was also a major help in figuring out how I wanted my piece to look. As it was a diary, I wanted it to look as though it had been ‘lived in’ while making it easy for the reader to follow the passage of time. I mimicked Helen…

in and doesn’t let the reader out their grasp until the romance between Elizabeth and Darcy is finalized with an accepted marriage proposal. This element of the story has been reinvented through modern day works such as “You’ve Got Mail,” and “Bridget Jones Diary (Fairchild 45). But still, this is not the element from Pride and Prejudice that maintains the work’s timelessness the most. Fairchild explains that…

What is a witch? According to Webster’s Dictionary witchcraft is, “the use of sorcery or magic.” By this definition, the term “witch” has been misused and misunderstood throughout history. Often considered a taboo subject, nothing stirs the pot quite like witchcraft. An in-depth study of witchcraft can help one to understand the mystique that surrounds it. European Witch Hunts (1300-1600) Witch hunts occurred long before the Salem witch trials. As Jess Blumberg from Smithsonian Magazine…

CATCHY TITLE Imagine yourself swimming along in the ocean without a care. Your mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles all are swimming along beside you. You can taste the salt water hitting your taste buds, and you can feel the warm summer sun penetrate through the water and hit your thick, strong skin. You swim miles and miles all day long with your family, catching fish and talking non stop, and you couldn’t be happier. Then, your whole world is turned upside down. It’s almost as if…

Argument Analysis: Money In The NFL The elite NFL athletes in the United States get paid far too much. There are multiple examples of rhetorical tools found throughout this article. Deion Sanders’ Texas-size mansion deals with the context and the audience deals with the NFL and MLB fans. The uses of facts and statistics is highly used throughout this entire article. This issue matters to professional athletes in the United States; while many athletes claim that the amount of money they are…

She was tried in Charleston, Massachusetts and hung soon after. She was just the start of a long line of witch hunts, and innocent deaths to come. Bridget Bishop was the first woman in Salem to be accused. She was tried and hung at what would soon become Salem's Gallows Hill on June, 2. After her, there was no longer a need to fear the Natives or illnesses picking them off. The Puritans took the liberty…

In this advanced world of technology reading has taken a backseat and students prefer to see the adaptated version of a litearary work rather than read it first hand. There was a time when students/people would see an adaptation and rush to procure the original book. But students today prefer not to resort to reading thus losing out on precious reading experiences and emotional, intellectual enrichment. This has become a serious problem and this paper attempts to study the Ang Lee adaptation of…

SALEM WITCH TRIALS: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE STORIES Imagine living in the 1600’s and being convicted of being a witch. The Salem witch trials, in Bamberg Germany are the most famous witch trials. Soon after that, the witch craze came to Salem and even spread farther into America then thought back in the 1600s. Understanding the causes and consequences of the Salem witch trials give more of an understanding of witchcraft today. PURITAN LIFE IN SALEM During 16-17th century, Puritans protested…