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Author Matt Lewis recalls the fight for his life and encounter with death in his book Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on The Antarctic Seas. After graduating college Matt Lewis takes a job on a fishing vessel that fishes in the frigid Antarctic waters. During his on the Sudur Havid, the name of the ship, Lewis and crewmates ran into a catastrophic storm which lead to the sinking of the ship and the hardest hours of the entirety of his life. After losing his friends and…

George Percy 's article was a primary of the experiences and hardships the settlers had when they first landed in Jamestown, Virginia in 1609. In the Examination of Ann Foster, the woman Anne Foster, confesses to being a witch. The author is a witness to her confession, making it a primary source. The author is trying to create a scene in Oregon during the Salem Witch Trials, and he does this by writing about Anne Foster 's experiences. The audience are the common people (citizens) who were…

Gothic horror is considered to be an offshoot of literary Romanticism, because of their having many traits in common. Both are focused on emotions and commenced in the 18th century as the objection to the Enlightenment and its significance of rationality. These genres were also inspired by medieval literary works and imported its typical settings, superhuman characters and appearance of preternatural events. Spiritualism, the faith that dead people’s spirits can contact with the living, thrived…

Firmly established gender roles helped to maintain strong family structures within the new American Colonies as well as the Native American settlements. Strong family structures were necessary because the family was the basis for government, church and community. Women have always had an important role with their various labors that contribute to their communities. Women of both races have social and economic responsibility, but the Native population has greater social, political, and economic…

In an unusual, unfortunate turn of events, the prank had backfired. Well, not entirely backfired, for backfired would imply that Peter 's perpetually blushing cheeks were not painted with the soft white of a cream pie thanks to the Prewitt 's, Marlene 's heavy hand did not hit both Sirius and Peter in one swift arm movement and the Iguana that escaped from a region on James ' body we must not discuss did not scamper across the floor with its newly found freedom, all acts, of which, had occurred…

The idea of Spectatorship in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001) : We don’t stop here! Abstract Films have always been a medium of great importance and still continue to amuse and interest its audience. Films of different languages and different genres are released worldwide over a year. Some of them grab the attention of a large audience while some others go even unnoticed. The success and greatness of a film is usually connected with its ability to influence and transform the audience.…

Annotated Bibliography The Bioethics of Cloning Devolder, Katrien. "Cloning." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CT: Stanford U, Metaphysics Research Lab., 2004. 212-214. Print. This encyclopedia page describes the relationship between cloning and its embryonic cells. Cloned embryonic cells carry important advantages in biomedical research, drug recovery, and toxicity testing that regular cells don’t: these cells can be models when animal cells are not available, research in…

continuation for these female colleges, despite academic successes. Greenville Woman’s College, for example, had to pay off debts by auctioning land, alongside their decline in enrollment. To fix that problem, President Charles Judson hired his sister Mary Camilla Judson as a teacher. Her presence at the college made an impact in the students and led to an increase in admission as she became a female leader in the community (Daniel). Among the ascending prosperity in education, women still faced…

Camilla Townsend, associate professor of history at Colgate University, wrote Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma which was published in 2004. The book is an account of Pocahontas’s life which has been dramatized through publications and movies. However, many myths exist surrounding her life. It is written chronologically and primarily covers the period from 1607 to 1622. In preparation Townsend read all relevant seventeenth century documents and stated a brave woman like Pocahontas deserves…

The novella Carmilla is much more complicated in its message and connection to queerness within the horror genre. On the surface there is a kind of innocence in the relationship that Laura and Carmilla share. It doesn’t seem to go much beyond light physical intimacy, but the scenes are described in a romantic way by the Laura, such as when she states of Carmilla, “And when she had spoken such rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently…