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the fastest route to what is now Reverend Brown, and even passed through walls to get there. The spirit was at the door, waiting. It spoke harshly to him, flashing words before his eyes. Obviously it couldn't actually talk. After what seemed like an hour, Mr. Brown begged the spirit to change him back. Unluckily, it just blew him inside of the school. It pushed him into the attic on top of the stage. Like the ghosts, he couldn't control himself. Then Mr. Brown decided he was better than that,…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Young Goodman Brown," the author uses secrecy and tension to grasp and keep the reader’s attention. Throughout the short story, Hawthorne leads the reader into questioning, "what is the actual purpose of this story?” or “what is the message the author is trying to give?” The reader needs to look at "Young Goodman Brown" not only as a climatic story but also analyze the abundant amount of rhetorical devices the author uses to convey his message. Hawthorne shows…

James Simpson is guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Facts and Proceedings A. OJ Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and Ronald Lyle Goldman, 25, are stabbed to death. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Lyle Goldman were found murdered outside of Nicole’s house in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, California. Both victims had been stabbed multiple times throughout their bodies, Brown showed defensive wounds on her hands. Medical…

Young Goodman Brown is a short story set in 17th century New England. In the story Hawthorne explores and criticizes the Puritan/Calvinist values of the time. The Calvinist religious philosophy is ascetic and is critical of the world. In Calvinist philosophy humanity exists in a world of depravity and only those who are born into a “state of grace” are worthy of joining God in heaven. Hawthorne explores the religion’s philosophy and explores the hypocrisy of the rigid Puritan world. The…

story “Young Goodman Brown” the author tells a story of a young man drawn into a meeting with the devil. Brown’s judgment towards the goodness of his town has been dismayed, when he comes to find out many of who are respected in his town such as their religion aspect including his wife are attending the ceremony with the devil. At the end of the story, brown’s notion towards everyone has changed, he’s not able to ever come to look at everyone the same and doesn’t trust them. Brown ends up living…

Do Velvet Gecko (Oedura lesueurii) Exhibit Specialized or Generalized Anti-Snake Behavior? The main question this study asked was do velvet geckos discriminate amongst snake species and display antipredator behaviors according to the ‘threat sensitivity’ hypothesis (i.e. in a graded fashion depending upon the degree of threat posed by a particular snake species)? The authors hypothesized that velvet geckos should display general antipredator behaviors to the scent of syntopic elapid snakes,…

fort, Hawthorne fo- cussed on the world of moral imagination. His "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) is a paradigm of this particular world, and Brown's behavior on a fateful night in his life is the key to this haunting tale. Although the motives for Goodman Brown's behavior are ambiguous, the consequences of his compulsive acts are clear but frightening. It is truly an enchanted forest into which Goodman Brown en- ters on his way to keep a tryst. "The magic forest," says Heinrich Zimmer in…

OJ Simpson - actor, athlete, and killer. After the brutal murder of his ex-wife, police were sure the evidence would convict him. However, numerous mistakes were made in the collection and handling of evidence. This was not enough to derail the investigation, OJ was clearly still the culprit, but it was enough to place doubt in the juror’s minds. If the evidence had been collected and handled correctly, Simpson would have gone to jail for his misdeeds. Orenthal James Simpson, or OJ for…

The tragedy that was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (Triangle Fire) could be attributed to a plethora of cumulative factors that brought about the deaths of numerous factory workers. The event referred to as, “The Fire That Changed America” (Argersinger 1), occurred just a short time after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory strike (Triangle Strike), which addressed the horrific conditions faced by the factory workers and their right to unionize; and confirmed the claims of the Triangle Strike…

James Joyce was the first to use the religious term “epiphany” in a literary sense, it has become a main theme in many other short works. Gustave Flaubert’s protagonist Félicité from “A Simple Heart” along with Goodman Brown from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” both experience what could be called an epiphany. Flaubert and Hawthorne’s protagonists have a religious epiphany while in a possible dream state. The stories finish with phantasmal epiphanies where the authors…