Daniel Parke Custis

killer. For that reason, this book is my favorite. In the year of 1890, the fast-growing city of Chicago won the bid to host the next World's Fair. In eager excitement to begin the project, two of the city's top architects were chosen to lead: Daniel Burnham and John Root. As the construction of the buildings for the fair began, a handsome doctor, H.H. Holmes, moved to…

How would it feel to have a low IQ and not be very intelligent? The story “Flowers For Algernon”by Daniel Keyes, the main character Charlie Gordon is not very smart or intelligent. Charlie can get an operation that will make him smarter, and maybe he won't fail the inkblot test again if he gets the operation. Also the operation will help him with his grammar, spelling and punctuation and he won't be getting made fun of by his friends and he won’t sound like a little child writing he will…

Imagine that you were given a decision, a decision that could Chang your life forever, it could take you from your IQ of 68 and triple it. Would you do it ? In "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes, a cognitively impaired man named Charlie Gordon with an IQ of 68 undergoes operation that could Change his life forever by tripling his IQ. Charlie has to make this decision with his unitellgentce mind. He was not told all the side effects of the experiment, he was told that it might be temporary.…

"We use to lived in Cuba through a police state in which our possessions, our speech, our faith were monitored closely by the government with the fear of punishment if we say something or did something those in power didn 't like," she continued. "We never thought we would see this happening that is now in this country here in Houston ... in our beloved America. ... But it is here and it is now” (Magda Hermida immigrant pastor’s wife in Houston, Tx). America has always been known as the “Land of…

ultures of human culture, those being “leavers” and “takers”. His first allusion, a biblical reference to the fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden is actually the story of when the leaver and taker cultures separated historically. Ishmael explains that after eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, humans gained what they thought was “the knowledge of the gods”. This is where the leaver culture, which modern man descends from, developed an attitude that their way of life was…

In Daniel Levitin’s recent article for the Los Angeles Times, Levitin teaches the reader about different types of procrastination and helps the reader prevent the habit of procrastination. Levitin has a very impressive background and has many professions. Levitin is best known as a neuroscientist, a profession that studies the brain and how it influences behavior. On September 22, 2015, Levitin wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times titled “Which kind of procrastinator are you?” Levitin…

Daniel Defoe is a lesser known, but very famous, British author that deserves much more credit than he gets. Daniel Defoe was an author in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries even though at first he did not plan to be. Daniel Defoe, over his lifetime, wrote many political articles, journals, fiction books, and nonfiction books, many of which became very famous. Defoe was one of the first British writers to ever write a novel to become as popular as Robinson Crusoe and that book…

During the summer of the years 1133 to 1855 a famous fair came into London, most commonly known as the Bartholomew Fair. Hosted in Smithfield, otherwise known as the location popular for slaughterhouses and public executions, the fair was a trading event that attracted Londoners of all classes. Ben Jonson uses this factor to his advantage with his play entitled, “Bartholomew Fair.” The type of people, activities, and crimes that occur at the fair gives Jonson the opportunity to reflect on his…

‘Chicago’ Carl Sandburg The poem ‘Chicago’ by Carl Sandburg describes the city of Chicago in the United States of America, presumably at the time of writing, 1914. Sandburg is first speaking to the city, then speaking to the people who is reading the poem. Sandburg has described Chicago as a city of the big shoulders, busy and brawling. Sandburg’s deep affection for his city arises, in spite of the outsiders staring at the hard working people who colonise the city. He makes us imagine Chicago…

Individualism in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe was a journalist, a pamphleteer, a merchant but he was most famously known for being a novelist. His most famous book, being Robinson Crusoe, is set on a deserted island where a stranded man has to survive for 28 years. This oeuvre belongs to the English early novels and created a new form of storytelling. A storytelling in which Defoe wants his readers to believe that they are reading factual history rather than a piece of imagination…