Dark Carnival

During the Middle Ages or the Dark ages life was very difficult and societies were struggling to strive with poverty and disease striking every manor. During this time militaries were a huge part of society developing, as Armies would revolve around equipment and structure to operate on a battlefield which is shown in some very important battles during the Medieval ages. A large part of militaries in the Middle Ages was the equipment that they used In most battles basic foot soldiers…

The Riddler seems to suffer from a narcissistic personality disorder, one of the hybrid methodologies of DMS-5 personality disorders. There are very few biological symptoms that The Riddler has other than having a slim frame, but that hardly constitutes a biological symptom (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). His slim build could possibly be due to his high energy, which could be due to his constant anxiety. His psychological symptoms however are high in amounts and all vary on a spectrum…

The book, Thinking Medieval: An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages, looks at the place of the Middle Ages in present-day popular culture, investigating the foundations of the generalizations that show up in movies, on TV, and in the press, and inquiring as to why they remain so tenacious. The book additionally asks whether "medieval" is to be sure a helpful classification as far as recorded periodization. It explores a portion of the specific difficulties postured by medieval sources…

The descriptions in Edgar allan Poe’s story the fall of the house of usher are visual and can easily be adapted from words into mental images. He uses a method of gothic imagery which can be defined as, literature that focuses on human emotions such as terror and guilt. Gothic literature usually includes elements of an atmosphere of gloom, terror, and mystery. In the story Poe immediately introduces this theme, “with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my…

DC Universe To Heat Up With ‘Batman V Superman’ and ‘Suicide Squad’ DC comics will continue its extended cinematic universe next year with the release of “Batman versus Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad.” This universe looks to continue with a bang as it establish a world of heroes and villains. The DC universe will take a slightly different approach compared to Marvel’s style of setting up story origins while combining the plot of the movies in later team-ups. In “Batman v…

Short Essay: After Dark Haruki Murakami tests the boundaries between everyday Tokyo reality and a surreal realm in After Dark. The book follows two sisters who are each present in different realities. In this novel, Murakami uses sleep as a symbol of disengagement and disassociation from the world. The plot bounces between many different locations, but centralizes around Eri’s bedroom and the love hotel, Alphaville. Takahashi discloses to Mari later in the book that his original business of…

Astronomers recently discovered one of the most massive black holes to date in the cosmic background. This supermassive black hole contains 17 billions times the mass of the Sun, only slightly smaller than the most massive black hole ever found, which is 21 billion solar masses. For comparison, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way totals only 4 solar masses . This newly found black hole lies in the center of the galaxy NGC 1600, which lies 200 million light-years from Earth in the…

It takes many factors to make a good director: a director must be calm, he must be articulate, and most of all he should be inspiring. However, Christopher Nolan is not simply a good director, he is one of the greatest directors of all time. Not to mention his impeccable writing, his directing expertise is beyond comparison: he skillfully draws the best performances out of the renowned actors in his cast, his imaginative stories can bogle even the most ingenious of minds, and his movies, while…

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying. Because no light can get out, people can't see black holes. They are invisible. Space telescopes with special tools can help find black holes. The special tools can see how stars that are very close to black holes act differently than other stars. Black holes can be big or small. Scientists…

The Middle Ages were a period of both great devastation and mediocre advancement around the discovered world. The "Low Middle Ages" or the "Dark Ages" came in succession to the fall of Rome and held the development of feudalism. Feudalism sustained itself and oppressed the formation of new ideas until approximately 1100. An idea came about that was essentially the turning point of the Middle Ages. Up until this point, humanity thought that their sole purpose was to worship God- but when the idea…