Fall of Saigon

To Begin, the movie The Conjuring took place in the 1970’s. About a new family who has just moved in into the village. Which is a couple with their five daughters and their family dog. The house they happen to choose is a unfrequented farmhouse. The house is isolated from other homes. The house has a dark presence roaming around not only inside but also outside the house. A relationship couple investigators got called up to investigate the house and why strange things have been happening at the…

Although "The Cask of Amontillado" avoids one of the stamps of the Gothic, a ghostlike occurrence or agent in the story, Poe includes enough Gothic elements to put this story squarely in that tradition. A staple Gothic element is the setting, which is usually a run-down, mysterious castle, monastery or chateau. In this case, the setting is underground in the Montresor catacombs underneath Montresor's chateau--a damp, claustrophobic passageway, dripping with nitre from its proximity to a water…

Kwasi Kwarteng, a former student at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a Ph. D in British history has done extensive research in order to pen his book “Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World.” Fascinated with British colonial history, Kwarteng his written numerous articles on the subject. In one 2012 article, he discusses Nigeria’s modern day troubles faced due to its British colonial roots. Kwarteng (2012) writes that like its name, Nigeria was entirely artificially…

VIKINGS Ragnar Lothbrok, Viking the great warrior, Earl, then the King of Scandinavia. The main character of the cult TV series <>, played by famous Australian actor, Travis Fimmel. Ragnar Lothbrok believed himself a descendant of the God Odin, and on his standard carried before the army, was s raven of Odin, pointing with his wing the direction of the hike. Perhaps it was actually, in any case , Ragnar was worth and a great ruler. He was an ordinary farmer, as he has always loved…

Authors Sembene Ousmane and Chinua Achebe both documented the revolution in Africa; additionally, similar to most other historical everts, they have conflicting views on the purpose of traditions. Furthermore, in both God’s Bits of Wood and Things Fall Apart, traditions are a determining factor in the culture of the communities…

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Montage Rhodes James, who is born in 1862, is a famous horror novelist and story writer. He pursued his reading habit when he was young. At college, he preferred to stay in the library and rapidly became an assistant in the classical archaeology. He is known as an intelligent and scientific knowledge of human nerves and feelings. His most popular works include “Ghost Stories of an Antiquary”, “The Five Jars”, “A Warning to the Curious and other Ghost Stories” and “The Collected Ghost Stories of…

Edgar Allan Poe, the author of “The Tell-Tale Heart” was born on 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his detective and dark stories. Most of Poe’s short stories uses a first person narration. The story, “the Tell-Tale Heart” was published on 1850. Poe uses an unreliable first person narrator, with an unknown name and unclear identity, who constantly tries to convince readers of his sanity. The narrator has an unknown relation to the old man, who he murdered in the story. By depicting…

Modern artists today generally use images of physical and mental illness in literature. In The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, both short stories show the usage of illness, madness, and fear. In both stories Poe tries to convince the readers that the characters are physically and mentally ill. Edgar Allen Poe creates these vivid characters which have successfully assisted the building of plot and ideas. Through the use of images of physical and mental…

Comparative Essay The Tell-Tale Heart vs. The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be one of the great masters of horror. This certainly holds true for his stories The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado. Both of these stories are written in the in the first-person limited, from the perspective of two murderers. These stories contain many similarities and differences in terms of tone and irony, imagery and symbolism, theme, and the diction of the protagonist. In both of…