Gargoyle

Argument essay Edgar Allen Poe and Richard Connell,both master authors who were so gifted that they were able to make you feel any kind of emotion just by using very descriptive forms of words,known as imagery. A good example of one of them using imagery was in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”,when at one point early on in the story,Richard described the night as “dank”,and “tropical”,and how it “pressed its thick ,warm blackness in aboard the yacht.” Connell really made you feel…

For example, in line twenty-two, the two scavengers was referred as “Gargoyle Quasimodo” which is a type of monster that has hunched back. Ferlinghetti uses this simile to help establish the connection between the monster and the two scavengers. The two scavengers have hunched back, but people called them a monster which is…

Year 9 Religious Education Assessment Task – Expressions of Catholic Identity Saint Patrick’s Cathedral The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is based around Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Saint Patrick’s Cathedral is seen as the finest religious building in Australia and an outstanding demonstration of neo-gothic architecture. This Cathedral was built during a time when the majority of Catholics in Melbourne were Irish. For this reason the Cathedral was named after the patron saint of Ireland;…

The Arkham series has come a long way since Rocksteady 's first installment - Arkham Asylum, back in 2009. The series reached new heights with the sequel Arkham City in 2011. Gone were the restraints of the asylum, with an entire city being explorable. Gliding through the sky at night with the city lights glistening in every direction was a joy to behold, and bringing justice to the streets of Gotham felt as fun as it was brutal. With Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocksteady has taken what was so…

The Chrysler Building, seen in figure 1, was built for Walter Chrysler to be the headquarters for the automobile company, the Chrysler Corporation. It was built on 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, in the United States of America. Put into historical context the construction began on the 19th of September 1928, a few months prior to the stock market crash of 1929. It was the age of ‘flapper girls’, jazz music, prohibition and ‘speak-easies’. “Throughout the 1920s a long boom took stock prices to…

Once upon a time there was an alpaca named Bluebell. She was an incredibly quintessential being with her lustrous topaz fur, doll-like ebony eyes and her uncanny ability to speak any language she encountered. She was truly remarkable. However, the most atypical thing about her wasn’t her appearance, it wasn’t her effulgent smile and it wasn’t her stubby little legs, it was the fact she was actually made entirely of plush fabric. On the morning of October 31st, Bluebell began her adventure. She…

I met Mikennon during the tender age of five, I still have a vague memory of sitting in my dad’s big blue lazy boy. I had a ball in my lap and was watching gargoyles. He walked in the door, we looked at each other. I invited him to sit on the couch and watch cartoons with me. I had no idea that this weird chubby kid would be like during middle school and Into high school. Not to mention the step-mother that would come in the Big Mac package. When Mikennon and I were little, we lived in garden…

The Irish author Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker wrote in 1897 the horror novel ‘Dracula’. From all accounts, that Stoker based his horror novel on Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, who was a malicious count resident in Transylvania, the now-existing Romania. Dracula is an epistolary novel that falls under the category ‘Gothic fiction’, which combines horror, death, love and lust. The word ‘Gothic’ refers to the pseudo-medieval buildings (Gothic architecture), in which many of the narratives are set. By…

Societal and Individual Interpretations of Family and Idea of “Home” Throughout many stories, ideas about what makes a home and family are communicated to audiences because of the direct relatability to everyone, no matter what their background. Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson, is a novel about a group of people who are called to a supposedly haunted house to partake in a study of its paranormal activity. Eleanor Vance, the protagonist, is exceptionally susceptible to the haunting and…

“You are going to die screaming in pain”. Those where the words I had been hearing for the past couple of hours of excoriating hours by the hands of the big bellied man my father in law had trick me into marrying. I don’t know how long I had been in the dungeon of the castle that I had lived in all of my life , but I no one thing the stuff that was in this room was knew he must have been collecting all of these devices for years for it had felt like he had used everyone. After he had stripped me…