Gothic rock

Nihilist, violence and more. These are just a hand few of the topics that the western gothic author Flannery O’Connor discusses in both her novels and short stories. From people stealing legs to the murder of a family O’ Connor’s writing come to show you the true wickedness that come from people even if they state to believe in nothing or in the Christian faith. Her stories are filled with allusions to mostly explain the idea of redemption and what it means to be redeemed. It’s not only allusion…

Brown and Poe provide numerous situations dealing with the concept of the “great chain of being” a philosophical theory that everything in the universe, from God at the top to the rocks at our feet, has its own specific hierarchal place in the world. With this theory the races of man could be divided based upon color and behavioral characteristics and thus any unjust behavior can be warranted against those who are considered less…

It’s not often that I respond strongly to musicians that are just clearly having a great time. It’s not that I don’t like fun music, but I more often lean towards the other end of the spectrum, be it blues, rock, metal, indie or just heartbreaking songs regardless of genre. I’m just that kind of guy, I guess. But it’s hard to talk about Humming House without talking about fun, which is ultimately what their aptly titled album, Revelries (due out on March 24th), delivers in a tight 11 song…

Mockingbird, is a southern gothic novel by Harper Lee. The book hit bookshelves in 1960, during the pinnacle of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. In her most well-known work of literature, Lee illustrates the prejudice and hypocrisy of the deep south. The story, set in the 1930’s, follows a young girl named Scout and her family, who all live in a small Alabama town where everyone knows everyone. As a scandal that involves an African American who allegedly raped a white woman rocks the…

stones, sliding rocks, moving stones, and moving rocks are a topographical marvel where rocks move and write long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or creature intercession. Stones with unpleasant bottoms leave straight striated tracks while those with smooth bottoms have a tendency to meander. Stones once in a while turn over, presenting another edge to the ground and leaving an alternate track in the stone's wake. Trails contrast in both heading and length. Rocks that begin…

The Western Cordillera is found standing along the western edge of the continent. Made of ranges and ranges of mountains separated by occasional plateaus and valleys. Many provinces found in this region are British Columbia, Yukon Territories, Southwest Alberta, and parts of Northwest Territories. The mountain ranges found here are not as old as the other regions, as they are not yet rounded hills. These mountains occurred when the North American and Pacific plates collided, that spans…

known fossil diatoms are from Lower Cretaceous in age, although fossil record is limited. Diatoms might have a much longer history, but because of their mineral instability under lithostatic pressure, well-preserved diatoms become rarer with older rock strata (Harwood and Nikolaev, 1995). Globally Cenozoic marine successions are rich in diatoms, and its biostratigraphy is based on regional and global first and last occurrence of unique, short-lived diatom with widespread…

of the wrong beliefs. These narratives, which typically are autobiographical, capture the interest of readers and create reactions of shock, empathy, and inspiration. Narratives as such anticipate popular fiction, especially romance, and prefigure gothic literature with the “depictions of Indian as dark, hellish, cunning, and unpredictable” (Campbell, 2015). One of the more popular captivity narratives was based on Mary White Rowlandson and her eleven-week captivity. Mary White, later known as…

Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne reject the central tenets of the early nineteenth century movement known as Transcendentalism in their works, The Fall of the House of Usher and Young Goodman Brown, respectively. Transcendentalism was a reaction to the focus on logic in the Enlightenment period of literature and centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson writings, which would be known as part of the Romanticism period. The movement was embodied by the optimistic belief that people and nature are…

Johnson). He has to continually search all around Western North America to find fossils and then he has to dig the fossil’s up which can be scattered across land. It can be hard to find certain forms of sedimentary rock that have fossils in them, it can take a long time to get to the sedimentary rock (Hays). Another obstacle is that he has to base his research about past climate on just fossil leaves. It’s first hard to find fossil leaves but also it’s hard to determine if it’s an actual fossil…