James A. Garfield

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is considered one of the greatest works of gothic literature. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, tells the story of an ambitious young scientist named Victor Frankenstein. During his time at university, Frankenstein decides to take on a daring project, the creation of life. After spending months laboring, he finally achieves his goal, but realizes that he has made a grave mistake. Through out the rest of the story, Frankenstein’s monster terrorizes and murders…

The Cleveland Way starts from the historic market town of Helmsley and passes through woodland, verdant valleys and dramatic heather-clad moorland to reach the coast at Saltburn-by-the-Sea. The trail then follows the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Heritage Coast, undulating along high cliffs and sandy bays to finish in the beautiful seaside town of Filey. The map above shows the area of the North York Moors National Park and the Cleveland Way long-distance footpath. There are nine individual…

Polynesian History Essay Tahiti is located 6625 kilometres off the coast of America and covers around 1,045 km² of land. The population in Tahiti is roughly around 178,133. Approximately 2000 years ago the Samoan's discovered Tahiti, and later spread out and discovered Hawaii and Rapa Nui in the Pacific. Although the Samoans discovered Tahiti there has been many theories on whether their ancestors discovered the islands by travelling from the East, or from the West. Most theories suggest that…

After his stint in prison during the late 1980s, Brown met Larry Fridie and Thomas Hart who produced the first James Brown biopic, entitled James Brown: The Man, the Message, the Music, released in 1992. He returned to music with the album Love Over-Due in 1991. It included the single "(So Tired of Standing Still We Got to) Move On", which peaked at No. 48 on the R&B chart. His former record label Polydor also released the four-CD box set Star Time, spanning Brown's career to date. Brown's…

As defined by Dictionary.com epiphanies are, “sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience”. Epiphanies can occur many times in a person’s life. They usually occur whenever something is realized in life to be the opposite of what the person thought. Sometimes it even takes more than one situation to realize that an epiphany has occurred. Throughout the short…

All too often we have seen movies or TV shows about a mutant of some sort, who, because of his looks, assumes that no on will love him, and because of that is angry and hostile. Such story lines are even present in The Beauty and the Beast. Usually, in the end there is a kind lady who saves the monster, proving that she can love, and he can too. However in this story there is only the De Lacey family. The monster watches them though a window where he sees love in the family, but he is rejected…

When the reader is first introduced to Elizabeth, she is being adopted by the Frankenstein family, showing that, to some extent, this young girl was taken against her will. As the story progresses, however, the reader becomes aware that because of this adoption, Elizabeth is given a better life and a chance to succeed and to learn. Throughout the novel, Elizabeth is not mentioned as much as Victor is, since they are separated. As Elizabeth writes to Victor, “You are distant from me, and it is…

Women in the 19th century were seldom independent as gender equality was absent. Independence can be defined as the unwillingness to adhere to the husband’s desire. In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, Ibsen delves into Nora’s journey toward independence as a result from the inconveniences of her seemingly carefree relationship with Torvald. Torvald’s inconsiderate and hurtful criticism toward Nora acts as a stepping-stone toward her independence. Additionally, the revelation of Torvald’s…

Following the Battle of the Somme, Faulks describes the ‘crippled sleepers’ rising from the ground, saying that it resembled a ‘resurrection in a cemetery’ ; a simile which represents the fact that the men are now the living dead; their old lives have been stolen from them. Faulks anthropomorphises the soil, saying that the men ‘teemed up from the reluctant earth’ alluding that even nature has turned against the men. The characters Stephen and Weir discuss the atrocities which have occurred…

In the beginning, Doodle’s brother is aware of a bad trait inside of him, a cruel streak, and does not fight it, but by the end, his cruelty dissolves as he learns the terrible consequences of pride. The narrator of the story, Doodle’s brother has always wanted a younger brother to play with. When he finally receives a baby brother, he is dismayed to find out that his new sibling is an invalid. The baby is named William Armstrong but is called “Doodle” by the family, and as he grows older, his…