John Seward

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…

Wafer: In Dracula the Wafer, also known as the holy cookie of the church represents a safety cushion for the group. When Van Helsing takes Quincy, Seward, and Arthur go to Lucy’s Grave they notice its empty and in order to keep her from reentering he decides to place the chunks of Wafers into the coffin in order for her to not reenter. Here Van Helsing uses the wafer for the first time in the novel, and it shows a weakness Vampires have towards materials of Church, since Lucy could not get…

years. Each author takes and gives them different characteristics but they usually are universally described as a creature that was once human that somehow has returned from the dead and preys on living humans by drinking their blood to stay alive. Dr. John William Polidori, an English writer and physician, is said to have created the first written vampire story in his short story The Vampyre: A Tale. This story became the framework for other vampire stories and many of its elements are still…

In his 1897 gothic novel, Dracula, Bram Stoker defined the modern form of the vampire. His character, Dracula remained popular through the ages, being one of the most popular adaptation source in history. Dracula has created an extraordinary vampire subculture, and an enormous amount of films have been made that feature Count Dracula as it’s main antagonist, or protagonist. However, most adaptations do not include the major characters from the novel, focusing only on the now traditional…

Abraham Lincoln’s Ethical Leadership “Abraham Lincoln is regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes due to… his incredible impact on the nation,” who exhibited his ethical leadership throughout his career (http://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540#synopsis). Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States; he served as President through 1861-1865 (http://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540#synopsis). After becoming a President, his biggest accomplishment…

sitting in the presidential box at Ford’s Theater watching a comedy play named, “Our American Cousin”. Although this lovely couple was having a great time, they did not know that everything would change in a blink of an eye. It was just past 10:00 pm, John Wilkes Booth headed up the stairs towards the presidential box. The security guard protecting that room, names Henry Rathbone, was stabbed by Booth. Then Booth entered and shot Lincoln with a .44 caliber gun in the back if the head. The bullet…

assassinate what would become one of the most beloved presidents in American history came together in a matter of days, in a surprisingly simple scheme. John Wilkes Booth, the man who himself would pull the trigger, had a different original…

The novel Killing Lincoln, written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, portrays the steps leading up to the assassination of President Lincoln and the effects after. The author sequences the book in chronological arrangement through the historical events. Bill O’Reilly is a political television show host on the channel Fox News. O’ Reilly is an accomplished author; he has produced numerous historical novels. Also, the author majored in history and graduated from Harvard, so this knowledge makes…

President Lincoln had been shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth; then Booth proceeded to flee the scene of the crime. Then, not long after the fatal shooting of the president, news followed that Secretary of State, William H. Seward, had been stabbed. The hunt was now on for the conspirators, the police diligently searched for Booth, Herald and Surratt; the only known address was for Mr. John Surratt, when the police arrived at his home, his mother says that she hadn’t…

If John Wilkes Booth had been raised in the North and not the South, he would not have had such extreme views and would not have killed Abraham Lincoln. One could argue that something like this is predestined in a person, or that nature comes before nurture. However, the way Booth was raised clearly had a big part in leading up to his attempted kidnapping and following that, his assassination of America’s sixteenth president. His views radically contradicted those of Lincoln, and when, where,…