Leonard Pitts

Edgar Allen Poe died in Baltimore on October 7th, 1849. This is a great shame as he was one of the greatest literary minds this country has ever produced. He will certainly be known as one of the best horror and mystery authors of all time, as well as one of the first. Poe had very few friends, if any, but his literary accomplishments were too great for his death to go unnoticed. Born in Boston on January 19, 1809 his family was a very honorable one. His grandfather, David Poe, Sr., was well…

Poe’s Life of Tragedies “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” (Brainyquote) That was one of Edgar Allan Poe’s quotes. In Poe’s life a lot of catastrophic things happen to him, consequently that is what molds him into a poet. Edgar Allan Poe was a great poet in the eighteen hundreds and still today. Edgar Allan Poe was and still is a poet. Edgar’s life begins in Boston, Massachusetts on January…

Over the years people have been reading the amazingly, mysterious and creative works of Edgar Allan Poe. Many people have read him in their english classes around the world. I initialy read some of his works on my own, but have learned more about who he is as a writer in my English curriculum.I later got more into his work when I saw a play that my mother took me to. It was confusing which then made me want to understand. I only really ever have known his work and I feel that is only what most…

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in a poor family of actors. His father’s name is David Poe and his mother’s name is Elizabeth Arnold Poe. Poe also had a brother named William Henry Leonard and a sister named Rosalie who died because of pneumonia. Poe’s brother, William Henry Leonard, was left with his grandparents but Poe stayed with his parents who were very poor. After Poe’s father died in October 1810, In the article, it is stated that “Mrs. Poe continued to labor to support…

Individualism in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe was a journalist, a pamphleteer, a merchant but he was most famously known for being a novelist. His most famous book, being Robinson Crusoe, is set on a deserted island where a stranded man has to survive for 28 years. This oeuvre belongs to the English early novels and created a new form of storytelling. A storytelling in which Defoe wants his readers to believe that they are reading factual history rather than a piece of imagination…

Edgar Allen Poe’s Death Theory Did you know Edgar Allen Poe married his first cousin? Poe lied to the court about his wife’s age. She was thirteen and Poe was twenty-six. Later in life, she died of tuberculosis, like most women in Poe’s family. Back to Poe is passing. My thoughts on Poe’s death is that he died of rabies. Doctors even said he was not drunk when he was found. Poe’s symptoms were similar to signs of rabies. “Poe was found outside of a tavern, but wasn’t drunk.” (pg. 187 by Dr. R.…

would happen when a child was disobedient. It turns out that there are parents who oppose using corporal punishment (spanking) on children as they find that it is wrong. Leonard Pitts, Jr. talks about this controversy in his op-ed piece “Spare the Rod, Spoil the Parenting”. In “Spare the Rod, Spoil the Parenting” Leonard Pitts, Jr. explains the controversy of how parents believe children should be disciplined.…

that humans can do to stop disatsters that happen. The earth that all humans call home, can actually be the one thing that completly destoys peoples "homes'. In Leonard Pitts article that he writes about the earth, and the distruction of Haiti, a main message he expresses is that the earth kick humans when they are already down. Leonard Pitts pushes the idea that earth is a cruel place,…

In the commentary article, “‘The Butler’ and The Truth” from The Miami Herald, Leonard Pitts reports on the film “The Butler”, the tale of a White House servant, which portrays “The Truth. As in The Truth of How Things Were, and how that shapes How Things Are” (Pitts). Pitts opens his article by setting a scene, that of a crowd of people waiting in line to see ‘The Butler’. He describes the varying shades of what we call ‘black’ people, specifically adults, but draws attention, not to just their…

the article “Life makes you and me risk takers” Lenard Pitt discusses How a young adult at the age of 38, loses her memory because of Alzheimer’s. First Leonard discusses how the adult would like to have children, however just when the kid is 10 years old the mother will not remember who she is. On the bright side, the child was blessed and did not receive the fatal gene thus stopping the disease of Alzheimer’s for future generations. Leonard then discusses how he doesn’t know if he would have…