Poker After Dark

can be found in Horacio Quiroga’s short story, “The Feather Pillow”. Quiroga casts an imaginary monster as the evil and demented antagonist. Alicia’s husband and doctors are in a state of despair because they are unable to stop her imminent demise. After Alicia dies, a parasite was discovered inside her feather pillow that had “...stealthily applied its mouth-its snout, rather-to her temples, sucking out her blood” (Quiroga 2). The last example of Grotesqueness is in William Faulkner's short…

To begin,The Fall of the House of Usher written by Edgar Allan Poe a gothic style type of literature.This story gives off a the the reader a lengthy story and a unhinged sense while reading this story.Poe use the description of a worn down house that has rotted and look not the same as the narrator remembers it as his childhood .This story also has subtle about of if the charters going mad and may be an mental ill person because of the way his persona is described as . To include , In…

This essay will focus on food, clothing, and education from the medieval period, explaining how they influenced daily life. The Medieval period was full of hard and strenuous times. Where and how food came about, and who influenced it. Where clothing came from. Who wore what types of clothing. How it influenced daily life. How education came about. What was there to learn. Who had the privilege to have education. Food played the biggest role in the Medieval period. Where food came from and how…

There is a fine line between being a hero and a villain. Batman is the only hero in the movie the The Dark Knight as he never goes against his own morals despite the people of Gotham City losing faith in him. “Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.” Batman will always help those in need even when the whole city is against him. The…

Shortly after the 2004 NASA Swift telescope was launched, it captured intense but quick flashes of light called gamma ray bursts, from the collision of two stars. By observing the event’s “afterglow”, astronomers realized that the large explosion was a black hole…

journey begins on January 1st at midnight. By 5:31 am, you have reached the edge of the Solar System. The tour guide decides to alter the flight path so that you can look down a view the Solar System, and “that is perpendicular to our galaxy.” (Journey) After five years, four months, and nineteen days, you arrive at Alpha Centauri, the nearest star outside of the Solar…

In the movie The Dark Knight, Batman fits the character type description of being continent. He struggles with his appetitive part and desires to get rid of the Joker, but really the only way of doing that is by killing him. However, the Batman endures through the temptation and does not give in to his desire to kill the Joker. On the other hand, the Joker would fit the vicious type of character in the movie. He consistently does the villainous deeds, that they have become a habit for him. He…

Nolan’s Batman trilogy is one that has redefined comic-book movies. His second film The Dark Knight is one that goes deep into the origins and creates an outstanding tragedy. He creates characters that the viewers are drawn to and care much about. This was possible due to lead actors Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Michel Caine, Gary Oldman, and Morgan Freeman’s wonderful performances. After Batman Begins a new district attorney named Harvey Dent has been elected…

It has been 16 years since the hit TV series Baywatch ended and now fans of the show are about to leap for joy because it is making a comeback, not as a TV series but rather as a movie. Latinos Post reported that Baywatch is confirmed to return as a movie and those who have loved it could rejoice knowing that those beach scenes and action are going to be relived. Comic Book published some spoilers about this movie and one of them is the fact that this project would be rated R for comedy.…

Cosmos episode 13, “Unafraid of the dark”, begins by talking about the vast amount of scrolls and information that was kept in the library of Alexandria. Many of the books and scrolls were lost when the mob attacked and destroyed the library. This is shocking because of all the history of Ancient times that he's been lost due to the destruction of these books. Although we lost many discoveries, we as humans continue to learn new information about the universe. This begins the discovery of…