Robert Burns

something over and over again, but there does not appear to be a true purpose behind it. A person does something just because his ancestors did it before him, but the reason why has been lost. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, they reveal the idea of following a certain tradition, but the characters do not really need the tradition anymore. In “The Lottery,” Jackson writes about a town coming together right before the harvest, and they have a lottery. The…

teacher barked at young Fulton to pay attention. The boy’s mind was wandering again. “ Robert Fulton, who later became a phenomenal inventor, had a hard time in school as a young boy in the 1770’s. Young Fulton would come home to his mother and say “ My head's so full of notions that there, is no vacant chamber to store away the contents of dusty books “ Born in 1765 in Little Britain Township, Pennsylvania, Robert Fulton went on to become a talented artist and a skilled, and creative inventor…

Only Bates Can Get A Little Voyeuristic At Times: An Analysis on Robert Bloch’s “Psycho” When it comes to Gothic Literature, there are various conventions that could come into play, to define a work as such. In the “Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms”, Douglass H. Thomson notes that in such a genre there is a gap of difference that separates works that evoke terror and those that ignite horror as he says: “Works of horror are constructed from a maze of alarmingly concrete imagery designed to…

Former Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, is the first guest in the University of Colorado Boulder’s new speaker series on the campus. He will visit the campus on Feb. 28 through to March 1, not only will he be delivering his speech but he will also be visiting classrooms to inspire leadership throughout the CU. He will be making this speech at the Mackey Auditorium Hall and the tickets are sold out. Robert Gates is well-known for being the Secretary of Defense for eight different presidents,…

(My POV) I gripped Winter Stream's saddle tightly. She looked down at the Swirling waves below. She knew that if she fell, it would be the death of her. She shook the thought away and looked ahead. Fog was swirling just beyond a sea stack close by, blocking her view of the islands that were nearby. The expedition was about to start and everyone was anxious. I looked over to Flower and she signaled and to begin the expedition. Everyone took off in the direction of the sea stack ahead. I followed…

Morse Code There are many different ways to communicate. Hundreds of years ago, if you wanted to communicate long distance, a message would be written and delivered by a carrier. It wasn’t until a tragedy entered a great painters life that he turned from painting to becoming a great inventor. Samuel L. Morse was a painter and inventor who is is best remembered today for his invention of a single wire telegraph system and co-inventor of the Morse Code. He entered a formal school at the age of…

lines and sometimes even the whole text. Robert Frost uses such literary devices in his poems. Mending Wall by Robert Frost is about two neighbors that work together to repair the wall that separates their properties from each other. The Cow in Apple Time also by Robert Frost is about an obstinate cow that breaks through a wall to escape her pasture for an apple orchard where she devours apples until she feels agony and reaches her inevitable end. Robert Frost uses multiple images of a wall and…

ramifications of emotional, physical and intellectual discoveries made by the persona, which may be transformative in a positive or negative fashion, change ones perception or have an effect on elements of the human condition. The selection of poems from the Robert Frost collection including ‘Home Burial’, ‘Fire and Ice’, ‘The tuft of flowers’ and ‘Mending Wall’, is capable of delivering and thoroughly exploring these…

We filed onto the risers, our stage, and my choir director started talking to the choir, and then the other soloist in the choir and I sang for the night. As I and the other soloist made sure to frantically flip through the solos to attempt to make sure we remembered the lines, the red looming curtains opened. The distant stage lights were shining down upon me and the rest of my group of singers with hundreds of judging eyes of parents, friends, teachers, and other important people. The pressure…

Sir Robert Peel was the person who recommended that agencies should follow the military model but had also set forth nine principles on which the police force would be based on.These principles serve as a friendship or a contract that binds the community and the police together so they can both be on the same page. These principles to this day are being followed. Some more than others but there is still some form of involvement or a hint of each principle being followed by our police. One of…