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Battle of Langside Battle of Pinkie Cleugh Battle of Carberry Hill Rough Wooing of Scotland Wyatt's Rebellion Siege of Leith Revolt of the Northern Earls Anglo-Spanish War Battle of Langside: The Battle of Langside took place May 13th1568 and was between Mary Stuart and her half-brother James Stuart. The reason behind the battle was that Mary escaped from the Loch Leven Castle that she was imprisoned at due to the Battle of Carberry Hill. Once Mary escaped she tried to put her last efforts…

“A Rose for Emily” Critical Analysis “In good fiction, certain of the details will tend to accumulate meaning from the action of the story itself, and when this happens they become symbolic in the way they work” (O’Connor). In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” many components that may be initially dismissed in a passage, through intelligent writing, gather a deeper meaning. Homer, for example, appears to be just another tragedy to strike the pathetic life of Emily Grierson. However, many…

Written or Verbal Written in 1930, William Faulkner’s twisted short story “A Rose for Emily” is still being discussed eighty-five years later. Having been made into a major motion picture in 1982, the cryptic story’s legend lives on into a new age of discussion. Miss Emily Grierson made a name for herself in the small southern town, and both forms of media convey the deep twists of her life in one way or another. The movie and book contain similarities like the odor problem and the…

Maggie did just that. She quotes,” I want a child, and it is my time to conceive, I have locked up the liquor cabinet and I will make him satisfy my desire before I unlock it, (Tennessee Williams, pg.975). Serafina, the character in the “In the Rose Tattoo was a Sicilian woman that was paralyzed of the loss of her late husband whom she loved unconditionally. At one time, she would not look at another man, or make herself presentable to be viewed as a beautiful woman. A salesman by the name of…

box of roses in my front door” Briana explains. “Are you sure they’re not from Chris, because that is so romantic,” Courtney exclaims. “No or I don’t think so. Also, the roses were dried up in a glass box.” “Dried up roses? That doesn’t sound so romantic. You should just throw them away. Geeze I thought this was something good,” Courtney whines about it. “I just left it in my house. I was running late to the meeting. It is strange to think that someone has sent me such finely dried up roses.…

Emotions can lead to despair, for instance, “A Rose for Emily” demonstrates the desperation found when sharing human connection. The writing occurs during the era of the American Revolution and the fall of embraced Southern roots; therefore, “by creating the character of Emily Grierson, a southern woman tortured by the traditional patriarchy of her environment and forbidden love, Faulkner expresses his pity and love for his birthplace, as well as nostalgia for the past” (Hsu, Wang 87). This…

Ms. Emily and Her Tangled Web A “Rose for Emily” has a surprising start, where the reader begins at the end of Ms. Emily’s story. The opening scene is the funeral for Ms. Emily Grierson, being of Southern tradition the townspeople come to pay their respects out of their own inquisitiveness needs. Faulkner plays with his readers as her tale unfolds. It is only as one reads further that they learn more about Ms. Emily, and the life she led. Faulkner only lets his readers see moments of her…

Poetic Explication: “We Real Cool” We Real Cool, is a rather short poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1960, right in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Near the beginning of the poem it sounds like everything is quite alright with everyone, with “We real cool,” but by the end of the poem, everything is not ok, and the poem ends with “We / die soon,” which means that death will soon occur, if change does not happen (Brooks 3, 9-10). Through the use several literary techniques, Brooks…

Gislebertus, a french sculptor who made major contributions to the cathedral of Saint Lazare was the sole creator of the lintel sculpture Eve (Encyclopedia Britannica “Giselbertus”). Gislebertus was a well-known sculptor due to his exhibition of expressionism carving and technical proficiency. With the rise of religion and the wide growth of Christianity throughout Europe, Gislebertus had the demonstration of the expressive range relief of Eve. The discovery of Eve was at the north portal of the…

William Faulkner constructs “A Rose for Emily” in a manner that follows the traditional ideals and behavior of the small-town American South and formally imitates the back and forth way one tells a story. The first section of the short story begins toward the chronological end of the story, as it starts with Miss Emily’s death and then works its way backward in a way that mimics the thought processes of the townsfolk. The first sentence includes the pronoun “our,” which indicates that the…