Samuel Alito

“The Open Window” Vera is a very manipulative and deceitful young girl. I know this because of the way she acts and speaks to the other characters in the story. “In the meantime you must try and put up with me,” is a quote that Vera said in the story that shows how she is manipulative and deceitful. Another way you can infer this about Vera is she likes to lie and tell false stories. ‘The child was staring out through the open window with dazed horror in her eyes,’ is a quote that shows how…

The article describes a stone structure known as The Merry Maidens, in which Kevin Budd, the author, visited while in England. The Merry Maidens is similar to other circular stone structures such as Stonehenge, also in England. The origin and purpose of these structures has been the cause of much debate that will most likely never be resolved. This article offers up a bit of folklore as a possible explanation for its existence. The description of the tale involves 19 maidens and two pipers…

Works considered satire are categorized in such a manner because of their use of irony and exaggeration in conveying messages that are critical of certain aspects of life or society as a whole. It can be difficult to distinguish between conventional and satirical novels if the absurdities the author intends to critique are presented in a subtle tone. An example of a novel that is subjectively a mockery of contemporary American life is Don Delillo’s White Noise. While the main characters of the…

Look, it's happened! I had my doubts after The Darkness but this time we got a good one! Horror just doesn't get any better than The Conjuring 2. Right, it's a sequel too. Mind. Blown. The Conjuring 2 brings back actors Patrick Wilson (The Switch, Hard Candy, Space Station 76) and Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Judge, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) in their roles as paranormal investegator couple Ed and Lorraine Warren. After the tragic incident at the amityville house Ed and Lorraine step…

In this article, “Rationality, Pirates, and the Law: A Retrospective”, the author, Peter T. Leeson, discusses the legal changes that brought Caribbean piracy in the 1720s to an end, and their overall effectiveness. In the article he also discusses the pirates response to these legal changes. The different topics that he is recounting allows him to use the information that he gathers to use the law to address present day pirates. The author is able to effectively gather this information by…

To My Fellow Brother, Cape Bradford Hello brother I am writing you this letter to tell you that us Patriots are still rooting for you to be a part of our group. I’m going to tell you why they are not the people you want to chose. Well first of all they cause a lot of tension between us, such as The Proclamation of 1763 and how those dumb rules were cast upon us, that wasn’t a very fun time and don’t even get me started with The Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Party those were horrible acts…

The sibyls were women that the ancient Greeks believed were oracles. There were many Sibyls, however the Sybil of Cumae is best known. Her cave, where she lived, was located near the town of Cumae, on the western coast of Italy. According to tradition the Sybil was the woman who sold the Sibylline books to the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus. The famous story is in the Roman Antiquities, by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. It starts when an old woman arrives in Rome in disguise. She brings with…

Slender Man One of the most interesting fictionalized horror legends of recent time is the story of Slender man. A tall, faceless, thin man, dressed in a black suit seen in the background of photographs. Slender man can elongate or retract his limbs and has extendable tentacles protruding from his back. It is believed that Slender man stalks and abducts children, but it is unknown what he does with them (Carrero, 2015, Aug. 10). The Slender man phenomenon originated with two photos entered…

How are celebrities brainwashed and mind controlled? Many investigators or news reporters and even fans have influenced many evidential that celebrities are being mind controlled. Illuminati and MK ultra are the resources used to investigate their response . Mk ultra is a mind controlled laboratory procedure where this group of people by the name illuminati bash celebrities into having more than one personality. These celebrities have mood changes at random times and start stuttering and…

communications, but they were either too slow or too complicated. Railroads were helping expand the country quickly, they were connecting cities to each other, but there needed to be some form of communication to pass messages throughout America. That is what Samuel Morse and his new system of telegraphy successfully achieved. In the early 1800’s, all of the required parts that were needed to build an electrical communication system had been discovered. The most important of these were the…