Shelley Shannon

I love the world that I live in, but sometimes I hate the people who live in it. To start off, I am partially guilty of being one of those people I despise because if you read my previous article you know that I did drive a car and I did leave a car in the jungle. I suppose I meet criminal standards for that. If anyone asks if my story about the jungle car is true I might even deny it; I am that bad. But I am on the bottom of the feeding chain when it comes to my contribution to pollution. I…

Conventional versus contemporary. Paranormal versus verism. Charles Dickens’ “The Signalman” and Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”, two pieces of Gothic prose, are different yet, in various ways, similar. Written with the creation of suspense and tension in mind, both stories are tied with a common theme of insanity. One of the ways that the two writers create suspense is by utilising the description of the setting and the themes. Dickens reiterates the words “gloomy” and “dark” as well as…

The title “The Masque of the Red Death” Author - Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) Date - First published as “The Masque of the Red Death. A Fantasy” in 1842. Republished as “The Masque of the Red Death” in the July 1845 issue of a magazine called the Broadway Journal Summary - At the beginning of the story we are introduced to the red death and Prince Prospero. The prince goes to lock off himself and all his friends away in his luxurious “Castellated abbey” to stall the coming of death as…

elements and idealization of women and children. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake are known as the major figures of Romanticism in English literature. Their romantic poems, “The Lamb” by William Blake, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode to The West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and will be…

also focused on the human passion and emotion of the poet, and on imagination as a more reliable faculty than reason. Among this movement the most noticeable English poets are William Blake, George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William…

The two works are used in the study of the path of principles in the artistic movements of Realism through Classicism and Romanticism in early 19th century Europe. The object is to analyze how each movement affected and influenced Realism. The movements are linked to other genres; Romanticism is coupled with Classicism, and Realism is associated with Idealism. Both movements faced criticism due to an opposition of majority taste and offensive subject matter. Despite the impediments, the…

Cheating has grown to be the biggest problem resulting from PED use. Mary Shelley believes that PED’s become monstrous once mankind's misuses them; however, has mankind misused them at all? Many people believe that PED’s have no affect on the sport they play. Steroids, for example, are a PED that increases muscle development, but…

Female Strength in Frankenstein Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who stood up for her education in Pakistan where girls weren't allowed to go to school, said that “In most parts of the world, when a girl is born, her wings are clipped. She is not able to fly.” While there has been some progress, even today, girls and women are not treated equally to boys and men. This problem gets worse the farther one looks back in time. Especially in old books, women are…

Some people might say that the main character from the X-men Wolverine is a superhero, well I disagree with this statement for various reasons. Wolverine is considered is a superhero because he saves people from the villains, some people do not realize that Wolverine also kills people. Even though he saves people, he does it by killing the villains and that can make some people think that he is rather a killer. Chuck Klosterman is an American author who focuses on American popular culture. In…

Ben’s dad’s recognition of guilt transforms him into a 3d character. Throughout the body of the story, Ben’s dad was originally the head of the operation to stop the terrorists and was willing to use any means to do so. He parallels Artkin who is the head of the terrorists and is also willing to use any means to close the Inner Delta. That meant both Artkin and Ben’s dad did not feel guilty about using the school children or Ben as their main means for their respective goals, despite the harm…