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In the gothic novel Dracula there are many gothic motifs. Gothic motifs are images that show up in other gothic stories. For example, in most gothic stories there are stormy nights, full moons, spooky castles, wolves, bats, horses and carriages, cobwebs, etc. From Dracula, the four things that show up most in other stories are the spooky castle, the stormy nights, blood, and carriage rides. The first motif noticed in Dracula is the carriage ride in the evening. This shows up in other gothic…

talking to Jill Meagher and after identified as Adrian Bayley as the blue hoodie man. According to the police summary, Bayley put Jill’s body in his white Holden Astrabury’s boot after he murdered her and went back to his Coburg home. He then put a shovel into his car’s boot and drove to the side of Black Hill Road, Gisborne South on Calder Freeway. He arrived there around 5am and started burying her body straight…

Heavy snow can alter vision and can make it so people cannot see what is right in front of them. Often times, this can happen with people, too. People tell lies to deceive those around them, and make themselves seem like better people than they actually are. The short story “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff is a good example of this. The theme of the story is that people will lie about themselves because they feel insecure, and want people to think they are better than they actually are. The…

harnessing this creativity, in fact, it is malnutrition. Thankfully, bright minds happen to be a resilient lot. But while the blooming gifted can take a lot of abuse, it would be inexcusable to stand idly by if the public school system were to spew shovels of shit day-in-and-day-out toward our young best-and-brightest. Yet this is precisely what happens in the United States, which among peer nations is particularly guilty of malpractice. It is we who invest among the very least in this source of…

I chose the book Holes by Louis Sachar, a beloved American children’s novel and winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal. The story centers around an unlucky adolescent boy named Stanley Yelnats. He is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and is mistakenly arrested for stealing a pair of shoes although he is innocent. He is sent to the Camp Green Lake juvenile detention center where he is subjected to horrible conditions and forced to dig holes every day. The novel was an obvious choice for the…

Case History: Kevin was just your ordinary kid, the youngest of many children in the McCallister family. He was, as the movie portrayed him, the least popular member of the family, being bullied by his older brother Buzz and often ignored by his parents and cousins. This neglect reaches its peak when Kevin is left at home alone, the kid is eight remember, while the rest of his family rushes to the airport to board a flight to Paris after the power goes out and they oversleep. In fact, his…

“Death Fugue” is a poem that addresses the suffering of the Jews during the Holocaust and focuses largely on the mindset of the Jewish people as individuals. “Death Fugue” employs this idea when it states “we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped” (Line 4). This quote is stating that heaven is not as overcrowded and uncomfortable as the world they are living in now. The concentration camps were places of mass torture and death, and this freedom…

The Malaria Project encompasses the wild west period of medicine. In the nineteenth century, so many aspects of medicine were purely experimental. From surgery, to pharmaceuticals, and especially psychology which was still developing at that time, a trial and error basis of treatment was prescribed. High risk methods were employed to conditions that were not well understood resulting in low success rates. As medicine advanced in to the twentieth century, more efficient and efficacious means of…

the light, and their green feathers were thousands of feet up in the air. The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with palm saplings. The sunny winters, not having to shovel snow from my front door and no more walking while shivering. During that period, while still being in New York, I applied to FSW so that I can start in the spring. I applied for my first job ever; that was exciting. I wanted to feel like I had…

the floras of the world.” Further, Leopold explains his observance of man’s disregard for nature through the extraction of the Silphium and the effects of animal grazing habits. Witnessing the different tools for extraction, he explains the power shovel slicing the Silphium root still allowed for regrowth; however, the plant “apparently withstands almost any kind of mutilation except continued grazing, mowing, or plowing.” Additionally, the continuous, confined grazing of cows decimated the…