Stephen Covey

Gothic Romanticism literature is a writing style that is fixated on gloom, mystery, and terror. An 18th century American author, Edgar Allan Poe, embraces this element of writing and enthralls not only the readers of his generation but his works continues to gain popularity even after his death. In ¨The Fall of the House of Usher¨ Poe depicts the story in a distraught tone when describing the setting and the character traits. From illustrating the interior of the house to the illness stricken…

Horror Film Sub-Genres Over 29 million tickets have been sold just this year on horror movies alone. “When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare.” said Stephen King in his article “Why We Crave Horror Movies”. People like the excitement of being scared. This is the same reason people go to haunted houses in the fall or tell scary stories by a campfire. Whether it be Creature Features, Slashers, or…

Stephen E. King was born in Portland, Maine on on September 21, 1947. King is one of the most successful horror writers of all time. His parents, Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, divorced when King was a kid. King and his brother traveled to Indiana and Connecticut for a while. After a while the traveling became a hassle, so he moved to Maine with his mother and brother . Eventually, he graduated in 1966, from Lisbon Falls High School. King attended the University of Maine at Orono. He…

Surviving: Stephen Hawking and his battle with ALS. Some diseases can kill you within days, some can cause pain for years. Some diseases are curable, some are not. ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a disease where it slowly melts your body muscles like a candle. ALS was widely discovered by Americans whenever beloved baseball player Lou Gehrig contracted it (RVWfoundation.org, Biography). ALS also affected another famous figure, the one who I am writing this paper about, Stephen Hawking.…

Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is to not accuse people without careful consideration. In the story a “meteor” flew above maple street. Everyone's power went dead, even the portable radios went dead. Then a little boy, Tommy started talking about aliens so everyone started accusing random people of being aliens. In the story les was the first to be accused when his car started automatically, but no one else’s car would start. I know this because In…

Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage Biographical Summary From 1871 until the end of the nineteenth century, Stephen Crane graced the world with his literary presence. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, as the son of a presiding elder of the Methodist Conference. Crane was the youngest in a family of fourteen children; his sister Agnes was often his sole caretaker. Throughout his boyhood, he traveled from city to city, under the heavy influence of the Methodist religion; he…

The experience of reading Crane’s The Open Boat, isn’t distinctly adrenaline pumping nor is it overwhelmingly emotional. The reader, as well as the men in the boat, do end in a starkly different scenario than when they began their journey, but the movement is often hard to pin point. In fact, the narrative is contrasted so that there are gaps, physical and literary as well as tonally. Shawn Michelle Smith investigates a similar scenario in her analysis of Muybridge’s photo framing. In a series…

Mouth grasped open, trepidation creeps in, eyes bugged huge, and a feeling of increasing dread is what is felt as you read along. These are all the appeals that captivate the reader into the world of gothic novels. We hate just to love these elements although they are what makes the reader so enticed we want more. The gothic literature presented in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier allows the reader to feel a sense of terror and fear because of the clever usage of imageries of the natural world,…

Stephen Hawking once said, “My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.” Stephen Hawking is one of the smartest humans in the world and also has ALS. ALS is a debilitating disease that has no known cure, but Hawking doesn’t let that stop him. Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime also has somewhat of a…

Gothic literature has an incredibly vast and important history. It is based off of gothic architecture and became a genre in literature in the late 1700s. This genre was created by the rejection of predictability and this sent writers to the “murky past”, The Middle Ages, to write about (Snodgrass). The time period was such a great inspiration for gothic literature since it was very contrasting with great improvements and horrible crimes. Later in the 18th century gothic literature switched from…