Stephen Harper

“The Calm” by Sean O’Brien is a four part metaphor representing the infinite serenity of the ocean and the stars as well as the revolving of a lighthouse in comparison to the people who have fallen from the light. In the first three stanzas we see beautiful metaphors comparing the rolling of the waves to the movement of the stars and, the revolving of the lighthouse to the tilt of the harbor. The poem continues to describe the inhabitants of a nearby bar who have fallen from stardom, sharing a…

“The Pardoner's Tale vs. The Wife of Bath’s Tale” Greed is so powerful that it murders some of the closest people to you. Geoffrey Chaucer is the author of The Canterbury Tales which teaches many great life lessons that will go on forever. “The Pardoner’s Tale” educates on the feeling of greed and “ The Wife of Bath’s Tale” expresses what women really want. The reasons why “The Pardoner's Tale” is a better tale is because it is more entertaining and it teaches a better moral that can relate to…

Stephen King is a widely acclaimed author in not just American culture, but around the world. He is commended for his significant contributions to the horror novel genre and the various movies and TV shows that have resulted from his books. In his book, On Writing, King outlines some his theories about why he was able to achieve the success he has. In the essay “On Stephen King,” author Gary Hoppenstand also presents his ideas as to why King has been so successful in his writing career. However…

Mike Ryan is a fiction thriller writer from Pennsylvania thought he currently lives in Bensalem a suburb of Philadelphia. Over the course of his career he has written several series of novels that include his most popular Silencer series, The CIA Ghost series, and The Cain series, most of which have gone on to become bestsellers on Amazon Kindle. Even as he writes high octane thriller fiction, he is a family man who lives with Liz his wife and four children. Ryan is a big animal rights crusader…

Gothic literature perpetually creates suspense and tension in the form of both tradition and contemporaneity. Both forms of gothic literature share a theme insanity that helps the writers to create suspense. In the traditional gothic literature ‘The Signalman’ written in 1866, Charles Dickens successfully builds suspense by writing in first person with numerous imagery. In addition, suspense and tension are well-developed through various techniques, such as third person point of view and…

Gothic romance in literature combine elements of horror, death, and gloom, but also incorporate components of love, nature, and individuality; these aspects all play an important role in turning a fictional work of literature into a gothic romance. Nature specifically plays a significant role in gothic romance because it temporarily takes death or horror away from the story and greatly changes a character’s mood or emotion. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, nature significantly changes both Victor…

There are many habits that humans form throughout their lifetimes, some may be good while others may not. Stephen Covey marked 7 of the best habits in his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which gives the reader a detailed look into what habits they should form in order to succeed and be more effective in their day to day lives. The book is very well written with real world examples and quotes that leave the reader thinking as to how they should implement the 7 habits into their…

The Hound of the Baskervilles 2002 Film Adaptation: A Crime or Sublime? There have been a multitude of films made into novels because of their lasting impression on society as a whole, especially on young and mature audiences. The extraordinary list of novels remade into movies contains critically-acclaimed plots, such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, part of The Hunger Games series; the Sea of Monsters, part of the Percy Jackson series; and it would be daft not to mention Harry Potter…

As we grow up, we start learning that different creatures that we loved and feared, like Santa Claus or the monster that lived under our bed, don’t actually exist. However, the only thing they don’t really tell us is that the ones you fear the most are actually real. Ghost and Spirits are common topics among society. Some encounters can be pleasant, but most of them are so terrifying that they can be hard to believe for those who are skeptical. People may doubt the existence of ghosts and…

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is an adventure novel published in 1844. The genres of this book are mixed up history, adventure fiction and romance. The story is set during the early 1800’s and takes place in olden days European countries but mostly took place in France, Rome and Italy. Alexandre Dumas is a pure French citizen which is why he might have wanted to tell the readers a little about history through this creative novel of his. The main character of this story is Edmond…