The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Part One: Judith Lorber describes gender in a three focused aspects. One of these aspects is gender as a process. What Lorber means when she describes gender as a process is that there are societal expectations depending on the gender you receive at birth. In our society, we have created characteristics and assigned them to specific genders and then expect everyone to agree on those set attributes. There are differences in the behaviors and attitudes that are deemed acceptable or unacceptable…

There’s conflict and danger lurks as an unfortunate soul strives to find salvation. The readers hold their breath as disaster strikes and soon a detective like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes arrives and brings hope. It is the constant suspense that keeps readers hanging and hoping for a satisfying resolution to the tale. Likewise, O’Neil utilizes suspense and weaves it throughout the play. “Don’t yer notice nothin’ funny today?” Smithers…

Poe’s writings inspired many authors, but one in particular was Arthur Conan Doyle, author of The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, because of his mystery based writing style (oswego.edu). The Black Cat , The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell-Tale Heart, are stories that are considered to fall into the horror genre of Poe’s works due to their eerie persona (poetryfoundation…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, the third novel of Mark Haddon, tells the story of Christopher, an autistic teenager who decides to find out who killed his neighbor’s dog with a pitchfork. The investigation of Christopher soon turns into a journey into the recent history of his family and a difficult initiation into the world of so-called "normal", with lots of up and downs while wandering through London. The outline of the story is simple, traditional at best, but solved in a…

humor as well as discipline, and I try to encourage fellow students to work hard. I am also a student that likes to interpret and complete assignments using unique approaches; I like to find creative ways to solve problems. For example, in the Sherlock Holmes Dossier project in English,…

The film version of Ten Little Niggers (1945, US title: And Then There Were None) by the French director René Clair, starring Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald, is one of the most faithful Christie adaptations. In addition to these mysteries, Christie wrote her autobiography (1977), and several plays, including THE MOUSETRAP, which run more than 30 years continuously in London, and had 8 862 performances at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The play was based on the short story 'Three Blind…

Napoleon made his troop go from Northern Italy into Austria. John Adams is the first president to live in the White House. 1803 Louisiana Purchase was made. Tsar Paul I is assassinated. The Cumberland Road was made to improve western transportation. Johnny Appleseed start teaching pioneers how to plant apple trees. In 1800 Lewis and William Clark expedition began in 1804. Robert E. Lee attends the first West Point Academy with Ulysses S. Grant. Charles Willson Peale establishes…