The Haunting of Hill House

Committing the crime of debt in the Victorian era was considered no less of a crime than that of murder and while you could not be executed for the crime of debt, the use of torture devices was known to have killed countless inmates. Debtors were imprisoned indefinitely or until their debt was paid and unless you had the means to pay the debt off, it was possible to spend your life imprisoned. Death was more plausible than release. While debtors’ prisons were thought to have been abolished in…

be heard. Aiming his stinging remark at the now blinded Cyclops, Odysseus cries out that the Gods, and Zeus himself, have brought this upon Polyphemus. Filled with rage, and perhaps a bit* of shame, the towering Cyclops flings a piece of the very hills in the direction from which Odysseus’s insult came. The large piece of land narrowly misses the bow of the ship, and it causes a rush of water that pushes the ship almost completely back to shore. Panicked and afraid, the crew vigorously row to a…

paranormal activities. In ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, Poe gives a vivid description of the sinister day of the first few lines of the story itself “during the hole of a dull and soundless day in the autumn of the year when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone on horse back, through a singularly dreary tract of country and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher”[6] and hence it becomes…

was a girl named Mia. Every day, she would go to her aunt's house. Every day, she thought the walk was boring. Until one day, she went to a shop, and she found a beautiful rug. She took the rug home, and she found out that it was a magic carpet. She flew everywhere. She went to India to see an elephant. She went to Bangladesh to eat mangoes. From then on, she always used the magic carpet to get around town. She took it to her aunt's house and even to school every day! Avianna was born in…

Table of contents Introduction 1 Chapter 1. The Victorian Era 3 Chapter 2. Tess, the tragedy of an unfair existence…

The Orange Sun, Bioethics and Praxis of Systemic Annihilation in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow ABSTRACT From the quasi-oral form, African Literature has cascaded through systemic phases in less than two hundred years of contact with the Western written form. It has migrated from that dark romance portrayed by western writers to contemporariness of self-reappraisal. The primary inclination of these texts has been the ultimate question. What have we achieved with our independence? The unsavoury…