The Heiress

In this story Christie focuses on the murder of a rich heiress and introduced one of her most famous characters, Detective Hercule Poirot. (“Christie, Agatha” 176; Curran). And Then There Were None is a fictional book about an insane egomaniac killer who lures a group of people to Soldier Island and traps them…

Keeping Up With the Kardashians is a reality television program on the E! Network. The unscripted show features the Kardashian/Jenner family—Kris, Caitlyn (formerly known as Bruce), Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Rob, Kendall and Kylie. The series debuted on October 14, 2007, and the thirteenth season is scheduled to air on March 12, 2017. The show documents the lives of the mixed family—Kourtney, Khloé, Kim and Rob are all children of Kris Jenner and the late Robert Kardashian. Kendall and Kylie are the…

South Carolinians, young “Billy” was sent to England to complete his education. After ten years of schooling at Westminster and Oxford (Balliol College), Drayton returned to South Carolina where he soon married Dorothy Golightly, a young wealthy heiress. Their union produced four children, only two of whom reached adulthood. Well educated, financially secure, and politically well-connected, Drayton naturally sought political office. He won a seat in the South Carolina General Assembly in…

In Greek Mythology, the Amazons were a group of female warriors that settled in the secluded city of Themiskyra on the Black Sea (present day Ukraine). No males could live with the Amazons, they were a force by themselves, known for their courage and pride (Cartwright). However, like majority of species, males were necessary for procreation. For the Amazons to continue their race, they would visit a nearby tribe once a year known as the Gargareans. After choosing a partner from the tribe and…

The Battle of Hastings The battle of Hastings happened in 1066. The battle was between King Harold II and William the Conqueror. King Harold II was put as king of England when his close friend Edward the Confessor died as king without leaving an heir. But it turned out that William the Duke of Normandy in France was a distance cousin of Edward which made him eligible by blood to be king. The two men went into battle against each other to fight for the throne. William marched with his troops of…

Lafayette examines the causes and effects of extreme jealousy in regard to a young heiress, the Princess de Cleves, who marries an affluent suitor, the Prince de Cleves, but quickly falls in love with another man, the Duke de Nemours. As she begins to subject herself to the Duke’s love, the Princess embarks on a journey through first love’s…

them were particularly devastating and were all generally short-term issues. Key successes in Henry’s political moves included arranged marriages that forged connections and alliances. The first he made was between him and Elizabeth of York, the heiress to the York line. This served as a…

Extenuating circumstances are always evident when one is confronted with moral choices; however, individual ramifications are not the only scenario to consider. Hawthorne allowed for each person The Scarlet Letter to further explain their side of the sin and how they were afflicted by the outcomes of their mysterious secret in their daily lives. Hester and Dimmesdale generated an unthought out situation for their daughter, Pearl, that could have influenced her way of living for the rest of her…

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts. Most of his ancestors were prominent Puritans, who were also wealthy. In the Scarlet Letter (1850), Hester must show what she’s done by wearing an “A” for adultery on her chest for the world to see because of her sin. In the book, Hester commits adultery which affects her in negative ways and creates great problems between the people she knows. In the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne claims that sin not only affects the sinner but also those whose…

In the last years there have been several TV series that have succeeded in the media and that have produced a fan phenomenon and one of them is Game of Thrones. Since its launching in 2011, this drama has caught the attention of the public and has become part of the history of television, breaking records in audience, illegal downloads and sells all over the world. The question here is why this simple and vane fiction has attracted such an amount of audience that are willing to see what is going…