The Munsters

When I was little, I loved the 1960’s TV show The Munsters. The comedic TV show centered around a family of several monsters and one normal girl. The family included two vampires, a werewolf, and Frankenstein’s monster. It is difficult to know for sure if I was exposed to Frankenstein’s monster before watching this show, but it is reasonable to assume I did. The imagery of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and its adaptations is impossible to escape from. From Halloween to 1960’s comedy shows,…

Task 1 Introduction I am a business consultant in small business consultancy firm. As part of my Job specification I have selected a company to provide an orientation to a small firm. The following is the profile of the selected Company “ Whale”. History ‘Whale” has led the way since way back in the 1940s with ground breaking pump design through to recent innovation leaps in intelligent control electronic pump systems and gas or electric heating systems for water and space in recreational…

When you visit Ireland you will find fortresses and castles that date back to Medieval times scattered all over the beautiful countryside. Most of the castles found in Ireland were built using stone. Many of them date back to the 1100's. The Irish started building castles after the Normans invaded the country. There were castles built all over Ireland's beautiful countryside. Many of them now lie in ruins. There are others that have been restored. Many of the castles are open to the…

The Thirty Years’ War, which lasted from 1618-1648, ravaged Europe for three decades aimed at the control of Germany by the Habsburg House that had ruled the Holy Roman Empire since the fifteenth century. This war was sparked by the Protestant Reformation that had begun in 1517. Though the war was destructive on all accounts, it did help shape today’s modern Europe. This essay will evaluate the Thirty Years’ War and how it helped form the modern state of Europe. The Thirty Years’ War was both…

Throughout the novel The Once and Future King, author T.H. White takes the readers into the world of King Arthur and his legendary story. Spanning from when King Arthur was nothing more than a boy called by the name of Wart, up until his final battle, White brings us into the a world of chivalry, magic, and adventure. During the course of the novel, White maintains the ability to introduce major, and minor, themes and lessons that are routed within a thrilling plot filled with animal…

The song was written by Dominic Behan as a tribute to his father, Stephen, an Irish Republican, who was one of Michael Collins’ twelve apostles. The melody for Come Out, Ye Black and Tans was adapted from an old air, Rosc Catha na Mumhan, or The Munster Battle Cry which was written by Piaras Mac Gearailt in c. 1750. The song’s lyrics make reference to the history of Irish nationalism and the sixteen Irish revolutionaries that were executed after the Easter Rising of 1916, and the activities of…

As we move into the darkest months of the year, it seems appropriate to visit a a spectre as ancient as life itself - the death messenger or Banshee. Throughout history and across cultures there are stories and myths of beings that forewarn of human death. Just as the joy and desire to live is innate to most humans, so is the fear and dread of death. Seeing a ghost is not as alarming as the chilling knowledge that "as I am, so you shall be". Because mankind lives at the behest of the beautiful…

rules and norms of sovereignty are not static consequentially with the end of the Cold War sovereignty has essentially changed. Prior to 1991 notions of sovereignty harked back to the peace of Westphalia in the mid 16th century. The treaties of Munster and Osnabrück provided the basis of state sovereignty, which at its core meant ‘supreme authority within a territory’ (Philpott, 2001) and ‘non intervention in the internal affairs of other states’ (Krasner, 2004). However the end of the Cold War…

Stephan Doering, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Munster in Germany, and some of his colleagues. The study had 104 participants, all of which were women between the ages of 18 and 45, who had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The study was supposed to take place for one year, however…

In order to show emotion surely you must feel and have emotions, must you not? For instance, if you were to show empathy towards another human it would be declared that you can feel emotion as a consequence of having emotions, would it not? So why is this not that the case regarding animals’ emotions? As Flintoff states, animals show empathy, joy, fear, grief; the list is endless ‘they have a very rich ensemble of emotions’; why is this ignored by many? Out of convenience? Or perhaps because…