The Overcoat

Charles Corbyn was a quiet man. He had no real friends. Never in his life did he feel any need to have interpersonal relationships. Neither did the people around him, for a reason Charles Corbyn had never thought about. It was not because he was unattractive or unlikable. In fact he was a man of very gentle disposition and quite handsome. He had the body of a worker but carried himself as one of high import. Tonight he had decided to go to the pub for his supper. He grabbed his outer coat and…

A Study in Temperament We live in a materialistic society with people controlled by money and what they can accomplish with it. Every individual on this planet exemplifies a cog in the wheel of progress, as Charlie Chaplin asserts in his popular film Modern Times that we live to do what others want in order to survive. Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case” illustrates the story of a suicidal young man who was surrounded by a grim environment not suitable to his liking. Cather illuminates the…

In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, the reader follows the life of Gogol Ganguli, a boy born to Bengali immigrants, and named after the Russian author Nikolai Gogol. Throughout the book, Gogol struggles with his identity, both from nomenclatural and cultural standpoints. It isn't until the end of the book, in his thirties, that Gogol finally comes to terms with his name and culture. In many ways, Gogol's struggle with identity is psychological, and it is interesting to consider how culture and…

and and the American culture in which he lives i. He struggles to find his own identity and culture. The question of identity is dealt through names. For instance, Gogol’s name comes from the Russian author Nikolai V. Gogol. He has written “The Overcoat”, a short story which also deals with identity and which has a particular significance for his father for it has in a way saved his life during the accident that occurred on his way to his grand parents . However, Gogol does not like his name…

Fashion in the 1930s was full of style and glamour. Even though people were broke, they surely didn’t dress like it. Men still dressed up nice with their overcoats and suits. Women still wore dresses and kept their hair nice. Through all the hardships, they maintained their styles. What did women wear in the 1930s? Most people will overlook fashion in the thirties because of the Great Depression, but it was full of glamour, elegant, well-tailored clothing. The fashion mainly consisted of loose…

Three things that surprised me or I did not Know: 1. One thing I did not know about shoplifters was how to spot them. For example, if a person is wearing a warm coat on a sunny day. That could be considered suspicious because its hot outside and he is wearing a warm coat. There are many ways to spot them “Someone who enters or leaves the store quickly.” That could be a sign the person just grabbed something and ran without any thought. Another way to spot them is if you see them sending the…

War is a conflict between two nations or groups. War creates a sense of hopelessness, it is a traumatizing experience as it brings death and destruction to loving homes. Kurt Vonnegut is an American writer who is famously known as the author of Slaughterhouse- Five. In the book of Slaughterhouse-Five written by Vonnegut, takes place in the era World War II and introduces a man named Billy Pilgrim, as he was taken as a prisoner of war where he was surrounded by death. The book does an incredible…

I.INTRODUCTION Katherine Anne Porter was an American writer who was born in 1890 and died in 1980. She was one of the the America’s most distinguished writers. She generally chose dark themes such as dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. She began her literary career with publishing short stories and essays. ‘’Maria Concepcion’’ was her first published story in The Century Magazin in 1922. She published her bestselling novel Ship of Fools in 1964. Her literary…

Holmes/Scarpetta Project- The Valley of Fear What discipline was involved? Digital Forensics (cryptology)- The process of encrypting messages and examining digital media forensically to find, analyze, and present facts and opinions. What was the equipment used? The ciphers represent the pages of previous editions of Whitaker's Almanack. The first number represented the page number in the Almanac. The second number, C2, was the column number on the page in the book. The numbers that…

packed tighter than a can of sardines. The smell of disinfectant and sweat seemed pleasant, when compared to the baby with the sagging diaper running around. Sitting with his girlfriend was Larry Goodman, a Rubeus Hagrid lookalike, minus the moleskin overcoat. He adjusted the blue hospital mask that was too tight. He couldn’t believe it, sitting here for the second time this week. But she was in pain and they told her to come back, immediately, if she had another gallbladder attack. This time it…