William Holmes McGuffey

No matter where a person may come from, everyone encounters a similar journey. The journey that is heard in stories is symbolic to what anyone may go through in life. In the story “A worn path”, an old women goes through many obstacles as she is on the pathway to acquiring what she sought after. In order to better convey the hero’s journey in the story A Worn Path, Eudora Welty uses characterization, symbolism, and conflict. In the story characterization is used to describe the main character Phoenix Jackson. Every story must have its hero and Phoenix Jackson is the “hero” in this journey. In the story she is described as an old Negro woman. The story says “She was very old and small and walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps” (275). This may depict that she is not that she is a frail lady who is probably weakening as she get older. She has to make a journey on a cold winter day in December and see that she is old and most likely weak this journey will a difficult one for Phoenix. Heller states “mainly because of her age, the simple walk from her remote home in Natchez is a difficult enough journey to take on epic proportions.” Phoenix is really old and this journey is a hard one for her to make.In the story old Phoenix says “Out of my way, all the foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals” (275). This conveys that Phoenix may be old but she is determined and fearless. She will not let anyone or anything…

Comparing Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Boone Did Sherlock Holmes himself encounter any form of autism? Do you think Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Boone encounter differences instead of sharing similarities? Sherlock Holmes was known as a famous autistic detective in the 1800 's (Sherlock Holmes biography). It was unclear how he could solve crimes on such little knowledge of the information. Sherlock Holmes was not autistic. For a long time, everyone was sure he had a case of the…

Sherlock Holmes is an introvert, focused on his inner thoughts to solve problems. He is famous for the extreme attention he pays to clues, solving cases solely on the basis of his observational skills. Sherlock uses logic to draw conclusions rather than using beliefs or personal values. His preference is for thinking rather than feeling. Finally, he uses his senses rather than intuition to solve crimes. That makes him sensing rather than intuitive. Sherlock is an introverted thinker who uses…

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories plus a Complete Novel. Secaucus, N.J.: Castle, 1978. Print. The Adventure of the Empty House is one of the short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes about Sherlock Holmes. This story tell how Holmes comes back from what everyone thought was his apparent death at the hands of Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Holmes (in disguise) surprises his faithful companion Dr. John H. Watson after bumping into…

Education Association hated Chrisitison 's work. Arthur used this controversial and somewhat sinister professor type as a character later when he created Sherlock Holmes nemesis, James Moriarty. Coming from a line of distinguished Edinburgh surgeons Dr. Joseph Bell was a very interesting character at the university with a very particular walk and unordinary voice. But he could make excellent deductions from minimal evidence and it was from him that Arthur based his character, Sherlock Holmes.…

Undoubtedly, Sherlock Holmes was not guilty for killing Dr. Roylott! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” developed Dr. Roylott into a cruel character, who later died from his own crime that Sherlock Holmes attempted to solve. Nevertheless, Sherlock Holmes was unequivocally not culpable for Dr. Roylott’s death! Sherlock Holmes found several pieces of evidence to make a logical prediction. Predictions are not always accurate; he did not know all the facts of the…

Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case is a case that dramatically influenced forensic science. On the night of February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin a 17 year old high school student was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, The United States. Gorge Zimmerman, who was a 28 year old man of mixed race (Hispanic) was the coordinator for a neighborhood watch for the gated community where Trayvon Martin was living temporarily (Gray 2012). The 17 year old Trayvon Martin was unarmed during…

attention, the shows and movies we watch, the books we read, and the music we listen to are mostly transformative works. Sometimes these works can be caught due to the little changes that are found in the structure or storyline yet; they are having a sense of individuality that separates it from the original. However, most transformative works can go unrecognized or stand alone because the storyline and/or structure can be seen as a drastic change compared to the original. After reading Sir…

Sherlock Holmes has become known as a tremendously intelligent and unique individual who has a strong passion for solving mysteries. In fact, his name has almost come to stand for, someone who almost seems to have telepathy. Sherlock in the new adaptations, Elementary, House M.D. and Sherlock Holmes, has the ability to look at any given character he can distinguish their life story without even speaking a single word to them, just using his observations. Within the BBC vision of Sherlock, he…

private practice in Portsmouth, England. In 1885 Doyle married his first wife Louisa Hawkins. A year after his marriage Doyle put the finishing touches on his first novella A Study in Scarlet. This story marked the first ever appearance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation Sherlock Holmes. The story initially was rejected by various publishers and the full rights to the story were eventually sold for twenty five euros. A Study in Scarlet was published the next year in Beeton’s…