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While researching Robert E. Howard’s involvement with The Lone Scouts of America and preparing the collection of material by Herbert Klatt, I’m sure there were items that went undiscovered, but the only frustrating thing was an item that I knew existed but that I couldn’t find copies of. In his December 21, 1925 letter to…

Both of the poems “The Apparition” and “The Flea” are both about trying to get women into bed, so they can have sex. However, in “The Flea” John Donne uses a very flirty tone, while in “The Apparition” John Donne uses a revengeful tone. John Donne uses these two different approaches in the two poems…

Helen Keller famously believed that character development is not possible in a life of comfort and tranquility. She emphasized the importance of going through trials and suffering to strengthen the soul, ignite ambition, and attain success (Keller). Despite living in a world devoid of light and sound, Helen Keller defied expectations and found brightness in…

Everyone will always experience an opposing force or obstacle that gets in the ways of his or her own belief. To keep one’s belief safe, each person has a different way of rebelling. In the two stories “The Gospel According to Garcia” by Ariel Dorfman and “Sonny’s Blue” by James Baldwin, both pieces of fiction…

Introduction Basically we can survey carefully that; Beowulf is classified as an epic because of the fact about a famous history. Setting The tale of Beowulf was set around the Anglo-Saxon dates, which is in the range of 8th and 11th century. Although the background wasn’t sited in Britain. The tale occurs in the estate…

The Glass Menagerie is a four chapter memory play written by Tennessee Williams that reflects upon his own unhappy and dysfunctional family. With this being said, the narrator in the play, Tom Wingfield, resembles Tennessee Williams himself. The setting takes place in the winter and spring of 1937 in St. Louis and symbolically reflects the…

    To the Lighthouse written in 1927 by Virginia Woolf is a perfect example of her experimental style of writing.   She uses (overuses) semicolons, dashes, parenthesis to create “stream of consciousness” writing technique that can be found in many of her novels.  This approach demonstrates for the reader the randomness of human thought.   In the…

To be considered a superhero you need to provide the basic necessities: provide awareness, save people from danger, and have a cool name. Although most superheroes provide these necessities, there are some that fall short. In the recent installment of superheroes, there has been one that has a lot of ups and down. Although he…

The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns provides an optimistic ending by showing increased rights of women. The country Afghanistan is directing towards freedom, progress and acceptance. It gives hope to all the women in Afghanistan that they can be free and peaceful. To understand the condition of a country the first thing to be noted…

Everyone has the right to be free to do what they want comfortably without being restricted. Freedom is felt by various characters in many different ways. By looking at A Letter to My Nephew, Sonny’s Blue, and The Tempest, I argue that literature showcases the universal nature of freedom. This means that freedom is something…