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As everyone knows, Robert E. Howard and his parents are buried in Brownwood’s Greenleaf Cemetery. The cemetery is located on Highway 377 just south of Howard Payne University. It is named for Greenleaf Fisk, the founder of Brownwood. Fisk donated the land for Greenleaf to the city and is also buried in the cemetery. On…

While many stories have been written on the topic of love, Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s “The Hand” present a unique perspective on love and marriage. These two short stories provide insight into how love may not always be present in marriage, how attraction fades over time, and that marriage…

The poetic language and writing in these two poems “Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening ” and “Loveliest of Trees” describe man’s attraction to the beauty of the nature outside. Robert Frost and A. E. Houseman each use different types of sentence structure, imagery, and diction to depict the environment and feelings of the…

Philosophers boldly challenged their the monarchs rule and people felt cheated in controlling their own destiny. Yet people worldwide lacked rights but did not rebel yet. The philosophies of Rousseau, Voltaire and Locke inspired the revolutions in France, Haiti/other Latin American Colonies and North America. The main values of the Enlightenment ultimately became the justification…

The Monster- Frankincense’s creation: he is essentially a sponge absorbing all the societal sues exposed to him due to his appearance. Robert Walton, Wallow’s letters written to his sister set the story for him meeting Frankincense, Walton is placed in the story for two reasons. One as a beacon for Victor to be saved and…

Bleak House Bleak House is a twin narrative. It faces in two directions (past and present); it incorporates two worlds (private and public); and it is told in two voices, one of which is serious, often pained, or realistic, the other parodic, playful, and deliberately artificial. Their mixture produces uncanny and undecidable effects. Bleak House,…

While reading the essay Shooting an Elephant, first published in 1 936 by Eric Blair under the pen name of George Orwell, one gets captivated by the intricate web of rhetoric that Blair weaves throughout the piece. Surely, the reason this essay keeps the attention of the reader so well is because Blair writes with…

In F. S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, themes, characters, and motifs are skillfully employed to create one of the most renowned novels ever written. The story centers around the quest for love in a difficult society. Fitzgerald presents different facets of life, encompassing both the affluent and the destitute, as well as those falling in…

That is the question” (57) Hamlet contemplates suicide and mess to be suffering Polonium Aphelia and Alerter’ father; Lord Chamberlain Smart “And pious action we do sugar o’er / The Devil himself” (4950) Polonium says that people act devoted to God to mask their bad deeds, which is philosophical. Aphelia the object of Hamlet’s affection…

haracters”And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then…