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This is bit of a lightweight post. It does address a point that arose – not too seriously, and not for the first time ever – on the Robert E. Howard Readers Facebook group, though. And REH seems to have considered it himself in a couple of his stories, at any rate to the point…

In the last year of his life, money was a big issue in Howard’s life – his mother’s health was declining rapidly and the medical bills were piling up. Also, Weird Tales owned him over $1,000 and Editor Farnsworth Wright was not giving in to Howard’s urgent pleas for at least some money to be…

Helen Keller was an extraordinary person with many accomplishments that helped and empowered people with disabilities. Her focus was on the blind but as a deaf person she intersected into many different lives, helping those in the deaf and mute communities as well. Her tutor, since the age of seven and through the rest of…

“No one who conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast and seeks to wrestle with them can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.” -Dora (Complete Psychological Works) There exists an all poweful force in this universe that makes man fall into an eternal abyss of illusion and…

The central theme of Hemingway’s work revolves around heroism, with his novels touching on subjects such as fishing, hunting, bullfighting, and war. However, it is the concept of death that heavily influences his writing. Hemingway’s novels explore heroes’ struggles and their perception of death. Being a hero entails taking greater risks and daring more than…

Thesis: Shakespeare sees the beauty in eternal love in life, while Donne sees the beauty in eternal death. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon, England and died in 1616. He was famous for his playwrights, poetry, and acting. He was also known as one of the greatest English writers ever. John Donne was…

Paraphrased and Unified Text: The poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue in which a duke shows a servant the portrait of his deceased first wife, the duchess. Through this form of speech, the speaker unintentionally exposes his own personality traits, such as self-centeredness, arrogance, control, chauvinism, and extreme jealousy. Despite…

Fitzgerald’s novel is set during the 1920s, an period of American history known as the “Roaring Twenties” and the “Age of Wonderful Nonsense. ” America had emerged from the First World War as an economic giant, resulting in a general increase in wealth in the population. Pretty soon, Americans indulged in extravagances like never before…

The American Dream or an Onion The American Dream is an endless onion. One will find endless layers of the American dream onion to peel back in order to grasp for an unattainable center. Only tears will be achieved from this endless peeling of the onion’s layers. F. Scott Fitzgerald believed this metaphor to be…

In “Things Fall Apart” Achebe describes tribal life in Africa and speaks how arrival of white man has changed lifestyle, culture, and gender roles in Igbo community.  In “Heart of Darkness” Conrad describes oppressive treatment of Africans during colonization pointing out a number of cases when white men were motivated primarily by greed and selfishness….