Essays on Written communication

As the publication date of El Borak and Other Desert Adventures draws closer each day, a companion volume titled  The Early Adventures of El Borak is also looming on the horizon. This hardcover edition from The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press not only contains all the El Borak juvenilia, but related material such as the early…

Romanticism, the Gothic novel, and Wuthering HeightsRomanticism:Romanticism refers to an artistic and intellectual movement that began in the late eighteenth century in Europe. Generally, Romanticism was a reaction against the dry rationality of the Enlightenment period, it focused on the sublimity of nature, it and stressed strong emotion as the source of beauty, art, and…

The cases of Heavens Gate and the Branch Davidians exemplify Stanley Milgram’s theories on individuals’ responses to authority. Marshall Applewhite, also known as “Do,” established Heavens Gate and convinced 39 people that he had terminal cancer. He persuaded them that by dying with him, a spaceship in the comet “Hale-Bop’s” tail would transport them to…

Mark Twain is probably the greatest American author to ever live. Hisstyle of writing changed the world forever. Before Mark Twain everyone wrote onserious topics. Twain was the first American to write comedys. People liked himbecause never bofore had their been an author who actually could make the readerlaugh. Many people wonder how Mark Twian…

Congratulations are in order for the The Dark Man, which celebrates an important 20 year anniversary this year. The first issue of the journal appeared in the summer of 1990 and featured contributions from a virtual who’s who of Howard scholars.  TDM was originally edited by Rusty Burke and, after changing editorial hands several times, it…

Some time in the summer of 1929, probably around the time his friend Clyde Smith graduated from college, Robert E. Howard moved to Brownwood. According to Smith’s “Adventurer in Pulp,” Howard spent “several months” in the town while “he worked at his writing.” Since you don’t need to write letters to someone who lives in…

While some of Lovecraft and Howard’s correspondence is obviously spontaneous and brief, particularly the postcards, the longer letters are definitely planned and, in several cases Howard went through one or more drafts before arriving at the final letter. We know this because several of these draft-letters survive, and were published in the Collected Letters of…

Abstraction The Bookmaster instance survey is about one customer’s journey traveling to the Bookmaster shop to purchase a difficult transcript book. After a frustrating 25 min ordeal merely to acquire to the shop to buy his book. he finds out that the two transcripts they said they have on the shelf are non at that…

Using APA Style             The APA format is developed by the American Psychological Association for the use of all of its publications. This style has been adopted by others when citing social sciences subjects but it is most commonly used in psychology classes (American Psychological Association [APA], 2008). This style serves as guidelines for social…

After acquiring its independency Texas asked Congress if it could fall in the brotherhood to go portion of the U.S States. Congress accepted and so Texas became an official province. Mexico did non like the thought of Texas going independent and Texas wanted more land so they ended up holding the war in Mexico. The…