1. “He walked with confidence and dressed well, conjuring an impression of wealth and achievement.” (pg 35). This character, H. H. Holmes, is loaded with pride as he’s practically beaming it out of himself. The way he walks and the way he’s dressed certainly show that he’s confident in how he looks, and takes pride in his wealthy appearance. Holmes is certainly a man of the first class, as he so elegantly shows it.…
The texts Monster written and performed by 4 members of the DC slam team, Dance with the Devil composed by Immortal Technique, Blindside directed by John Lee Hancock, and Divergent directed by Neil Burger, studied the connecting idea of influences across life in varying ways. An important lesson that was found was that our cultural capital can influence our choices and the way we see and value things in life. Secondly, it is our choice on whether we let our past and cultural capital be the barrier that stops us from seeing things from a new and broader perspective.…
The historical nonfiction book The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson provides a comparison between the impressive White City of the Chicago World's Fair and the horror of H.H. Holmes's murder spree. It starts off in 1890 when Chicago finds out it's going to be hosting the World's Fair of 1893. Winning the bid meant so much to Chicago because it indicated that the city would finally be able to shake off the perception that it was a hog-slaughtering, greedy and isolated city. The Fair would create a more positive global reputation for Chicago. Larson argues that it was Chicago’s pride that led its people to dream big enough to win the bid for the World’s Fair. They were motivated to outdo the Paris World’s Fair of 1889, that produced the…
The Devil in the White City attempts to contrast the glorious achievements of Burnham and…
Ride with the Devil’s take on the civil war in comparison with the text version was fairly similar, although the text had more events and information that were not introduce in the movie. Ride with the Devil attention to detail to the Reconstruction Era is captured well with the use of language, the setting, and the actors. The movie gave the audience a inside visual look of the civil war and their personal matters such the friendship bonds that were created, the lost people faced ,the love they developed and more. The America: A Narrative history text book gave the readers the outlook of the civil war, the aftermath, the challenges that were faced and more.…
Salem Possessed redefined the standard for the possibilities social history offers to understand the events and people of early America. Through a painstaking look at local records such as legal records, the Salem Village record book, the minister's book, and tax records Boyer and Nissenbaum discovered a long-standing pattern of contentious behavior of which the witchcraft accusations in 1692 was just one episode. Their analysis provides an invaluable insight into the social history of New England generally, and the factions of Salem Village that led to the tragic events of 1692, in particular.…
“The House” by Kim Krupp Pepe is a selection about a girl and her memories of her old house as a child. The main idea is that she is grown up and will never experience the same memories as she once had, but she also cherishes her memories of the house that she once lived in as a child. For example, in the last paragraph, she states that “Now I’m always kind of torn between being sad because I feel like a child and yet knowing I am not and can never be again. Another part of me feels happy for having a place where all my past is stored and secreted away.”…
In “The Devil and Tom Walker,” author Washington Irving emphasizes the moral consequences of indulgence in pecuniary materialism by revealing the detrimental effects of Tom Walker’s avarice.…
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman portrays a story around the narrator who is suffering from mental illness, which is internal. The narrator begins to explain how she knows something is wrong with her even though her high standing physician husband, John, and high standing physician brother don’t see anything except a temporary depression. John takes the narrator to a house over the summer to get her away from people and society, because John believes it makes her think of her condition, which is the worse thing the narrator should do. The narrator then explains the house as “the most beautiful place!” (Gilman, 552), the description is very personified and creates a bright, visible image in the readers’ head. The description…
Second semester of senior year I was in my french class and I was talking to one of my friends and she was talking how Supernatural is a show that aired on the CW network on september 13, 2005. As she was talking about I started to remember that it was a show that I saw talked about a lot on social media especially Tumblr. After a while I decided that I would go home and give it a chance and it changed my life forever.…
Duality exists in all aspects of the world- in the light of the stars against the dark of the night sky or the vibrant spring colors and the desolation come winter. The dual nature of this world has added deep lines between right and wrong, but of course both will present themselves and both will always, in some way, shape, or form, affect one another. In the Devil in the White City the author, Erik Larson, not only informs the audience about a colossal architectural turning point for our nation, but he entices the reader into a state of jittery tension that is enforced by continuous amounts of alarming duality.…
It is evident that the narrator is frequently alone with her thoughts. Her husband, John, “is away all day, and even some nights” (42), and Jennie, who takes care of her, leaves her to be alone and does the housework. This isolation caused her mental health to deteriorate. A dangerous effect of the complete isolation the narrator experienced is obsession. The narrator was told to do nothing, except sleep. She could not even talk to anyone about how she felt. One of the only things that could not be taken away from her was the wallpaper of the room. As a result, she paid close attention to it. The narrator would “lay there for hours” (143) watching the pattern of the wallpaper; she would attempt to decipher it. According to her, the wallpaper would stare her “as if it knew what a vicious influence it had” (66). It wasn’t…
Diabolik Lovers, More Blood, what is there to say about it.I guess a good place to start is the beginning. Diabolic Lovers spelled with a "K" for some reason, was about something called a sacrificial bride as you all might of been already aware. Now this season is about Christian symbolism with Eve and Adam for ones unaware of the story of Eve and Adam you will be very confused since everything about the story completely relies on you being a Christian.If you aren't well....f*** I guess you'll forever be completely lost in the great abyss since you are never told what the story was. Anyway, let's start talking about the consistent references to Adam and Eve, or maybe I should just start with the story. You know what let me explain the…
In the novel “The Devil and Miss Prym,” it is stated that “Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.” This is true to some extent, but not in the way the author intends it. I maintain, from my experiences in the real world and from the book, that the concepts of good and evil do not necessarily have the same face, but good and evil people will certainly look the same as any other person. When evil crosses the path of the truly righteous, they will be proven righteous, and the same is true for the evil.…
In the song “Demons” by Imagine Dragons a man sings about a beast inside him. This man is having a hard time as the things that he looks up to betray him and his dreams disappear. The beast inside this man is portrayed as his emotions. The hurt that he feels, and the loneliness he feels can be seen through the words he uses in this song.…