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- 311: Stephen King
- ... Library, which was on the University of Maine at Oronos campus. While working he met a fellow employee named Tabitha Spruce, who he married in Janurary 1971. Stephen Kings first publication was a short story he wrote and sent to a mens magazine. This is where his first profit from writing came from, throughout the few years after his graduation he worte stories and sold them to mens magazines. All of these short stories would be later gathered into a collection known as the "Night Shift collection." In the fall of 71 King was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy, a public high school in Hampden, ...
- 312: Point Of View In Three Edgar Allan Poe's Poems
- ... name once. The spoken name is the key to it's power that it may raise the dead. Both "Morella" and "Ligeia" talks about metempsychosis. The passage of one soul to another body. In both stories, the narrator thinks he sees his dead wife come to life in another form. In "Ligeia", Ligeia passes into Rowena, and in "Morella" she passes into the daughter. Although the case a little different in ... the painting than in real life. The painting will never grow old, never be flawed, nor suspended perfection. The woman lives on in the portrait even after her death. The women are important in these stories. They all have something in common. Except in "Ligeia", the women in "The Oval Portrait" and "Morella" the were neglected. Their husbands did not care for them. Both Morella and the girl in the portrait ... not yeild him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only though the weakness of his feeble will"(Poe 49). He can feel her in many ways that we cannot. The theme of these stories is immortality. The women in "Ligeia", "The Oval Portrait", and "Morella" were immortal. They could not be destroyed. In "Ligeia" the narrator is in love with flawlessness. She could not be destroyed. She will ...
- 313: Edward Vii
- ... of the most wittiest and inventive satirist s writers in England is a journalist most noted for his fiction pieces, known as Hector Hugh Munro. Saki is his pen name ( Comptons Online Encyclopedia). His typical stories are marked by amoral reversal revenge on the pretentious cruel practical jokes, and uncary supernatural incidents (Encyclopedia of Knowledge). Evidence from research has proven to show that Edward VII's political practices and beliefs have ... conservative party split,opposed woman's suffrage, and Edward is a patron of Arts and Sciences. Edward is also a familiar figure in the worlds of racing, yachting, and grouse shooting ( Somerset,29). After a short reign of only nine years, Edward VII, the King, collapsed on the afternoon of May 6, 1910, after a series of heart attacks. He left the throne to his son, King George V ( www.spartcus ... Washington. This era is known as the sanest era in the history of our world (www.geocites.com). Edward VII along with other Edwardians helped to make it that way. Saki is a novelist and short story writer born in Akyab, Mynamar on December 18,1870 ( www.spartcus.com). Munro is the youngest of an Inspector - General's three children. At age two, he is sent to England and is ...
- 314: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... an look it em all day, and he usually did. Course me bein his best of friends was always there wit em, did'nt care for em much myself so Sam would always make up stories, and adventures to says we was doin, when all we was really doin was lookin at boats, and missin school of course. Sam had many of brothers and sisters. I reckon he was never the ... all out brawl over the matter. Course this meant dat any man worthy of any respect at all was go'in to fight for em selves and their good ol' e south, so for a short period of time he did but Sam thought that slavery was wrong. He felt for it so strong that he woulda joined emself en the Yank's side but he would be fightin his friends ... a completed story in front of his eyes (142). Sam sent his story to a local newspaper. Well The Bullfrog Of Calaveras County was the talk of the town! Before he known it himself Sam stories were be'in published all over the country (143). I reckon it was late May of 1864 when Sam left for the West coast. Twain's reason for leav'in Nevada for California was ...
- 315: Beowulf
- ... gain an upper hand over the forces of good. The battles between these two forces have transcended time in both different forms and in different places. Every culture since the birth of man has background stories of creation and the battles that are waged between the two forces of light and dark. Leaving in the aftermath, stories and legends that are passed down from generation to generation through the vast cultures and civilizations. Beginning with the use of oral traditions that took these stories and the use of spoken word to both inform and entertain the people of a given society. These tales also had another purpose, which was to remind the people of the evils that were ...
- 316: The Black Cat
- A Glimpse Into the World of "The Black Cat" Those who have read any of Edgar Allan Poes short stories know that most of them are full of suspense and mystery and that they efflict a feeling of horror and shock upon the reader. Poe studies the mind, and is conscious of the abnormalities of ... realistic investigation of men who, although they may feel uneasy about their mental states when their tension lets up, are too far gone to understand their mania, let alone to control it (Gargano 171). His stories usually have a horrible murder theme in which there is a obsessive narrator and they follow the development of the theme step by step with a realism that, barring with genius, might case a ...
- 317: How Does H.G. Wells Create Tension In: The Red Room
- How Does H.G. Wells Create Tension In: The Red Room "The Red Room" is a short story that identifies fear and the power of suggestion. The story focuses on how the power of suggestion can cause fear, and how the setting of the story or of a place can cause fear ... custodians try to warn the narrator of the evil he may find in the red room if he stays in there that night. '"This of all nights!" said the old woman.' The narrator dismisses the stories of ghosts and begins to make his way to the red room by candle light down a series of corridors lit only by candle and moon light. This distorts the true shape of ornaments and ... and alcoves" "My candle was a little tongue of light and its vastness, that failed to pierce the opposite end of the room" "its perfect stillness" The structure of the story is to how most short stories are written. The narrator is adamant that there are no ghosts in the castle although the custodians try their very best to warn him of what he will experience if he spends the ...
- 318: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Leonard. He tried looking for work as a teacher in Baltimore, but another person got the job and Thomas Willis White hired him as an editor at The Southern Literary Messenger, in which he published short stories, poems, and ascorbic literary reviews. In October, the Clemms joined him, and in May he married his cousin Virginia. The rest of his life, Poe suffered from severe mental depression and declining physical health. In ... as he travels away from it, he sees the mansion begin to shake and crumble. Slowly it falls to the ground leaving just fragments of the "Famous House of Usher." In many of Poe΄s stories, the reader and the narrator begin to enter a state of madness and fantasy becomes reality. Here in the story, Roderick accuses the narrator of being insane. But at the end, the narrator escapes ...
- 319: Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain: Summary
- ... part of each numbered section tends to be a legend or a story of the Kiowa culture. However, this characteristic changes a bit as the book evolves, as does the style and feel of the stories. The first passage in the first numbered section describes the Kiowa creation myth. It tells that they came into the world through a hollow log. The next ones tell of a dog saving the life of a man, the story of how Tai-me became part of their culture, and other stories. These, especially in the first beginning of the first part, are stories which relate timeless tales. The events described took place long ago, though nobody knows how long. In addition, the endings of the tales would probably be described as having a good outcome. The people ...
- 320: Business Plan
- ... still considering alternatives of legal formation. 2. 2 Startup Summary Total start up expense (including legal costs, logo design, stationery and related expenses) come to $73,000. Start up assets required include $3,000 in short term assets (office furniture, etc.) and $1,000,000 in initial cash to handle the first few months of consulting operations as sales and accounts receivable play through the cash flow. The details are included ... 000 Brochures $5,000 Consultants $5,000 Insurance $350 Expensed equipment $3,000 Other $1,000 _______________________________ Total Start-up Expense $18,350 Start-up Assets Needed Cash requirements $25,000 Start-up inventory $0 Other Short-term Assets $7,000 Total Short-term Assets $32,000 Long-term Assets WORD DOCUMENT HAS NO NUMBER HERE Capital Assets $0 ______________ _________________ Total Assets $32,000 Total Startup Requirements: $50,350 Left to finance: $0 Start-up Funding Plan Investment ...
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