Mr. Newton's A View From A Hill

It is here where we see Kingston use the term "ghost" in a manner to mean "stranger." She writes, "America has been full of machines and ghosts – Taxi Ghosts, Bus Ghosts, Police Ghosts, Fire Ghosts, Meter Reader Ghosts, Tree Trimming Ghosts Five-and-Dime Ghosts." This description gives the reader the culture shock that someone who has just moved to the US can get. It may be a very unnerving experience to be surrounded by so many strange and alien things.

Explain how Charles Dickens uses the conventions of a ghost story to create a dark and suspense filled tale in ‘A Christmas Carol’

Ghosts are not there just to haunt, they have a purpose (same goes for other supernatural creatures found in literature)

Ghost stories are commonly told as a mystery or even called the “unexplained.” Topics such as ghost are a great for discussion and Moore presented this very well by also touching on each of the rhetorical

Newton is a small town with lots of crime and drugs. It is a crazy small town that has experienced killings, major drug cases, and lots of other crime things. But Newton is its own little town that has lots of good things. It has nice people with good attitudes. We have lots of churches, fast food restaurants, Chinese and Mexican restaurants, and a big Walmart. Using that I would want to convince my hockey team mates to come here.

Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw has been described as one of the best ghost stories of all time. However, there is clear evidence that the main character, the governess, suffers from delusions. The strange events that occur throughout the story happen in the estate of Bly. The anomalies, described as horrors or ghosts, only come to light after the governess arrives. These events are due to creations of the governess ' mind, her controlling intent to protect and overrule the children, and her unstable mental state. In this way, her thoughts and her actions are the cause of the strange events at Bly.

At the time the book was written it was the late 19th century, Victorian era; and at the time Victorians were fascinated by ghosts - a perfect reason to write a psychological ghost story.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Old Nurses Story was published in (1852), it has been defined as “the epitome of the traditional ghost story of the Victorian period (1837-1901), perfect to read on Christmas Eve and containing numerous Gothic motifs; a haunted mansion, a female protagonist who encounters a series of mysterious, unsettling events, a ghost child, and a dark family secret.” (Giakaniki. 2010). It was first published as part of Charles Dickens’s (1812-1870) English magazine in the Christmas edition of Household Words (1850-1859). (Gaskell & Kranzler. 2000: viii). The story is a retrospective account told by the nurse ‘Hester’ and the title itself represents a form and expression of female identity that of the role of the nurse maid situated in Victorian society.

John Newton was born in London on July 24, 1724. He was nurtured by a Christian mother until she died of tuberculosis, two weeks before his 7th birthday. After two years he went to live with his father and his new wife, and also spent two years at a boarding school. At the age of 11, Newton went with his sailor father in the Mediterranean, for 6 sea voyages, until his father retired in 1742. Newton’s Dad had plans for his son, instead John, at the age of 17, wanted to leave for an adventure. He became rebellious, sailing and going with friends. In 1744 he got captured and forced to serve the British navy, in The Harwich ship. He was brutally abused, one time he tried to escape and he got punished in front of 350 crew. Tied to the grating,

Along with Mach, Ernst Nagel also criticized Newton’s bucket experiment, deeming it illogical. In agreeing with Mach’s point of differentiation in interpretation, Nagel argues that Newton’s findings in the movement of the surface of the water don’t imply the existence of absolute space. Rather the movement in the water can be (and should be, he argues) attributed to relative space beyond the sides of the bucket. To illustrate, Nagel argues the following:

Nobody ever knows when the tale of ghost starts. The ghost has been there for decades. It's about time to confront it. It's about time to reveal the truth within the horrid mist

The very setting of the fireside at which Griffin's guests swap stories establishes an atmosphere with which many of us are familiar. We can all relate to sitting around a fire exchanging ghost stories. By employing this particular narrative frame James encourages the reader to abandon their scepticism and give themselves over to a belief in the ghosts. The reader shares in the eagerness of the guests to be frightened; to be delighted by horror. Upon seeing Douglas' distress at the thought of the tale he must tell, and its "dreadful - dreadfulness", one of the female guests actually cries, "Oh how delicious!"5

“So kids, every Halloween, it is said that her ghost, roams the empty hallways of this very school, searching for another female student to take her place.” The students were now on the edge of their wooden seats, eyes wide, listening to every word Mr. Morris said. All of a sudden the loud bell breaks the silence, making each one of them jump.

Sir Isaac Newton once said, “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Aside from his countless contributions to the worlds of math and science, this may be his most important quote because it is what he based his life on—building bridges of knowledge. Throughout his life he was devoted to expanding his and others knowledge past previously known realms. Often regarded of the father of calculus, Newton contributed many notable ideas and functions to the world through his creation of calculus and the various divisions of calculus. Namely, Newton built upon the works of great mathematicians before him through their use of geometry, arithmetic and algebra to create a much more complex field that could explain many more processes in

“In the year of 1989, there was a street named Elm, in the state of Wyoming. Few chose to live on that street, and they all knew about the haunted house, up on the hill, on the west side of town, coming off of Elm. Once, I spent the week with some friends and, Halloween came upon us, while I stayed with them.” I was telling my first-grade brother and his friends stories to scare them out of their wits. Besides, no one wants little kids tagging along with you to go trick or treating, when you could go with your friends to Haunted Houses, and not ones set up by the town hall. “We were just about to pass the house, not thinking anything of it, when we heard a moan coming from Old Man Reaper’s house.” Their eyes grew wide with fear. Mr. G.