Victims and Villains in The Speckled Band, The Cardboard Box, and The Red Headed League

As a reporter, I often need to write articles about events that I personally find to Good Afternoon, I'm David Muir. Welcome to a special on ABC Literary News. Today we will be looking into the life of Edgar Allan Poe. Throughout his life he wrote many stories and poems that grabbed the attention of American Society. This is a fact that almost all of us know. Reporter Brendan Wilmot has taken it to another level. He has investigated exactly what events impacted the style of his writing and content?be bland and boring. However, I was recently given the opportunity to meet with ABC’s “David Muir” for the purpose of airing a literary special about the events that impacted Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style and content. Enough with my talking, here is the video of the news airing.

The short book Victims by Phillip Shaw Paludan highlights the killings of fifteen individuals during the Civil War in a remote Appalachian area in North Carolina. This area, called Shelton Laurel, was home to many families and most of them were poor. What Paludan writes is how the Civil War gave way for revenge. Because of the location of Shelton Laurel, the Confederates often tried to take control of the area and recruit many people for their war efforts. Unionist also wanted recruits from this area as well.

In this article, Small is saying that Mass Hysteria is a real event and needs to be taken seriously for what it truly is. There are many reasons behind why it happens like stress and how it spreads from fear. Ultimately Small states that the idea of Mass Hysteria is overlooked because “people are more likely to endorse a far-fetched or outlandish cause for their illness” (Small 1) than to think that “their real physical experiences” (Small 1) could be caused by their mind. Mass Hysteria happens when people, particularly teenage girls, are under “psychological and physical stress” (Small 1). The idea that our minds may be causing one to be sick further worries them ultimately leading to more mind over matter symptoms. When people are in unusual states of

This research will determine the themes used in the first five well-known works of Edgar Allan Poe. And how these masterpieces are related to his personal and professional life life, from when he was a child until he became a writer and editor and can there be critic/s who disagrees of him being a great writer because of his works, even on how he writes his stories or poems. This could be answered through the following

During this course, the ideas that were discussed were ideas that were influenced by either a historical, social political or economic conditions. Some other ideas that were discussed were influenced by many other beliefs, changes, or movements. Three examples that were influenced by literature or have an effect on “The Lottery”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “Mexican Almuerzo in New England”. Many different stories and poems were influenced by many different aspects of the literature world. In literature to have a story or poem be good, the writer must have wanted to have their work influenced by or have their work affect people.

become a paradigmatic representation of Middle English Literature. In this essay I am going to look

To begin to chronicle the life of Henry Purcell is a difficult task as there is

The Crucible came about because of The Red Scare. The Red Scare was a hysteria in the 1940s to the early 1950s about the threat of communist. People in the government were being accused of communism like we see in The Crucible. Paranoia and Hysteria is an exaggeration towards a suspicion of people and their actions. During the Salem Witch Trials so many people were being accused of witchcraft it become common.This is because of all the mass hysteria and paranoia people had towards the conflict. The slightest bit of spectral evidence was enough to confirm witchcraft in the court. Miller’s use of paranoia and hysteria shows how in society it can take just one person who is paranoid to easily spread their mindset to other people who don’t second guess the illogical choices or thoughts coming from the source.

INTRODUCTION: The late and great Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, critic, and literary icon. Many of Allan's mystery and detective stories are alleged to be the first of its kind.No one can question Edgar’s literary talents because they were beyond his time and shifted the way people read stories and poems.Unfortunately, Edgar was still struggling to make a living despite his success as a writer, editor, critic, and former military writer.Edgar’s life was full of strife and misfortune.Edgar lost 3 loved ones due to tuberculosis, which affected him for the worst.Edgar’s unfortunate bouts only fueled his literary skills and further enhance his writing ability to the highest level at that time.Unfortunately, he mysteriously died the age of 40 which

Do you ever wonder the importance of Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on today’s modern classrooms? Edgar Allan Poe influences adolescent minds in English courses everywhere and should be defended in the sense that he should be included in the curriculum today and for the rest of our existence due to the fact that he influences everyone, teaches his ideas through his stories, and he is an inspiration to the blooming minds of our nation’s youth. He not only influences the younger generation but influenced some of today’s greatest writers. In this essay my fellow readers will understand the purpose of keeping Poe in the curriculum.

In the passage “The Adventure of the speckled band”, Author Conan Doyle expresses the investigation of Julia Stoner. Detective, Sherlock Holmes' observes Helen Stoner’s description of what happened the night subsequent of Julia Stoner wedding. The persistent investigator went to Stoke Moran and cleverly found true clues toward his mission. Medical doctor, Dr.Watson was compassionate about finding the final suspect in the death of Julia Stoner. As Sherlock Homes climbed into Helen’s room, Dr.Watson loyally followed as they both bravely awaited an action from Dr.Roylott.

This essay will examine the concept of “good vs. evil” as appears in the mystery story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1892. Speckled Band is a Sherlock Holmes mystery and one of the twelve stories that Doyle wrote in his “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” series (Wikipedia). Doyle was said to have felt that “Speckled Band” was his best Sherlock Holmes story (Wikipedia).

To start with Arthur Conan Doyle born May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland to a prosperous, strict Irish-Catholic family. His parents, Charles Lamont Doyle and Mary Elizabeth Foley Doyle, Charles and Mary married in1855. Furthermore, Doyle's family was of the Roman Catholic faith. Born into an immense family of seven sisters and one brother, however, some of his siblings did not live to adulthood. While growing up, Doyle's childhood was atrocious, of course, there were some superb moments in his childhood. Doyle's father struggled with depression as well as dipsomania, consequently, his father's grievous ordeal with dipsomania was detrimental to the family. As a result in1864, the children lived in other homes throughout Edinburgh, but a more

In his third of four novels The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, to demonstrate the theme of practical control opposed to supernatural power; he does this symbolically through British culture by discovering, investigating, and resolving mysteries.

As the United States became a flourishing nation in the 1800’s, American entertainment such as poetry and short stories began to unfold by up-and-coming writers. Among these artists of text, Edgar Allan Poe is without a doubt an incredibly prominent figure when discussing American literature. A celebrity after his critically acclaimed poem, “The Raven,” he was one of the earliest American authors to craft and perfect the short story. Furthermore, Poe is credited to contribute much to the horror and science-fiction genres, as well as being the inventor of the detective-fiction genre, as his novel The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841, predates the most famous character of the genre, Sherlock Holmes, in 1887 (Genesis: 1841). Under a constant struggle to make ends meet, he was among the first American authors to make a living strictly off his pieces of literature, which was not exactly a successful money-making career path (Graves). Which made matters even worse, several of his closest family members, relatives, and relationships all fell to tuberculosis, the final of which he attempted to take care of by himself, even though he was essentially penniless up to his mysterious death in 1849 (Hossick). With great success, however, it is important to analyze how this legendary writer came to be.