Ann Rinaldi

“Twilight” by Stephanie Meyer has many codes and conventions from the genre that is gothic literature. Like “The Italian” by Ann Radcliffe there is a sense of anxiety from the monstrous power of unreality, and the characters of both Bella and Ellena do not know what is happening around them. A dark mystery is created throughout the novels, using sinister settings and threatening atmospheres. The idea of the sublime is shown through the descriptions of Ellena and Bella’s surroundings. This put together

representation of overtly sexual women has affected how they think and feel about their own sexuality, and allows them to be treated as a minority despite the gender being half the population. The first Ann Summers retail store opened in 1970, and current CEO Jacqueline Gold introduced the Party Plan in 1981. Presently, Ann Summers does well to help empower women, and is ultimately positive in terms of female sexulity representation and discussion. When Jacqueline Gold was appointed CEO in 1993, she was a key

The Role of the Innocent Heroine in Turn of the Screw and Northanger Abbey The function of the innocent heroine in gothic literature is, primarily, to follow her curiosity into the deepest, darkest corners of an appropriate gothic setting, uncover some awful secret contained therein, and do a lot of running around in her nightgown to be saved at the appropriate moment by a strong, capable suitor. In both Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James this trope is challenged

Criminal Filing of Theodore Bundy What is a serial killer? The Urban Dictionary defines a serial killer as a person who kills three or more people at different times with a cooling off period in between. Theodore (Ted) Bundy was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. Ted’s mother Eleanor Cowell, gave birth to him at the age of 22 years old. She was not married. They soon moved to Philadelphia to be with his mother's parents. Bundy was eventually adopted by his grandparents. Ted was

where a film is set to be produced within the movie. Due to the crew’s admiration of the gorilla, they offer their star actress Ann Darrow as a sacrifice to appease the beast. However, Kong eventually falls in love with Ann, regardless of their biological differences. On the other hand, Ann already has a human companion by the name of Carl Denham who intends to rescue Ann from the gorilla’s grasp rather than to see her disappear forever with Kong. The idea that love between a beast and human seem

Gothic literature has a long and complex history, which has spawned many different subgenres and even helped give rise to new ones altogether. One of the early subgenres of the gothic, was that of the female gothic. Based on the work of Ann Radcliffe, the female gothic takes the dark themes of it’s predecessors, but focuses on a central women figure, that is the heroine of the story. Since its inception, the female gothic has evolved in many ways. Even though it began as a way to reasses the depiction

No one would had imagined a woman governing over Texas, a state ruled by conservative white cowboys. Ann Richards was the second woman to become the Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1990. She became the hero of minorities, woman, gay men, and lesbians, and worked for a “New Texas” where opportunities and power would be given to those groups. Ann Richards is known as the most efficient person in a line of long Texas progressives who fought for control over Texas when the state was a “Democratic Stronghold”

sections and guises, but always identifying King Kong himself. The film has a fifty-foot giant that depicted a lot of terror to the audience which was facilitated by music; the main title continues with the stolen love of the heroine of the movie. Ann Darrow played the heroine who was saved dramatically by the king kong, and she fell in love with him. Her love for her lifesaver and her further development of the relationship with the gorilla was the core of music and the film. The jungle dance was

important aspect of the white man’s racialized fear of African-American men, which was to do with a stereotyped concept of black male sexuality - something Dines calls “the image of the black male as the spoiler of white womanhood” (Dines 1998) Fay Wray as Ann Darrow sheds light on this - big breasted, willowy, and blonde, she was the archetypal Hollywood sex object, and her character a classic damsel in distress. In her own story she is convinced by Carl Denham to do the film, and seduced by John Driscoll

There is no doubt, that Ted Bundy was one of the worst serial killers ever to have been discovered. After learning about his story, it seems possible that Bundy’s career as a serial killer began when he was only fifteen years old. Ann Marie, the little girl that took piano lessons from Bundy’s great uncle, and also lived along his paper route went missing. He was never investigat-ed for the crime. There were also other troubling indicators in his youth, such as shoplifting, and looking at women