Dime novels

The westward expansion of American citizens was a progressive action that helped the nation to move forward during the mid-eighteen hundreds. The land that was being claimed came to be known as the frontier and few people settled there due to the perceived threat of Indians and what they thought was a lack of economic opportunity. This land was taken over by farmers and herders that controlled buffalo and used the fertile soil to make a living. The story of “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory

There Will be Blood (2007) is an entertaining movie that delineates in various forms that will be discussed from other western genres. It is a story that is formed from a novel by Upton Sinclair’s book, Oil! (1927) (Belton, 2009, p.401). Many westerns were based on dime novels that were written in the mid and late 1800s (Belton, 2009, p.246). American society was going through a transitional period from an agrarian society to an industrial society in the 1800s and early 1900s (Wright 2001; Desk

In the early 1800’s, there was an outbreak of polio, a potentially life-threatening disease, in the United States affecting most of the population (“What is Polio”). The oliovirus invades the brain and spinal cord that causes that dysfunction within the muscles and can eventually cause paralysis. The virus enters through the mouth and reproduces in the throat and intestines. The virus can be transmitted through person-to-person contact such as coughing or sneezing or by feces. The most common way

Dr. Jonas Salk was an American medical researcher, physician, and virologist who developed the first safe and effective polio vaccine. Before this vaccine was created, polio vaccines usually contained live, weakened forms of the virus, but Salk developed a vaccine that contained an inactivated, dead form of polio, the first of its kind. Until the Salk vaccine was introduced on April 12, 1955, polio was considered the most frightening health problem in the United Sates. Just 3 years before the vaccine

“The single biggest threat to man’s continued dominance on the planet is the virus” Nobel Prize winner Joshua Lederberg once said. Throughout history, this statement has proved to be true. In fourteenth century Europe, the Bubonic Plague killed off almost half of the European population. During the first interactions between Columbus and the natives, Smallpox eradicated entire Native tribes. And in the time of the Industrial Revolution, cholera outbreaks have left millions dead. Since their outbreaks

This extract by Richard Yates is a recount of Shep Cambells’ past where he struggles to accept the monotony of his life; attempting, and ultimately failing, to lead the life of an intellectual. It is made clear that throughout the novel the characters struggle with their own identity, maintaining a facade and, in the Campbell's case, moving in an attempt to fulfil what they feel life has to offer them. They are blind to their own mediocrity and Sheps’ intellectual pursuits are motivated by basic

The black characters act justly throughout the novel by treating every one with equality and respect. In Chapter 12, when Jem and Scout visit Calpurnia’s Negro church for the Sunday service, Lula, a hostile Negro woman tells them impolitely to leave. Calpurnia defends the children and contradicts Lula by saying, “It’s the same God, ain’t it?” Amidst an argument over the antagonistic rifts between black and white regimes, Calpurnia acknowledges that all people, no matter the race, worship the same

themselves, think independently, or have a meaningful conversation because it is against the law. If the characters break the law or struggle internally blood will be shed. In Ray Bradbury’s novel ​Fahrenheit ​451, he presents the paradox between life and death and demonstrates how blood and fire appears throughout the novel as a symbol of humanity’s repressed soul. Instinctively self Montag “feels” his most revolutionary thoughts welling and circulating in his blood while Mildred remains unchanged when her

mother of the Joad family, was made known as “the citadel of the family”, proving to be the more adequate provider as the novel progressed, and handled every hindrance soundly. She remains this way, so her family does not fall apart like others had anticipated. When first meeting Ma Joad in the start of the novel, she was a strong-willed woman, as was she at the end of the novel. For her headstrong personality, Ma Joad served as the rock for her family. Rose of Sharon “For a minute Rose of Sharon

Charlotte Brontё, the author of ‘Jane Eyre’ has used the art of her writing to compose a novel considered to be a feminist novel, along with raising points about the sexism of women in Victorian society. Within the thirty-eight chapters of this novel discussing the protagonist Jane Eyre’s, coming of age story, Brontё not only discusses the hardship of Jane’s life, but the battles she and other female characters, such as Miss Temple face in this book by being belittled for their gender. Brontё physically