The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Sam Stone Mr. Mullenberg Credit Recovery 22 December 2016 The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King The second tale in the epic series The Dark Tower begins with a signature Stephen King prologue; all goes to hell in the protagonist’s world before the book even properly starts. In the case of The Dark Tower, said protagonist role is filled by none other than Roland Deschain, the wild west gunslinger from a postapocalyptic world (currently “Mid-World”) not unlike our own. Roland

devastating effect, sinking numerous merchant and naval allied ships during the world wars. This effect was limited when the enigma code was cracked by the allies and the U-boats could be easily tracked. Figure 1. The schematics for a German type VII C U-boat, the most heavily used U-boat by the Germans during World War II. There were many different types of U-boats, each with different specifications. Later in the war U-boats were made for specific purposes, for example the Type VIID was designed

play where George, Duke of Clarence is explaining a prophetic nightmare he had whilst being locked in the Tower of London. Richard III was a real king of England, but had been killed in battle, around 100 years prior to when Shakespeare wrote this play. At the time of writing, in 1594, the queen was Elizabeth I, a Tudor. One of the Queens ancestors, Henry VII, had killed Richard III on Bosworth Field. Shakespeare, to make sure he was in favour with the Queen, made

A. Background Info and Context The Ford Wyoming Drive-In (Now known as the Ford Drive-In) is located at 10400 Ford Rd in Dearborn, Michigan with the cross streets at Ford Road and Wyoming. Interstate I-94 is just nearby. The city of Dearborn grew rapidly in the nineteenth century. The families of Dumais, Drouillard, and Cissne began the formulation of the city. The name of the city came from Lewis Cass, the governor of the Michigan Territory at the time. He named it from his friend Major General

stories, a person with little background on the matter, can clearly see Dickens’s past come alive in his stories. Some also argue that Dickens uses reality as a foundation for his stories, and that “‘the Dickens World’ was his everyday world” (Johnson VII). In both stories, society is the main, if not sole, enemy of the characters present and establishes a conflict with the main characters. Through these battles with society, the reader can clearly see the reality that Dickens had developed into an enemy

I. Introduction If you sit and look at all of the things around you that are considered to be geographical; for example, schools, houses, restaurants, landscapes, and even the streets that we walk on every day they all have a story to tell. Some of these things have been here for years and some only for months. The people that lived here before us and the people that will live here after us will all have their story to live and tell. Each place has a special meaning to that one person that maybe

leave behind everything she had ever known to support her God. She boldly left her family with no more than a second glance because she was so fixed on what God wanted her to do. She knew what she had to do: crown the dauphin king of France, Charles VII. Surprisingly, Joan gained Charles’ support, quite quickly, through God. Joan joined Charles’ forces and before long, she was given an army and charged into Orléans to begin battle with the English. Joan’s success only lasted nine months, but the battles

Introduction ‘Gothic Art’ is the name given to define artworks made in Europe between the 12th and 15th centuries. Contrasting the “Gothic” that is understood today as dark, black or ripped fishnets, the original Gothic actually refers to “Liquid light of Heaven” where light comes into people’s live. A letter to Pope Leo X during c. 1518 from Raphael first marked the use of Gothic to describe artworks made between 12th and 15th centuries, and is further popularize by an Italian artist and writer

This paper will give a historical example over the English Monarchy. It will mostly focus on the major individual events of each period. This paper will not just explain the individual events, but will also talk about the reasons of why they did it and how this affected the person’s reign. As an example, changing the countries religion could cause the country to be unstable and make the persons reign shorter than it would if he/she did not change the countries religion. I will start this paper

Gothic Fiction: An Analysis of Space in The Monk. Space is inseparable part of every text of literature. In the Gothic fiction space is extremely important, as the Gothic fiction is mostly based on creating images connected with human perception. During the process of reading readers often use their imagination. Therefore, depiction of old castles, ruined abbeys, monasteries, subterranean passages, vaults, or secret panels, is a standard method of creating the atmosphere. As Izdebska claims,