...Edgar Allan Poe is known as the master of horror and gothic writing. In a sense, he has taken the meaning of the word “horror” and turned it into an entirely different definition, even a different world. Poe's narrators do not make the reader scared, per se, but they make him or her inquire about things around them. Although people should never assume, they should always speculate and investigate. In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe uses an imperfectly informed narrator because he wanted the reader to play with – and question – reality, to use their senses and imagination, and be able to tell the difference between dreams and reality. One theory on why Poe makes his narrator limited is that he wants the reader to search for the truth, not just have it handed to them. For instance, the reader – nor the narrator – knows anything about Roderick Usher. The narrator says, “Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew little of my friend”. What, then, would cause the narrator to travel to the House of Usher after Roderick had written him a letter? A person such as the narrator can only truly call Usher an acquaintance. In reality, who would drop everything and anything for an associate? The unknown information on Roderick Usher only causes more questions that, in the end, still remain unanswered. Little by little, as the tale goes on, the reader, as well as the narrator, discovers that Roderick and his late sister, lady Madeline, are twins. After...
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...The Poe(t) Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 as Edgar Poe. He was the second son of David and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, both whom were actors. In 1810, shortly after Poe’s birth his father deserted the family. The subsequent death of his twenty-four year old mother on December 8, 1811 in Richmond, Virginia, left Poe an orphan at the young age of three. After his mother’s death, John, a strict unemotional tobacco merchant, and Frances Allan, a weak woman due to health problems, took in Poe; his paternal grandparents took in his brother William Henry; and foster parents cared for his sister Rosalie. Poe was educated with the Allan’s aid, in private academies, excelling in Latin, in writing verse, and declamation. However, despite his education, he was looked down upon and regarded as an outsider by the upper class of Richmond’s society; perhaps because the Allan’s never legally adopted Poe. Also, the culture of Richmond during Poe’s young adulthood did not regard actors in a high manner. This could have attributed to his reputation since his biological parents were actors. The loss of his mother at an early age definitely affected Poe. “The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of ‘Mother’” Poe wrote that in To My Mother. In Tamerlane, he not only wrote about his father, but he wrote about his mother as well; he had more respect for his mother than he did for his father. This respect can be found in...
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...Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe: An American poet, short story writer, critic and editor he was best known for “The Raven”, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell Tale Heart”. Edgar Allan Poe was given the nickname “Father of the Detective Story” due to his distinctive writing form. The tone, imagery and language in “Alone” and “A Dream within a Dream” allows Edgar Allan Poe to create poems based on his dark, disturbing and dysfunctional upbringing. Edgar was born January 19, 1809, he was the middle child. Edgar parents died when he was three, and he moved in with a successful business man, John. John wanted Edgar to follow in his footsteps, but Edgar mind was set on becoming a writer. Edgar attended University of Virginia at 17 where he made good grades. Edgar dropped out of college and at 18 he published his first book Tamerlane (1827). Edgar enlisted in the United States Army and was accepted into West Point Academy. With the help from John, Edgar was expelled after being in the Academy for eight months. Edgar published another book around the time he was expelled. He began publishing some of his short stories which he was offered an editorial position at Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. Edgar at 27 married Virginia who was only 14 and enjoyed the time he shared with his wife, but he was unhappy with the pay at Southern Literary Messenger. He moved to New York during the time of Panic of 1837 where jobs were scarce, but Edgar did publish...
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...Pre-Class Survey Angel Reed HCS 320 November 20, 2011 Dixie Poe Pre-Class Survey 1. What is communication? Communication can be in many forms such as written, verbal/audio, through the media, and visual; but essentially it is when someone is trying to convey a message clearly to one or more persons. Babies communicate through there noises and facial expressions before they can talk or write. As we become adults we communicate through different ways; which all means the same thing to deliver an effective message to someone else clearly that the other person understands. 2. What is the purpose of communication? The purpose of communication is to convey a mutual understanding from the sender to the receiver to be able to show how you feel, how to do something, or even to show one’s dismay with someone else. Communication is to get to know co-worker’s to know what is going on, to develop friendships, to teach our children how to communicate with others. Communication is for everyday life if we do not communicate with others we would not be able to even just giving a polite hello to a stranger on the street. 3. What is good communication? Good communication is when the person speaking or writing and so on convey their message to where the other person(s) understands what is being conveyed to them. Example: Mom, may I have some soda? The mom understands the question and answers her child. Good communication in business is clear, concise, correct and easily understood...
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...Unit 2 Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) [pic] The American Romanticism I. What is Romanticism Originated in the second half of the 18th century, romanticism was a key movement in the Counter-Enlightenment, a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment. Romanticism emphasized intuition, imagination, and feeling, to a point that has led to some Romantic thinkers being accused of irrationalism. Romanticism focuses on Nature; a place free from society's judgement and restrictions. Romanticism blossomed after the age of Rationalism, a time that focused on handwork and scientific reasoning. Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper, and those of the late period contain Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe. II.Features of American romanticism Edgar Allen Poe(1809 - 1849) the most controversial and most misunderstood literary figure. a Bohemian（吉普赛人）, depraved（堕落） and demonic（恶魔的）, a villain（恶棍） with no virtue at all. Mark Twain declared his prose to be unreadable. But Eliot proclaimed him a critic of the first rank. He enjoyed respect and welcome greatly in Europe. He is the father of psychoanalytic criticism. In deed, Poe places the subconscious condition of the mind under investigation and probes beneath the surface of normal existence. What interests him most is the deep abyss of the unconsciousand subconscious mental activity of the people, His theories for the short story and poetry are remarkable...
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...Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston. After being orphaned at age two, he was taken into the home of a childless couple–John Allan, a successful businessman in Richmond, Va., and his wife. Allan was believed to be Poe’s godfather. At age six, Poe went to England with the Allans and was enrolled in schools there. After he returned with the Allans to the U.S. in 1820, he studied at private schools, then attended the University of Virginia and the U.S. Military Academy, but did not complete studies at either school. After beginning his literary career as a poet and prose writer, he married his young cousin, Virginia Clemm. He worked for several magazines and joined the staff of the New York Mirror newspaper in 1844. All the while, he was battling a drinking problem. After the Mirror published his poem “The Raven” in January 1845, Poe achieved national and international fame. Besides pioneering the development of the short story, Poe invented the format for the detective story as we know it today. He also was an outstanding literary critic. Despite the acclaim he received, he was never really happy because of his drinking and because of the deaths of several people close to him, including his wife in 1847. He frequently had trouble paying his debts. It is believed that heavy drinking was a contributing cause of his death in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. Source http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides4/Rue.html The Murders in the Rue...
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...gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong… you understand that some divine force really is trying to mess up your day.” – Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief They may not really be Greek gods out there that brings misfortune to unsuspecting civilians but here are other reasons why we have bad days. The answer lies deep within our subconscious minds. THE ENNEAGRAM The Enneagram is an ancient Muslim tool describing nine types of personalities. A person may fall under any one of the nine points. This Enneagram is the figure on the right. It does not look like much but it has brought with it wisdom that even until today proves relevant. It delves further into the mind and explains how the psyche or a person’s personality affects how things are seen. This is where the half-full, half-empty and neither half-full nor half-empty glass of water comes in. The universe is not after you at all. The emotional and behavioral part of your brain just thinks it is. When you think that everybody else is better than you, you’ll only see the good things in other people’s lives and not your own. When you are always happy, you’ll find fewer flaws in the world in general. The figure has three main parts. The circle, containing the complex web, is said to represent unity. This points out that anyone can identify themselves with any of the nine types. A person does not skip from one type to another but aside from his core type he may have the potential adapt the...
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...Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” Goodman Brown was not asleep in this short story. As I read, I believed that Goodman did indeed meet the devil in the forest. If he had indeed dreamt about the trip he was sent on and meeting the devil, I think his nervousness would have been described in more detail then it was. Concentrating more on the anxiety he was feeling would have led the reader to believe that the events were not real. I also saw this story as an allegory. I saw the allegory after reading the story two times. I think it is centered on Goodman Brown having a bumpy past and that he wants to go beyond his past and reach heaven. The characters names also show the religious allegory in the story. The names Goodman and Faith are used and the characters are then soon faced with terrifying evil. I think that Goodman Brown and his wife, Faith’s names symbolize that they are good, religious people and that Goodman is making up everyone being evil in his head. I found an essay by Alexa Carlson that described the symbolism in light vs. dark, forest vs. town, nature vs. human, and fantasy vs. reality. In her paper, Essay #1: Young Goodman Brown, she states that “…fantasy vs. reality are employed to reinforce the idea that good and evil have been set up as strict categories into which no one, not even the religious figures of the community, fit neatly.” As she later writes, if Hawthorne was apprehensive about “what he considers right and wrong in terms of human behavior, I...
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...CONTENTS Introduction………………………………………………………………………...3 1 Nouns…………………………………………………………………………….5 1 Noun phrases……………………………………………………..........5 2 What makes a word a noun?....................................................................6 1. General characteristics of the Noun…………………………………..10 2. Subcategorization of the Noun…………………………………….....10 3. Grammatical categories of the Noun…………………………….…..13 4. Irregular Plural Nouns………………………………………………..19 2 The usage of derived abstract nouns in “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens…….22 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………....29 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………30 INTRODUCTION The word "noun" comes from the latin nomen meaning "name." Word classes like nouns were first described by Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini and ancient Greeks like Dionysios Thrax, and defined in terms of their morphological properties. For example, in Ancient Greek, nouns can be inflected for grammatical case, such as dative or accusative. Verbs, on the other hand, can be inflected for tenses, such as past, present or future, while nouns cannot. Aristotle also had a notion of onomata (nouns) and rhemata (verbs) which, however, does not exactly correspond our notions of verbs and nouns. Expressions of natural language will have properties at different levels. They have formal properties...
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...cover next page > Page iii THE McGRAW-HILL HANDBOOK OF MORE BUSINESS LETTERS Ann Poe McGraw-Hill New York San Francisco Washington, D.C. Auckland Bogotá Caracas Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi San Juan Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto title: author: publisher: isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: ebook isbn13: language: subject publication date: lcc: ddc: subject: The McGraw-Hill Handbook of More Business Letters Poe, Ann. McGraw-Hill Professional 0070505179 9780070505179 9780071368780 English Commercial correspondence--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1998 HF5726.P545 1998eb 651.7/5 Commercial correspondence--Handbooks, manuals, etc. cover If you like this book, buy it! next page > < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Poe, Ann The McGraw-Hill handbook of more business letters / Ann Poe. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-07-050517-9 (alk. paper) 1. Commercial correspondenceHandbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title. HF5726.P545 1998 651.7'5dc21 98-24855 CIP Copyright © 1998 by Ann Poe. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 DOC/DOC 9 0 3 2 1 0 9 8 ISBN 0-07-050517-9 The sponsoring editor for this book...
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...Procrastination ......................................................... p. 128 Chapter 9 — Persistence: the Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith ........................... p. 138 Chapter 10 — Power of the Master Mind: the Driving Force ................................................. p. 153 Chapter 11 — The Mystery of Sex Transmutation .................................................................. p. 160 Chapter 12 — The Subconscious Mind: The Connecting Link ............................................... p. 180 Chapter 13 — The Brain: A Broadcasting and Receiving Station for Thought ...................... p. 187 Chapter 14 — The Sixth Sense: The Door to the Temple of Wisdom .................................... p. 193 Chapter 15 — How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear ............................................................. p. 203 2 NAPOLEON HILL THINK AND GROW RICH...
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...departed, not forgotten The mind of man is the product of live Law; it thinks by law, it dwells in the midst of law, it gathers from law its growth; with law, therefore, can it alone work to any result. —George MacDonald CONTENTS PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION A New Phase of an Old Tradition ix PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Whom This Book Is For xix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxiii INTRODUCTION The Moral Common Ground 3 I THE LOST WORLD Things We Can’t Not Know 1 2 What It Is That We Can’t Not Know 3 Could We Get By Knowing Less? II EXPLAINING THE LOST WORLD 4 The First and Second Witnesses 5 The Third and Fourth Witnesses 6 Some Objections vii 19 29 54 83 93 116 viii WHAT WE CAN’T NOT KNOW III HOW THE LOST WORLD WAS LOST 7 Denial 8 Eclipse 149 173 IV RECOVERING THE LOST WORLD 9 The Public Relations of Moral Wrong 10 The Public Relations of Moral Right 11 Possible Futures 199 214 230 APPENDIX 1 appendix 2 appendix 3 appendix 4 Notes Index APPENDICES Decalogue as a Summary of the Natural The Law The Noahide Commandments as a Summary of the Natural Law Isaiah, David, and Paul on the...
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...FOREWORD "Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill American born Napoleon Hill is considered to have influenced more people into success than any other person in history. He has been perhaps the most influential man in the area of personal success technique development, primarily through his classic book Think and Grow Rich which has helped million of the people and has been important in the life of many successful people such as W. Clement Stone and Og Mandino. Napoleon Hill was born into poverty in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. At the age of 10 his mother died, and two years later his father remarried. He became a very rebellious boy, but grew up to be an incredible man. He began his writing career at age 13 as a "mountain reporter" for small town newspapers and went on to become America's most beloved motivational author. Fighting against all class of great disadvantages and pressures, he dedicated more than 25 years of his life to define the reasons by which so many people fail to achieve true financial success and happiness in their life. During this time he achieved great success as an attorney and journalist. His early career as a reporter helped finance his way through law school. He was given an assignment to write a series of success stories of famous men, and his big break came when he was asked to interview steel-magnate Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie commissioned Hill to...
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...Junior Skill Builders Junior Skill Builders ® N E W Y O R K Copyright © 2008 LearningExpress, LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Junior skill builders : grammar in 15 minutes a day.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN: 978-1-57685-662-8 1. English language—Grammar—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. English language—Grammar—Examinations—Study guides. I. LearningExpress (Organization) PE1112.J86 2008 425—dc22 2008020779 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition For more information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 2 Rector Street 26th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com C O N T E N T S Introduction Pretest S E C T I O N 1 : PA R T S O F S P E E C H Lesson 1: Nouns • Understanding common, proper, concrete, abstract, collective, and compound • Review exercises of all nouns Lesson 2: Pronouns • Understanding personal, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive, indefinite pronouns • Charts of subject, object, possessive, and indefinite pronouns • Review exercises of all pronouns Lesson 3: Verbs • Understanding action, linking, and helping verbs • Chart of common helping verbs • Review exercises of all verbs Lesson 4: Verb Tenses • Understanding regular and irregular verbs • Understanding present, past, future, present perfect, past...
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...Agatha Christie - Third Girl CHAPTER ONE HERCULE POIROT was sitting at the breakfast table. At his right hand was a steaming cup of chocolate. He had always had a sweet tooth. To accompany the chocolate was a brioche. It went agreeably with chocolate. He nodded his approval. This was from the fourth shop he had tried. It was a Danish patisserie but infinitely superior to the so-called French one near by. That had been nothing less than a fraud. He was satisfied gastronomically. His stomach was at peace. His mind also was at peace, perhaps somewhat too much so. He had finished his Magnum Opus, an analysis of great writers of detective fiction. He had dared to speak scathingly of Edgar Alien Poe, he had complained of the lack of method or order in the romantic outpourings of Wilkie Collins, had lauded to the skies two American authors who were practically unknown, and had in various other ways given honour where honour was due and sternly withheld it where he considered it was not. He had seen the volume through the press, had looked upon the results and, apart from a really incredible number of printer's errors, pronounced that it was good. He had enjoyed this literary achievement and enjoyed the vast amount of reading he had had to do, had enjoyed snorting with disgust as he flung a book across the floor (though always remembering to rise, pick it up and dispose of it tidily in the waste-paper basket) and had enjoyed appreciatively nodding his head on the rare occasions when such...
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