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him and forcefully draws him closer. The dream ends with the cadaver seemingly merging into one with Isak. This particular sequence was deeply influenced by Bergman’s love for Victor Sjostrom’s film The Phantom Carriage. The funeral hearse with no coachman recalls death driving a funeral hearse in The Phantom Carriage. This idea of death in this nightmare spurs viewers to contemplate what it means to live as if they are dead and who they are as they go about life. This dream in particular reveals to

Dracula’s Downfall: Science and Superstition In a time period where science was developing new and controversial ideas, and superstition was slowly being replaced with a more reasoning thought process, a story that combines the two topics was written: Dracula. With movement to the new west, science was slowly gaining more foreground, inventing new technologies such as the telegram and phonograph as well as making advancements like blood transfusions and hypnosis. Additionally a new thought process

Black and White      Following the Civil War, just prior to the turn of the century, many American novelist were writing more freely of the previous slave culture. Two of these writers being Mark Twain and Charles Chesnutt. Mark Twain was a popular “white” author by this time. Charles Chesnutt, the son of free blacks, decided to pursue a dream of becoming an author in order to remove the spirit of racism. By studying these authors in particular, the views of a white raised

Notes from the Underground talks about a man who lives in Russia during the 1980’s, he used to be in the civil service. This story talks about how the underground man and is different from the people of the modern society. The story is separated in two parts. The first part talks about how the underground man is hostile towards the modern society and he talks about how the people are wrong about everything. The second part talks about the life of the underground man during his youth and how he deals

The Discrepancies of Shakespeare      Shakespeare is a world renowned playwright. Most people could describe at least of one of his plays, poems, or sonnets. However, not many people can recall the details of his personal life. Some may know that he was married, while others believe that he gay. Since there are so many discrepancies concerning William Shakespeare, it can no longer be determined what the facts are and what is fiction.      The discrepancies

Cinderella and Donkeyskin by Charles Perrault both have the same overarching theme of an abused girl who has been forced to grow up without a mother, who ultimately through the help of a magical entity becomes married to a prince. However, the roles of their prospective female protagonists and the characteristics they portray are very different. Both fairy tales focus on the idea of good overcoming evil, as both Cinderella and Donkeyskin are forced to comply with the orders of a higher authority

Judith, spent the four years of the war scrounging for food and wearing rags. Judith now rode into town "in the made-over dress which all Southern women now wore, in the carriage still but drawn now by a mule, a plow mule, soon the plow mule, and no coachman to drive it either" to tend to the wounded soldiers in the improvised hospital in Jefferson (99). Further, Wash Jones, a man

Terracotta Army- Archaeology History of Ancient China Due: 16/3/2015 By Jasen Naci   Table of Contents: 1.0 Introduction……………………………………………………………………1 2.0 Ancient Emperor…………………………………………………………….1 3.0 Terracotta Warriors………………………………………………………..1 4.0 Significance & Findings……………………………………………………2 5.0 Excavation Site……………………………………………………………....2 6.0 Problems & Mitigation……………………………………………………2 7.0 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………3 8.0 Controversies………………………………………………………………….4 9.0 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………

The American Civil War seen by many as one the most catastrophic loss of life to have taken place in the Western Hemisphere except for the Revolutionary Wars. Accordingly, the Civil War placed some of the European countries at odds on how to intercede; for fear that their support of the south could be seen as a support of slavery, and thus the prospect of war with the union. Mays’ book covers different opinions from different writers such as Howard Jones, R.J.M. Blackett, Thomas Schoonover, and James

For this oral history paper, Judy Barnhill was interviewed to convey her experiences during her childhood and adolescent years relating to African American history. She was born in 1945, and she is a white American woman. This paper will be discussing the time periods of Jim Crow segregation, the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation. Jim Crow segregation began during the late 1800’s and continued on until about the 1960’s. It was a time of racial tension and inequality. Many southern states of