.... they are also quite different. They are victims of their fears and their obsessions. Norman who seems agreeable and shy is, in reality, a homicidal maniac who has committed matricide. He suffers from schizophrenia — he acts as both himself and his dead mother. Roderick Usher appears strange from the beginning, almost ghost-like, with his "cadaverousness of complexion" — however, he is not a murderer. He suffers from a mental disorder which makes him obsessed with fear: fear of the past, of the house, of the dead. He finally dies, "victim to the terrors he had anticipated." The way in which madness is projected in both stories is q .....

.... for her first ever spot on the Canadian National Team. This achievement was huge and she was becoming better known around Ontario and Canada from it. This recognition, she said, caused her to feel stressed and made her feel that she had to win, and she was extremely disappointed when she didn't. Many people said that they saw a huge change in Joanne's attitude towards the sport at this time and that the stress and pressure caused her to mature and have to make big decisions on her own. She, at first, didn't know if she could handle the stress, and at one time wanted to give up. Joanne instead, chose to continue her swimming career and has m .....

.... song little known beyond the southern United States. Handy's songs brought the blues to international attention. Handy's career was rooted in popular music. He began his career in 1896 as a minstrel show and vaudville corntist and bandleader and then became one of the first publishers of music by black composers. William Christopher Handy was born on Nov,16, 1873, in Florence, Ala, the son of former slaves . As a 15-year-old he left home to work in a traveling minstrel show, but he soon returned when his money ran out. He attended Teachers Agreicultural & Mechanical College in Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a school teacher and bandmaste .....

.... fact he spent much of his life trying to escape the "repressive code of behavior" (CLC, 177) that was pushed upon him as a child. After graduating high school in 1977 he chose not to go to college and instead became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where he remained for seven months. His oppurtunity to break away came when he volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy. In July of 1918 while serving along the Piave River, he was severely wounded by shrapnel and forced to return home after recuperation in January 1919. The war had left him emotionally and physically shaken, and according to some critics he began as a result "a quest for ps .....

.... who controlled the city’s largest prostitution and gambling ring at the time, and boy did I like that idea. Later that year the Prohibition act came into affect and I became interested in selling illegal whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. Torrio’s uncle did not agree with this idea but within the next month he was shot and killed. Torrio and I took over Torrio’s uncles business and added the selling of illegal alcohol, see I always get what I want. After Torrio was gunned down and almost killed by a rival gang, he retired from the underworld, which left me to run the empire alone. At the age of 26, I was managing more than 1,000 employe .....

.... Needless to say, this happiness did not last. At the age of 18, Mr. & Mrs. Allan decided to send young Edgar off to college. In his very first year at the University of Virginia young Edgar seemed to some how created a substantial amount of gambling debts. Mr. Allan then refused to pay any more of Poe's so called "college fees." Poe and John had a big dispute and Poe decided to run away and join the army( under the name Edgar A. Perry). Poe spent three years in the army, during this time he began experimenting with writing. In his last three months in the army, Poe decided he did not desire to be a professional soldier. He left the army set o .....

.... real object and the perceived object. For instance, if one could not ever perceive the pen, how could one ever know of its existence? He held that if an object is independent of one’s perception, then how could one know it to be real. He thought that you could not truly know something without first perceiving it in some way. It was an easy step from that ideology for him to adopt the phrase – Esse Est Percipi, which means, “To be is to be perceived.� There is a crippling problem that arises in this mode of thinking that can best be demonstrated by the following limerick: who said “God, must find it extremely odd to think th .....

.... of his first year. After only attending his first school for one year he moved on to math and arithmetic school. He failed out of that school by the time he was 10. He then quit school completely in order to assist his father in the soap and candle making business. At age 12 he moved on to be an apprentice to his older brother James, who was a printer. Soon Franklin had ambitions to write and by age 16 he had written a series of letters by an imaginary author. The letters were printed in the New England Courant, which was published by his brother. Still pursuing his writing career, he ran away to Philadelphia and continued working in the printing .....

.... his life, Twain traveled across the world while writing novels and short stories and giving speeches. As a writer he wrote realistically through language, unforgettable characters and a hatred of hypocrisy and oppression (Lemaster). Because of his sharp views of society, he used humor and quick-witted satire to express his points. Mark Twain is essentially a satirical writer and a humorist. Twain as a writer, ridicules society in many aspects of American life through satire. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain uses the Grangerford and Sheperdson feud to criticize American culture and its’ inability to put past injustices behind .....

.... for the Reading Eagle. As a copy boy, he wrote a few feature stories for the newspaper ("Updike,John 414). That fall he began to attend Harvard and started writing for the Harvard Lampoon a funny magazine where he was later elected the president of the magazine. On June 26, 1953 he married his wife Mary E, Pennington a fine arts major from Radcliffe, she was two years older than . In 1954 he wrote his senior paper on Robert Herrick, who was a 17th century poet. That summer he graduated from Harvard summa cum laude (Yerkes, James 4/2/00). The next fall moves to England on a Knox Fellowship where he enrolled in the fine arts at Oxford. At Oxford .....