Eamonn Holmes Essays

  • Living in Utopia

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    Living in Utopia Private property is abolished in Utopia, and society is communally organized in such a way that there is no shortage and that everyone has work, food, a home and opportunities for cultural expression. Sounds great, eh? Would you like to live there, and if not, why? Your answer should take account of More's context (why he wrote Utopia?) and should be supported by reference to the text. In Thomas More's Utopia life is very structured there is no crime or prejudices. The

  • An Immigration Journey

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    My life in early 19th century was very dreadful and scary. I was from a poor family where father goes to work in factories for 12-18 hours a day. I was from Germany. Jews was the most segregated religion in Germany. We did not have full right to do a certain things such as go to certain college to get education, shoe our religion freely to other and enjoy our festival. My father used to get a low wages in work and we have to live with the things we have we have no right to argue back for wages or

  • Our Parents Generation Vs. Our Generation

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    Our Parents Generation Live VS Our Generation In the Globalization Era Nowadays, we lived in the globalization era where technologies are really essential. Foremost, the wide spreading of globalization influences the human life rapidly. In addition, there are not immortal things in this world, where everything will change. Even though we cannot see the development of the life but we can feel it. It also occurs in the groove of the people live from one generation to the other generations. Each

  • How Did Davy Crockett Before He Went Into War

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    David Crockett “ Heaven know that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.”(David Crockett) What kind of man was Davy Crockett before he went into war? Did he die at the Alamo or was he captured and killed before the war? What factors played a role in him becoming an American frontiersman? Davy a man of scotch-irish descent fought heroically in the Alamo. He was a great hero that led Americans into war. Davy left an

  • Heather Cox's Narrative Fiction

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    Heather Cox had always loved the cold town of Glendale and its cozy spot snuggled between the Gray Mountains. It was a place she felt safe. But then again, she had never been outside of Glendale. With its beautiful trees and snow covered mountains, why would you want to? Heather was exactly like her little town, charming and attractive. Heather looks like the kind of girl that at first glance you would be scared of, like she could tear any ego down in seconds. But she was the exact opposite, she

  • The Cons of Legalizing Euthanasia

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    This morning you woke up and looked out the window the start of a new day. Normally we don’t focus on the fact that we are alive and healthy. We probably take our life for granted. But there will be one day where it will be our last day. Many would like this day to peaceful and without suffering. Now is it possible to control this? Many physicians have been debating about legalizing a drug that is used in ending the suffering of a patient. This drug is called euthanasia and its function is to give

  • Life Is Short

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    When we are having fun, time passes swiftly away. In contrast, when we have nothing to do, time hardly passes by. A second seems longer than a minute, a minute longer than an hour. However, 10 hours seem just 10 minutes when its fun, when we are engaged in something we enjoy doing. When we talk with a broader point of view, we say life is t short to live to the full if we are enjoying our life and still have millions of things we want to do but know we can’t because life’s just too short. But for

  • A dollar a Day: Made in China

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    "A Dollar a Day" is a documentary that shows and discusses what it means to live in poverty . The theme or the main idea of "A dollar a day" is how people who do live in poverty get jobs and meet their basic needs, and how the people in this documentary show that even though they are poor, lack education ,healthcare and can’t make ends meet still strive to aquire thier basic needs with perseverance and alot of effort. Many people live in poverty and "A dollar a day" shows how some people who are

  • Creative Writing: Home

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    The blazing sun directed over Mogadishu while the women and the children of somalia tired, hot and hungry continue their work washing, cleaning and cooking. The city is the embodiment of boredom the dark smoky skies, the dull dead grass and the brown coloured huts that seemed to go on for miles. The people walking roughly in one direction, the sound of their feet crunching the gravel fills the silence of the morning. Everyone dressed in traditional clothes men wearing flowy maawis, western shirts

  • Resilience In Dirty Pretty Things

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    What do you get when you combine desperation, a search for home, and heartbreak? You find a surprising tale of love, loss, and resilience on the streets of London. In Dirty Pretty Things we find a Nigerian doctor working as a night porter, a Muslim Turkish woman working as a housekeeper, and a Hispanic hotel manager working as an organ broker. We also find a world of depict, a world where tough decisions with no right answers are made on a daily basis. At it’s heart, Dirty Pretty Things is a movie

  • Hounds Of The Baskerville

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    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson came back to there office and found a walking cane. After finding this walking cane Holmes and Watson examined and made hypothesis of who could have left this walking canes here. After making a conclusion Dr. Mortimer came in the office with a case of homicide on Sir Charles Baskerville who had died that week. Dr. Mortimer explains what had happened to his friend. Dr. Mortimer thought that even though it was a clean death he thinks there is some foul play. Holmes and Watson

  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Scandal in Bohemia

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    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Scandal in Bohemia The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was written by Sir Arthur ConanDoyle. The novel was first published in 1892. A Scandal in Bohemia was a short story about a woman who has pictures of herself and a high Englishnobleman. She used them to blackmail him. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a novelist, a detective-story writer, and aphysician. He was born on May 22, 1859 and died on July 7, 1930. He beganwriting The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1890 and finished

  • A post-colonial canonical and cultural revision of Conan Doyle's Holmes narratives

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    A post-colonial canonical and cultural revision of Conan Doyle's Holmes narratives Redefining the British literary canon as imperial construct and influence 'A canon,' Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffiin argue, 'is not a body of texts per se, but rather a set of reading practices....' (189). They define 'reading practices' as 'the enactment of innumerable individual and community assumptions, for example about genre, about literature, and even about writing....' (189). The purpose of the following

  • Comparing Good vs. Evil in Sherlock Holmes and Dracula

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    Good vs. Evil in Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula It is all too often that literary critics read literature and then sift it into good and bad pieces, critiquing its value or mediocrity.  However, it needs to be pointed out that this onerous task of "analyzing literature" for literary devices need not be the basis for placing value and worth on literature.  Additionally, it is a great misunderstanding in society's education system that students need to learn what makes a good book solely by its use

  • Holmes Is Made Possible By Watson.

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    Holmes Is Made Possible By Watson. Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular characters in literature. I read the three stories; ‘The Speckled Band,’ ‘The Engineer’s Thumb’ and ‘The Beryl Coronet.’ I have looked at; how the stories were structured, Dr Watson as the narrator, language used in the stories and the difference between Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes as characters in the stories. Most crime fiction stories are structured in the same way. Sherlock Holmes stories usually employ

  • Sherlock Holmes: Logician or Theseologist?

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    Sherlock Holmes: Logician or Theseologist? I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a textbook which shal focus the whole art of detection into one volume. —Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Abbey Grange He is a Logician A logician studies the way we ought to reason; she is interested in the distinction between corect reasoning and incorect reasoning. Although we al reason and are often interested in whether our reasoning is valid we are not a l logicians because

  • How Conan Doyle Perceives a Victorian Gentleman in Sherlock Holmes

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    Perceives a Victorian Gentleman in Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is a hero, he is also a typical Victorian gentleman. A very important fact about the books is that he was the first detective. This brought him much attention and many people loved this idea. He set the standard and has been copied by others many times. Detectives nowadays are still perceived to be just like Sherlock Holmes. They still have the same mannerisms: for example Sherlock Holmes Detectives nowadays * High Moral Yes

  • The Detective Story Genre: Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories

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    The Detective Story Genre: Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories One of the most popular literary forms is the detective genre. The most remarkable detective author of all time is the late nineteenth century writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His most prominent works are the famous Sherlock Holmes stories. These novels and short stories set the standard for the genre. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories can be considered a model for detective fiction because each is centered

  • The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Speckled Band, and The Six Napoleons by Sherlock Holmes

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    Sherlock Holmes Essay Sherlock Holmes stories are still popular, “The man with the twisted lip”,” The Speckled Band” and “The Six Napoleons” are three stories that show their popularity. They are popular because there is an element of competition between Sherlock Holmes and the reader. The clues in the three stories are presented for the readers benefit. Another reason why they are so popular is that the crimes are unusual and challenging for both the reader and Sherlock Holmes. The stories

  • The First Scene in The Merchant of Venice by Sherlock Holmes

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    The First Scene in The Merchant of Venice by Sherlock Holmes Shylock's first scene in The Merchant of Venice is important because it sets the tone for the audience's view of him throughout the play. I have never seen the play performed, but it has been my experience that an audience will form an opinion of a character upon first seeing them. There are many different ways of portraying Shylock in his first scene. I will be focussing on portraying Shylock as a villain. I understand that his