in his bloodstream. A doctor named Colin Brewer tried to disprove this theory by claiming it would be possible for Kurt to have shot himself after being injected with a minimum of 225 milligrams of heroin because it usually takes 30 seconds to a minute for the heroine to take effect on a human body, however, private investigator Tom Grant was quick to respond by stating that Doctor Brewer was not talking about injecting heroine, but swallowing morphine. Therefore, his point is invalid. Would it have
Compare and contrast how Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Perkins-Gilman and Edith Wharton use the gothic genre to explore society’s darkest secrets During the Enlightenment, the Gothic came to the fore of literature. An effect of Enlightenment was the accessibility of books to the whole of society; they were ‘no longer the sole purview of aristocrats and wealthy merchants’ . Stephen Bruhm has said that the Gothic presents ‘a barometer of the anxieties plaguing a certain culture at a particular moment in
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
to define or stereotype, she is a lot more complex and has many different sides to her than the vampires or she-devils characterised by late 19th century novelists. (Hedgecock, 2008) She is not a dangerous, treacherous woman and would rarely commit murder to get what she desires. In ‘The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature: The Danger and Sexual Threat’ 2008, Jennifer Hedgecock examines how the dire socioeconomic class femme fatale of the Victorian era drives her to escape a life of poverty. She argues
UNIT 5 PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF TV AND INTERNET ON CHILDREN The adolescents of today are living in a highly complex socio-cultural environment in which influences and impacts have constant interplay. The spread of the mass media, combined with rapid urbanization, has been gradually blurring the distances that had earlier existed between rural and urban children…the six decades since independence have seen a flood of virtual media, responding to the profound socio-economic and cultural