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On Friday March 15, 1895, Bridget Cleary was incinerated by her husband, Michael Cleary, in the middle of a cold night n Ireland. Cleary had been such for several days, as she suffered from “nervous excitement and slight bronchitis,” which a local physician in the local community. Michael Cleary was born in Ballyvadlea, Ireland and became a young cooper. He believed that his seamstress wife Bridget, who was stricken with a malady, had been kidnapped by fairies. Thus, when he set Bridget’s body afire, he did not think that he was actually burning his wife’s body but Continue reading...

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William Butler Keats is one of the most significant nature writers to have emerged out of Great Britain. He is credited for reviving Irish literature and making it significant amongst other English literature. His command on prose as well as poetry led him on the way to create masterpieces which the writers even today se as inspiration. Keats has a specific “naturistic” style which is reflected in the narrative of his stories as well as poems. While explaining the plot or the theme through his words, he always managed to pay homage to the different aspects of nature Continue reading...

Introduction

Arguably one of the strangest animals, the Sirenian has been among the most studied sea animals in modern science. According to scientists, the Sirenian, commonly referred to as the sea cow in layman language, first appeared on earth 50 million years ago (Berta, Sumich & Kovacs, 2006). As a matter of common knowledge, the sea cow is completely aquatic, and lives in a multiplicity of water bodies. It is feared that the Sirenian will soon become extinct, especially considering that most of its closest relatives have walked down the path of extinction. It is an animal that has raised professional Continue reading...

When publishing “History of New York”, Washington Irving resorted to a literary hoax. He wrote to some newspapers on behalf of the owner of a New York hotel who reported his intention of publishing an essay written by his one of his guests, Mr. Knickerbocker; the latter disappeared without paying the bill, leaving the essay in the room.
This fictional character, Mr. Knickerboker, is an old-fashioned gentleman in a wig with a pigtail. The hoax was so unconventional, that for a long time he was considered a real historical person. Irving’s book is a humorous chronicle of the Continue reading...

The life and the career or Zora Neale Hurston constantly revolved around Eatonville, a small town in Florida. This corner could very well match Robert Frost's description "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in" (quoted by Trubek). That sort of "home" was Eatonville for Hurston, except that, rather than being taken in by Eatonville, she took it into her heart and gave life to it in her work. In fact, many of her works are set here, Hurston writings abounding in historical and cultural facts and her characters being Continue reading...

The full moon rose and shone brightly in the sky, sparkling down on the boy’s pale face. The boy was sitting on his bed looking through the window, watching the clouds running over the full moon and hiding it from his sight for some moments. The boy, although the night was warm and quit, shook with anger, as he knew what the full moon meant.
It was a full moon, too, when a monster werewolf came to the village and killed its inhabitants ten years ago. The boy was the only one who remained alive. How, he did Continue reading...

Introduction

The Artist Work
"The White Gunas" was an abstraction art developed by Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi is an American Born art; his artwork were most inspired by philosophies of the west and the east. His work "The White Gunas, " is a creativity showing three Gunas that stands for strands of quality in Samkhya India (Lewis 10). The first strand is “tamas” which stands for motionless or rather darkness. The second strand is "rajas" which in India means passion or desire and the third strip is "sattva" which means goodness or clear thinking in India. The philosophy of the art is Continue reading...

Human beings, their evolution and their place in the planet have been the topic of much discussion and speculation over the ages. Men seek to find answers through religion, science and folklore. Most religion say that God created men in his form, folklore tell tale of how man was created millions of year ago but science tell us otherwise. The presence of fossils of our ancestors and scientific data collected over the years prove that the Homo sapiens found today was not created at one go but was a result of year of evolutionary process. The Evolutionary process also Continue reading...

Music in the world today is mainly categorized into two labels. They are the Western music and the non-Western music. Western music is a term that is attributed to music and in turn, cultures, that originated from Europe, including most of its descendants. Despite categorization, the West certainly imprinted the world of its music, making it more difficult to distinguish one from the other (Gomez, Haro, and Herrera 1).This blurs the identity of people in a particular geographical location. Although the Western influence is evident in music all over the world, geographical and cultural elements enable individuals to Continue reading...