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…by sensational crime and Holmes himself was described as having an immense knowledge of sensational literature. There was a great popularity in late-Victorian London for dismembering murder victims and distributing them around the town. One particular audacious…

…as the water rose. Galveston’s highest point was only 8.7 feet above sea level, so the water did not have to rise much to cover the whole island. There were 8,000 deaths after the hurricane was finished with its destruction. Over 3,600 homes were either…

…of a speaker who knew Emily only from a distance, just as the other citizens of their town did. Isolation and emotional deprivation help to explain the behaviors of a desperate old woman. Emily Grierson came from a well-to-do family background. She had lived…

…dresses to wear to school. When I got home from school in the afternoon, I would have to take my dress off, wash it, and wear it again a day later,"says Ruth. "My father picked cotton for a living. My mother was white, but she stayed at home all day which…

…Madec thought it would be a hassle for him, so the hunt began. Ben must battle for his life against Madec, the harsh nature of the desert, and fight psychologically against himself. Ben must outwit this smart guy in Ben's home terrain. There are so many…

…briefly touches on the impact of crime and the impact teenage pregnancy has on loved ones around them. Characters: *<Tab/>Zac is the main character. He is under eighteen and is desperate to break away from his home town of Silver Beach. His…

…Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are unmarried siblings who live on their ancestral farm, Green Gables, in the quiet town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Matthew is sixty, and since he is getting too old to handle the farm work on his own…

…enjoys their gentle manner, and wishes to join them, but thinks better of it, remembering the treatment he received from the town people. Instead he chooses to take advantage of their obliviousness to his existence, and indulge in the joy he finds observing…

…." On May 24, 1856, in retribution for an attack on the free-soil town of Lawrence, Brown led a small party of men to the homes of proslavery settlers along Pottawatomie Creek. Five men were dragged from their homes and brutally killed. (Brown would say that he…

…, and lives not worth life. It is true that in the first few decades when the Gypsies came to Europe, some people thought they were Egyptian pilgrims (this is from where the word "gypsy" comes), and harbored them in their homes and treated them with the hospitality…