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…in the Dark is haunted by the past. Unlike his parents, who harbor secrets they cannot tell each other, the narrator is determined to unearth the story behind his family's unspoken anguish. These family secrets are inseparable from Northern Ireland's violent…

…Darkness And Its Role In Agamemnon As time has past and written stories have been read, the use of darkness as a symbol has been frequent in trying to represent evil, concealment, and blindness. Such is this in the story of Agamemnon, where…

…In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, there is a great interpretation of the feelings of the characters and uncertainties of the Congo. Although Africa, nor the Congo are ever really referred to, the Thames river is mentioned as support…

…Fire and Bone, Flesh and Stone Pieces of Wood, Executioner's Hood Goat's Horn, Bucket of Corn Pot of Weeds, Dark Deeds One of White Flowers, One of Dark Powers Stomach's Gut, Cigarette's Butt Truth and Eyes, Death and Lies Crow's…

…The opposition of light and dark as symbols for life and death is the foundation upon which much of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is built. Darkness in our society is indicative of many symbols of evil. For instance, a black cat, dark night, and dark place…

…Traditionally, light means good and dark means evil. This assumption is proven in many instances of Beowulf, though in all three battles we also see contradictions to this assumption. Sometimes, what we see or assume may not always be just…

…Grendle’s lair is associated with death and darkness in many ways. In the poem it states “They lived in secret places, windy cliffs,” cliffs in general are associated with death because cliffs are usually danger zones, cliffs are normally where people…

…Searching for Dark Matter When Astronomers look at the Universe, they study the mysteries of the stars, dust clouds and other matter visible to radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-ray, or gamma-ray telescopes. What is not readily apparent…

…Throughout the ages of literature, darkness has often been used as symbolic in representation for evil, concealment, and blindness. In the opening of Agamemnon, the darkness that consumed the scene was used for effect in order to convey indirectly…

…Looking for the Invisible: Search for the Dark Matter There is perhaps no current problem of greater importance to astrophysics and cosmology than that of “dark matter”. The search for dark matter has dominated cosmology for half of the century…