The Cask of Amontillado

Question 1

Edgar Allan Poe life was hard when growing up he was born on January 9th in the year 1809 in Boston and was the second born. The parents worked as actors. They were always travelling, as the companies they worked for were always traveling. Poe’s mother had already lost another husband as a teenager. The father was doing well as an actor but had the reputation of being an alcoholic; he deserted his family a year after Poe was born. A year later Poe’s mother died acting in Virginia. Edgar and the older sister became orphans without any money to support them. Edgar was adopted by a mercantile the name of John Allan. Edgar took up John’s middle name and was now called Edgar Allan Poe.

When Allan was six years old, the family moved to England where he was enrolled at Manor house school. Allan and father were not happy, as he was always quarreling. He later left home to join the university, later he was employed at various organizations but his addiction to alcohol lad to his dismissal. It is this experience that he brings out the theme of drugs and alcoholism in his book.

Theme of alcoholism

He says in the book he turned to look at someone who was intoxicated. This shows that the people talking were taking a drink which was alcoholic. In the book, he also mentions of offering a drink to someone, wine to be specific.

Those words enhance the fact that the individual, speaking was also drinking.

The tone in this book varies, in this section, the tone is jovial, after drinking, and the two individuals walk home hand in hand and joking as both went on their way. The descriptions he gives shows how they were walking hand in hand, talking and laughing.

Question 2

The common features in all of the control engines are, matching of precise words, phrase searches, field specifications and the limits of field searches, and also truncation.

Phrase and Proximity Searching

This is a system that enables the system to identify similar words and the similar order that they appear this is carried out by three different systems. CSA mechanically looks for the phrases, without including the phrase, in the next step the terms are quoted by the Eric Web, or the terms could be searched by the default operator.

Truncation and wildcards

 On CSA, the disposition (*) is for truncation, the similar disposition operates as that of a wildcard to salvage unrestricted number of typeset inside a word.

Question 3

There is a variety of sites where one can get information from the internet; it depends on what the information one wants. If one wants education related information, Google is easier access. If it is for news around the world, one can log on to the various news channels to get the information.

The internet news will take over from the print news papers in a few years to come. The reasons for this are because unlike the print newspapers, which one has to look for, the internet news is easier to access as one only needs a device that can access the web sites.

In the internet news, one can access much more information than in the news print. The news print cannot be able to update the news immediately a serious story breaks; it has to be printed much later after.