Washington Irving was born in New York City on 1783 and went to become the first story teller of America, and was best known for his two famous stories, Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. ... Washington goes much deeper using American politics, folklore and cultural surrounding from the time to influence his acclaim short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.... Therefore teachers had to come from the city. The entry of Ichabod Crane represents the intrusion of the city. ... Knickerbocker" (p. 296), then whose hand wrote the foregoing tale? ...

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The article attempts to convey the senses, of fear, pain, and hopelessness by way of gripping tales and pictures. ... Cities across the world are becomingly increasingly more chock-full of people. ... There were numerous interviews given by actual people living in these cities. ... In both instances the article stayed with the underlying theme of population, but two different results were achieved under seemingly similar circumstances. ... The photographs in the article by Stuart Franklin were nothing short of spectacular. ...

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The writer portrays Pip through two threads. ... It seems that "Hard Times"(1854) and "A Tale of Two Cities" are most famous among them. In "Hard Times" sharp contradiction in the society in England is reflected and "A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel of which the background is great revolution of France. ... Moreover, during in his short life Dickens not only wrote lots of works but almost every book has become classical works. ... Some are written about people's living state under a very grim background of the revolution, such as "A Tale of Two cities". ...

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Edgar did very well in the military, and arose to the stature of sergeant in two years time. ... In 1833 and 1834, Poe wrote two short stories, in which he would later rewrite. He also began work on a volume of short stories entitled Eleven Tales of Arabesque. ... He published popular terror tales such as "The Fall of the House of Usher." ... In 1845, Edgar moved back to New York City and lived in a cottage in Fordham. ...

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The name of the city, Personville, frequently mispronounced as "Poisonville" suggests its function as a fictional microcosm of the whole society. ... These two levels of the story are linked by the two hallucinations the Op encounters which gives the reader an in-depth view into the psychological reality of the Op's state of mind. ... Red Harvest can almost be read as a laconic fever dream with its short chapters and shorter sentences. ... Thus, Hammett breaks the Continental Op's war on crime down into increasingly large-scale pieces as the operative goes after one or tw...

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Immortalis takes place in an alternate world in a time period equivalent to that of our middle ages, but the world is more similar to a fairy-tale land than an actual place. ... The battle scenes where the gemstone magic is put on display are nothing short of miraculous, not to slight the close range combat which is exceptional in its own fashion. ... The plot, while deep and extensive, could potentially be fit into a two-hour movie, though it would be better and more accurately depicted in an epic film a la The Lord of The Rings. ... From then on the time in Corona progresses only a year or t...

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Now it should be made clear that from this point on we are talking about the evolution of tragedy and tragic theatre in Athens, and that this evolution was connected and depended on the evolution of democracy in that city. This new political independence meant that any free male citizen of Athens could achieve being one of the rulers of the city and having the fate of his community in his hands. The need to understand and to be taught how to deal with power was obvious for the men of the city, and it was in this climate that Greek tragedy emerged. ... Studying the plots of a number of Greek...

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One of the most blatant mixtures of the two conflicting realms is "When Mr. ... This short tale is told from the viewpoint of a young girl whose parents were from India, and it describes the weekly dinners her family has with a family friend, Mr. ... Fortunately this short story ends in happiness; Mr. ... 'When Mr Pirzada came to dine" and "Mrs Sen's" are both tales that are like Polaroid snapshots, capturing in soft focus the fleeting moments of life. ... Pirzada's home city, where he has left behind his wife and daughters. ...

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Background: The ambitious and resentful Mettius of Alban sought to turn Rome's allies against the great City. ... The tales Brutus speaks enrage the citizens. ... Mettius is drawn between two chariots and mutilated before his troops. ... Assessment: The history of civilized people being as short as it is, relatively speaking, at the time of Livy's publishment, Romans were at a loss for the expectations of a great society. Through these stories and tales, an understanding of what became most important to these early peoples becomes clear. ...

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As it neared the end of the first two centuries of its existence, the crusading movement was in a condition of crisis. ... He was a short, swarthy fellow, already rather old in 1095. ... Other preachers were active, too, and a number of these converged on the city in April and May. ... Nicaea was the capital city of Kilij Arslan, the Turkish sultan in Asia Minor. ... The city guard sallied out and drove away the Crusaders, but the Franks returned to Civetot laden with booty and regaling everyone with tales of their great "victory." ...

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The cabin had two rooms for the fifteen members of the family. ... She was born in Kansas City, Kansas, on a little farm, which was called a dirt farm. ... "Mary Lou told this tale," Larry said. ... They moved a short distance from her parents. Actually in this period of time it is a short distance, but in the 1900's six miles was not considered a short distance. ...

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The Phaeacians exploited hospitality and took in Odysseus, awed by the tales of his journey. ... When all eyes in the city are fixed on the ship's approach turn her into a rock looking like a ship offshore. ... Then there's no need to throw a circle of high mountains round their city " (Homer, 173). ... This dialogue between the two contradicts everything Homer idealizes as custom in Greek culture to remain of good moral in the eyes of the gods. ... For the future give up your custom of seeing home any traveller who comes to our city; and for the present let us sacrifice twelve pic...

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Once the arrived to the big city, they found that the popularity of the Jazz Era had increased tremendously and had been taking over. ... The next breakthrough for Billie's career came from the short Duke Ellington film in which she played the role of a rejected woman abused by her lover in Duke Ellington's short film Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. In her scene, she sang the song "Saddest Tale . ... In other words, the members of The Count Basie Band experienced a tremendous amount of racism, they had to travel from one city to the next sometimes having to take loans to...

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It can almost be said that the two perspectives are "similarly different." ... Francesca and Paolo are shown reading the tale of Lancelot and Guinevere. ... After wounded while hunting, Guigemar is taken in by the Lady of the Lord of the city he manages to reach. ... Petrarch's Quest for True Love and Spiritual Fulfillment The poems contained within The Canzoniere are spellbinding tales of love. ... In short, Petrarch reaches a new, more fulfilling understanding of God. ...

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However it is "Sonny's Blues," a short story found in Going to Meet the Man that lends the greatest insight into Baldwin's struggles. ... Baldwin grew up in New York City, as a young black homosexual. A city where racism was not only common place, for much of his life it was legal. ... "Sonny's Blues," begins as a story of two worlds, one occupied by the narrator and one by Sonny, or so it would seem. ... Paramount to the idea of two worlds merging is the idea that there were never two separate worlds, and the physicality of squeezing through a narrow passage, combi...

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For years, movie writers and novelists alike have scared the world time and time again with the chilling tales of nuclear war. ... I think not) that tension between the two super powers had tightened, and the world was on the brink of war. ... With in a short time most of the major cities in the United States Are little more than Mushroom clouds in the mourning sky and the entire Russian mainland has been obliterated. ... So it breaks away from his "norm" in that he destroys Russia unequivocally but only the major cities and sack bases in America. ... After the two day war ended the cl...

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Discuss this statement with reference to TWO texts studied this year- one pre-1900 and one twentieth century. ... During the industrialisation age, focus was on city life, materialism, poverty and oppression. ... Truth and beauty are two of the noblest and most nebulous causes found in history. ... The unchanging marble of the urn can be considered as immortal just as the tale displayed on the urn. ... In his short lifetime, Keats became apart of his poetry by becoming all of its characters in one aspect or another. ...

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It is captivating tale and has a lot to offer to a westerner to find out about the Chinese way of life. ... During the drought the family had to move to the south city. ... There were two main female influences in Wang Lung's life. ... By being the backbone of the home, Wang Lung came to realize, if not for a short while, the he very much appreciated having her around. ... Wang Lung finally succumbs to his sons" wishes and moves from his land to the city. ...

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The story begins in the year 2005, just a few years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City. ... Billy was a ruthless trainer for the Luttrells, but he knew what needed to be done to develop two elite SEALs. ... Axelson was tall with short dark hair. ... A short time after midnight they were extracted into the mountains of Hindu Kush. ... Sadly, three of those heroes died in combat serving their country, but one survived to tell the tale. ...

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The two sides retreat, and the Achaians build a wall around their encampment to protect their position and their ships. ... Because Patroclus and his army are rested and fresh, they easily drive the weary Trojans back to the city wall. ... His courage fails at the last minute and Achilles pursues Hector twice around the city walls. Hector's flight is finally halted through the trickery of Athene, and the two men duel. ... Finally his ego wins out, he chooses to live a short and glorious life, as opposed to his other option of a long and easy one. ...

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Originally the Disney brand was built on animated characters, films and the stories however two of the main impacts of the growth in the Disney brand was the forming of the Walt Disney Music Company in 1949 and in 1955 the Disney brand was then extended with the opening of the Walt Disney theme park, by doing this they allowed the consumers to communicate with the brand through multiple senses hence increasing the brand impact. ... The Walt Disney logo represents everything that the company has to offer to its customers – fun and its magical experience symbolizing a fairy-tale world. ......

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The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ... Edgar Allan Poe- The short stories and poetry of 19th-century American Edgar Allan Poe reflect the writer's haunting imagination. Poe, one of the earliest masters of short story writing, created the first detective stories. His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. ... In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) att...

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Among the great leaders of history, few have achieved so much in so short period, transformed the life of a nation as decisively, and given such profound inspiration to the world at large. ... He put an end to the antiquated Ottoman dynasty whose tale had lasted more than six centuries - and created the Republic of Turkey in 1923, establishing a new government truly representative of the nation's will. ... He was born in 1881 (probably in the spring) in Salonica, then an Ottoman city, now in Greece. ... Promoted to general in 1916, at age 35, he liberated two major provinces in eas...

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Australia has an incredible sense of space to people living in densely populated Asian cities. ... Trade between our two countries has been growing at an phenomenal rate. ... A few basic facts tell the tale. ... Of this figure, 1.4 million Asian residents visited Australia for a short term. ... It has military exchanges with Australia and the two countries are negotiating a free trade agreement. ...

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Jack London (John Griffith) (1876-1916) Prolific American novelist and short story writer, whose works deal romantically the overwhelming power of nature and the struggle for survival. ... London spent the winter near Dawson City suffering from scurvy, and returned in the spring to San Francisco. ... In 1900 he married Elisabeth (Bess) Maddern, but left her and their two daughters three years afterwards, eventually to marry Charmian Kittredge. ... He started to produce steadily novels, non-fiction and short stories, becoming in his lifetime one of the most popular authors. ...

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