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. ... " The time period and cultural influences from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century influences the story theme and symbolism (Thompson 4). ... 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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My first encounter with the term identity crisis was in the story of 20-year-old Brandon, who arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993, her handsome looks and boyish charm won her several friends in town and even a pretty young girlfriend. ... On Christmas Eve, Brandon was brutally raped and beaten by two of her friends, who became enraged when they discovered that she was actually a woman rather than a man as they had been led to believe. A week after this incident, the same two men murdered Brandon, along with a young mother and another man with whom she had sought refuge miles away. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Your discussion should address ideas presented in this course (and other sources as you prefer) and the essay should include attention to at least two set texts. ... Oedipus is also his own contradiction as he saves the city by defeating the curse when he solves the riddle, but in this triumph he becomes the tragedy and creates the downfall of the city. ... These hidden agenda's are also the theme of many modern day literature and media productions, where the audience is aware of a characters heritage yet the protagonists remain oblivious. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Regardless of her illness, she wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories while acquiring success and praise. ... O'Connor's tales offer a sickening and repeatedly austere image of the clash between conventional Southern Christian ideals and the ever-changing social landscape of the twentieth century. ... Jill Baumgaertner writes, "The characters in O"Connor's stories find grace, but between their flight from the City of Destruction and their arrival at the gates of the Heavenly City, they must encounter the trauma of the cross." ... Out of all themes of Flannery...

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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. ... Hard-boiled fiction targeted the lower, working class to be accessible to the common reader, yet it also incorporated modernist themes and techniques. ... Thus, Hammett breaks the Continental Op's war on crime down into increasingly large-s...

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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. ... With the possibility of dialogue between the actor and the chorus, more complex themes and modes of storytelling could be developed. ... Studying the plots of a number of Greek tragedies, we find variations of two basic tragic situations: either the fatal situat...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Growing up in Edinburgh Stevenson would have seen the two contrasting areas of the New and Old Town. This was another example of dualism as Edinburgh was a city with two very different parts. By introducing dualism firstly in the setting, rather than the characters, give the reader an insight into the themes of concealment and secrecy that are present in the story. whilst also creating a sense of intrigue. ... And the idea of dualism is introduced as the two are linked very closely. ... The idea of dualism is a key feature that runs throughout the twisted tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, not on...

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The various works of Michael Ondaatje entail themes of identity. ... Two main characters from both novels realize the importance of their ethnic background in the most unlikely of places. ... The play demonstrates the language and cultural barriers experienced by immigrants to the city as they mouth the words of the actors to themselves in order to learn English. ... In Tuscany, two Canadians, an alleged Englishman and a Sikh take refuge in the abandoned building during World War II. ... Patrick Lewis" tale is one of coming of age between the two world wars in the immigrant-infested bustle of ...

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Cervantes lingers on an antique style of writing throughout the story, but yet I am sure that the style of writing that he is using is repetition of a tale. ... The first of these sections, including the chapter covering Don Quixote's first expedition, functions mainly as a satirical composition of fashionable romance tales. ... The third section, which covers the second part of the novel, is different since it is written as a more established novel, arranged by emotional and content, which relates to the theme, and filled with character development. ... However, toward the end of the sec...

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Six years prior, Linklater co-founded "The Austin Film Society" where mentors such as New York City critic George Morris were able to teach film. ... Later, two stoned out hairy philosophers in a coffeeshop question whether media sources such as Scooby Doo and The Smurfs are actually being used as a tool for installing cultural programming. ... Probably one of the most explicit deconstructions of the experience of watching motion pictures is during a scene in Slacker during a conversation between two gentlemen in a room full of television sets, VCRs, and VHS tapes. ... In the sce...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Huxley satire in his novel is two directional; first on scientific technology and second on an over-regulated and materialistic society. ... The novel Brave New World uses a dytopic tale style to examine the importance of humanity's relationship with the natural world. ... Through using the dystopic tale style of the narrative, the novel that is supposedly depicting a perfect world, a utopia, present the reader with the opposite, a world where the natural has become a victim of technological and scientific advancement and man need to control nature. ... Brave New World the novel uses cont...

• Word Count: 1991
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate