Men who traveled to new lands wrote stories about the people they encountered there. ... For example, Pliny quotes Aristotle in his book when writing about one of the people he encountered, which where half male and half female, Aristotle stated that, "their right breast is that of a male and the left that of a female"[ CITATION Pli69 l 1033 ]. ... Their lives revolved around Christian ideologies and some of the monsters portrayed in the stories were now thought to be devils. ... These stories draw from Greek and Roman mythology; they are based on many of the beasts. ... He believed ...

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By employing specific stories, Staples creates an intellectually and emotionally powerful essay. ... Staples" use of specific stories becomes essential to the meaning and overall power of the story, and creates the necessary elements that must be included if a writing is to be proper and effective. ... Staples" stories become such an integral part of the entire piece that without them, the entire essay would be totally lacking, and the emotional gain credited to these stories would be completely lost. ... This is a very useful statement, because it introduces his feeling into the story, whi...

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The effect of using "I" and "cool" so many times and right next to each other gives the reader a sense of the reader's tone, mainly an air of deserved superiority that may initially seem pompous of the author but provokes the reader into continuing the story in order to ascertain if these claims can be proven true. ... Other repetition in this essay includes the time and time again use of, "making a dollar out of fifteen cents." (368) The repetition of this quote is important because it gives the reader a physical image of the " inclination to make something out of nothing- (368) in orde...

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Either choice is acceptable; however, the stories covered in this article tend to lean on the side of double-consciousness. ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel such as "A Raisin in the Sun" or "The Souls of Black Folks", you cannot immediately assume that this story represents every single African American family across the United States. ...

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