One story that is an excellent tale on the forces of good versus the forces of evil is the popular fairy tale Cinderella. ... The Duke, who "obtained both his title and the city treacherously- (Lee 608), is painted as a bad fellow who rose to power by manipulation and murder, showing that the nobility in Lee's tale are not guaranteed to be noble at all. ... This juxtaposition of the good and bad characters on either the protagonist or antagonist side of the conflict show the seedy underbelly of the Cinderella tale as told by Lee, which flies in the face of the simplistic Grant tale. C...

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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. ... Indeed, most readers probably find the tale more humorous than horrifying. ... 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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Corruption within police departments falls into two basic categories, external corruption and internal corruption. ... It was the Knapp Commission in 1972 that first brought awareness to the NYPD when they released the results of a two-year investigation of alleged corruption. ... To find out, at the time, New York City mayor David Dinkins established the Mollen Commission, named for its chairman, Milton Mollen, a former New York judge. ... But the tales, nevertheless, were troubling. ... When cities enlarge their police forces too quickly, it can also mean an influx of younger and less well-s...

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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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Portilla expresses that this encounter, as described by the Spanish as well as the Aztecs, was something believed to be an event that was considered more than the colliding and merging of two different expanding nations; this was the integration of two wholly different cultures that seemed to have two entirely different worlds that involved different ways of living (7). ... Cortes would later write, "The great city of Tenochtitlan .The city itself is as large as Cordova Every kind of merchandise in every land is for sale there " (Cortés 86,89). ... The meeting of these two adversaries...

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The Periclean Building Program "There was one measure above all which at once gave the greatest pleasure to the Athenians, adorned their city and created amazement among the rest of mankind, and which is today the sole testimony that the tales of the ancient power and glory of Greece are no mere fables." ... Themistocles, Aristides and Kimon successively vied with each other in rebuilding the city. ... The Parthenon Frieze, only two and a half inches thick at its maximum depth it depicts a procession of 360 noble Athenians, as well as numerous animals and gods. ... A marvel of architectu...

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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. ...

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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. ... Thus, Hammett breaks the Continental Op's war on crime down into increasingly large-scale pieces as the operative goes after one or two of the city's villains at a time amidst a network of shifting alliances. ... Red Harvest is larger ...

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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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Wells' 1895 science fiction novel The Time Machine is a cautionary tale of what will befall mankind if capitalism continues to exploit workers for the benefits of the rich. ... The futuristic tale illustrates the true essence of Darwin's theory: there is no guarantee that a species will evolve for the better, there is only the guarantee that successful species must continuously adapt to their environments or risk extinction. ... The Time Machine presents two very different settings: 1890s' London and the future year of 802,701 AD. ... Industry was thriving, hordes of people h...

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So far we have seen two different types of morality shown by Conrad, that of childlike and reasonless compassion and that of ascetic intellectual alienation. Instead of attempting to debate between these two individual representations of the human condition it is perhaps more useful to step back from the idea of individual morality and look at the society that these moralities belong to. Conrad tells us that in the beginning stages of the creation of the text he was overcome by "the vision of an enormous town indifferent to heaven's frowns and smiles" (Conrad: p41), which was to provide t...

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City-states which were successful during the early stages of the industrial revolution, such as Venice, also suggest limitations to the physical resources idea (Rosenberg and Birdzell 42-43). ... One harvest failure could cause serious problems; two spaced closely together were catastrophic. ... European cities and transportation systems also gave the western societies distinct advantages over their eastern neighbors when discussion is focused on the industrial revolution. ... More than 160 trades and crafts were active in the city at that time, in approximately the following proportions: 25 p...

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Growing up in a heavily religious family, his nanny would tell him that there are only two types of people in the world- good and bad. ... 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. ... 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 only in the two characters themselves but in their surroundings and way of life. ...

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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. ... (Baumgaertner, 24) Flannery remained devoted to Catholicism throughout her life, and this along with the consciousness of her own imminent mortality gives worthy insight into what was compiled in the thirty-two short stories and the two novels: a bitter perception of salvation...

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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. ... However, toward the end of the second part Cervantes compromises between these two seemingly incompatible systems of morality, allowing Don Quixote's imaginary world and the ordinary world of the Duke and the Duchess to gain access to each other. ... The pilg...

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According to Robert Sullivan, the author of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants, knowing about the inhabitants of a city or a place can help people further understand the city or the place (3). ... "For sport some early Spaniards and Californios lassoed them with rawhide riatas and either killed them or guided them back to their herds", said by Secrest ("California Grizzly Tales" 58). ... When he encountered a female California grizzly bear, he violently killed her and captured her two cubs, which were later trained to ...

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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 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 two at the very most, if that much. ... In effect, the plot dictates the rise and fall and new rise of Aydrian, and that span could be effectively put into two hours. The two ...

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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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Staples cites from two essays in which the authors are both intensely uncomfortable in the presence of black men on certain streets and Staples also notes that he often notices the "hunch posture" (256) that one of the authors describes in his essay. ... Staples mentions how people avoid eye contact with him on the streets and compares it to an old wives tale about how rabid dogs will not bite a person who does not look the dog in the eyes. ... When walking along city streets, Staples has absolutely no intention of harming these people, yet they treat him like he's a criminal just becau...

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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 Toronto. ... Through the use of the two world wars in recognizing ide...

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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. ... Last financial year total trade in goods and services between our two countries reached more than $19 billion. ... A few basic facts tell the tale. ... It has military exchanges with Australia and the two countries are negotiating a free trade agreement. ...

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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. ... Probably the most symbol and motif ...

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Of the 100 companies recognized on the list, the Cheesecake Factory and Kempton Hotels and Restaurants were the only two restaurants. ... Not long after that, the two of them were inspired to start selling them from his father's shops. David's story is a real, honest, tale of a boy and his mother peddling homemade cheesecake from shop to shop to a small restaurant to upscale restaurants across the country. ...

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Another reason that may have contributed to the rise of missionaries in Africa was that the industrial society from the emergence of cities and towns created a "godless" society where Christians began to feel the government was not putting enough emphasis on the church and religious life. ... From a traveller's perspective, tales arose of the stereotype of the African as barbarous, prone to excessive sexual desire, lazy, untrustworthy and even cannibalistic. ...

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