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Sporting Events Journey Home
922 wordsThe lessons that Odysseus learns on his way home to Ithaka will allow him to get back to being a good, father, and leader of his civilization. He needs to relearn all of what he once knew as leader of Ithaka in order to safely survive there. Luckily, Odysseus has a strong will and is able to accomplish all of his goals. The three most important lessons he learns are the need for opportunity, the importance and enjoyment of group activity, and the last, most important, hospitality. The need for o...
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The Pardoners Tale Deception And Foolishness
1,295 wordsThe Pardoner's Tale: Deception and Foolishness There are several types of foolishness being described in the Pardoner's Tale itself. He describes gluttony in general, then specifically wine. He talks of gambling, taking bets and the like, and of swearing. The beginning of his tale describes three fools who go foolishly seeking death, then find it in a large amount of gold. Deception is another topic addressed by the Pardoner. He comes right out and says he is a con artist, and that he is out to ...
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Past Present And Future Sibling Rivalry
1,395 wordsIn the drama, "The Piano Lesson" by August Wilson written in 1945, it showed the difficulties in releasing the past and moving forward in one's life. It also centered on the conflicts between brother and sister over differences in values and beliefs. For example, the brother, Boy Willie, wanted to sell the family piano so he can buy his own land to farm and start a new life for himself. However, he was confronted by his sister, Berniece, who did not want to sell the piano due to it's rich and pa...
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Fall Asleep Human Beings
945 wordsOne of the primary themes of Kaye Gibbons novel Ellen Foster is the vitality of storytelling in the human life. The fact that narrative is the only art that exists in all cultures (Morton, 2) indicates that storytelling is instinctive in all humans. Nothing passes but the mind grabs is and looks for a way to fit it into a story, or into a variety of possible scripts (Morton, 3). In an article written for The New York Times Book Review, Katherine Morton restates and supports many of the storytell...
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Negro Dialect Lay Dying
1,405 words... how he establishes this unconventional dialect. Primarily, Faulkner utilizes the technique of intentional variation of words from standard English orthography or, to be more specific, he purposefully spells words incorrectly. The examples of this in his works occur on a page by page basis. Some of the more common and peculiar, occurring in more than just one of his stories, are Ferginny for Virginia, rick lick for recollect or remember, and gwine or gay for going to (Brown 19 - 222). Another...
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Potiki And The Art Of Telling Stories
976 wordsThis is an exploration essay on the theme in Patricia Graces novel Potiki that telling and retelling stories is an important and valuable part of being human. An important theme in Potiki is the enduring idea that creating and sharing stories as a central part of being human is important. It is a significant theme because the novel is heavily imbued with Maori culture, in which the stories and spoken teachings are given prominence, and also because it is a popular belief that people need narrati...
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Native American Culture Native Americans
1,013 wordsCeremony comes from the Latin caerimonia, that which is sacred. In the context of Leslie Martin Silkos Ceremony it embodies an inculcated medium of storytelling tradition. The stories told, act cohesively or disjointedly as a mechanism of expression for elemental and deeply felt beliefs of a people. Silkos novel is steeped in and enacts the notion of storytelling; he spotlights this theme through the Native American tradition of storytelling. Conventionally, Native American culture is oral and t...
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Comparing Differences In Canterbury Tales And Arabian Nights
998 wordsI. From the beginning of her story, the Wife of Bath speaks with such clear understanding of the concepts of marriage, religion, chastity and virginity (or lack, thereof) and the interdependence they have to each other that it is clear she speaks from experience. That she had five husbands and is openly pursuing a sixth, shows that she knew of the remedies of loveth arts old dance (Chaucer 25). The reader learns not only her feelings on these subjects but also her steadfast pursuit to, essential...
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Japanese Animation Folk Tales
1,456 words... e beginning as a medium, 's aid Linda Simensky, Director of Animation for Nickelodeon. We agree completely. Clay Animation may not be at it's highest potential, but we hope that it will make it someday. Maybe if additional feature films were made it would boost the industry of clay animation to an all time high. The only problem is that it takes such a long time and if the studios happened to take on a film, they would have to quit their other tasks and focus directly on that film. It took y...
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Skin Of A Lion Michael Ondaatje
1,031 wordsHistorical Obliviousness in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion Graciela Moreira Slepoy, Postgraduate Student, Laval University, Canada This web essay is based upon a paper the author wrote for Professor Neil Bissoondaths Postcolonial Literature II [ANG- 64699 A], Laval University. Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion narrates the forgotten stories of those who contributed to the building of the city Toronto, particularly immigrants and marginal individuals. In the very first page of th...
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Gained Popularity Personal Feelings
1,528 wordsThe Chinese Drama Chinese Drama- The classical Chinese theater developed during the Yuan dynasty. Springing from story cycles made familiar by professional storytellers, Yuan plays relied for their appeal on romantic or sentimental plots. During the Ming dynasty the drama utilized the plots of popular novels. Until the 19 th century Chinese drama was not spoken; it was a mixture of music and declamation. It is frequently infused with sadness, Often involving the deaths of women Chinese drama was...
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Men And Women Northern Lights
948 wordsTim O? Brien, a contemporary American novelist and short story writer of immense, imaginative power, freely admits that the Vietnam War was the dark, jarring experience that made him a writer. O? Brien served in Vietnam with the Fifth Battalion, Forty-six infantry from January 1969 to March 1970. He patrolled some of the most active and brutal sites of the war and it definitely showed in the settings of his writing. Before his induction into the army, O? Brien felt traumatized on the decision of...
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Song Of Solomon Toni Morrison
1,418 wordsLiterature is bound by threads of themes that transcend all barriers of race, religion, epoch, and culture. Archetypal ideas of death, freedom, self-realization, good, and evil are utilized throughout most literary text. It is especially evident in The Song of Solomon and Beloved By Morrison, The Woman Warrior by Kingston, The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne and The Awakening by Chopin, that religion and culture are an imperative part of society. Religious and cultural taboos are viewed as a set of ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer English Language
758 wordsWhy is Geoffrey Chaucer an important figure in the development in the English language? Geoffrey Chaucer once wrote And for ther is so get diversity, In English and in writing of our tonge, So prey I God that non mys write the, Ne the mystere for default of tonge Which translated into Modern English means And because there is such great diversity In England and in writing tongue, So I pray God that none wrongly copy thee Nor get thy meter wrong because of a failure of tongue What that means is t...
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Male Female Relationship Eyes Were Watching God
2,440 wordsI enjoyed Their Eyes Were Watching Gods grasp on imagination, imagery and phrasing. Janie's dialogue and vernacular managed to carry me along, slipping pieces of wisdom to me in such a manner that I hardly realize they are ingesting something deep and true. Their Eyes Were Watching God recognizes that there are problems to the human condition, such as the need to possess, the fear of the unknown and resulting stagnation. The book does not leave us with the hopelessness of Fitzgerald or Hemingway...
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Santa Anna Battle Scenes
743 wordsJames A. Michner s: TEXAS A Comparative Review In this magnificent historical novel, James A. Michner skillfully combines fact and fiction to present one of our most expansive and diversified states. Spanning nearly four and a half centuries, Michner begins with the first Spaniards to explore parts of present day Texas, Cabeza de Vaca and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and continues on to the emergence of Texas as one of our most powerful states. Michner s use of historical fact is extremely accu...
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Pure Indian Heart Day By Day Guide
1,072 wordsEveryone receives guidance from the many people they encounter throughout life. Probably most people have also been a guide for someone else somewhere along the way. The concept of the guide in Richard Wagameses Keeper Me is more than just someone who gives guidance, its someone who also uses storytelling and the teaching of traditions to help guide. Passing on traditions or a certain way of life is a very important aspect of guiding someone of the Ojibway culture in this novel. The Ojibway peop...
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Generation To Generation Oral Tradition
1,267 wordsThe Hopi and The Mande: A Comparative Cultural Analysis. Tradition is defined as a set of customs and beliefs that are largely stable through time, the passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication. It is through tradition that the Hopi Indians of Northeast Arizona and the Mande people of West Africa have been able to survive as distinct cultures in this rapidly changing world. The art of oral tradition, or historical storytelling, has been...
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Back And Forth Sound And The Fury
2,570 wordsYARN OF ABSALOM, ABSALOM! There are many unanswered questions concerning the novel Absalom, Absalom! , what exactly its author intended to get across through it or what he actually did with it. Many critics believe he just never reached a single and final intention, so he just left the final authorities in question, and he may have liked it that way (Parker 16). While others believe he was just careless and forgetful, leaving dangling ends with the elements of earlier designs that obtrude themse...
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Telling The Story Read The Story
1,072 wordsStorytelling is as old as speech. Once upon a time, everyone was a storyteller. To fight boredom and keep themselves company, these early storytellers chanted as they worked, telling the story of what they were doing. Then " I" stories became narratives involving other people and the elements, and storytellers told tales of heros, myths, and legends. The art of storytelling evolved naturally because some people preferred telling tales and other preferred listening to them. As society d...
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