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  • Examples Of Three Folk Tales
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    When you where a kid did your parents ever tell you stories about your culture or about your family's values? Chances are they where telling you a folk tale. Folk tales are stories passed down usually by word of mouth but often they are written down. Folk tales teach a valuable life lesson while entertaining the reader or in some cases the listener. This essay will give examples of three folk tales and go into depth on how they teach lessons and still remain entertaining for children and even ad...
  • Insider's Bergman And Wigand
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    The movie, The Insider, is about Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive of one of the largest tobacco companies in America. He is fired from his job, and is soon contacted by Lowell Bergman, the producer of 60 minutes. Bergman, played by Al Pacino, asks Wigand, played by Russell Crowe, to make sense of some papers about fire statistics, which belong to, tobacco company, Wilson Phillips These papers mysteriously show up on his doorstep. Wigand lets it drop that he has some inside information ...
  • Smallville And Clark Kent
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    Smallville vs. other Superman series Man, throughout the ages, has looked to the stars with great amusement and curiosity. Wondrous stories are born of these magical, glimmering specs in the sky. Stories of tragedy, magic and heroism. These stories entertain and more, they give us hope. A tale of the stars like no other is the one of Superman, protector of planet Earth. As said by the Superman stories, Clark Kent was discovered by Martha and Jonathan Kent shortly after a meteor shower hit the to...
  • Important Showing Emotions In The Story
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    Emotions Seen in 'Of Mice and Men " This essay will deal with the way emotions were used in the story of " Of Mice and Men'. Not only friendship and loyalty between George and Lennie. Faith, hope, charity, love, hate, jealousy and indifference are among the other emotions that develops during the story between them and the other characters, and that shows us Steinbeck's way of character definition. In the beginning of the story, we think that everything between George and Lennie is a big friends...
  • Carter And Perrault
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    The view point of an author can be determined easily by comparing works of the same basic plots and characters. Also by contrasting the same two works is equally as important. 'Little Red Riding Hood'; by Charles Perrault and Angela Carter's 'The Company of Wolves'; are perfect examples. The writer's purpose, characterization, and readability shows one of many ways of pinpointing the author's bias. Clearly Carter and Perrault show a bias with the characters in their stories. Carter's main charac...
  • Story On The Grandmother
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    I feel that the Grandmother in the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" suffer from psychological conditions. She does not care at all about anyone but herself. I feel that she may even be narcissistic. It is ironic because she would be expected to look out for her family. The Cambridge Dictionary defines narcissism as "too much interest in and admiration for your own physical appearance and / or your own abilities" It is ironic because she would be expected to look out for her family, however in ...
  • Story Like Luo
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    Power of Stories Stories were invented a by people at the dawn of civilization for many reasons. Some stories were invented to tell history, some to show patterns. In the book 'Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress' they discover what stories can do to them, and how powerful they are. In the book the Communists ban literature so the people lose there individualism so the government can have complete control of the nation. Stories told to show the past are important because they make people re...
  • Edgars Show
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    The short story The Big H Tells All is an account of how a man named Edgar rises to small town fame by becoming the host of a local talk show. This show is the most popular thing on television to the townsfolk, and the demanding viewing audience can be rather ruthless at times. The other characters in the story consist of the local talk show guests: a nine-year-old girl named Karla with a puppet act, a fire fighter / humorist named Danny, and the Rioters, a couple known around town for their wee...
  • Language And Story Flow
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    Delia, a flower in a rough of weeds. That is what I got from this story in one sentence, although knowing my grammar possibly not. Hurston's tale of a shattered woman, gives us a glimpse into what was possibly the life of women at that time. There were many convictions against men in the story, although it may have been unintentional, not to say she was a hard-core feminist there were episodes of male remorse. Narrator, this was a third person account, thus leaving much to the imagination. The c...
  • Wolfe's Characterization Of Dick
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    'The Child by Tiger' In 'The Child by Tiger', Wolfe does a superb job of making the story reveal a truth about human experience. Dick's killing rampage in the short story showed how the human sole has a tendency to become violent. Characterization and excellent choice of tone and mood used in the story display how the Dick becomes violent. Wolfe carefully develops Dick's character in the short story. At the beginning of the short story, Wolfe describes Dick's actions precisely. Wolfe illustrates...
  • End Of The Story Delia And Sykes
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    Zora Neale Hurston wrote Sweat in the early 1900's. This story shows the extent of an African American women struggling in this time. Hurston died in a welfare home, she was poor and buried in an unmarked grave, this shows of how in the story the author is a lot like the character. The story takes place in Flor dia. Delia Jones, the main character, is a washwoman who works very hard for her money while her husband obviously neglects her and has extra marital affairs. All of the community is awar...
  • Real Life As Chekhov
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    CHEKHOV'S THE MASTER Anton Chekhov is a master at showing aspects of real life; how fed up people are, how it really is without the everyday pleasantries, and how exploitable people are by one another. Chekhov uses these three aspects with great mastery to show his form of real life in his "Selected Stories". Chekhov shows how fed up people are with one another in his short story the "Jailer Jailed". This story is about a man, who is a prosecuting attorney, is actually living in his own jail; be...
  • Story A Wedding Dress
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    MORLEY CALLAGHAN The following short stories by Morley Callaghan all have the same morals in common. This lesson is realizing what is close to you before you lose it or you surrender yourself respect. Callaghan helps show people that everybody can make mistakes but you have to know when you make them in order to change them. This is evident in the proceeding stories, Getting on in the World, All the Years of Her Life and A Wedding Dress. Callaghan writes short story fable's to teach his readers ...
  • Kesey Lives On His Farm In Oregon
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    One Intrepid Trip During the 1960's, America was living in an era that is not forgotten by many. The Vietnam War was being fought overseas for a cause that was not lucid in the minds of many. As an outcome, many protesters spoke their minds in different ways. Drugs, art, music, poetry, and written books were amongst these options. Ken Kesey, who was maybe one of the leading hippies of the day, displayed his thoughts though a combination of LSD and writings. Ken graduated from the University of O...
  • Page Identify The Show Length And Format
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    Animation Bible (A general outline for pitching a series idea to networks and / or investors) Author's note: The following outline structure is based on a real studio bible. This model has proven successful in helping a certain studio to acquire network approval and production funding for a 2 D animated children's series (name of studio not disclosed in order to retain confidentiality as well as to guard against copyright infringement). The following information is not written in stone as pertai...
  • Story The Author
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    All authors write so they can deliver certain ethical and moral opinions to their audience. In the short story "A Jury of Her Peers", the author Susan Glaspell uses the story to show how women are overlooked many times, when they should not be. In the story, there is a murder and two women and three men go to the crime scene to investigate. While they are at the scene the men, who have the legal positions in the story, overlook most of what the women say. In the end the women find evidence to pr...

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