Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood Script Prologue Cold open to the ending the Merry Men escape from their chains and there is a massive fight featuring everyone onstage the same as the one at the end! Puck: Yes‚ He journeyed through the forest To find a band of merry men He tried to cross a bridge Guarded by Little John and then Back to vamp Little John: YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Robin: Who do you think you are Gandalf?! Little John: I AM NOT A CONJUROR OF CHEAP TRICKS! Robin: Oh come on
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Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods is centered around the mysterious disappearance of Kathy Wade. Mysterious is the key word‚ as throughout the novel O’Brien plays with the fine line between ambiguity and reality. Kathy’s husband John Wade‚ the main character‚ is a Vietnam veteran and former politician whose participation in the infamous Mai Lai Massacre caused his fall from grace. Following a landslide defeat in the congressional elections‚ Kathy and John retreat to solitude in an isolated
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Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada - analysis and interpretation The short story Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada by David Guterson takes place in the mountains between USA and Canada‚ where two brothers are on a trip together‚ enjoying nature and doing guy stuff. Guterson uses a first person narrator bound to the 15-year old Bud‚ whose older brother Gary has just returned home from war and now has taken his little brother out in the wilderness to catch trout
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American Gothic One of America’s best known paintings‚ American Gothic‚ was painted by Grant Wood‚ a painter best known for the traditional paintings of his home-state‚ Iowa. American Gothic was the result of a movement known as regionalism. Regionalism was a movement in a 1930s America that was a reaction and resistance to Europeans attempt to depict the American way of life. Painters‚ like Grant Woods’ used the rural Midwest as their subject. I believe that American Gothic has well represented
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Wow! I did not think Tracey was going to buy a bike‚ but last for all she did. Tracey at first did not have enough money to buy a bike‚ but she walks around putting up signs on the light pole‚ and on windows for people call her to work. The sign had her name and phone number on it . Tracey’s family was excited that she worked to buy her a new perfect bike to ride around on. Tracey at first had twenty-one dollars and fourteen cents‚ but this lady called her and told her that she could water her daffodils
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The emergence of this rambunctious middling democracy was the most significant consequence of the American Revolution. The origins of the Revolution necessarily lie deep in America’s past. A century and a half of dynamic development in the British continental colonies of the New World had fundamentally transformed inherited European institutions and customary patterns of life and had left many colonists believing that they were seriously deviating from the cultivated norms of European life. Americans
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A fairy tale needs a handsome‚ courageous prince which the readers love and becomes the hero of the story. In The Sleeping Beauty... the prince is destined by love and honor to conquer the thick woods and go find the princess and bring her back to life. In the Briar Rose‚ Josef is known to be a handsome man‚ He is shown as an accidental hero‚ who joins the partisans when he finds and joins some prisoners planning an escape. His adventures with the partisans enable him to become a hero. He is the
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“Birnam Wood” by T. Coraghessan Boyle tells the story of young lovers living on the brink of nothing‚ trying to rekindle their once passionate relationship. While initially living in a small hut reflecting “a converted chicken coop”‚ the couple is evicted and they are forced to find a new home with what little income Keith makes while substitute teaching (156). Eventually the couple finds a housesitting gig for the duration of the winter. After briefly residing in the mansions apartment‚ Nora seeks
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Unlike many of the science fiction short stories that has been read in this class‚ this one “Over the River and Through the Woods” includes less imagery and easier to read words. That‚ however‚ does not make this story an unsuccessful story. The appearance of simplicity is what makes this story a success. The story seems to have a straightforward idea. The grandchildren of Ellen Forbes have come from the future to save her or to visit her. The reader would assume that Ellen Forbes did not have
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Ansel Adams‚ a photographer born in San Francisco in 1902‚ is now one of the most appreciated photographers today. Adams however began his young life as a musician‚ playing the piano. However‚ that all changed when he was 14 years old and convinced his parents to take a family vacation to Yosemite National Park. It was then that his parents gave him his first box Brownie camera‚ and he took his first pictures. He also discovered his love for nature and especially photographing it. He became very
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