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    respective stories. Hawthorne’s ‘The Hollow of The Three Hills’ employs the supernatural through the dark and mysterious setting of the story. The ‘strange old times’ full of ‘fantastic dreams’ where the ‘pale and troubled’ lady and the ‘withered crone’ meet immediately gives a sense of secrecy about the unnatural things they will do and creates a very discrete setting. The ‘green and sluggish water’ where at ‘midnight’ the ‘power of evil’ would ‘stand round the mantling pool’ gives a setting of

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    STEROTypical Gender Biased Fairy Tales STEROTypical Gender Biased Fairy Tales [Type a quote from the document or the summary of an interesting point. You can position the text box anywhere in the document. Use the Drawing Tools tab to change the formatting of the pull quote text box.] [Type a quote from the document or the summary of an interesting point. You can position the text box anywhere in the document. Use the Drawing Tools tab to change the formatting of the pull quote text box.]

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    Both the “Miller’s Tale” and the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” in the Canterbury Tales‚ written by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ can be categorized as comedy. As defined in the Oxford dictionary‚ comedy is a form of professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches‚ intended to make an audience laugh. However‚ it may be confusing for some audiences when they find another definition of the word comedy. Also as defined by the Oxford dictionary‚ comedy is a category of theater characterized by its humorous or

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    Eugene Tran Professor Rob Summers English 1003-752-759 25 March 2014 Collectiveness and Storytelling in Louise Erdrich’s “Bidwell Ghost” “Bidwell Ghost” by Louise Erdrich‚ on one particular level‚ is a ghost story. The piece describes a story of a young girl‚ killed in a house fire twenty years ago located on an orchard field. The girl’s presence is still apparent after her death‚ where she haunts the road next to her home and occasionally makes her way into vehicles that pass by. The themes

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    draws power from them. Things not what they seem: woman has more power than the poet suspects. Poem has a formal structure in triplets (three-line stanzas). Occasional half rhymes (“coin”/ “shrine”‚ “on”/ “skin”) and full rhyme to mark a pause: (“crone”/ “alone”). Lines are short but always with pattern of two stressed syllables‚ apart from in the final line‚ where the single stress brings the poem to a full stop. Most words monosyllables. Poem refers to old woman with third-person pronoun “she”

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    THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN SPARTAN SOCIETY The women of ancient Sparta‚ those who were born to Spartan parents‚ had many roles. They were very important and essential for the stability and running of the ancient warrior society. The woman’s role in Spartan society was highly regarded by the state as equal in importance to that of a man’s‚ but they could not rule or hold public office. They were given the freedom‚ power‚ respect and status that was unheard of in the other polis‚ along with the rest

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    the reader’s disapproval of Justice Argyle‚ whom Robertson casts as extremely “conservative” and “out-of-touch”. The judge cannot pronounce “cunnilingus”‚ and is unaware of the famous musical “Hair”. Robertson uses this as evidence Argyle is an old crone‚ willing to bend the rules of law to convict the defendants.Robertson crafts language to present him in a most undignified manner “ • Richard Neville‚ John Anderson and Felix Dennis‚ among others‚ charged with “corrupting public morals” by crown

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    With that‚ Amaranth and Kamra get out of the tree‚ and follow Kutcher to the balefire. Up close‚ Amaranth can feel the heat and energy within it. It warms her almost instantly. And as she follows Kutcher’s movements in the prayer‚ she gets heated with exertion and excitement. She mumbles along with the words‚ trying to say them as he does. When that fails‚ she decides to simply listen. They both hold their hands up as Kutcher shouts the Hymn. Amaranth laughs and smiles‚ happy‚ as she thinks about

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    around beauty and jealousy‚ but they differ in the plot‚ where Grimm’s provides a more complex problem‚ and Disney falls into a very simple “disobeying is bad” idea. The story is centered on a Good and Evil theme that is portrayed as Crone vs. Maiden (Choksi). The Crone takes form of the queen and Snow White as the maiden. This fairytale tells the story

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    were associated with prophetic messages and life to death transitions. Eagles were usually linked to death Gods in the same way as the crow was linked to death Goddesses. They represented intelligence‚ renewal‚ and courage. The Crow was tied to Crone Goddesses such as Badb‚ and to the Goddess of war or death like the Morrigan. The Raven is similar to the crow in that it is deeply associated with death deities. It has also been known as the otherworldly body for both Gods and Goddesses. Like

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