egocentrism. The first is the imaginary audience. Adolescents believe that people are paying attention to their behaviour or looks that sometimes leads to high level of self-consciousness. The second adolescent egocentrism is the facet of personal fable. Adolescents tend to believe that they and their newly abstract thoughts are unique and that they are invulnerable where they believe nothing bad will happen to
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extremities people will go to please others. The opening line‚ “there was a woman who was beautiful...” is very similar to many opening sentences in fairy tales. This is how D. H. Lawrence uses tradition to tell his story and gives the reader the sense of a fable‚ especially when he uses supernatural gifts like Paul’s seeing the winning Horse. D. H. Lawrence’s characters are symbols of Love and the lack there-of. The mother represents the lack of love and the overflowing pool of greed that lies in the
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Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the history of the “Jack-O ’-Lanterns.” Central Idea: Original Jack-O ’-Lanterns were carved from turnips‚ potatoes or beets. INTRODUCTION I. (Attention Getter) Did you know that the original Jack-O ’-Lanterns were carved from turnips‚ potatoes or beets? It originated in England‚ Ireland and Scotland when people started making their own spooky lights from various home-grown hard vegetables that were carved out and lit up with coal. II. (Reveal
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Insight into Human Nature in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ (written c. 1387)‚ is a richly varied compilation of fictional stories as told by a group of twenty-nine persons involved in a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury‚ England during the fourteenth century. This journey is to take those travelers who desire religious catharsis to the shrine of the holy martyr St. Thomas a Becket of Canterbury. The device of a springtime pilgrimage provided Chaucer
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(20 pts) The first ’real’ children’s book in English was called; A Pretty Little Pocket Book. John Newbary published it in 1744. The book included games‚ fables and rhymes for children. This book was the first of its kind‚ as for the first time in history a book’s target audience were children. Till then‚ all books were written for adults only. 2. How did the legislation of labour laws for children in the
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The African-American folklore stories are entertainment but also have a teaching element and are similar to the Native American stories read earlier this semester. The Brer Rabbit stories are classic trickster tales much like the Native American stories. Brer Rabbit in these stories would be comparable to the coyote of Native American trickster tales. Brer Rabbit is a smaller and less intimidating animal than his fellow characters Brer Fox and Brer Bear. Brer Rabbit is a trickster figure that is
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In short story “The one about the coyote going west” by Thomas King‚ begins with the narrator telling a story to a coyote about who discover the Indians. The narrator introduces the main character named Coyote‚ who represented the first colonizer. In addition‚ as Coyote explores her new land she finds a straight smooth river‚ and a round mountain. However‚ Coyote does not accept nature’s true form‚ therefore she decides to fix the river and mountain to her standard‚ by added rocks and rapids to the
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Maugham short story "The ant and the Grasshopper" we are introduced to the two main characters as referring to them as George and Tom. The characters are introduced after a short introduction about the story of the ant and the grasshopper. In this fable we learn that the ant in the story is much like the character of George. The ant begins working away throughout the summer collecting his food and building his shelter in order to prepare for the upcoming winter. The Grasshopper on the other hand
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century. Epilogue-Three meanings may be distinguished: a short speech to be delivered at the end of a play. It often makes some graceful and witty comment on what has happened and ask for approval‚ if not the indulgence‚ of the audience (b) the end of a fable. Where the moral is pointed(c)the concluding section or paragraph of any literary work‚ sometimes added a summary‚ but more often as an afterthought. Theme-The socialtradition like arranged marriages‚ dowry system and its evil impacts are discussed
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FRANKENSTEIN AND BLADE RUNNER Introduction to text Frankenstein by Mary Shelley About the author * Published Frankenstein in 1818 Type of text- novel under the Board’s Prose Fiction category Context * Galvanism * Luigi Galvani (18th century) used electric current to case a frog’s legs to twitch. * Theories- current could reanimate human corpse’s brain‚ also caused by chemical reaction * Shelley used these theories to create monster * Genesis * Story of
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