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    Reaction Paper

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    Animation 101 class. So on 8th October‚ we watched Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece film called Spirited Away in behind the scenes. The synopsis of the film is that a young girl‚ Chichiro‚ stumbles into the land of the spirits (the place with Japanese’s folklores)‚ where her parents are transformed into pigs‚ and to save them‚ she herself must get a job in the bathhouse owned by the witch Yubaba. By watching the whole process‚ Miyazaki combines the film with characters from Japanese’s legends or myth; it

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    Ned Kelly Last Words

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    1. Kelly’s last words were: "Life is so!" On November 23‚ 1880‚ Sir Redmond Berry did not take long Died‚ only 12 days after Kelly’s death. 2. In the history and folklore of Australia‚ as well as in books‚ movies and other works of art‚ Ned Kelly can be said to be a respected idol by the Australians‚ the image was even used in 2000 in Sydney The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games. As the saying goes: "... ... Ned Kelly as brave (that is very brave)" This shows that it is deeply commemorated

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    Neeltje. “Caribbean Oral Traditions”. Puerto Rico Encyclopedia. Dec 20‚ 2011 http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=11112505 accessed March 15‚ 2012 5) Hill R‚ Donald. “Caribbean folklore: a handbook” http://books.google.tt/books?id=Gbowblf1QP8C&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=donald+r+hill+caribbean+folklore accessed March 15‚ 2012 -------------------------------------------- [ 2 ]. A griot is a West African storyteller‚ praise singer‚ poet and musician. The griot is a repository of oral tradition

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    and do not seem to be leaving any time soon. Sports rituals mean so much. They get an athlete pumped or excited before a match. They help a person get focused on the task at hand and help them achieve success. Folklore has tie ins with sports‚ more importantly sports rituals. In any folklore tale‚ a ritual of some sort always occurs. Rituals are defined as a stereotyped sequence of activities involving gestures‚ words‚ and objects‚ performed in a sequestered place‚ and designed to influence preternatural

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    Jersey." Journal Of Palestine Studies 37.4 (2008): 21-37. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov. 2013. Gorfain‚ Phyllis‚ Deborah Kapchan‚ and Katharine Young. "Inscribed Surfaces: On Bodies on Film." The Journal of American Folklore 109.431 (Winter 1996): 79-92. American Folklore Society. JSTOR. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. Ahmed‚ Amineh. "Death and Celebration among Muslim Women: A Case Study from Pakistan." Modern Asian Studies 39.4 (Oct. 2005): 929-980. JSTOR. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. Read‚ Jen ’Nan G.‚ and John

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    the common people or just anyone who shared their interests of the stories. The article states how the Grimm Brothers sympathised with the interest shown in mythology‚ folklore‚ and dreams by German romantic literature‚ art‚ and music. To keep them as close to their original forms as possible‚ they collected oral accounts of folklore and to reproduce them

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    Essay One: Final Version

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    Essay One: Final Version How Family Folklore Alters Through Experience Over Time Elders in a family often tell youngsters stories of their past. Moreover‚ Steven Zeitlin‚ Amy Kotkin‚ and Holly Cutting Baker‚ assert in “Family Stories” that “Family stories are usually based on real incidents which become embellished over the years” (10). These stories tend to change as people age and experience various situations. Canfield’s short story “Sex Education” depicts Aunt Minnie‚ a woman who faced a traumatic

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    Hell Hounds: Guardians of the Dead In his absolutely definitive book‚ “Explore Phantom Black Dogs”‚ the author and researcher Bob Trubshaw wrote the following: ‘The folklore of phantom black dogs’‚ is known throughout the British Isles. From the black shuck of East Anglia to the Mauthe Dhoog of the Isle of Man there are tales of huge spectral hounds ‘darker than the night sky’ with eyes ‘glowing red as burning coals.’ Hell Hound myths are known around the world‚ however‚ while a number of intriguing

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    Zora Neale Hurston

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    	Zora Neale Hurston was an astounding Afro-American author who was recognized not for being the first Afro-American writer‚ but rather for her ability to bring forth her cultural language and imagery. If not for Zora’s pioneering effort as a female black writer‚ the world of modern literature would have never seen the cultural insights of the African American culture in such a candid way. 	Zora’s date of birth is said to be in January of 1891‚ however her actual date of birth is debated today

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    information essential to understanding. ‘The Wife Of The Ushers Well’ is not a finite piece‚ as over many years the word order and vocabulary may have changed due to discrepancies in the transition between generations‚ usually this is referred to folklore as the words are sometimes changed but the meaning and core content is the same. ‘The Twa Corbies’ is relatively similar to the ‘Wife of the Ushers Well’ in the fact that it is a traditional song that has been recorded as a record by multiple artists

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