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    Sleepy Hollow

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    Reflection The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow is a story of a headless horseman searching for his missing head. In the story‚ the headless horseman used to cut heads by whoever his controller wants or asks him to be beheaded. It is a story that has a mixture of different witchcrafts produced by some of the major characters.If we say witchcraft‚ these pertains to a sorcery as practiced by a witch or witches usually with the aid or through the medium of an evil spirit. The start of the story easily

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    Romanticism

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    Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial‚ it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts

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    Grant Wood

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    Pocahontas and Capttain John Smith. About the art Grant Wood wanted to preserve the traditional American folklore represented in Parson Weems’ Fable when‚ during a period following the Depression‚ some intellectuals wanted to do away with many of our American myths and folktales. In this painting‚ Wood wanted to help reawaken interest in the cherry tree and other bits of American folklore that are too good to lose.This painting presents Parson Mason Locke Weems pulling back the curtain to show

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    Folklore and Folkloristics‚ Vol. 2; No. 1‚ June 2009 Article-2 The Denotified Tribes in Laxman Gaikwad’s ‘Uchalaya’ - Dr Elizabeth Susan Paul Abstract This paper attempts to create awareness about the Denotified Tribes (DNT) of Maharashtra through a study of the English translation of the Marathi autobiographical novel Uchalya (The Branded) written by Laxman Gaikwad. The novel being an autobiography‚ recounts the trauma and suffering not only of an individual but of the whole community

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    taken in the study of Filipino philosophy (the other two being the traditional and national approaches). It seeks to cull points of points of identification of the Filipino people from different expressions of culture: the arts‚ literature and folklore‚ language‚ religion‚ and even food. One might say this method lifts off character traits of the Filipino

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    Robert Burns

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    Ivan Franko National University in Lviv Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of Translation Studies LEXICAL AND STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES OF ROBERT BURNS’ SONGS AND THEIR REPRODUCTION IN TRANSLATION (based on Robert Burns ’ song and their translation by Mykola Lukash) Course paper Done by a 3rd -year student Olha Komarnytska

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    being considered such a prolific piece‚ it serves as quite paradoxical when it comes to its rather contradictory and ambivalent background. The composition process had been approached in a different style to much of his other works‚ involving myth‚ folklore and traditionalism and all of which surround this rather haunting yet admirable piece with great controversy. Primitivism is an obvious and quite prominent influence upon the Rite of Spring but what were these features and how do they relate to the

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    Larsen was a story that dealt with racial implications and motherhood‚ which when reading the story it a very good narrative. Even though that there can be a claim that Nella Larsen did not steal this story‚ claiming it is‚ “part of ‘almost black folklore’(424)”‚meaning that people in African society during this time were very common with the story. The claim that Larsen is making doesn’t really convince many literary authors because of the loose ends‚ the story in comparison to Sheila Kaye-Smith’s

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    Chapter Essays: 26 * Explain how three of the following influenced the development of the ‘last West’ from the 1850s to 1900. [Miners‚ cattlemen‚ farmers‚ immigrant cities] The ‘last West’‚ as described in chapter 26‚ was an important part of American history that was shaped‚ populated‚ and influenced‚ mainly‚ by 3 occupations: miners‚ cattlemen‚ and farmers. Through these jobs‚ people witnessed the struggle and hardship that came with trying to attain the “American Dream” further building the

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    of Frederic Chopin: The Poet of the Piano." PBS. PBS‚ n.d. Web. 04 Sept. 2013. http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/2.1.99/wecowski.html: Węcowski‚ Jan. "Wecowski: Examples for Religious Folklore and Chopin (1999)."Polish Music Journal 1-2.2. (1999). Wecowski: Examples for Religious Folklore and Chopin. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 04 Sept. 2013. Music an Appreciation by Roger Kamien‚ 4th edition (Publisher: McGraw Hill): Kamien‚ Roger. Frederic Chopin. Music: An Appreciation. 4th ed. Singapore: McGraw-Hill

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