The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: The Hollow Souls of a Generation The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a tale that has been passed down for generations‚ seen more clearly through the eyes of each passing generation for what it truly represents. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow may seem like it is just a children’s tale‚ but it actually represents something much deeper. The characters surrounding Ichabod in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are incredibly immoral. They are snobs who don’t care about anything but their
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Many characters in Washington Irving’s original text‚ "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"‚ are markedly changed to suit many different versions of the story. By comparing and contrasting the character Ichabod Crane in the original Washington Irving text and Tim Burton’s 1999 film‚ "Sleepy Hollow"‚ both characters’ influence on the audience may be analyzed. Through literary techniques and production elements‚ the characterization of Ichabod’s physical appearance‚ beliefs and personality including his love
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Clement Greenberg‚ “Modernist Painting” In his text entitled “Modernist Painting”‚ Greenberg focuses on the development of painting between the 14th and 19th century and emphasizes on what distinguishes Modernist painting from previous forms of painting‚ particularly those of the Old Masters. Greenberg begins by relating Modernist art to Kantian philosophy claiming that‚ the same way Kant used reason in order to examine the limits of reason‚ Modernist art is when art became self critical because
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The Hollow Society As technology and social networking become increasingly dominant in our society‚ our lives grow less and less personal at an alarming rate. If such a transformation continues to occur‚ we could find our world completely dysfunctional and without necessary social skills‚ within a matter of years. This technology-based‚ socially flawed community would not be unlike that of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ where individuals are unable to obtain true happiness due to the deficiency
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The Hollow of the Three Hills is a story of dishonor‚ deceit‚ and death. The author‚ Nathaniel Hawthorn portrays the main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. She tries to run from her problems. The main character was so driven by curiosity and remorse that she brought herself to go see a witch. They met in a place described by Hawthorne as "a hollow basin‚ almost mathematically circular‚ two or three hundred feet in breadth‚...the resort of the Power of Evil and
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The poem by T.S. Elliot‚ The Hollow Men and The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad embody apathy and indifference. Both Conrads Station Manager and Elliots hollow men present a profound intellectual and emotional lack of interest or concern as well as being devoid of distinguishable humanity. The two texts highlight the grave characteristics of both the station manger and the hollow men by embellishing the details of their vacant eyes as well as deaths other kingdom‚ of which they both inhabit‚ their
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Paul Rand‚ more than any other American designer‚ is credited with bringing the modernist design movement to America. Over a career that spanned more than six decades‚ he produced a body of work that included editorial and poster design‚ illustration‚ and most famously‚ logo designs for corporations like ABC‚ IBM‚ UPS and Westinghouse. Rand was born in Brooklyn‚ New York and attended various New York art schools before beginning his design career as an editorial designer for magazines like Apparel
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The Hollow of the three hills Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story begins on a paradox. He writes ‘’in those strange old times…’’ yet the time period hasn’t been specified at all. This can be seen as a deliberate attempt at vagueness. Hawthorne is trying to distort the reader’s sense of time as most successful gothic stories take place in haunted settings outside specific time periods. The rest of the paragraph has been devoted to the description of the setting. The Hollow is a place of dark magic
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The Hollow Tree During the Civil War‚ Lincoln told the story of “The Hollow Tree” to illustrate the dilemma that the north was in given that many people who lived in the north were actually southern sympathizers. In the story‚ the tree was determined to be hollow and a dilemma faced the owner of the tree and house that lay underneath it. For if the owner of the house cut the tree down‚ the tree would cause tremendous damage because of the size of the tree‚ but if the tree wasn’t removed‚ it
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for material items and desire to gain wealth was another aspect of the story that made it very modernist. At a young age‚ he thought he was too young to work as a caddy and strived to obtain greater wealth. This was one of the main qualities of characters in the Modernism time. Dexter was also a main character that desperately wanted love. His unrelenting quest for love can also be seen as modernist. Judy Jones‚ the object of his affections‚ was the woman whom he met at the club that he caddies
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