Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle The story of Rip Van Winkle was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker‚ an old gentleman from New York who was especially interested in the histories‚ customs‚ and culture of the Dutch settlers in that state. It is set in a small‚ very old village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains‚ which was founded by some of the earliest Dutch settlers. Rip lived there while America was still a colony of Great Britain. Rip Van Winkle is descended from
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The Polar Express was written by Chris Van Allsburg. It won the Caldecott Award in 1986. The book is considered under the fantasy genre. Through the imagination and belief of a child one could think of it as realism. It could also be a myth. A boy’s wild adventure on a mystical train in the middle of the night is‚ to ones that believe‚ completely realistic but to the ones that has lost their virtue it is impossible and a fantasy. The genre is considered a fantasy while at the North Pole but moves
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At the Cathedral of Saint Bavo in Ghent‚ Belgium‚ an enduring masterpiece of an altar decoration comprised of wood and oil stands three meters tall. The great Jan Van Eyck‚ a maestro in the demanding oil technique‚ completed the Ghent Altarpiece in 1432 (Stolkstad and Cothren‚ 576-577). Approximately 16 hours away in Rome‚ The Last Judgment‚ a fourteen-meter high fresco‚ ornaments the altar of the Sistine Chapel. The unrivaled Michelangelo Buonarroti‚ known for his breathtaking sculptures and paintings
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John N. Pasmore Essay TED Talk of Auret van Heerden Working out Poverty Auret van Heerden is a compelling speaker. He currently serves as president and CEO of the non-‐governmental organization (NGO)‚ Fair Labor Association in Geneva‚ Switzerland. In a video-‐taped TED Talk (http://ow.ly/rWoZR0) he
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Background/origin/history Land van de Dood is located between Japan and Indonesia near the equator‚ at Latitude 14.604847‚ Longitude 155.039063. Starting in the late 1800’s‚ the still existing dutch speaking viking descendant clans sent criminals to this abandoned island to die. They called this island ‘Land van de Dood’ meaning ‘Land of the Dead’ in Dutch. However‚ due to their ancestry‚ the exiles were somewhat abnormally tall and muscular. This strength allowed their survival on the island. They
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Explain what is meant by ‘upwardly mobile’. (Item A‚ line 6). Upwardly mobile means when someone or a group of people move or aspire to move to a higher social class or to a position of increased status or power. Suggest three criticisms of ‘new vocationalism’. It is a cheap source of labour meaning that it should not be up to the education system to train employees for companies. It creates a lack of jobs – young employment is due to lack of jobs and not vocational skills. Working class students
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Final Notice is a book written by Van Fleisher. It is a realistic fiction book that takes place in the United States. It addresses a pressing issue the United States is faced with presently. A group of scientists invents a device that resembles a watch for monitoring heart rates during exercises. It turns out this device can do much more than that. The device can give full medical diagnostics. It has a feature called the final notice that can tell when the wearer is going to die. This device initially
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I don’t remember how I got here. There was a promise of money and shelter‚ a van and a brown paper bag. The van they transported me in smelled sour‚ the children they took before me must have pissed themselves. I think I was scared enough to. I lie here in a bed with an IV in my arm. I know I’ve been drugged into compliance but it’s hard to shake the fog. I hear other children in the area beyond curtained off section of the room my bed is in. The curtains were once white with speckled with blue
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Reading: van Wensveen 1. What is the primary ways that Van Wensveen Siker views the relationship between Christianity and business? A: Van Wensveen Siker reimagines five ways or types of viewing the relationship between Christianity and business. These five types are - Christ against business‚ Christ of business‚ Christ above business‚ Christ and business in paradox‚ and Christ the transformer of business. For the readers enrichment I will provide a brief summary of the five types. First‚ Christ
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A great example of a tragic hero is a man by the name of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was born into a dutch family of nobility in the field of music on December 17th 1770 in bonn. He was named after his grandfather‚ a bass singer. Beethoven’s father‚ Johannes‚ was a court Tenor and pianist and was the first person to instruct young Ludwig in music. He taught him the piano‚ violin‚ and also possibly the viola. He went to elementary school in the Neugasse until his first public performance at the
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