Olivia Borchers Mrs.Quintus English III 5 January 2015 Transcendentalism In Mulan The Disney movie‚ Mulan ‚ takes place in Ancient China. A tomboy‚ named Mulan‚ decides to take her physically impaired father’s place in the Chinese army. To do so she has to disguise herself as a male and keep her true identity secret. At the climax of the movie‚ her true gender is discovered. In the end Mulan is tried and pardoned of her crimes‚ is given a sword of the enemies military leader‚ and is proposed
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This story is about the adventures of a young woman in ancient China‚ named Mulan‚ inspired by a familiar Chinese folk tale. Mulan is a lovable‚ spirited girl who doesn’t fit in with Chinese tradition because she has a bad habit of speaking her mind and following her heart‚ which gets her into a lot of trouble. Mulan’s parents sent her to the matchmaker hoping that she will find a suitable husband‚ but through several mishaps she fails miserably and is told she will never bring her family honor
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According to Japanese mythology‚ the world begins with the birth of seven deities. These seven deities arise and then pass away in what the Japanese call the‚ "plain of high heaven." After this‚ five more couples were born‚ the last named‚ Izanagi and Izanami‚ who were ordered by their peers to consolidate the earth‚ which at this point was a chaos of muddy water. Izanagi and Izanami stood on the bridge of high heaven‚ thought to be the rainbow‚ and dipped their jeweled spear in the murky water
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My St. Patrick’s Day Oddity Written by Christopher Kang One day I found the end of the rainbow and at it there was‚ not gold‚ but a pot of leprechaun dust... Chapter 1 One sunny‚ and bright day‚ I was hiking through the meadows that seemed that they had no end. I wanted to camp here for today. All seemed very right but I was wrong‚ indeed. Chapter 2 I slept like a bear hibernating the whole entire winter. I packed all my equipment I would need today. Hours later I traveled really far away
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Victoria Olinger Coach Mears English 9‚ Period 5 8 March 2012 “Blackbeard” Blackbeard wasn’t always known as Blackbeard. In fact‚ he was born by the name of Edward Teach (Sifikis). There is some speculation about his last name as there is always some sort of suspicion about the lives of historical figures‚ whether it is something as small as a last name in his case or something bigger all together. Most historians use “Teach” because it is the spelling that their most credible source‚ Captain
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Reflection Paper on ‘Umaaraw‚ Umuulan Kinakasal ang Tikbalang’ Since our childhood days‚ we are very familiar with the Philippine folklore introduced to us by the Spanish friars namely: the tikbalang‚ aswang‚ mananaggal‚ kapre and the like. Who would have thought that these creatures are in fact friends of the animals commonly around us and act as guardians of Mother Earth? This brilliant idea spawned from a short story written by Gilda Cordero-Fernandez entitled The Magic Circle and amazingly
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An Analysis of Black Folklore in Their Eyes Were Watching God I. Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston and Their Eyes Were Watching God Born in Notasulga‚ Alabama and raised in Eatonville‚ Florida‚ the first incorporated all-black town in America‚ Hurston knew this black culture firsthand. Not only did she grow up in all black community in the south‚ but she traveled throughout the South and in the West Indies as an anthropologist collecting folk materials independently with funding from private
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Niña L. Azumbrado January 29‚ 2013 ENGLISH 70N-B6 Folklore Assignment Morphological approach of Folklore to the movie “The Promise” The film called The Promise was released in 2007 by GMA Films and Regal Entertainment. The main characters are played by popular actors in Philippines: Richard Gutierrez as Daniel‚ Angel Locsin as Andrea‚ Rhian Ramos as Monique‚ TJ Trinidad as Anton‚ Ryan Eigenmann as Jason‚ and many more. The director is Mike Tuviera and the screenwriter is Racquel Villavicencio
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Furthering that idea‚ Catherine Tossenberger expounds the idea that Supernatural is “kinda like the folklore of its day”. What Tossenberger means by this statement is that Supernatural does not only retell folklore and stories‚
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it. The myth about Enki reveals that the Sumerian society was polytheistic. The Sumerians gave each element of the world a god‚ which in time was given humans by Enki. The humans were to work for the gods in the fields or other kinds of labor. ("Folklore‚ Myths‚ and Legends" 75) This shows that Sumerians were hardworking since they believed they were given to the gods to do their labor. Also‚ the myth has father-son and mortal-god relationships which show the Sumerians that they should never go against
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