Tha Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights constitute‚ in Marina Warner’s words‚ "a polyvocal anthology of world myths‚ fables and fairytales". The antecedents of these Arab-Islamic texts (also known as The Thousand and One Nightsand the Arabian Nights Entertainments) are Qur’anic‚ Biblical‚ Indian‚ Persian‚ Mesopotamian‚ Greek‚ Turkish and Egyptian. In them‚ oral and written traditions‚ poetry and prose‚ demotic folk tales and courtly high culture mutate and interpenetrate. In their long lifetime the Nights have
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characters are very distinctive and important for that genre. The last one is the importance of objects in most cases‚ knives‚ axe and basically sharp objects for killing purposes. These three main things provide the basis on which slashers like‚ “Halloween” (1978)‚ “Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984) and many others lie on. Furthermore this sub-genre of
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INTRODUCTION A. | The need for a great holiday decoration | B. | Very inexpensive project that is fun for the whole family | C. | The best part is the pumpkin is edible so the insides can be usedAs a child one of my favorite memories during Halloween was having a pumpkin carving contest with my cousins. Now that I have a family of my own we have made it a tradition to carve a great pumpkin with the kids each year. | BODY I. | Supplies Needed | | A. | Pumpkin | | B. | Marker/pumpkin
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Brant Norlander 2/20/11 Sociology of Sports Prof. Delany Friday Night Lights Sustaining the ambitions of not only themselves but the alumni and town of Odessa‚ Texas is a lot to ask from a young adult. That’s exactly what Permian football provides to the people of Odessa‚ where the post economic boom of the oil business has left the town in a racially tense‚ economic crisis. The lights on Permian High School’s football field are the only sanctuary for the west Texas town. Socially
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group of young attractive women with a phallic sharp object‚ until he is eventually overpowered or killed by the one “final girl” who survives (Clover 24). In the 70s‚ the apex of slasher popularity movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Halloween (1978) began to capture the fascination of younger audiences and increased coverage of violence in media captivated the American psyche as slashers started incorporating scenes saturated with more gore and violence than before to lure audiences.
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mental asylum. Interestingly enough‚ he painted this piece from his memory and it was supposed to have been based on a constellation arrangement he had seen earlier on in the night sky of Provence. Starry Night is perhaps one of his most famous and yet most elusive works. The first thing that I noticed was the overwhelming night sky‚ which takes up most of the background. Its swirling‚ flowing lines appear to be swishing across the background in this gentle‚ wavy motion and seem to be merging at the
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In the painting The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh you see a dark blue sky filled with enormous stars swirling throughout it imposing an immediate sense of peacefulness. The small town underneath is dark and even looks to be at rest. The stars are so bright and the moon seems to just pop out almost as if it were right in front of you. It even seems to shine some sort of life into a gigantic dead tree stump protruding into the sky. It seems as if the only movement at all is the spiraling light emanating
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This poem was created from Anne’s inspiration from Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night. It begins with a quote from a letter written by Van Gogh‚ which says that he has a deep need for religion‚ and that it is when he feels this need that he goes out and paints the stars. This is very profound because it is about man’s need for something everlasting and holy. Even though Van Gogh didn’t want religion in his life‚ he still had a need for the holy. By creating the painting of the stars
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Blood‚ gore‚ death‚ darkness‚ suspense‚ and fear of the unusual are just a few ingredients that are stirred into making a horror film. Horror films are projected to create a psychological sense of fear; however‚ humans tend to enjoy and crave the heart-pumping adrenaline rush of terror. Some believe it is the calling of curiosity while others think it is the section of insanity that imbedded itself into our mind. Trepidations are not a trend that has set forth in the twenty first century; we humans
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total collapse in the community (because of unexplained phenomena that deaths from walking violent nature nature‚ biology) and social. political representation of the knot between subtle here‚ and make a night of devastating experience of the Dead live not only continues to this day. culturally‚ the night of the birth of the living Dead of modern coma marks. a lot of (voodoo zombies in some places)‚ "a zombie "is the current movies before‚ although exciting and interesting links that can be drawn between
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