killed by a grizzly? Connections 1. Relate the girl being taken in by the bear to similar myths or legends in which a human is rescued or raised by caring animals. 2. Relate features of this story to elements of creation stories that you have in your own culture. What is the appeal of such straightforward explanations? Critical Thinking Questions “The Navajo Origin Legend” Comprehension 1. Summarize the Navajo creation ceremony. Interpretation 1. Why do the Navajo
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PROMPT- Do you defend or challenge this statement: “When legends die‚ dreams end. When dreams end‚ there is no more greatness.”? Use evidence from history‚ your readings‚ etc. I am inspired by the sound of a dribbling basketball‚ by the sound of squeaking shoes‚ and by the sound of a basketball swishing through a hoop. I can still remember the time when The Celtics almost beat the Lakers in the NBA Championships. I was ten years old‚ in Tennessee‚ watching the All-Star game with my relatives
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he perceives as "traditional" standards of masculinity‚ and his failure adapt to a changing world‚ help point out the importance of custom and tradition in the novel. The Ibo tribe defines itself through the age-old traditions it practices in Things Fall Apart. While some habits mold tribe members’ daily lives‚ other customs are reserved for special ceremonies. For example‚ the head of a household honors any male guest by praying over and sharing a kola nut with him‚ offering the guest the privilege
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PHILIPPINES CEBU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY CEBU CITY CAMPUS CORNER M.J. CUENCO & R. PALMA STREET‚ CEBU CITY‚ PHILIPPINES Tel. No.: (032) 412-1270 Telefax: (032) 256-1537 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION LEGEND OF ORMOC CITY MS.JOENORAMAE L. MATA DECEMBER 2012 THE LEGEND OF ORMOC CITY On July 16‚ 1595‚ Father Chirino and the other Jesuit missionaries arrived in Leyte. In May 1597‚ Fathers Alonso Rodriguez and Leonardo Scelsi founded the mission of Ormoc. This date marked the conversion
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Imagery in “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe is best known for ominous short stories. In “The Cask of Amontillado” ‚ Poe uses imagery to enhance the mood‚ setting and characters of the story. Poe uses imagery to create a horrific and dark mood. For example‚ Poe writes‚ “ We had passed through walls of piled bones with casks and puncheons intermingling into the inmost recesses of the catacombs”. By using words such as “bones” and “catacombs” Poe incites thoughts of horror and death
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by William Shakespeare‚ the setting clarifies the various themes and characters of the play. Darkness‚ deceiving appearances‚ and the supernatural are aspects of setting that influence the characters actions and lives. The play shows that an environment is a crucial aspect of one’s life. Depending on where they live‚ one’s surroundings affect their reactions and decisions. The play initiates it’s setting on a dark‚ gloomy battlefield where war is in order. This setting clarifies the ’darkness is
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Theme The theme of “Animal Farm” by George Orwell is there are dangers of a naïve working class if the abuse of language as instrumental to the abuse of power is applied. For example‚ on page 31 “Comrades! You do not imagine‚ I hope‚ that we pigs are doing this in selfishness and privilege? Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brain workers; the organization of the farm totally depends on us” Squealer cried. This is manipulation of language
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Main Challenges in the Story Legend: Legend is a story about two 15 year old kids. From one side we have‚ as the story tells us in a beginning‚ a kid called Day. Day is a famous criminal who has given many problems to the republic From the moment he failed his trial‚ a test designed to be taken by every ten year old kid in the republic to test their physical and mental capabilities‚ Day was sent to the work camps which turned out to be labs that experimented on the kids who failed their test. Since
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The Fall of the House of Usher: Imagery and Parallelism In his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher"‚ Edgar Allen Poe presents his reader with an intricately suspenseful plot filled with a foreboding sense of destruction. Poe uses several literary devices‚ among the most prevalent‚ however are his morbid imagery and eerie parallelism. Hidden in the malady of the main character are several different themes‚ which are all slightly connected yet inherently different. Poe begins
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happiness can be different than others. The pursuit of happiness is what inspires true happiness and that is something indescribable. In Charles Mungoshi short story‚ “the setting sun and the rolling world”‚ he describes two different perspectives of happiness. The perspective of old Musoni and his son‚ Nhamo. Mungoshi’s most important theme is that one’s pursuit of happiness can give someone pain. Three important examples support this. The first is Nhamo and his father‚ old Musoni‚ arguing about Nhamo’s
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