The Thousand and One Nights‚ generally known to the English‚ speaking world as the Arabian Nights‚ is a compendium of Arabic tales compiled between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. The collection starts with the story of King Shahrayar. Betrayed by his adulterous wife‚ he swears never to trust a woman again‚ deciding instead to marry a different virgin every night and have her executed the next day. He carries out his plan for three years‚ until his Vizier can no longer find a virgin to
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The front door opened slowly‚ letting out the same creaking sound that seemed to never stop reverberating through the house. The same heavy footsteps pounded in the foyer; a sigh escaped from Louise Millard’s lips‚ knowing she’d have to clean up the stains her husband’s filthy shoes left on the carpet‚ despite her repeatedly telling him not to wear his shoes in the house. Brently Mallard had never been very good at listening to her anyway. She was standing in the kitchen when he slammed the front
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Date- 15th of April- Today has gone so horribly‚ I believe it couldn’t have been more miserable. We had been up at the police station‚ around 11pm‚ after Frank had robbed a store. The next night we planned to see our “much loved” Grandma. The officers told me that Frank was armed with a gun. Although they weren’t going to put him in jail‚ they let him off with a strong warning‚ especially about the revolver. In the end we decided to just talk about it with Frank in the morning. We were all weary
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The old barn was gloomy‚ but the light of the sun came gleaming in through the cracks of the barn‚ and made the straw glimmer like little tiny bits of gold. The shingles were in disrepair‚ however‚ the structure was sturdy‚ and the wood that surrounded it was worn with age‚ but it gave it character. Similarly‚ hay covered the floor as if it was a shield from danger. Hulga stood in the middle of the barn with her hands on her hips‚ looking toward the posterior of the barn at the ladder leading up
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Influence of Cultures on "The Thousand and One Nights" Stories like Sindbad‚ Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and other popular stories are very common today in the western culture. Animated movies were also made for the entertainment of kids on these popular stories. One might wonder that where these stories originated and how it came down and made place in the western culture. Although these stories are very popular in both the western culture and the eastern culture but the original literary work
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A Man and a Woman No One Seems to Know In It Happened One Night‚ Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert spend the night in a motel and register as man and wife to protect the identity of Ellie Andrews. In the morning‚ two detectives and the owner of the motel knock on the door on Gable’s and Colbert’s room to find out where or more information about the missing Ellie Andrews. Colbert then goes into panic‚ and has the idea of jumping out the window‚ for she does not want to go back to her father and husband
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A one-night stand is a sexual activity that seems to be ubiquitous in a modern society where casual sex has become increasingly acceptable. In a general form‚ this act can be classified as a sexual activity occurring in one night between people that do not have any complimentary emotional attachments for each other. With this general definition‚ can a one-night stand be deemed morally acceptable? The traditional view of sexual morality places great importance on marriage. In this view‚ sex outside
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movie The Haunted Mansion was funny‚ scary and intense. It was funny more in the beginning of the movie then in any other part of the movie. There were a few scary parts in the middle of the movie when the butler and the master jumped out of nowhere. Finally the intense parts came at the end of the movie because you didn’t know what would happen next. At the beginning of the movie a paper boy approaches the haunted mansion with fliers for the Ever’s real estate‚ when all the sudden the house roars and
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The Haunted Castle There once was a guy and his child that lived in there house in a little beautiful peaceful town. That little town was called Baconville‚ because they make bacon. In that town was a haunted castle. The weird thing is every night his dad leaves into the starry black night . The kid name was Bacon Jr. and he was eleven years old. His dad name is Bacon Sr. he is forty years old. There house was in the edge of town by the haunted trail that led to the castle. That’s when people
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No Coincidence One Summer Night‚ written by Ambrose Bierce‚ is a satirical story which involves a presumably dead man‚ Henry Armstrong‚ who was in fact comatose‚ being ironically killed by the shady caretaker of the graveyard. Irony is a recurring literary device in many of Bierce’s short stories and books‚ reflective of his time period where satire and sarcasm in stories was popular. Bierce is quite known for his similarities in plot outlines in his literature. In his most famous short story‚ An
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