Bucephalus: A boy fresh from the countryside‚ Bucephalus is the younger brother of Cletus. He used to be a rather well-mannered child‚ however‚ after meeting Joseph‚ he realizes that Joseph is the embodiment of everything he hates in a person. Deciding that he had enough with Joseph’s condescending attitude‚ he teams up with his older brother‚ Cletus‚ to hatch a plot against Joseph. Cletus: Cletus is the older brother of Bucephalus. He’s a very mischievous‚ strong‚ but not so clever child.So
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Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever develops plot in an interesting way. We see the present situation unfold through the internal dialogue of Alida Slade and Grace Ansley‚ and the tension that mounts between them. But Wharton also weaves in the past actions of the two friends‚ showing the years of insecurity‚ jealousy‚ and secrecy that lead to their revelations. Alida and Grace spend the entire story sitting on a restaurant terrace overlooking the hills of a Roman village. It has been years since
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the inside. Later‚ her father FA ZHOU (45-50)‚ an old soldier and the village leader‚ shows her some fight moves. That night‚ ROURAN RAIDERS attack Mulan’s village. As the villagers try to defend Mulan’s village against DAIYU (35-40s)‚ a powerful witch‚ Mulan tries to fight KHAN(40s)‚ the leader of the Rouran Raiders. As Khan is about to kill Mulan‚ Daiyu stops him‚ saying a such a spirit should not be destroyed easily. At the mean time‚ GAIUS(30s)‚ an attractive
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Plot Summary Of A Severe Mercy Sheldon Vanauken’s A Severe Mercy is the story he tells upon reflection of the love he had with Jean Davis‚ or Davy as she would come to be called‚ and the evolution they experienced both as a couple in love and as individuals. It is‚ as much as it is the story of their love‚ the story of their coming to know and love Christianity and its Jesus. The two meet in their late teens and are immediately close. They sit engrossed in conversation for hours at a time
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cover the height and decline of witch-hunting‚ with 1603 marking the debut of the reign of King James I. 1712 marks the last recorded case where a woman was accused of witch-craft‚ Jane Wenham. During this period thousands of people fell victim to the so called ‘witch craze’ and many historians have attempted to identify a singular theory for why witch hunting became so wide spread across Europe and North America. The feminist historian Anne Barstow claims that witch hunts were “an attack on women…”
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In Arthur Miller’s tragic play the Crucible the author describes the life of puritans in Massachusetts in the 1700s revolving entirely around god‚ and all who said otherwise would be banished or hanged. The Salem Witch trials arose between this time and lead to an overall uncontrollable and unreasonable set of deaths in Salem. One could argue that the reason for these deaths lied in the hands of the people but in reality the fate of the victims in the Crucible lied with Abigail‚ a young girl in the
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The Blair Witch is a legend that dates back to the 1700’s and is said that she haunts the Black Hills Forest located just right outside of Burkittsville‚ Maryland. It all starts back in the year 1785 when an Irish-born woman known as Elly Kedward was accused of witchcraft by the children in the village. It is unknown if there was even a trial‚ Elly Kedward was then brought into the woods and tied to a tree in the dead of winter. When villagers went out to find the body‚ they were shocked to see not
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Plot Summary – The Simple Gift The story The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick‚ focuses on Billy‚ who is a sixteen year old boy living in Australia. Billy reveals himself as a reject‚ a thief and a troubled character who rejects school. Billy’s ‘alienation’ is a cause of the combination of all his troubles‚ his abusive father‚ rejection from school‚ bad neighbourhood. Billy runs away from his family on a freight train‚ and packs a set of unusual things like cigarettes and alcohol. Whilst catching a
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personal ties with Cerebral Palsy; Sharon Draper (the author) has a daughter living with this disease. The story shows that it is not only the disabled individual‚ but everyone involved is affected by the disease. The biggest overall theme of the book is acceptance. Although it is not always easy‚ everyone around Melody has to except her for the person that she is. Melody’s family and educators have to learn to accept her the most‚ they have to realize that she is still a person‚ not just a disease
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Brennyn Mackey 2 May 2011 The Secret War of Salem Exposing the Culprit behind the Mass Hysteria The Salem Witch Trials were a series of infamous events that demand an explanation for their occurrence. The trials that took place in 1692 caused neighbors in the community of Salem Village in the colony of Massachusetts to turn on one another out of paranoia‚ accusing one another of witchcraft. According to Carol Karlsen‚ a longtime author of the subject‚ nineteen people were hanged
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