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    Richard Hunt Intro to American Literature The Legend of Sleepy Hollow A. Compare and contrast the characters of Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt. Think about their job/social class position. Think about the different ways that they behave in general‚ and also toward Katrina Van Tassel. Think about how they experience each other. In the story the legend of sleepy hollow‚ the story takes place in lower region of New York in a town called Tarrytown. In the city of Tarrytown the town of Sleepy

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    Short Story by: Edwin T. Ramirez Jr. Subject: Arts & Appreciation Christmas with the Underprivilege Once upon a time‚ theres a 7 years old cute little girl‚ named Emily who had a good and rich parents named John‚ his Father and Michelle‚ her mother. Emily is spoiled and doing all what she likes‚ no matter what‚ its good or bad. Emily is a 1st grader on the school of St. Monique Montessori on her neighborhood she lived in. Emily is a bully student on her classroom. There are times that the parents

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    Characters • Ichabod Crane - He was a native Connecticut‚ a Playmate and companion of big boys in Sleepy Hollow. He was also a schoolmaster and choirmaster in his place • Katrina Van Tassel - He was the only child of substantial Dutch farmer. • Baltus Van Tassel - She was the father of Katrina Van Tassel‚ a contented and liberal-hearted farmer. • Brum Van Brunt - He was considered as the hero of the country round‚ his nickname was Brum Bones. Bones was famous for his skills in horsemanship. Plot

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    Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle The story of Rip Van Winkle was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker‚ an old gentleman from New York who was especially interested in the histories‚ customs‚ and culture of the Dutch settlers in that state. It is set in a small‚ very old village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains‚ which was founded by some of the earliest Dutch settlers. Rip lived there while America was still a colony of Great Britain. Rip Van Winkle is descended from

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    Washington Irving (2010)‚ writer of the classic short story “Rip Van Winkle‚” uses his writings to express his views of disagreement with pre-Revolutionary War era thinking. His views on how the Puritans thought are carefully displayed in his works. Through his writing‚ Washington Irving demonstrates the power of fiction as he indicates the apparent errancies of the American Revolution. Fiction has the power to subtly infiltrate one’s thinking. Sarah Wyman (2010)‚ an Associate Professor at the

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    Irving Penn has always strived for the best presentation of his work‚ he has become a master printer‚ revitalizing the platinum-palladium process as well as working with new techniques. The combination of innovative photography and meticulous printing has made Irving Penn one of the most significant photographers of the twentieth century. "Photographing a cake can be art‚" Irving Penn said when he opened his studio in 1953. Before long he was backing up his statement with a series of

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    -Biography of Irving Penn Irving Penn was a very famous American photographer. He was well-known for his fashion photography‚ portraits‚ and still life. Irving Penn was one of the greatest photographers in the 20th century. Irving Penn was born on June 16th 1917‚ in New Jersey‚ United States. When Irving Penn was 17‚ he was in the Philadelphia Museum School of Art‚ studying advertising design with his teacher – Alexey Brodovitch. At the same time‚ Irving Penn worked for Harper’s Bazaar

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    BIOGRAPHY 20.1 Irving Fisher (1867 -1947) Irving Fisher was born at Saugerties‚ New York‚ the son of a Congregational minister. As did his father‚ Fisher studied at Yale. Mathematics was his favorite subject. He won first prize in a math contest even as a freshman; his doctoral dissertation‚Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices (1892)‚ was a landmark in the development of mathematical economics. This dissertation won immediate praise from no lesser figures than Francis Y

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    Eden Gately English H 10 Romanticism Poetry Due to the outbreak of rationalism from the Scientific Revolution‚ people began focusing on optimism and humanism to make the world a better place in which they called the Enlightenment. Following this‚ The Romantic Movement is said to have began in the 1770’s and is known as an international artistic and philosophical movement that focused on the thought of oneself and the world. Its span also included the American Revolution (1776) and the

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    Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial‚ it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts

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