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    Irish immigrants were a really really big part of the culture change. The largest wave of immigrants came from Ireland because of the famine in their land. Everyone ate potatoes over there‚ so when the crop got a fungus and they died‚ it was a huge problem for the Irish. A whole lot of people ended up dying from the lack of food. A lot of the Irish that came to America couldn’t do anything. They weren’t talented and they had no skills and no money. Mostly they lived up north in cities. They faced

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    BA Early Childhood Studies & Practice The Child and Family in Irish Law The Child and Family in Irish Law Assignment 31st January 2012 Discuss some of the key provisions and principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child. Include an example of Irish law or police that complies /does not comply with the States obligations under the convention. Introduction This essay will look at some of the

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    An archetype is a type of story that can be copied and used in the future. The archetype that is described by Horatio Alger would be rising from nothing and becoming successful. This structure of having a goal about becoming successful and achieving this goal is called The American Dream. Horatio Alger created the first pattern of having a character go through tough situations. This character was named Rick. He was modest and dependable. Fitzgerald changes the original characteristics of Horatio

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    Do Dead Poets Use Archetypes Too? Directors use many different techniques when filming a movie. Unlike other forms of storytelling‚ movie directors have completely control of what the viewer sees. An author picks words to describe what they see‚ but most words have multiple meanings. This can lead to confusion about many scenes in numerous books. Stage directors can pick the set‚ the costumes‚ and the actors‚ but what an audience member sees is still up to the work of others. Also‚ no two shows are

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    fit what we call the “archetype of a hero”. The archetype of a hero is what we consider to be qualities that most heroes have. Meleager‚ Heracles‚ and Theseus all fit a majority of these qualities and that is what makes them a hero. Meleager is not usually the first greek to come to mind when we think about greek heroes. Meleager fits many of the heroic qualities that are listed in the archetype of a hero. One quality being that Meleager was born into royalty. Meleager’s father‚ Oeneus‚ was king of

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    Archetypes in Beowulf Archetypes stir profound emotions in the reader because they awaken images stored in the collective unconscious. In Seamus Haney’s translation of Beowulf this is used in the form of character types. Beowulf is a hero and encounters many triumphs with different types of people on his journey in this epic poem. There are three archetypal characters in Beowulf that are particularly effective and intriguing. These are The Creature of Nightmare Grendel‚ The Mentor Hrothgar‚ and

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    Archetype Essay: The Hunger Games This story is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen‚ who lives in district 12. In this story she is the hero‚ with most archetypes. The archetypes in this book are her birth‚ having to leave her family‚ traumatizing event leading to her quest‚ special weapon‚ supernatural help‚ proves herself when on her quest‚ and journey that creates and un healable wound. Katniss was born in District 12‚ a mining District that is poor and neglected by the

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    Irish Immigration to Canada The Irish began immigrating to North America in the 1820s‚ when the lack of jobs and poverty forced them to seek better opportunities elsewhere after the end of the major European wars. When the Europeans could finally stop depending on the Irish for food during war‚ the investment in Irish agricultural products reduced and the boom was over. After an economic boom‚ there comes a bust and unemployment was the result. Two-thirds of the people of Ireland depended

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    recognized the mother and father figures within the movie. Truman’s literal mother figure is representative as this archetype. “To distract Truman (Jim Carrey) from his recent discoveries and suspicions‚ Christof (Ed Harris) orchestrates the return of Truman ’s father and creates a moving television moment in the process” (Youtube 2011). Another archetype I identified was family. The general relation of Truman to his wife and his craving for his father is an example of this archetype. I believe that the

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    What are the common archetypes in ancient mythologies? I chose this topic because I have a large interest in past culture‚ and I would like to know more about the stories of heroes passed down through many generations. These archetypes help historians understand the lifestyle of past civilizations‚ such as Greek‚ Norse‚ and Egyptian. When people include an archetypal character in a piece of literature‚ “it helps to get the message of a work across to the reader‚ by appealing to specific universal

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