The short story‚ “Rip Van Winkle”‚ was published in 1819 by American author‚ Washington Irving. The story is about a man who falls in a twenty year slumber. This story is one of the Irving’s prominent works along with “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. The story is set during the colonial times‚ both before and after the American Revolution‚ in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. This story can be considered one of fairytales and folklore. The aspects of ghosts and time travel make the story
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3‚512‚281 people affected by the deadly quake in Bohol Hills. $759‚640‚000.00 of damage made. 36‚645 houses destroyed‚ and over 2‚000 aftershocks. This earthquake is a tragedy‚ and the people affected need our help. This earthquake was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. If you don’t know anything about earthquakes‚ just know that that is massive! Renato Solidum‚ the director of the Philippine Institute Of Volcanology and Seismology‚ stated that he thought the East Bohol Fault caused the monstrous earthquake
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of the sandy slide that resembles a sheep much like the Cantabrian mountains of Spain resemble white elephants. “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927)‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about a young‚ unmarried couple‚ the American and Jig‚ who are sitting at a train station in Spain‚ apprehensively discussing an abortion for Jig. The story starts with Jig looking at the surrounding hills and talking about different types of alcohol. There is a following conversation between the two where they talk
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Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway’s story‚ “Hills Like White Elephants‚” has plenty of symbolism throughout the story. Symbolisms are physical things that are important and stands for something else. In this story‚ the symbols are the hills‚ white elephants‚ railroad tracks‚ and the felt pads. Hemingway uses these symbols to produce the theme of the story. The theme is about how change will bring happiness for Jig by having the baby while the man doesn’t see what the future holds
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January 2014 To Keep or Not to Keep The short story‚ “ Hills Like White Elephants ” by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about a man who is unnamed and a women whose nickname is Jig‚ as the reader we understand them to be boyfriend and girlfriend. They are both sitting at a train station waiting on the train. After some time (and a few beers)‚ the women brings up that the hills in front of them look like white elephants. The man does not think the hills look like white elephants and this statement brings them
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What did John Winthrop mean when he spoke of his “city upon a hill”? To what extent were the Puritans successful at building this city? During a time period of religious intolerance in England many people sought acceptance of their beliefs. In the early 1600’s a group of English emigrants‚ led by John Winthrop set to further purify the Christian faith. These colonists came to be known as the Puritans and settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ with the help of Winthrop as a leader. Winthrop acted
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Hill-Burton Act of 1946 Hill-Burton Act of 1946 Holly M. Yager Health Care Delivery Systems November 9‚ 2011 Hill-Burton Act of 1946 The Hill-Burton Act of 1946 is actually called The Hill-Burton Construction Act and was signed as Public Law 79-725. The critical shortage of medical facilities at the close of World War II prompted the passage of the National Hospital Survey and Construction Act. It is called Hill-Burton after its congressional sponsors‚ Senator Lister Hill and Senator
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The opening scene in Macbeth is a compact exposition. Everybody knows that a play is more restrained than a novel because it is written to be performed in less than three hrs. That is why it should attract the viewer and engage his or her attention from the beginning. That makes the opening scene of any play of such a great importance. The opening scene in a play acts as an expository scene that introduces the audience to the background of the play‚ its hero‚ and hints at the main theme. Shakespeare
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Throughout his work “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism and condensed metaphors to sensationalize the power‚ yet subtleness of the main theme: happiness. While the title does not blatantly represent the characters pursuit of happiness‚ the simile used in the title does epitomize Hemingway’s writing style as well as the diverse use of symbolism throughout the narrative. Hemingway uses this symbolism to convey the unspoken thoughts and emotions of the characters and the ultimate
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Paranormal activity has always been a questionable topic across all cultures‚ however‚ it seems as if one location has stumped skeptics. Located in Louisville‚ Kentucky is the mysterious Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Briana 1). The land was purchased in 1883 by Major Thomas H. Hays (Briana 1). Waverly Hills Sanatorium is indefinitely one of the most haunted locations on Earth. Louisville had the worst Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic out of the entire nation throughout the early 1900’s‚ due to the Ohio River
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