...Deep in the woods, there is a road waiting to be used. A black crow waits under the bright moonlight for its next prey. Welcoming it’s visitors, the Sleepy Hollow sign stands lonely waiting to be looked at. Local news report claims that a couple kids have been kidnapped by a strange black figure on a horse. Rumor has it that the figure goes by the name of, Headless Horseman. The local people are in shock and want to know why he is after their kids. An old story has been told that the horseman lost his head in war while fighting. He goes back to the place where he last remembers, every night to see if its still there. He can’t find it but that won’t stop him. The town people get spooked away and never return back to Sleep Hollow. One night...
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...legend in that town of a headless horseman who rides in the dark and disappears in a flash. The main characters in the story are Ichabod Crane he says that his name is appropriate because of his appearance and the fact that he is a schoolmaster, Katarina Van Tassel who used to be one of Ichabod’s singing students but now is being courted by two men one of them is Ichabod and Abraham Brunt who is the other guy courting Katarina he is described as handsome and big and was given the nickname Broom Bones. The theme that comes into question the most in the story is the supernatural. This can be seen the story of the headless horseman. At the party most people seem to have their different encounters with the horseman. In the case of Ichabod it makes us question whether it was Abraham who was the headless horseman because anytime that story comes up we are told he just laughs about it hinting there is something more that is not being said. Ichabod believed in witchcraft he had books and would sing psalms when he thought they were near him. The theme of war is evident in the whole story. It should be noted that the book was not written not to long after the American Revolution. Love in the book can be seen as war In the book it talks of knightly battle in order to will the girl i.e. Abraham wanted to fight Ichabod for Katarina love but because he could not do that he resorted to other methods like pranks which he may or may have not been the headless horseman at the end of the story. This...
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...The Wade Hampton Monument is located in front of the South Carolina State House on the Sumter Street side. Wade Hampton was born on March 28, 1818 in Charleston but lived the majority of his life in Richland County. He attended South Carolina College and served as a member of the state legislature before the Civil War began. Hampton did not support the idea of the south seceding, but he chose to support the Confederacy once the war started. He rose through the ranks to lieutenant general and was regarded as a talented horseman. After the war, Hampton served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator for a combined total of 21 years. As governor, he was an outspoken critic of Reconstruction and became known as the "Savior of South Carolina" for challenging federal policy. He was supported by a group known as the "Red Shirts", who suppressed the black vote and killed up to 50 blacks during Hampton's victorious governor race. The statue was erected in 1906 and is situated in front of the Wade Hampton State Office Building. It is an equestrian statue, or a statue of...
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...Guns, Germs, and Steel shows how humanity and society has come, to be the way it is today. the Spanish conquistadors conquered civilization was by using their technology of their time including guns,germs, and steel. Guns were used to kill multiple native populations. Diseases spread across the natives because of germs and could not be treated or stopped since they have never encountered a dressed like the smallpox. Finally, steel helped the Europeans have advantage against the natives, having swords,armor, and more to take over civilizations. There were two sorts of Spanish conquistadors, horseman or Calverley and foot soldiers or infantry. The Calvarymen would get a higher pay or share of the treasure than foot soldiers. They Spanish horseman has two weapons to choose from, lances or swords. Lances were deadly long wooden spears with iron tips leaving deadly devastating effects on native soldiers. Foot soldiers for the Spaniards had a weapon called the harquebus. It was a sort of an early musket that was undeniably effective against any of its opponents. These harquebus Weapons had a downside to them, they were slow to reload, heavy, and it is difficult to fire one. Like the Calvary, Spanish foot soldiers used steel swords to battle off opponents. A heavily armored foot soldier from the Spaniards could cut done dozens of native enemies in minutes....
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...In examining Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” alongside Tim Burton’s filmic adaption of the story, titled “Sleepy Hollow,” a number of fascinating similarities and differences emerge. Though elements of the characters and settings of Burton’s film borrow heavily from Irving’s text, the overall structuring of the film is significantly different, and representations of various elements are crucially re-imagined. Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow” was released on November 19, 1999, a few months before the new millennium. Set in 1799, Burton’s film modifies the 1790 date that Irving’s text is set in, showing an acute concern with living out anxieties surrounding millennial change in the ‘safe’ formats of film and of established folk legend. Irving’s tale, written in 1820, also works with antiquity, but in a different manner: it lives out colonial cultural anxieties of Irving’s present, as he seems to be concerned with constructing archetypes of folk and with placing folk culture in the new American literary landscape. Examining the two versions of the tale, then, provides a fascinating peek into the transformation of concerns and values in America from Irving’s nineteenth century landscape to Burton’s twentieth (on the verge of twenty-first) century. Burton makes several significant moves that modify the basics of Irving’s tale, frequently at the cost of the folk elements of Irving’s version. The frame narrative of Irving’s story—the tale, part of a series titled...
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...The Gladius was a short sword used by everyone in the army. It was first used by the Spanish. During the Second Punic wars between Rome and the Carthage the Roman General Scipio Africanus took a liking to the sword and began the sword to the legions as their main weapon. During combat it could be used for stabbing or slashing but it was normally used for sword to sword combat. It was used for the rest of the Roman Republic and into the early years of the Empire. This weapon helped Rome win battles for 600 years. But they had to get rid of them because in the 3rd century cavalry became more important as the Asians started...
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...Revolutionary War. The colonists that settled in North America were fighting for their independence from Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. The Hessian soldiers joined forces with Great Britain to fight against the colonists in present day North America. The Hessian name was derived from their original location of Hesse-Kassel, Germany. They were involved in the war because Landgraf Wilhelm II, the prince of Hesse-Kassel, was paid an amount equal to thirteen years’ worth of tax revenue for their services. Each soldier services equaled twenty-five cents a day payment to the prince. The prince enforced this policy so that he could keep taxes low and public spending high. As a result, the soldiers were not paid directly for their services to fight in the war. The Hessian soldiers made up one-fourth of the British Army. There were over 30,000 Hessian soldiers sent to North America to fight in the war. This was not an uncommon practice for an army to hire soldiers from another country. There were 535 Hessian soldiers killed in the action of the war. There were 900 Hessian soldiers captured at the Battle of...
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...Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones War! Rivalry! These words make you think of Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones, which person is the the best men? Ichabod Crane of Brom bones?But Katrina Van Tassel's should find who would be the best man for her, but some of them will have different themselves, but today i’ll be doing similarities and differences between these men which the is story is Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Ichabod Crane, compared to Brom Bones, are alike in many ways like they both like Katrina very well, because of Katrina appearances. Then they were pretty mean to each other for Katrina, but they both are men, so many people think that ichabod Crane is weak, but I think they both can fight their own battles for themselves. They both were hanging out at the party to see Katrina but,she only picks one and that was Brom Bones. They are both competitive with each other with Katrina, but I know this because Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane are meeting each other every time they see each other. Then they both are so friendly to her, because like they might be mean to her but they still want to marry that’s what I think about these answers I just put....
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...Dear, Fellow senates I am here today to tell you why caesar should be alive and not killed. First of all julius caesar was one of the most generous people i've ever met. The poor does not have any land but he gave them land. I personally don't think any other leader could be as nice as he is to the poor. One of the most generous things he does is spend money on the people and if they need something and if they don't have it he bought them it.He spends a ridiculous amount of money on the people in the town. If people needed food or more land or anything he would get it for them. He spent so much money that he went into debt.Now think wouldn't you want a leader that got you so many things even if you were in a lower class like the poor?...
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...quicker and quicker towards them. The earth was shaking and the air was roaring from the heavy steps of the big trolls. Silence blew into the cracks between the humans that was shaking with fear. Serikon's dark army was greater then ever before. The march of the heavy trolls stopped and silence entered the air filled with rage. The only thing disturbing was the wind that was blowing roughly through the spears and flags. Silently a horseman split from the tight group and rode towards the dark enemy. His cape was waving behind him and proudly he held his flag into the air, while his horse rapidly stamped its hooves onto the cold, wet ground with such a lightness that it looked like it was flying. Quickly the horseman was swallowed by the dark. Time passed and nothing was heard from the horseman. The warriors was growing slightly worried as the silence of the battlefield continued into eternity, until it was broken by a shattering scream and a roaring that made Vareath's hair stand up. The warriors took a step back as the horse came out with the horseman. Blood was scattered all over his shining silver armor and red and golden cape. His lifeless body was lying over the scared horse's muscular, black neck. Vareaths' face became...
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...Rip Van Winkle Summary: “Rip Van Winkle” is an American masterpiece of the short story. It is based on local history but is rooted in European myth and legend. Irving reportedly wrote it one night in England, in June, 1818, after having spent the whole day talking with relatives about the happy times spent in Sleepy Hollow. The author drew on his memories and experiences of the Hudson River Valley and blended them with Old World contributions. “Rip Van Winkle” is such a well-known tale that almost every child in the United States has read it or heard it narrated at one time or another. Rip is a simple-minded soul who lives in a village by the Catskill Mountains. Beloved by the village, Rip is an easygoing, henpecked husband whose one cross to bear is a shrewish wife who nags him day and night. One day he wanders into the mountains to go hunting, meets and drinks with English explorer Henry Hudson’s legendary crew, and falls into a deep sleep. He awakens twenty years later and returns to his village to discover that everything has changed. The disturbing news of the dislocation is offset by the discovery that his wife is dead. In time, Rip’s daughter, son, and several villagers identify him, and he is accepted by the others. One of Irving’s major points is the tumultuous change occurring over the twenty years that the story encompasses. Rip’s little Dutch village had remained the same for generations and symbolized rural peace and prosperity. On his return, everything has...
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...2010 Topic #1: Describe some characteristics of literature in the 20th century and illustrate these characteristics using the texts studied in class. Okay let’s start with William Butler Yeats, who was not only the main figure in the Irish literary renaissance but also the twentieth century’s greatest poet in the English language. Yeats constantly uses allusive imagery and large symbolic structures. Yeats adopted a cyclical model of history which he created a private mythology that allowed him to come to terms with both cultural and personal pain. This model also helped explain the symptoms of the Western civilization’s declining spiral; the plight of contemporary Irish society and the chaos of European culture around World War 1. Yeats shares with writers like Rilke and T. S. Eliot the quest for larger meaning in a time of trouble and the use of symbolic language to give verbal form to that quest. For many years it is Yeats’s mastery of images that defines his work. From his early use of symbols as private keys, or dramatic metaphors for complex personal emotions, to the immense cosmology of his last work, he continued to create a highly visual poetry whose power derives from the dramatic interweaving of specific images. One of his poems called When You Are Old pleads his love for the beautiful actress and Irish nationalist Maud Gonne, whom he met in 1889 and who repeatedly refused to marry him. From the love poems of his youth to his old age,...
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...Many people say that Gallipoli is the battle that determined the ANZAC legend and also Australia’s identity. However there were many other battles in world war 1 that determined ANZACs legend. One of these battles was the Light Horse Brigade charge of Beersheba in 1917. This battle helped open up supplies lines and was also a strong point for the Australians, it is also a determine ship of ANZAC strength as Beersheba was attacked by the British multiple times and the Light horse succeeded. Beersheba was also called the Forgotten battle because not many people know it. Causes of The Palestinian campaign. It started with an Ottoman attempt at raiding the Suez Canal in 1915, and ended with the Armistice of Mudros in 1918, leading to the cession...
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...He also did some horse thievery and fought against the South during the Civil War. In St. Louis, he met Louisa Frederici and married her on March 6,1866. For a while, the couple ran a hotel business named the Golden Rule House in Salt Creek Valley, Kansas. During their rocky marriage in which Cody would unsuccessfully sue for divorce in 1905, Louisa bore him three girls, Orra, Arta, and Irma and a son, whom Cody named Kit Carson after the famous scout. In 1867 Cody abandoned the hotel business when the Kansas Pacific branch of the Union Pacific Railroad offered him the job of procuring meat for its construction workers. It was here for the next year and a half that Cody earned his sobriquet of “Buffalo Bill” by delivering twelve bisons a day. Estimates are that he killed more than 4,000 in one eight-month period. Cody...
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...History 11 exam 2 study guide 1) Explain the structure of the US Gov. under the new constitution and describe the compromises that led to its ratification? What problems do you think remained for the united states under this constitution? The structure of the US Gov under the new constitution sets out the powers of the United States does and what the State powers are as well. In addition Madison is setting up a competion between the US Gov and the States. The US gov can coin money, make taxes, make treaties. State Powers can create taxes, make treaties, but can’t coin money. Many of the powers of the States are often duplicated from the Us Gov. powers. Also there is the 3 branch concept which consist of Executive branch (President, Enforce laws),Legislative Branch (Congress, Make Laws), and Judicial Branch( Interept Laws). These branches will also compete with each other. Example of congress fighting with the president on raising the national debt ceiling. In addition the Judicial branch will sometimes get involved because they have the power to declare a law constitutional or unconstitutional which is the final say. In addion the Judicial Branch can also interpret laws made by the legislative Branch.The compromise that led to the ratification are Virginia Plan:being a large state, because virgina had a larger population.the viginians did not think it was fair for a state to have 3times less population to have a equal vote as a larger state such as virginia.They wanted more...
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