Headless Rip Van Winkle There comes a time when we all know we do something we will regret. You make a decision, and then later on it ends up coming back to haunt you. In the short stories by Washington Irving, both characters Tom and Rip make a decision they regret. The short stories The Devil and Tom Walker (1824) and Rip Van Winkle (1819) are written by Washington Irving. In The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom takes a different route home through a swamp and encounters the devil and later on makes
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Theodore Judah drafted a plan the solved two of the problems with previous plans. He explained how to finance the railroad and found a route through the mountains. Theodore Judah went west and began to build the first railroad tracks in California in 1854. He hoped to one day connect his railroad to a transcontinental railroad. The Sierra Nevada Mountains, however, remained a massive obstacle. Eventually, he found a route that could take the railroad through
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of Rip Van Winkle Irving shows how the community accepts Rip Van Winkle with his flaws. This lets Rip enjoy the last few years with his family and community. The setting of “Rip Van Winkle” takes place up the Hudson River and near the Catskill Mountains before the Revolution. The American Revolution dated 1775-1783. The story was published in 1819. This meets the
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As I was gathering information, I noticed that geographic determinism and lyrical pastoralism could go hand in hand. Reading the story made me feel like the land was beginning to represent the emotions of the two characters. After Ennis and Jack have an argument about what they want to do with their relationship, Annie Proulx writes, “Like vast clouds of steam from thermal springs in winter the years of things unsaid and now unsayable—admissions, declarations, shames, guilts, fears---rose around
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led by Kristin Hole originate in different perspectives of relationships, both gay and straight. In this article, she and other scholars argue that there is an unclear representation of gay men in Brokeback Mountain because of the character’s state of passing. It is true that Brokeback Mountain is about unconventional, yet masculine, men. Ennis is portrayed as the more masculine partner. Ennis embodies the original American wild western wilderness. Though he puts on a brave face, he feels trapped
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Yellowstone National Park: one of the most beautiful parks in the United States. Yellowstone is filled with tall, sunkissed, green trees and a mountainous area with an abundance of picture perfect animals. The snowy white, gentle, parched coyote slurping out of a sparkling, runty creak; a midnight black mama and baby bear wandering free in the open, patchy grass; and a peaceful herd of buffalo laying on the lushious, sun-drenched field are only a few of the majestic pictures caught at Yellowstone
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Pool Pockets Problem Statement: If a ball is hit off of the bottom left corner off of a pool table. The pool table has whole number dimensions. The ball rebounds at a 45 degree angle. How many rebounds would it take before it goes into 1 of the 4 pockets?also the pool ball will arrive in the top left corner of the pool table or the top right corner of the pool table. Process: First we drew lots of rectangles to represent a pool table. Then we put the dimensions of the pool table in order so that
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Driving through country roads, you get a glimpse of people who seem to be living the American dream, but do you ever wonder what is beyond the white picket fences? What kind of struggles do they face? Later, you find out that, inside the house you once dreamed about, the mother is an alcoholic and the children are drug dealers. It destroys the romance you had envisioned. In recent years, drug use has spiked in America, specifically Appalachia. The effects are detrimental to their society. The increase
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American Experience, "Transcontinental Railroad" is about the Transcontinental Railroad that was known as the engineering marvel in the 19th Century. This railroad opened up new economies in the West of America. Many conflicts occurred with the labor force, between Theodore Judah and Charles Crocker before the railroad was even built. The Transcontinental railroad caused many problems from it being built and people trying to help for their own purposes. In the end it changed the lives of the Chinese
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to come across a lively, animated village instead, he would not have encountered the strange mountain men, tasted the mountain men’s liquor, or fell into a bizarre stupor. Furthermore, without Rip Van Winkle’s “solitary flight” (Irving 68) to the mountains, readers would presumably clash with the strained transition of festive intensity to inscrutable mystery. Through the aloofness of the Kaatskill Mountains, readers are able to fathom the steady progression to the climax. Withal, the location’s solitude
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