Why has the popularity of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" lasted?

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"" depicts the comical and superstitious Ichabod Crane's attempts to woo the beautiful
Katrina Van Tassel, followed by his apparent run-in with the Headless Horseman. The story's
legacy has lasted for a variety of reasons, but I believe that Irving's vibrant depiction of the
culture, , and superstitions of early American settlements is one of the primary reasons the
story has remained popular.

Irving does an amazing job of bringing the world
of his story to life. Consider, for instance, Irving's description of Sleepy Hollow in the third
paragraph of his story:

A drowsy, dreamy influence seems
to hang over the land, and to pervade the very. Some say that the place was bewitched by a High
German doctor, during the early days of the...

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Who were the Aryans that Hitler constantly referred to?

I agree with
the first post.

There are actually a kind of people that are referred to as
Aryans.  However, many of these people are not the sort that Hitler would have called Aryan.  In
fact, the Aryans are originally from India.

So Hitler essentially used the
word "Aryan" to refer to something that he made up.  In Hitler's racial terminology,
Aryans were the only people who could actually create a true civilization.  He believed that all
civilizations had been created by these Aryans who roamed around Eurasia creating
civilizations.  In modern times, Aryans had settled in Northern Europe.  As the first answer
says, they tended to be blonde and blue-eyed.  They lived in places like Germany, the
Scandianavian countries, Holland and England.

 

Analyze and compare" the road not taken" Robert Frost with the poems and styles of Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams.

Robert Frosts poem The Road Not Taken has
the
simple, declarative sentences, regular meter, and ruralwe associate with his work.
The
complexity of the poem lies in the figurative meanings the reader brings
to it, since the
description itself is straightforward. Two roads diverged in
a wood and the poet, unable to
travel both (and doubting if he would ever
have the chance to return) took the one marginally
less traveled by. This has
made all the difference, though the reader is left to decide just
what the
difference is.

Emily Dickinson, a fellow New Englander, also
wrote
mainly in four-line stanzas, though the lines are shorter, pared down
to a few terse images.
Like Frost, Dickinson often wrote about the natural
world, but the tone is quite different,
mystical, and ecstatic, as in the
avian imagery of "Hope is a thing with
feathers."

Walt
Whitman was above all a city poet, celebrating the
magnificence and vibrancy
of his "high-masted Manhattan." His style of writing is very
different from
either Frost or Dickinson although, as with the latter, it takes only a glance
at
the page to discern who the poet mush be, before we have read a single
word. Whitman generally
writes in long, loose lines and is rhetorical and
theatrical in his style, often addressing the
reader directly and writing
about himself and his experience of life.

William
Carlos
Williams is perhaps the most difficult poet of the four to identify, since he writes in
a
wider range of styles than the others. His poems tend to be unrhymed and
are often without
formal meter. They often feature vivid concrete imagery and
visual description from which, as
with Frosts poems, the reader can
extrapolate differing ideas and
emotions.

What are the elements of orientalism in the film Lawrence of Arabia directed by David Lean?

Despite
the meticulous craftsmanship that went
into David Lean's Lawrence of
Arabia, much of the film
is dated and portrays typically stereotyped and
"orientalist" attitudes about
"the East" and the Arab world.

Much of the detail of the
film is unrealistic, showing Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), though
a flawed
person, as also in some ways a nearly superhuman character, riding through the
desert
without a pith helmet, evidently because Lean wished to emphasize his
courage and his blondness.
The sudden ways in which Lawrence arrives at his
inspirations on how to defeat the Turks are
also a bit hard to
take.

Apart from Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali, nearly all of

the major roles are played by western actors. Regardless of the historical veracity of
much of
the script, the impression one gets from watching the film is that a
European was required to
lead the "easterners." Other epic films from the
same period (the 1960s) show a
similar approach, such as
Khartoum , starring Charlton Heston as

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What is the meaning of the title "Everyday Use"?

The title of
's short story, "," is pulled from the text and pertains to functional handiwork as
opposed to static artifacts. In her story, Alice Walker writes about the "creative legacy
of ordinary black women" which is a valuable part of real African American
heritage.

The central conflict of this story revolves around the mother's
refusal to give her daughter Dee (now calling herself Wangero) two quilts that the women of the
family pieced together from scraps of family members' clothing. These quilts, which three
generations of women of the family have fashioned from scraps of old clothes, are thus composed
of memories stitched together lovingly. There is a faded blue piece of a Civil War uniform worn
by Great Grandpa Ezra, pieces of Grandpa Jarrell's old paisley shirts, and other pieces of old
dresses worn by Grandma Dee. Whereas Mama and Maggie perceive these quilts as objects that have
both function and sentimental beauty, Wangero perceives them only as static objects meant for a
framed display of African American artifacts.

Mama believes that the family's
heritage should be allowed "everyday use" and be part of daily life, not viewed as an
artifact. Her daughter Maggie agrees but Dee does not. Having rejected her mother's offer of the
quilts before she left for college, calling them "old-fashioned" and "out of
style," Wangero (the new persona of Dee) now perceives them as priceless objects that
should be framed and put on display as part of African American heritage.

Feeling "something hit [her] in the top of [her] head," the mother reacts to
this hypocrisy and does something she has not done before. She hugs Maggie and pulls her into
the room where Wangero stands with the quilts in her arms. Then, the mother grabs the quilts
away from "Miss Wangero" and drops them into Maggie's lap. "Take two or three of
the others," she says to Dee. Angered, Dee goes outside to where her boyfriend waits by
their car.

"You just don't understand," she
said, as Maggie and I [the mother] came out to the car.
"What don't I
understand?" I wanted to know.
"Your heritage," she said.

After Dee/Wangero and her friend Hakim-a-barber depart, the mother
and Maggie sit outside "just enjoying" the moment. Contrary to what Wangero believes,
Mama and Maggie do, indeed, understand heritage because they know that the creative legacy of
their family should not be framed or put on a shelf. Instead, such items should be handled with
love and sentiment and be put to "everyday use."

What are the three categories of sin that Dante used in classification of sin (from Dante's Inferno)?

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Inferno consists largely of a description of Hell and the various
ironic punishments that await sinners of every variety. There are many different horrendous
torments that await sinners, all representing some varying degree of agony. So numerous are
these sins that they comprise the nine circles of hell, with some circles being broken up into
sub-categories. However, each and every one of them falls, according to Dante, into one of three
categories of sin.

The first type of sin is the sin of incontinence, also
known as wantonness. Essentially, these are sins that are committed in moments of weaknessone
gives into temptation and sins, even though the sin was not directly harmful to others. These
sins include lust, gluttony, wastefulness, and other sins that typically revolve around an
inability or unwillingness to control one's appetite.

The second type of
sin is violence, or bestiality. This type of sin revolves around crimes that are committed due
to wrath or anger, and as they...

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Analyze what the penguin symbolizes

In s
, the narrator Susie Salmon recounts her murder and the effects it has on
her family, friends, and community. She narrates from a purgatory-like place she describes as
her heaven, an idyllic paradise she will eventually transition from when she is ready. In
order to be ready, however, she must accept her fate and make peace with how...