Résultats pour "story"

• Creation Stories Creation Stories, myths that explain the origin of the universe, or cosmos.

• Edgar Allan Poe I INTRODUCTION Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American writer, known as a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the short-story form (see Short Story), especially the psychological horror tale.

  the deciphering of a code. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” (1842-1843), and “The Purloined Letter” (1844) are regarded aspredecessors of the modern mystery, or detective, story ( see Detective Story). Many of Poe’s tales are distinguished by the author’s unique grotesque inventiveness in addition to his superb plot construction. Poe was unequaled in evoking an all-encompassing mood of horror through the rendering of setting and atmosphere. The opening descri...

• Voyage and return stories

• The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin

  “The Dream of An Hour”, it is described as a dream to describe something unrealistic and unreachable. Women were not allowed to think for themselves or have an opinion of their own, they had to have the same opinions as their husbands or fathers, at the time. It took her husband dying for her to feel free, it was the only way, back then, for a woman to be free, as women were always financially dependent on men, a woman goes from being dependant on her father to being dependant on her husband, sh...

• Short Story (Sprache & Litteratur).

• Comics I INTRODUCTION Comics, series of drawings arranged to tell a story.

  is still used to refer to sensationalistic techniques that publishers use to draw more readers to their newspapers. Outcault finally won the right to continue his strip andgradually adopted the panel style and balloon narration that mark “The Yellow Kid” as the first true comic strip. Other early comics included “Little Bears” by JamesSwinnerton, which first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner in 1892, and “The Katzenjammer Kids” by Rudolph Dirks, which first appeared in The American Humo...

• F. Scott Fitzgerald - Biography. American novelist and short-story writer Birth September

• Folktales I INTRODUCTION "Little Red Riding Hood" The popular children's story "Little Red Riding

  seemed important to them. Thus, the Grimms postulated a common Indo-European origin for folktales, and the German philologist Theodor Benfey as well as theScottish writer William Clouston believed that stories diffused by way of travelers migrating east and west from India. Such theories, however, have proven incompleteand inadequate. Nevertheless, the research of these and other scholars greatly stimulated interest in folklore and folktales. The German scholar Max Muller held thatmyths originat...

• West Side Story West Side Story, motion-picture musical about star-crossed lovers from different cultures in New York City, based on the 1957 stage play by Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins, which was inspired by Romeo and Juliet (1595?

  Trivia The actors in the rival gangs were instructed to play pranks on each other off the set to keep tensions high. Quote Riff (singing): “When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way!” Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Ernest Hemingway I INTRODUCTION Ernest Hemingway Twentieth-century American author Ernest Hemingway wrote novels and stories that reflected his rich life experiences as a war correspondent, outdoor sportsman, and bullfight enthusiast.

  In his early work Hemingway used themes of helplessness and defeat, but in the late 1930s his writing began to reflect concerns about social problems. His novel To Have and Have Not (1937) and his play The Fifth Column, published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938), strongly condemned economic and political injustice. Two of his best short stories, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” were part of the story collection. In thecla...

• Native American Literature I INTRODUCTION Leslie Marmon Silko Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko is perhaps best known for her first novel, Ceremony (1977), a coming-of-age story about a young man of mixed Native American and white ancestry.

  SequoyahNative Americans did not use a complex written language before the immigration of Europeans to the Americas. In theearly 1820s the Cherokee leader Sequoyah developed an alphabet and written language for his native tongue. ManyCherokee learned the new written language readily, and in 1828 they published the first Native American newspaper,written in both Cherokee and English.THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Before Native Americans came into contact with Europeans, many tribes supplemented the spoken...

• Native American Literature I INTRODUCTION Leslie Marmon Silko Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko is perhaps best known for her first novel, Ceremony (1977), a coming-of-age story about a young man of mixed Native American and white ancestry.

  SequoyahNative Americans did not use a complex written language before the immigration of Europeans to the Americas. In theearly 1820s the Cherokee leader Sequoyah developed an alphabet and written language for his native tongue. ManyCherokee learned the new written language readily, and in 1828 they published the first Native American newspaper,written in both Cherokee and English.THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Before Native Americans came into contact with Europeans, many tribes supplemented the spoken...

• West Side Story

  le spectacle fait l'objet de nombreuses reprises et bénéficie d'un succès international. Elle a connu un tel succès qu’une adaptation filmographique du même nom est sortie en 1961 . L’un des deux réalisateurs, Jerome Robbins avait également mis en scène la comédie musicale originale. Sur les 100 meilleurs films américains retenus en 1998 par l'American Film Institute, il est classé à la 51e place. Il a...

• Capra, Hollywood Story (extrait) - anthologie du cinéma.

  Je tenais l’idée clef que j’avais cherchée — debout dans les couloirs du Pentagone, couché sur mon lit, à genoux dans les églises. Laissons à l’ ennemi le soin de prouver à nos soldats l’énormité de sa cause — et la justesse de la nôtre. Source : Capra (Franck), Hollywood Story, trad. par Ronald Blunden, Paris, Stock, 1976. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits réservés.

• « Toy Story », les jouets neufs du cinéma

• Love Story [Arthur Hiller] - analyse du film.

• West Side Story [Robert Wise et Jerome Robbins] - analyse du film.

• Fairy and Fairy Tale Fairy and Fairy Tale, in folklore, a diminutive supernatural creature, generally in human form, dwelling in an imaginary region called fairyland; and the stories of its interventions through magic in mortal affairs.

• Titanic (motion picture, 1997) Titanic (motion picture, 1997), drama about the sinking of a luxury liner during its first transatlantic voyage, based on the true story of the Titanic disaster that occurred in 1912.

  Derrick Lea (Leading stoker Barrett)Richard Ashton (Carpenter John Hutchinson)Sean. M. Nepita (Elevator operator)Brendan Connolly (Scotland road steward)David Cronelly (Crewman)Garth Wilton (First class waiter)Martin Laing (Promenade deck steward)Richard Fox (Steward no. one)Nick Meaney (Steward no. two)Kevin Owers (Steward no. three)Mark Capri (Steward no. four)Marc Cass (Hold steward no. one)Paul Herbert (Hold steward no. two)Emmett James (First class steward)Christopher Byrne (Stairwell stewa...

• Detective story

  or his wife didn't kill Lucy, I stop to suspect Oliver, I know my uncle. So, I decided to observe the body, the victim was murdered in stabbing . After a long research, we found skin on her nails. Then, I immediately returned at the party. Kate and Jackson had both a scratch. Jackson told he was fought before to come. Kate said she hurts when she made cooking. And injuries seemed agree. I was lost, when I remarked that the knife of Kate wasn't next to her plate. I had found t...

• A Gothic Story

• THE STORY OF JOANNA

• LOUISIANA STORY

• LOVE STORY

• Bernstein: West Side Story

  Gus tav Mah ler, dont il reprend dans les années 60 les œuvres sympho­ niques magistrales. Mais Bernstein est également un composi teur heureux. En 1957, Il écrit West Side Story, l'un e des comédies musicales les plus connues du monde entier grâce au film de Rober t Wise et Jer ome Robbins (1961) , qui rassemble dans un fabuleux drame la musique populair e d'Amérique du Sud, la musique occidentale et le jaz z symphonique dans un mélange de styles i...

• WEST SIDE STORY ROBERT WISE

• 11 Famous food mascots and their stories

  Snap! Crackle! Pop! Brand: Rice Krispies Year Introduced: 1933 In homage to the distinctive sound that emits from a bowl of Rice Krispies cereal once it's doused in milk, Kellogg's introduced the company's first food mascots: Snap! Crackle! Pop! These tiny gnomes first appeared in print ads in the early 1930s and became fixtures on the cereal box by 1939. Though they're best known as an inseparable trio, the best way to distinguish between them is by the hats they wear. Snap! always wea...

• Moria (Folly) Greek The heroine of a story of overcoming death.

• Argonautica

• Fiche de lecture « Loft story : un Big Brother à la française » d'Eric Macé

• « Loft Story » : enquête sur les coulisses de la première émission de télé-réalité

• Fall, the

• Robin Hood I INTRODUCTION Robin Hood The legendary hero Robin Hood is a popular figure from English folklore.

  Errol FlynnIn 1938 Australian-born motion-picture actor Errol Flynn won the heart of Maid Marian and defeated his evil foes as RobinHood in The Adventures of Robin Hood.Corbis Some people believe that Robin Hood was an actual person, usually identified as Robert Fitzooth, the earl of Huntington. Others think that Robin was not a real personand that the stories about him developed for historical and cultural reasons. In medieval England, peasant masses struggled to make a meager living while a re...

• It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life, motion picture about a man who believes he is a failure because he never left the small town where he grew up, based on the story The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern.

  When Uncle Billy leaves George’s house drunk he stumbles over what sounds like trash cans, and says “I’m all right, I’m all right…” In fact, actor Thomas Mitchell wasstumbling over some equipment left by the film crew and he was assuring the crew member he was not hurt. Director Capra left the scene as it was. Quotes Man on Porch: “Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death.”Bailey: “You want me to kiss her, huh?”Man on Porch: “Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people!” Bailey: (rega...

• Rebel Without a Cause Rebel Without a Cause, motion picture about alienated youth in suburban America based on Stewart Stern's screenplay adaptation of 'The Blind Run,' a 1944 story by Dr.

• Number eight - dissertation

  can see that it is omniscient. It is also part of the driver's voice. When he employed “I”, the reader identifies with the characters but when he employed “He”, the readers is distanced from the characters. The narrator sees the story through the eyes of the main character. To conclude, I would like to say that personally, I loved this short story. There was a lot of suspense, and the fact that the killer discovers just at the end of the story leaves the mystery and doubt during all hist...

• mythes and heroes

  and recognized. In sport, Respect is also important but athletes transmit others values. For instance, Mohammed Ali, heavyweight champion of the world, teaches the importance of the determination, the courage and the will through his fight. He shows us that we should never give up in front of the difficulty because the perseverance always pays. Also, some heroes are important because they protect us by serving their country. Some men and women are ready to put their life in danger and to sacrifi...

• drama, religious

• Edgar Allan Poe.

  dulled themHow, then, am I mad? Harken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story. Poe’s other masterpieces of horror include “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842), a spine-tingling tale of cruelty and torture, and “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846), aneerie tale of revenge. Although Poe believed that the short story was the most suitable form for fiction, he wrote a short novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), in the hope of making some money. Based on tales of...

• Ernest Hemingway.

• Ernest Hemingway.

• Ernest Hemingway - USA History.

• Commentaire Phyllis et Rosamond

• William Faulkner - biography.

• animal farm

  knew that the pigs guaranteed by the revolution would end badly. Sheep, these animals don't understand anything, they follow the strongest and they have no opinion, and follow all orders pigs. So they always acclaim the revolutionary refrain « Four legs, yes! Two legs, no! » Then « Four legs good, two legs better! » . The sheep represent the masses which are highlighted in this policy. Dogs are nine big beasts constituting the personal guard of Napoleon, and which allow this one...

• Ariadne

• poe

• Children's Literature I INTRODUCTION Kate Greenaway's May Day The delicate skill and graceful simplicity of English artist Kate Greenaway's illustrations delighted children and impressed thinkers, including art critic John Ruskin.

  With the development of vernacular literature, particularly after the invention of printing, more children's books appeared. The publications of the first English printer,William Caxton, included the Book of Curtesye (1477), a collection of rhymes that sets forth rules of conduct for a “goodly chylde.” Eight years later Caxton printed Le Morte d'Arthur (1469-1470; The Death of Arthur ) by English translator and compiler Sir Thomas Malory, which became the basis for later treatments of the A...

• William Faulkner.

  published shortly before his death the same year. Selected Letters of William Faulkner , edited by Joseph Blotner, was issued in 1977. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Geoffrey Chaucer I INTRODUCTION Geoffrey Chaucer Fourteenth-century English poet and public servant Geoffrey Chaucer wrote verse renowned for its humor, understanding of human character, and innovations in poetic vocabulary and meter.

  Tale of the Wife of BathThe Canterbury Tales by English poet Geoffrey Chaucer contains 22 verse tales and 2 prose tales presumably told bypilgrims to pass the time on their way to visit a shrine in Canterbury, England. An excerpt from the tale of the Wife ofBath is heard here. The wife relates that she has been married and widowed five times but the church has recognized onlyone marriage. You can follow the Middle English text and modern translation as you listen to the audio excerpt.The Wife of...