had been travelling for hours. The bus stopped a few times to pick people up, on the way. A man got on and sat down near to us. "Hello, young'un," he said. I was too frightened to answer; he was tall and wore a flat cap and an overcoat. Dad said, "Don't worry son, this is your uncle Roger. He's an old mate of mine." Uncle Roger. "I didn't know I had an Uncle Roger." To me, he could have been the man in the moon. They seemed to talk forever, probably about old times. "We're nearly there
Christianity and the Beowulf Poet In my initial study of Beowulf it seemed to me that the Christian references in it were overlaid onto the essentially pagan tale that makes up the bulk of the poem. So I innocently decided to investigate this incongruity as the topic of this paper. And so I found myself smack-dab in the middle of an argument that has evidently raged for the last one hundred years or so. I found sources that ran the gamut from the position that Beowulf was a quintessentially
Machimanito. In Dances with Wolves, two nations come to interact with each other. While the white man is dominating the land, the Indians are trying to protect both their land and themselves. In Machimanito, the story describes the epidemic and its effects on the Indians, while describing the ongoing conflict between Indians and the white man. There is a huge cultural difference between the white man and the Indians, which is reflected on their ways of life and communities; each lives a different
sentimental heroines. The audience find it comical when her father talks to Kate about Marlow: “HARDCASTLE: And very handsome. MISS HARDCASTLE: My dear papa, say no more. (Kissing his hand), he’s mine, I’ll have him.” She hasn’t even met the man, but just knowing that he is handsome she wants him, which is why she dresses up as a barmaid, and the audience from a hundred years ago though to now can relate to and find funny. She Stoops to Conquer is very popular because of its humour, both
Russian General Gregor Alexei Pestro stood alone on the beach at Tybee Island Georgia. Just 15 miles east of Savannah, he watched as several landing craft rambled onto the beach from transport vessels at sea that brought them here from Mother Russia. Tank-like treads rattled with the moan of diesel engines as the bobbing heads of his comrades-in-arms held a salute for their general. From here, the landing vehicles would transport troops and supplies to Hunter Army Air Field just a bit south of Midtown
'A bout de souffle', Jean-Luc Godard's eerste 'feature' film (1960), heeft een vrij simpele verhaallijn, dat geschreven is door vroegere collega en vriend Francois Truffaut: Een man steelt een auto in Marseilles en rijdt naar Parijs. Tijdens deze rit wordt de hoofdpersoon, Michel Poiccard, aangehouden door de politie wegens het overschrijden van de maximum snelheid, waarna hij een agent neerschiet en rennend verder gaat naar de lichtstad. In Parijs moet hij geld ophalen bij een vriend van hem en