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    His childhood of theatre brought him a love for stories with intricate plots. His college experiences that made him question his sexually brough him into the world of the (generally) unaccepted. John Irving and his wife have three sons, one of which is openly gay. Irving writes about the unfortunate, the unexpected and the unaccepted. One novel includes a bi character as well as two transgender women (In One Person). One even has an orphan who grows up to become an abortionist after a traumatic experience

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    Travis Bowman

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    I oftentimes find that competition fosters the closest of relationships. This was how I came to know my close friend and classmate, Travis Bowman. I was 11 years old and had just moved to a new school. As a child, I was exceptionally shy. I didn’t stand out from my peers, and I had no experience in making new friends. I found that the friends I had before were founded off my parents’ friends’ children, thus I felt quite alone. An area I did manage to shine in however, was my academics. Upon moving

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    Irving Hardships

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    Irving, like everyone, had several difficulties in his life. The first difficulty Irving had was about living through a writing profession. During Irving’s time in the early 19th century, writing wasn’t a profession in America that could be taken seriously for a living. (Hedges) America’s publications were too small (Washington), foreign publications that were imported to America were too cheap, and American literature hadn’t fully emerged yet. (Hedges) Irving was born just after the Revolutionary

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    Sleepy Hollow is a gothic horror film directed by Tim Burton in 1999. It tells the story of when Ichabod Crane is sent to the isolated town of Sleepy Hollow to solve the mystery of the Headless Horseman. The isolated gloomy setting for example, when Ichabod Crane enters the town, the film techniques such as music and lighting such as when the Headless Horseman appears combined with characters that have supernatural powers including Catrina and Lady Van Tassel reinforces the idea that Sleepy Hollow

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    Simon Birch Seminar

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    The seminar that was conducted among the students in the IB English class focused on the novel “A Prayer for Owen Meany” and the film “Simon Birch”. Upon this two topic, the students were able to concisely derive insightful meanings of the both the novel and the film. Personally, I believe that the class did an incredible job in conducting the seminar. All students had an opportunity to participate and certain students asked questions that transpired in the entire class to engage in a sociable discussion

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    In order to name people who are like Rip Van Winkle we should know more about Rip Van Winkle. Rip is a person who would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound, and he takes the world easy. In the book on page 311 it says “The great error in Rip’s composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor.”, and it is saying Rip had a distaste for all kind of gainful jobs. Rip was ready to join everyone else business, but not to his own. His family duty and the keeping of

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    Washington Irving is a well-known author famous for his stories “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” During the time Irving was writing “Rip Van Winkle,” Americans were fascinated with the Romanticism Era. The era was known for literature that emphasized emotions and they lived to read about past events. No one had ever tried to link America’s history to fictional literature. Irving successively wrote a short story based on the German folktale “Peter Klaus the Goatherd.” Although Irving’s

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    Sleepy Hollow

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    story, Washington Irving uses many stylistic ideas to create a fantastically detailed and descriptive romantic folk tale. Irving begins The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with a vivid description of the setting of his story. Beginning with the Dutch history of the area, he goes on to describe the town as "one of the quietest places in the whole world", with a tranquil brook running through it and the sweet sounds of chirping birds all around (1). Irving delves into the town's

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    On the contrary, Washington Irving describes Ichabod Crane as, “tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hand that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose so that it might have been mistaken for a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck” (Irving 43). This description gives the audience

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    Washington Irving was born in New York City on April 3, 1783 (“Washington Irving”). As a teenager, he traveled through Europe for seventeen years (“Washington Irving”). The experience gave him an appreciation for a culture deeply rooted in a rich history (“Washington Irving”). His distinguished list of works became well known in America and in England, and his success allowed him to be recognized as “the father of American Literature” (“Washington Irving”). Irving was the first American writer to

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