Sleepy Hollow

The difference between a play and a story? Well, a play is something you watch and a story is something you read. The only thing is, what if they’re the same too? Setting is different, suspense is different, but maybe emotion is the same. The Monkey’s Paw was a great story, yes, but I pictured the setting a lot differently. In the story, it was dark when he went to find the paw. I imagined him bumping into things, lead by his candlelight. In the play, all he did was walk down stairs. Along with…

Christina Ricci Net Worth Introduction Famous child artist Christina Ricci, who had a superb transition from child artist to grown-up has a net worth of around $18 million. Some of her biggest hit movies are Now and Then, Casper, and The Ice Storm. Biography & Wiki Christina was born on 12th Feb 1980 in Santa Monica, California. Her father was a lawyer and there she was the youngest of among his four children. She started her study at Glenfield Middle School in Montclair and later joined…

the one who had failed to hold up his end. A symbol of American infancy and misplaced innocence, he refused to grow up. Twenty years and the changes in the world couldn’t change Rip’s mind. At the end of the story, he still spent much of his time in sleepy idleness, and enjoyed his role as a…

His fascination with the macabre, death, re-animation, and life are unquestionably apparent in his film Sleepy Hollow. In this film, Tim Burton combines his visual prowess and love of the macabre to create and give life to his character, the Headless Horseman. The character himself serves as an archetype to suggest that although one is dead, he or she may still…

I have read the books and watched the plays of The Monkey's Paw, Sleepy Hollow, Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Necklace, Tell Tall- Heart and The Raven. I have noticed many differences and few similarities. I will be explaining what I observed between the books and the plays. In the books and the plays there were lots of details that were different to each other. In books they gave good visuals that explained who the characters were and what they looked like. The plays on the…

Andrew Carnegie Eulogy We are gathered here today to pay our respects to Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Andrew was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. At the age of 13, in 1848, he moved to the United States. Andrew worked a series of odd-end jobs and later found his way into the world of business. He started Carnegie Steel Corporation in 1889 and in 1901 he sold his business and dedicated the rest of his life to his philanthropic work, including the founding of Carnegie Institute…

While many relate Dark Romanticism with Gothic Literature, they may seem alike but are surprisingly different. Including the origin, the style, and the scenic backgrounds. They both hold dark and mystic themes, but have completely different ways of carrying it out. Dark Romantics is in definition the literary feature of Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism was idealized in the 19th century, and lead to the creation of other types of writing genres still used today. This philosophical movement,…

known for his uncanny sense in movie productions. Tim Burton imposes his own beliefs into his work which is what makes his creations so unique. Timothy Walter Burton also known, as “Tim” is a well-known director who has produced films such as Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and Batman Returns (1992). Influenced by Vincent Leonard Price Jr., Tim Burton followed his heart and graduated from California Institute of Arts with a major in…

He lived most famous for writing “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Rip Van Winkle”, and “The Devil and Tom Walker.” “The Devil and Tom Walker” tells us of a man who took a shortcut home by going through a forest, but got confronted by the devil. The devil offered him a large sum of money to work as a banker…

An hour later, Maria walks into class and we start working on our emergency room presentation. When I check my phone, she makes fun of my obsession with potatoes and how it’s my phone's wallpaper screen. Proud of my love for them, I laugh off her hollow criticisms and compare Wall-E, the movie, to our imaginary ER. Spending the rest of the hour bickering, the bell rings and we head to Language Arts. I spend the entire hour saying, "Cough you," in substitution for, “Bless you,” every time she…