Sentences with phrase «folktale which»

-- Worked with middle school students, teaching them to tell and create folktales which illustrated themes of «rites of passage.»

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Inevitably the «media», whether in epic folktale, Greek or Shakespearean drama or TV, take up that dark side of human potential which is violence.»

The family - friendly event will feature a live recording of Circle Round, which tells folktales from around the world.

I think he is being courageous,» counters Nigel J. H. Smith, a geographer at the University of Florida in Gainesville who has traveled widely in the Amazon collecting folktales and legends — including those of the mapinguari — which he describes in his book The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest: Stories From a Vanishing World.

This semester, Lavender's students will make comparisons between the Moldovan folktales and their own, which follows discussions comparing forms of government, religions, and architecture and learning that Brittany Spears is as popular in Eastern Europe as she is in the United States.

A folktales project is behind schedule because of lack of electricity, lack of heat in the school — which kept students home for several weeks — and infrequent access to computers at their school.

One line from «Let It Rock» — «working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer» — led right into a mini-lesson on folktales and heroes like John Henry, and we compared working and living conditions from the past with today, which is California State Social Studies Standards 2.1

A lesser - known Tibetan folktale From the Elephant Pit is about a hunter who happens upon an elephant pit in which a man, a lion, a mouse, a snake, and a falcon are trapped.

One morning we were discussing an African folktale in which a woman gives birth to six children, all of whom are stillborn.

The story, in which a magical bowl disrupts the lives of an elderly man and his cat, is just as good, smoothly blending folktale conventions with touches of magic and a dusting of comedy.

Fans of folklore - based fiction like The Snow Child, The Great Glass Sea or Mr. Fox would enjoy Adrienne Celt's myth - steeped first novel, which wraps Polish folktales and a family curse over four generations of women.

Beautifully illustrated, this is a collection of four Nagishkin folktales in which the Siberian tiger is closely associated with the main characters.

«Several Norwegian folktales are seamlessly integrated into the fast - paced, lyrically narrated story, which features a protagonist as stalwart and fearless as any fairy - tale hero.»

Young's spare, sweeping brush strokes capture the dignity and spirit of Casanova's retelling of a poignant but ultimately uplifting Chinese folktale in which a hunter must sacrifice himself to save the people of his village.

AuthorImprints Services: eBook conversion, distribution, marketing on Amazon consulting About the book: Dolitsky and Michael have selected four of Nagishkin's folktales in which the Siberian tiger is closely associated with the main characters.

Guest's haunting voice — soft, low, and shimmery — underscores the magical power of this tale, which combines a young girl's quest and Chinese folktales.

The outline itself was very rough and written with an adult as the main character (MC), which is often the case with very old folktales.

Visit the formal royal palace and Vat Xien Tong monastery, then catch a show at the Garavek Traditional Storytelling Theater, which tells traditional Laos folktales in English.

The traditional Balinese folktales range from local tales to fables which are taken from Tantri story, transferred from older generation to the younger one every night before the young soundly asleep.

The Armoire — a tense and creepy gothic point and click adventure adapted from a medieval French folktale called Barbe Bleue, in which you play a newlywed bride who starts exploring her husbands mansion while he sleeps one night.

Her video and photographic works in the exhibition deal with charismatic Christian prayer warriors; folktales concerning Kuru, an intelligent yet treacherous tortoise; karikpo (antelope) masquerade figures asserting playful gymnastic parkour - like performances around decommissioned pipelines or areas where pipelines once existed; and the color red, which represents birth in the artist's native Ogoniland and symbolizes her own rebirth there.

«Works like Aerospace Folktales altered the way in which documentary photography was conceptualized and used in contemporary art, and the work continues to be an urgent model for representing the political and social realities of our world.»

Each of Ford's animal portraits doubles as a complex, symbolic system, which the artist layers with clues, jokes, and erudite lessons in colonial literature and folktales.

An obsession with Lord of the Rings and traditional folktales inform her drawings, which frequently contain mountainous landscapes and unusual characters.