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The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.
One well-known story ( quoted in Berry, page 261 ) was that he saw the change of direction of a wind vane on a boat on the Thames, caused not by an alteration of the wind itself, but by a change of course of the boat relative to the wind direction.
1958 was a watershed year not just for the Bigfoot story itself but also for the culture that surrounds it.
In any case, the necklace given to Beowulf in the story is not the Brísingamen itself ; it is only being compared to it.
That is, while the events may not be historically accurate the book itself was written to tell a story of a time in history, in this case the origin of the Jewish holiday of Purim.
In the story, a machine is designed, the sole purpose of which is to find metal to produce copies of itself, intended to be used as a weapon against an enemy's war machines.
With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.
By 1912 and 1913, there are beginning to be many films from many American companies that rely on applying novel decoration to the story, rather than supplying any twists to the drama itself to sustain interest.
Shortly after Matilda meets the Countess the Castle of Wolfenbach itself is destroyed in a fire, mirroring the destruction of the Count's attempts to keep his wife a secret and how his plots throughout the story eventually lead to his own destruction.
The same year her first story (" The Lucky Ones ") was published in the November 16, 1946 issue of The New Yorker, and credited to " Alice Bradley " in the magazine itself, but to " Alice Bradley Sheldon " in the magazine's DVD index.
The title of the short story itself reflects the idea that women are invisible during Sheldon ’ s time.
Believers in the Loch Ness Monster often point to this story, which notably takes place on the River Ness rather than the loch itself, as evidence for the creature's existence as early as the 6th century.
This is especially apparent when a news organization is reporting a story with some relevancy to the news organization itself or to its ownership individuals or conglomerate.
According to Mahabharata itself, Vaisampayana's Bharata expanded on the story, with Vyasa's Jaya embedded within it.
Narrative criticism focuses on the story itself and how the construction of the narrative directs the interpretation of the situation.
Orson Scott Card, an author of both science fiction and non-SF fiction, has postulated that in science fiction the message and intellectual significance of the work is contained within the story itself and, therefore, there need not be stylistic gimmicks or literary games ; but that many writers and critics confuse clarity of language with lack of artistic merit.
This plays itself out over a second plot element, a thriller style story concerning the shadowy ' Big Six ' organization.
The story is told of the lion whose cubs are born dead and receive life when the old lion breathes upon them, and of the phœnix which burns itself to death and rises on the third day from the ashes ; both are taken as types of Christ.
Samuels created the title The Day After to emphasize that the story was not to be about a nuclear war itself but the aftermath.
The Vampyre was itself based on Lord Byron's unfinished story " Fragment of a Novel ", also known as " The Burial: A Fragment ", published in 1819.
This sub-plot has an obvious similarity to the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and even more so, perhaps, to subsequent film adaptations of the novel ( the novel itself does not present electricity as Frankenstein's means of creating the monster.
* Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself
The story itself portrays the education of mankind, progressing from chaos through religious superstition to rationalistic enlightenment, by means of trial ( Tamino ) and error ( Papageno ), ultimately to make " the Earth a heavenly kingdom, and mortals like the gods ".
The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain.
This story suffers not only from a lack of evidence, but the fact that in 1860 the typewriter itself had yet to emerge.

story and sees
Rieux refers to his story as a chronicle, and he sees himself as an historian, which justifies his decision to stick to the facts and avoid subjectivity.
Pervo sees Luke ’ s work as a “ legitimizing narrative ” because it makes “ a case by telling a story ( or stories )” and serves to legitimate either “ Pauline Christianity ( possibly in rivalry to other interpretations ) or generally as the claim of the Jesus-movement to possess the Israelite heritage .” On the other hand, some scholars greatly disagree with the view of legitimation because they believe that it “ mirror-reads ” Luke ’ s work attempting to uncover the circumstances surrounding Luke ’ s work by over-arguing something that may not be that valid.
Jack Holland also sees evidence of misogyny in the Old Testament story of the Fall of Man from the Book of Genesis.
No one else sees the sky darken, and it is therefore not actually described as an eclipse within the story, merely a vision by Theoclymenus.
" Tolkien sees Christianity as partaking in and fulfilling the overarching mythological nature of the cosmos: " I would venture to say that approaching the Christian story from this perspective, it has long been my feeling ( a joyous feeling ) that God redeemed the corrupt making-creatures, men, in a way fitting to this aspect, as to others, of their strange nature.
Jane Ellen Harrison sees in Hesiod's story " evidence of a shift from matriarchy to patriarchy in Greek culture.
Among these stories are: a tale of boiled missionaries ; of a lady who borrows a false eye, a peg leg, and the wig of a coffin-salesman's wife ; and a final tale of a man who gets caught in machinery at a carpet factory and whose " widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in ..." As Blaine tells the story of the carpet man's funeral, he begins to fall asleep, and Twain, looking around, sees his friends " suffocating with suppressed laughter.
* Sam Elliott as The Stranger, the narrator, who sees the story unfold from a third-party perspective.
This separate story sees the duo take on Feathers McGraw ( of The Wrong Trousers ) again.
In the Tales of the Slayers comic one-shot " Broken Bottle of Djinn " ( 2002 ) by Doug Petrie and Jane Espenson, Buffy battles a spirit in Sunnydale High, while the Tales of the Vampires comic book story " Antique " ( 2004 ) by Drew Goddard sees her breaking into Dracula's castle to rescue Xander from the infamous vampire.
She finally reveals the whole story ( as she sees it ).
The story translates the standard military academy story into outer space: a boy from Iowa goes to officer school, sees action and adventure, shoulders responsibilities far beyond his experience, and becomes a man.
The most famous story attached to this version of Fionn tells of how one day, while sucking his magic thumb ( which allows him to see anything going on anywhere ), Finn sees that the giant Cuhullin ( or, in the Manx version, a buggane ) is coming to fight him.
The story was told in the view point of the son of a paramedic, and he sees how a few humans left on Earth would go on, rebuilding a society.
Throughout the story, Sullivan sees an old Vietnamese woman, " mama-san ", whom Ronnie killed during this incident.
Raymond Brown sees the story as patterned on the Exodus story of the killing of the Hebrew firstborn by Pharaoh and the birth of Moses.
Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced.
Later on in the story, Aeneas travels to the underworld where he sees Palinurus.
At the start of his story, Tender works as the housekeeper for a rich couple he never sees in Oregon.
# A man who clearly sees how the story of Jesus will affect human history
In 2010, the film Black Swan tells a story about Nina Sayers, a dancer who lands the role as Swan Queen in Swan Lake ; the film contains scenes of the character who sees a double of herself whenever she feels insecure of herself.
Just as he's losing hope of ever doing so, he sees a newspaper story about the U. S. playing host to visiting Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

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