A story can have one or many acceptance tests, whatever it takes to ensure the functionality works.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

This is most likely due to the fact that the story takes place during the barley harvest, and that Shavuot is the celebration of the end of the barley harvest and the beginning of the wheat harvest.

The story told in the book of Esther takes place during the rule of Ahasuerus, who has been identified as the fifth-century Persian king Xerxes ( 486-465 ).

In Wyndham Lewis's The Wild Body ( 1927 ) the protagonist, Ker-Orr, in the first story, ' A Soldier of Humour ', takes the train from Paris and stays in the town of Bayonne before passing through into Spain.

* In the manga / anime Gintama, the main character, Gintoki Sakata, wields a bokken as opposed to a katana, as the story takes place in an Edo period of an alternate timeline where a weapons ban has been imposed by imperialistic aliens.

This takes the form of a large amount of paperwork, photographs, and attention to and memory of large quantities of detail, some of which is sometimes assembled into the story bible for the production.

Cervantes ' story takes place on the plains of La Mancha, specifically the comarca of Campo de Montiel.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

It takes place directly after the television story Revelation, while leaving the planet Necros and beginning Davros ' trial.

Like most of the employees of Frontline, she has no ethical problems with any action the show takes to get a good story.

Most of the story takes place on the continent Westeros, which consists of the Seven Kingdoms and an unmapped area to the north, separated by a massive wall of ice and old magic.

The story takes place primarily on a continent called Westeros.

Prominently, George R R Martin's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series more or less abandons the good-evil paradigm in favor of a more politically based and multifaceted struggle between different ruling families, most of whom display both good and evil tendencies in pursuit of power, which takes the place of the main catalyst of the story.

Each story takes a scientific " fact " ( though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding ), and builds an imaginative story around it.

Calvino takes the fact that the Moon used to be much closer to the Earth, and builds a story about a love triangle among people who used to jump between the Earth and the Moon, in which lovers drift apart as the Moon recedes.

Reference is made within the story to the York Minster, where the climactic wedding takes place, and to the Bishop of Sheffield, although the Diocese of Sheffield was not founded until 1914.

" " Carey's Iceman story in Manifest Destiny takes place before the recent " Uncanny X-Men " arc that saw Iceman arrive in San Francisco, and follows Iceman as he travels west on a cross-country trip to the X-Men's new home.

The story takes place in the aftermath of the earthquake in Los Angeles in 1994.

Bradley's tale, for example, takes a feminist approach to Arthur and his legend, in contrast to the narratives of Arthur found in medieval materials, and American authors often rework the story of Arthur to be more consistent with values such as equality and democracy.

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.

Clark then takes Lois to a doctor who revives her, and proceeds to cover the story.

The Northridge earthquake takes place during the story and has a profound effect on Ethan, who eventually constructs a replica highway interchange out of Lego pieces to honor the infrastructure destroyed by the earthquake.

The story takes place in Yokohama and revolves around Umi Komatsuzaki, a high school student who is forced to fend for herself when her sailor father goes missing from the seaside town.

Hero and Leander's story took place near Abydos.

Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

The story of Jonah is set against the background of Ancient Israel in the 8th-7th centuries BC but deals with the religious and social issues of the late 6th-4th centuries BC, coinciding with the views of latter chapters of the book of Isaiah ( Third Isaiah ), where Israel is given a prominent place in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles.

The new designs also featured a dynamic set of titles for the channel ; the globe would begin spinning from where the main story was taking place, while the headline scrolled around in a ribbon ; this was occasionally replaced by the BBC News logo.

The story is based in part on Love's life, and involves the main character's search for her place in the world ; it was written by Stu Levy under the name D. J.

Early episodes told the story of student Kenneth Barlow ( William Roache ), who had won a place at university and thus found his background something of an embarrassment.

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

The story first appeared in written form in Vitruvius ' books of architecture, two centuries after it supposedly took place.

Though no historical support exists for the flag story in the Fellin battle either, it is not difficult to understand how a small and unknown place is replaced with the much grander battle of Reval ( Tallinn ) from the Estonia campaign of King Valdemar II.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

It was also a place where one of the cast would tell a comedic story.

And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.

It is probable, therefore, that the story of the Trojan War as reflected in the Homeric poems derives from a tradition of epic poetry founded on a war which actually took place.

Some authors scrupulously avoid such technology as faster-than-light travel, while others accept such notions ( sometimes referred to as " enabling devices ", since they allow the story to take place ) but focus on realistically depicting the worlds that such a technology might make possible.

This story is not mentioned in Dunn ’ s or Mencken ’ s research, but if there were such a contractor and such events, they would have taken place after the term " Hoosier " was already well established in Appalachia and was becoming attached to Indiana.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

Lovecraft emphasised the point by stating in the opening sentence of the story that " The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Using this essay as his guideline, Howard began plotting " The Tower of the Elephant ", a new Conan story that would be the first to truly integrate his new conception of the Hyborian world.

*" Wolves Beyond the Border " — A non-Conan story set in Conan's world.

Claire was the main focus of the show's first story arc, featuring the popular catchphrase, " Save the cheerleader, save the world ".

While creation myths are not literal explications they do serve to define an orientation of humanity in the world in terms of a birth story.

" It has also been implied, especially in the ' alternate future ' story Kingdom Come, that the Clark Kent persona is symbolic of the values taught to him by his wholesome Midwestern parents, the values he holds most dear: his instinctive knowledge of right and wrong that allows him to adopt his Superman persona, without being consumed by the moral implications of his actions ; Superman is the means through which he can bring this example to the world.

In the study of mythology the term " myth " refers to a traditional story, often regarded as sacred, which explains how the world and its inhabitants came to have their present form.

A whole group of people, literally everyone, believed a version of the world that was entirely wrong, and my accidental investigation of the story provided a different version of what happened.

In a highly diversified society, ( see Demographics of India ) McDonald's is a success story despite its fare's differing from that of the rest of the world.

George R. R. Martin set the Ice and Fire story in an alternative world of Earth or a " secondary world ", such as J. R. R. Tolkien pioneered with Middle-earth.

The Ice and Fire story can be considered to be set in a post-magic world where people no longer believe in supernatural things such as the Others.

It drew on feelings of awe, it implied the story was set in the past, it gave an impression of isolation or being cut off from the rest of the world and it drew on the religious associations of the Gothic style.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

After it was rejected by Esquire magazine in 1955, Hefner agreed to publish in Playboy the Charles Beaumont science fiction short story, " The Crooked Man ", about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm.

Although Infocom started out with Zork, and although the Zork world was the centerpiece of their product line throughout the Zork and Enchanter series, the company quickly branched out into a wide variety of story lines: fantasy, science-fiction, mystery, horror, historical adventure, children's stories, and others that defied categories.

Finding Atlantis: a true story of genius, madness, and an extraordinary quest for a lost world.

" Sartre would also compliment Guevara by professing that " he lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel.

He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles .” A repeated theme in roles he has portrayed is that of saving the world, including the characters of Ted Logan, Buddha, Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine and Klaatu.

The story of Kid Icarus revolves around protagonist Pit's quest for three sacred treasures, which he must equip to rescue the Grecian fantasy world Angel Land and its ruler, the goddess Palutena.