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" He claimed, " The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.
The second and more conventional type is the boarding school story ; the plots of these have more emphasis on the day-to-day life at school.
Examples of this type are the Malory Towers stories, the St Clare's series, and the Naughtiest Girl books and are typical of the times — many comics of the day also contained similar types of story.
) The literary technique applied in telling the story is Bildungsroman, which is a type of novel concerned with the moral and psychological growth of the protagonist.
* Gothic horror – Gothic horror is a type of story that contains elements of goth and horror.
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.
The story revolves around the use of a type of polywater to make people controllable and incapable of independent thought or action.
An example of this type is Ed Foster's " Chicago ' L '" story.
Another very old example of this type of story can be found in the Talmud with the story of Honi HaM ' agel who went to sleep for 70 years and woke up to a world where his grandchildren were grandparents and where all his friends and family were dead.
People frequently allege that such tales happened to a " friend of a friend "; so often, in fact, that " friend of a friend " (" FOAF ") has become a commonly used term when recounting this type of story.
In one type of story, the world is born from a world egg ; such stories include the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, the Chinese story of Pangu or the Indian Brahmanda Purana.
In another type of story, the world is created from the union of male and female deities, as in the Maori story of Rangi and Papa.
A fairy tale ( pronounced / ˈfeəriˌteɪl /) is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments.
The subject of this type evidently refers to a story related by Diogenes Laertius that the Selinuntines were afflicted with a pestilence from the marshy character of the lands adjoining the neighboring river, but that this was cured by works of drainage, suggested by Empedocles.
While traditionally ascribed to the French painter and cook Claude Gelée who lived in the 17th century ( the story goes that Gelée was making a type of very buttery bread for his sick father, and the process of rolling the butter into the bread dough created a croissant-like finished product ), references appear before the 17th century, indicating a history that came originally through Muslim Spain and was converted from thin sheets of dough spread with olive oil to laminated dough with layers of butter, perhaps in Italy or Germany.
* In the Cosmic Era works, Gundams are mobile suits that carry a specific type of operating system, first secretly produced ( without the programmer himself knowing what he is programming the system for ) by the one of the protagonist's robotics research group, and faced a few upgrades by various factions throughout the story.
For the type of joke, see Shaggy dog story.
The character type of Lazarillo, which determines the story and the so-called picaresque novel genre, has been shaped from characterization elements already present in Roman literature.
In words of this type, the "- logy " element is derived from the Greek noun ( logos, " speech ", " account ", " story ").
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type and was
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.
That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
The doctor agreed, but explained that it would be necessary first to check Fred's blood to ascertain whether or not it was of the same type as Papa's.
Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.
He was placed in charge of athletics, and among other things adapted the type of calisthenics known as the daily dozen.
There was no evidence, either of a positive or negative type, of the actions of a Divine Being in this world ; ;
But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
For it was Rameau's type of music that he had been trying to write, and that he couldn't write.
Until 1958 the state was also entitled to a special type of manufacturers' discount through the dealers.
Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.
He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.
A bridged-T type of bridge was used in the 10 - 16 Mc/sec range.
There appeared to be no difference in the distribution of anti-A and anti-B activity in group O serum, though in two group O donors ( J. F. and E. M. ) only one type of agglutinin was found in the regions of low anionic binding capacity ( Figs. 1 and 2 ).
In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.
Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.
Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.
Therefore, his only recourse was to learn the shape all over again for each new visual experience of the same individual object or type of object ; ;
The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.
These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.

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