Abstract
This paper discusses the issues surrounding the Catskill Watershed and offers some alternatives to its dilemma.

Abstract
"Annie Hall", by Woody Allen, is a film that deals with relationships, the quest for meaning in life and the nature of romantic love. The paper examines the film which revolves around the relationship between Alvy Singer, a pessimistic comedian who thinks that life is meaningless, and Annie Hall.

Paper Outline:
Introduction
A Relationship is Like a Shark
A Deeper Analysis
Conclusion
Bibliography

From the Paper
"Just as history entails a working out of events through narrative, so also all narrative establishes an anticipation of retrospection. The natural desire of narrative for an ending is evident about two-thirds of the way into Alvy Singer's opening monologue, "Annie and I broke up and I still can't get my mind around that." Alvy gives us the ending of the story before he really gets started into the process of telling it. The anticipation of retrospection becomes clear in the attempt through repetition to understand the significance of this failed love relationship. The eruption of this thought about Annie from the midst of so much seemingly irrelevant material dramatizes the existence of latent desires and replicates in the text the tension of the unconscious in Alvy."

Tags:narrative, Catskills, monologue, Coney, Island

Abstract
This paper analyzes the deeper significance of Irvng's story "Rip Van Winkle" and shows in what ways the story epitomizes the American artistic sensibility, and at the same time anticipates the general character of American literature that was to follow it. The paper also examines Irving's particular blend of neo-classicism and Romanticism, through which he forges a distinctive character for American literature.

From the Paper
"The satire falls on politics in general, and we realize that Irving's sympathies lie elsewhere. As a young man Rip had no interest in home life, and he has equally no interest in the partisan politics of the new republic. However, a great change has been effected in the meantime, and we sense that the change is for good. We may not discover the good in the political sphere, but it nevertheless exists. Rip finds peace at last living in the company of his married children and his grandchildren. The means through which he has attained this peace is his trip to the Catskill Mountains. This is where the Romantic element enters the story, and leaves its stamp finally. All the good has come about due to his foray into the mountains, his mingling with the strange forest dwellers, his drinking from the flagon, and his twenty years of sleep under a tree. The episode in the Catskill Mountains is in complete contrast to everything else in the story. "

Tags:Catskill, Mountains, sleepy, hollow