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The John C . Campbell Folk School , also referred to as " The Folk School " is located near Brasstown , ___MASK92___ along the Cherokee County and Clay line . The school was founded to nurture and preserve the folk arts of the ___MASK64___ , it is a non - profit adult educational organization based on non - competitive learning . Founded in 1925 , the Folk School ' s motto is  I sing behind the plow . The ___MASK64___ , often called the Appalachians , are a system of mountains in eastern North America . The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period . It once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rocky Mountains before naturally occurring erosion . The Appalachian chain is a barrier to east - west travel , as it forms a series of alternating ridgelines and valleys oriented in opposition to most roads running east or west . Fiction is the classification for any story or ___MASK31___ derived from imagination  in other words , not based strictly on history or fact . Fiction can be expressed in a variety of formats , including writings , live performances , films , television programs , animations , video games , and role - playing games , though the term originally and most commonly refers to the narrative forms of literature ( see " literary " fiction ), including the novel , novella , short story , and play . Fiction constitutes an act of creative invention , so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed ; in other words , fiction is not expected to present only characters who are actual people or descriptions that are factually true . The context of fiction is generally open to interpretation , due to fiction ' s freedom from any necessary embedding in reality ; however , some fictional works are claimed to be , or marketed as , historically or factually accurate , complicating the traditional distinction between fiction and non - fiction . Fiction is a classification or category , rather than a specific mode or genre , unless used in a narrower sense as a synonym for a particular literary fiction form . South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States . The state is bordered to the north by ___MASK92___ , to the south and west by Georgia across the Savannah River , and to the east by the ___MASK80___ . ___MASK1___ is the most densely populated borough of ___MASK98___ City , its economic and administrative center , and the city ' s historical birthplace . The borough is coextensive with ___MASK98___ County , founded on November 1 , 1683 , as one of the original counties of the U . S . state of ___MASK98___ . The borough consists mostly of ___MASK1___ Island , bounded by the East , Hudson , and Harlem rivers , and also includes several small adjacent islands and Marble Hill , a small neighborhood on the U . S . mainland . Ancient Greek includes the forms of Greek used in ancient ___MASK12___ and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD . It is often roughly divided into the Archaic period ( 9th to 6th centuries BC ), Classical period ( 5th and 4th centuries BC ), and Hellenistic period ( 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD ). It is antedated in the second millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek . The City of ___MASK98___ , often called ___MASK98___ City or simply ___MASK98___ , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , ___MASK98___ City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of ___MASK98___ , the city is the center of the ___MASK98___ metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , ___MASK98___ City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " ___MASK98___ minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , ___MASK98___ is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . ___MASK92___ is a state in the southeastern region of the United States . The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south , Tennessee to the west , ___MASK63___ to the north , and the ___MASK80___ to the east . ___MASK92___ is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U . S . states . The state is divided into 100 counties . The capital is Raleigh . The most populous municipality is Charlotte , and it is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City . ___MASK63___ (, officially the Commonwealth of ___MASK63___ ) is a state located in the Mid - Atlantic region of the United States , as well as in the historic Southeast . ___MASK63___ is nicknamed the " Old Dominion " due to its status as the first colonial possession established in mainland British America , and " Mother of Presidents " because eight U . S . presidents were born there , more than any other state . The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay , which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna . The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond ; ___MASK63___ Beach is the most populous city , and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision . The Commonwealth ' s estimated population is over 8 . 3 million , which is slightly less than ___MASK98___ City . Appalachia is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of ___MASK98___ to northern Alabama , Mississippi and Georgia . While the ___MASK64___ stretch from Belle Isle ( Newfoundland and Labrador ) in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama , the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range . As of the 2010 United States Census , the region was home to approximately 25 million people . Songcatcher is a 2000 drama film directed by Maggie Greenwald . It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western ___MASK92___ . Although Songcatcher is a fictional film , it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell , founder of the John C . Campbell Folk School in Brasstown , ___MASK92___ , and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp , portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle . Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance . The term comes from a Greek word meaning " action " ( Classical Greek : , " drama "), which is derived from " to do " ( Classical Greek : , " drao "). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy . They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses , Thalia , and Melpomene . Thalia was the Muse of comedy ( the laughing face ), while Melpomene was the Muse of tragedy ( the weeping face ). Considered as a genre of poetry in general , the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle ' s " Poetics " ( c . 335 BCE ) the earliest work of dramatic theory . The ___MASK80___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Cecil James Sharp ( 22 November 1859  23 June 1924 ) was the founding father of the folk - song revival in ___MASK9___ in the early 20th century . Sharp felt that English music had become over - dominated by German influences , and wanted to revive melodies with native roots . He listened to hundreds of village folk - singers , and arranged their songs for piano and choir . He promoted Morris dancing , which had almost died out , though he often had to tone - down the lyrics for public performance and instruction in schools . In 1911 he founded the English Folk Dance Society . Aristotle (" Aristotéls "; 384  322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira , Chalkidice , on the northern periphery of Classical ___MASK12___ . His father , Nicomachus , died when Aristotle was a child , whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian . At seventeen or eighteen years of age , he joined Plato ' s Academy in ___MASK50___ and remained there until the age of thirty - seven ( c . 347 BC ). His writings cover many subjects  including physics , biology , zoology , metaphysics , logic , ethics , aesthetics , poetry , theater , music , rhetoric , linguistics , politics and government  and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy . Shortly after Plato died , Aristotle left ___MASK50___ and , at the request of Philip of Macedon , tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC . ___MASK19___ (" Tanasi ") is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States . ___MASK19___ is the 36th largest and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States . ___MASK19___ is bordered by ___MASK94___ and ___MASK63___ to the north , North Carolina to the east , Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi to the south , and Arkansas and Missouri to the west . The ___MASK64___ dominate the eastern part of the state , and the Mississippi River forms the state ' s western border . ___MASK19___ ' s capital and second largest city is Nashville , which has a population of 654 , 610 . Memphis is the state ' s largest city , with a population of 655 , 770 . Maggie Greenwald ( born June 23 , 1955 in ___MASK1___ , ___MASK98___ ) is an American film , television director and screenwriter . Dramatic theory is a term used for works that attempt to form theories about theatre and drama . Examples of ancient dramatic theory include Aristotle ' s " Poetics " from Ancient ___MASK12___ and Bharata Muni ' s " Natyasastra " from ancient India .