Folklore

Texas Rangers represent the olden days of law enforcement in America. I. Introduction: The Texas Rangers: Guardians of Law and Legend II. Historical Background: Origins of the Texas Revolution III. Historical Significance: Shaping Texas Identity and Folklore IV. Challenges and Controversies: Navigating Complexities of Justice V. Evolution: From Frontier Militia to Modern Law Enforcement. Carranza 1 Title: The Texas Rangers: Guardians of the Frontier. The Texas Rangers have been…

In his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster introduces key concepts that are applied in the widespread world of literature; furthermore, Foster does express that “‘Always’ and ‘never’ are not words that have much meaning in literary study...”(19) due to numerous authors creating pieces that do not follow the general trend, thus his teachings should be taken as a general rule of thumb. In order to get a better grasp of his teachings, the novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda…

because gangs and violence were heavy in our neighborhood. She registered my brothers and me for an after-school program at the Friendly House which provided a music program. The program was called “Espiritu del Nino” which utilized the art of Mexican Folklore to instill cultural awareness in children. This group is considered a “Rondalla”, which is an ensemble of stringed instruments played with the flat pick or thumb pick. (The word rondalla is from the Spanish word ronda, meaning…

executions for heresy, earning her the nickname Bloody Mary. Though not named Mary, Elizabeth Bathory also became a common contender due to her broad history of over 600 gruesome murders and her belief that blood made her skin look youthful. Onryō folklore, however, portrays the spirits as driven by strong feelings of pain, deceit, or confusion instead of Bloody Mary’s murderous and psychotic nature. Oiwa, a popular tale of revenge, tells of a woman sabotaged by her cheating husband, causing her…

about her. The main theme of this poem is the narrator’s undying love. He struggles with the desire to forget about Lenore and the desire to remember Lenore. There is a motif in this poem which is the raven itself. Ravens are often mentioned in other folklore stories and narrative poem including in the Bible. The narrator asks the raven many questions and even though the raven only speaks one word, the narrator continues to ask questions which shows the amount of depth he feels for the loss of…

The region was first occupied 11,000 years ago by people entering from different regions, coastal dwellers came south from Alaska and north from southern Oregon. Groups followed the major rivers that flowed west into the Pacific. Ideally a village consisted of several separate houses, fish-drying racks, food, raw materials, and sweathouses. They inhabit the forest areas between the Great Bear and Great Slave lakes in the Northwest Territories. They lived in skin covered tents or sometimes in…

picture all over the globe is the blood-sucking vampire. This creature has had a startling occurrence in the modern world yet, it still has yet to be debunked. The modern vampire is in another class, particularly different from old age vampiric folklore. As generally defined by…

Tomm Moore brings yet another beautifully depicted animation of his background story to life in his film Song of the Sea, which tells a story of Ben, a young boy, and his sister Saoirse about their adventure on the Emerald isle in Ireland. The story entrances the audience with it’s visual effects that were hand drawn, and captivating details about different types of Irish legends and creatures which make this film a very moralistic and gratifying experience. Oscar nominated, Award winning…

Author Jean Toomer who is considered one of the Great American authors, wrote during the Harlem Renaissance period. Particularly, in his work titled Cane, written in 1923 we can see evidence of the characteristics, themes and style identified with the Harlem Renaissance movement which was an extant in American letters between 1914 and the mid-1930’s. As a representative of such a movement, Jean Toomer then remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writers of his time. Toomer was an…

Seamus Heaney’s Blackberry-Picking describes the speaker’s pastoral memories of blackberry-picking, a yearly ritual beginning in the late August. Using a slew of rhetorical devices such as allusion and imagery, Heaney captures the innocence of the speaker’s past self, and innovatively mirror the process of growing up through the duality of two voices throughout the poem. A song of innocence and experience, Heaney presents a third-person perspective on the blossoming of blackberries, before…