John Legend

Examining the Legend of Bloody Mary and the Relationship to Young Girls Nikyra Capson Bloody Mary has become a hoax associated with the coming of age for pre-teen girls and has multiple versions and different roots depending on the context on which it is given. A hoax is a legend used by the teller to alter certain behaviors of the listeners, usually by fear. In the case of this particular legend, the teller is trying to get others to attempt to summon Bloody Mary’s ghost. This legend is a…

What I had assumed at the moment to be pus dripped down my hand and I sighed with relief. Except…huh? There was something on my hand and it wasn’t moving. I brought my hand in front of my body to see what it was, and- You always hear those urban legends or real life stories about various critters living under our skin. For example, I once knew a girl who had come back from some country in Africa after a vacation. She had to go to the emergency room because she had felt something moving in her…

The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular, loved and influential video game series on this planet. So many kids of the 80's, 90's and the 2000's have grown up with these games and the adventures that Link and Zelda get themselves into. This series means an immense amount to a lot of people and honestly, I feel that The Legend of Zelda series means more to me than it does to anybody else on this Earth. When I was in my mothers womb she would lay on the couch and watch my father play…

Folklore are beliefs and ideas that are constantly changing throughout television or any source of media because Shameless was created by Paul Abbott, it is a comedy-drama remake based on the British series. The show centers on a dysfunctional family which consists of six siblings of Chicago, Illinois who struggle with their alcoholic father and estranged mother. Although many reality television shows exist to follow standard entertainment, Shameless can be argued as a modern folklore. The show,…

“Seeker, what have you seen?” the King asks in a serious tone. The Seeker lifts back his hood. His eyes begin to glow. He stood briefly in a trance with a peaceful look on his face that was misleading from the words that he spoke. “Your majesty, the Shadow is indeed alive…but not for long.” “Is this what you told, Prince Gabriel?” The Seeker turns his head to Gabriel, flashing him an odd look. “Seeker!” the king yells, bringing his attention back to him. “Did you speak to my brother before me?…

Comprehensiveness- To support information about the Chupacabra through critical thinking, the evidence about the creature must be comprehensive. order to reasonably analyze evidence of the Chupacabra or an attack from one, you must recognise the possibilities of it not being a Chupacabra. To consider any slightly odd killing of a farm animal to be a Chupacabra attack would be unreasonable and senseless. Many different animals are capable of killing goats, sheep, or chickens. To recognise a…

Urban Legend One night a man was walking down the street, a dark street that would not end, it seemed to go on forever, there is an end but it takes months, on months, on months. Will he make it, I don't know but something tells me he won’t, and then something appears something horrifying it looks like a bear eagleshark. The rumors around this thing are crazy, it can breath on land and underwater it can fly run and swim at the speed of light nothing can outrun it not even I. It can kill…

We have all heard the stories of the Chpacabra over the last few decades and many of you will dismiss this creature as an urban legend or a hoax. These stories, like all stories of legend, start somewhere. The legend of the Chupacabra comes from Latin cultures, mainly Puerto Rico, where it was first sited back in 1955 by locals. The locals were experiencing strange live stock mutilations mostly goats found with all their blood drained. In the 1970’s people all over South America started…

Be it nostalgia or an inclination to entertainment, the series of The Legend of Zelda and its entirety have a firm grasp on the consumer. Spanning from the 90’s to present time, The Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo’s best game in the gaming industry, second to the famed Mario series that popularized and even saved the gaming industry. Though many have varying opinions on which Zelda game is the best, Ocarina of Time (OoT) holds a high regard in my part and revolutionized the definition of…

Sexual Racism in the American Societies The short story Naked by Joyce Carol Oates talks about anonymous female figure that lived a big shock because of the violence event she went through, that she was attacked by group of children which includes boys and girls, the eldest child was 12 years old. The writer describes those children in the story that they were, “small pack of black children…” this quote from the story would give the reader a hint to think if this story is about racism in…