Lady of the Lake

enough of a warning? One would think so. Arthur lays dying and calls Sir Bedevere to take his sword and throw it back into the lake. Three times he lies and three times Arthur makes him do it again, until the lady of the lake reaches up and grabs the sword as it flies through the air over the lake. Then Arthur instructs his knights to help him into a barge, where the ladies of Avalon await to take him to his grave, which is at a cathedral that is land bound, but low and behold there is a tomb…

experiences as a young lady and an adult in New York city. The story began with her arrival to New York and continuous to the point in time where she is in her late twenties. The story covers changes in her life, a result of life choices she made. She depicts the pros of…

Relaxing in this sheltered place, I opened up my Bible and began to re-read the teaching passages from the baptismal instruction. Sending up an arrow prayer, I said, “Lord, what about those two ladies back home who want to be re-baptized. I respect that under the discipline of my denomination I am not free to respond to their request. However, they are also asking for my support in this call upon their hearts. What am I to do to honour them and…

influences the lives of all the of the people exposed to it. It is used for good and evil, but sometimes it is used not for good and evil, but for neutral power. Morgan le Fay uses her magic to cloak Avalon from the outer world. The Lady of the Lake used her magic to protect the lake from intruders and those not worthy of entering in its proximity. Magic is rarely used neutrally in the book, but but when used neutrally it sets the tone for magic later on. Magic is a huge part of the book, and…

The Killer Lake It was another year at camp but this year our camp instructor Jeremy was hell-bent on making us piss ourselves. He would tell scary stories around the fire right before we went to sleep. None of them really scared me because I had heard them before or a version of them. But there was one story that kept me up for months. I think the thing that scared me most about that story was the fact that I had never heard a story like it before. The story went something like this: There…

suspends his kingship moments before his death through the act of driving the sword into the stone. However, according to the original story, the sword in the stone and Excalibur are two different swords. In addition, Excalibur was introduced by the Lady of the Lake as a divine helper to Arthur only after he had become king. Therefore, the origin of the sword in the stone was wrongly depicted and the meaning of Excalibur was undoubtedly…

A woman gave Arthur his sword. She stole Lancelot when she was a child and cured him when she was mad. King Arthur told Sir Bedevere to throw the Excalibur in the lake and when he got back he asked him what he saw and he said Nothing, my king, just the ripples on the water." And King Arthur's face turned red. Then he said to do it again and Sir Bedevere did. When he got back again King Arthur what asked happened…

The two sources that I’m going to choose would be I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Malcolm X for racism. The reason why I chose these pieces of work is because that with Malcolm and Maya they both faced racial times in their life and overcame it through time. So for Malcolm and Maya they both faced hard times being born in the early 1900’s and they were raised down south respectively and they got discriminated only because of the color of their skin. Now along the way with Malcolm X he was…

Green Lake. He chose to go to Camp Green Lake on a long bus ride to the middle of nowhere. When he arrived the counselors got him ready for camp. They told him he would be digging holes every day until he…

The Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 and debates about divorce also brought more aspects of private domestic life into the public eye, increasing, access to the scandals and secrets of other people’s domestic lives. Idylls of the King, in many ways, caters to Victorian interest in gossip and scandal, displaying openly the infidelity and turmoil within the marriage of two fictional royal characters and the various members of their kingdom. Perhaps it was these qualities reflected in the Idylls…