Legend

In I Am Legend, family is a strong symbol throughout the entire movie. The aspect of family is very noticeable. Family is needed in everyone’s life, and most all of us have a family with which to grow up. In the Bible, it talks about family and say siun part, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart will be also.” (Luke 12:34). This verse relates to the movie because family is treasured by the main character, Dr. Neville. He does everything to provide for other families since he no…

child-like charm to it. Titled Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood Slot, this game marks the very first entry into the Fairytale Legends series and by looks of things it is setting an impressive benchmark for what is to come. Unveiled through a video preview, here is what we know about the game so far. Many players will certainly have fond memories of the fairytales they were told during childhood, with NetEnt now bringing these famous stories to life. Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood Slot…

Johnathan Oldstyle or Washington Irving, as some might know him, was born on April third, 1783, which was in the eighteenth century. The would-to-be writer was born and raised in New York, New York; what we now know as “The Big City.” He was the youngest out of all his eleven siblings in his family. He, his brothers and sisters were children of Scottish-English Immigrant parents that went by the names of William Sr. and Sarah. Washington Irving himself was apparently named after President George…

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by: Chris Grimly and Washington Irving How often do you read a short story for enjoyment anymore? You may be asking yourself that question, and the truth is, as a teenager, you don’t. So why did I read The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow? That’s a good question, there are many reasons someone would read this story. One reason could be that your 9th mod Honors English teacher told you to read it and write a 2 page reader response about it. However, I am going to tell you…

Schlondorff’s The Legend of Rita used different movie techniques such as camera angles and scene settings, lighting/character placement to help portray what he wants, aspects of the rugged world happening in the time period through costumes/makeup and props, and the people who defected and fought to change the regime. Mise-en-scene aka “placing on stage”, in filmmaking moves our attention to the space of the shot itself. If a really long take is needed, planning is required to make sure that…

believe in and what I have read on American Indian beliefs compare to one another. Also how their creations myths and legends compare to my current beliefs and the Christian and other teachings I grow up with. I will be looking at the Apache, Navajo, and Iroquois creation myth and legend stories. One of the first American Indian creation I read was the Iroquois creation legend. Their story tells us that immortals one where also no new sky people where born. They lived on floating island in…

only monsters. The only person left is you. You have nothing and no one to keep you company. This reality is displayed in the novel I Am Legend which was written by Richard Matheson in 1954. It is about a man named Robert Neville. He is left alone in a world filled with vampires. He struggles to survive as they treat him as prey. The movie adaptation, also I Am Legend, was directed by Francis Lawrence and released in 2007. It is very similar to the book, however it does have its differences. In…

to the headless horseman with his own twist on the events, and shows scene of when the headless horseman was alive and how he was corned by his enemy and had his own head chopped off of his body like how he does to everyone he comes back for (The legend of sleepy hollow, Pierre Gang). This event from the plot was different as the producer of the film needed to have a distinct way that the headless horseman came to be, instead of just not actually showing what occurred for this character to be…

Over 1,400 years have passed since the legend of the Loch Ness Monster arose in Scotland. The Loch Ness Monster famously known as Nessie is said to inhabit the Scottish Highlands. The legend of Nessie emerged in the book ‘Life of Saint Columba’ by Adomnan written in the sixth century AD. Saint Columba was an Irish Monk who was in the Land of the Picts to visit the Pictish king when he noticed some residents burying a man by the river. Some of the residents who witnessed what happened explained…

The Resurrection of a Legend Not many teens are able to say they were stage dancers and turn into a great rapper, but Tupac Shakur can. Tupac started his career at the age of 17 years old. He was a stage dancer for a well-known rapper and given a chance to rap a verse in a song. After he rapped his verse, many people took notice of his unique rhymes, and he began to make more music on his own. He unfortunately died at the age of 25. I would bring him back from the dead because he accomplished…