Legend

Rebuilding a Lost World Old Iroquois legends say blood and scars of peoples ancestors can run through generations before they are healed. Americans forget they are standing on the heritage of millions of Native Americans that lived there for thousands of years. The Native American peoples have a very rich culture and are mistakenly believed to be “all one type.” Calling all Native Americans the same is similar to calling the people of Europe identical just because they are all vaguely similar.…

Legend of the “Hanging Judge” While in search of a piece of Arkansas history I came across a familiar name when research brought me to Judge Isaac Parker. Remembered today as the “Hanging Judge”, Isaac C. Parker had an impressive thirty-five year career in public service. He became a frontier attorney, later served as a city attorney, state judge, a two year term representative to Congress, and his most notable legacy as a federal district judge in Fort Smith, Arkansas for twenty-one years.…

Dr. Kramer Marries a Nun (1842) Long before Florence Nightingale becomes a legend in the foundation of modern nursing, Catholic religious nuns organized and administered in European hospitals. In the German state of Prussia, a young woman named Elizabeth Rump elects to become a nun working in the field of health care.* Elizabeth takes a vow of poverty and commits herself to live interdependently within a community of nuns. She also takes a vow of obedience in which she agrees to obey her…

Arthurian Legends Synthesis Essay It is true that no matter what legend one is studying, the story is bound to change over time. When studying the various tellings of Morgan Le Fay, this proved to be true. Reading multiple stories of the character revealed many differing aspects to each tale. Specifically talking about her stories, the way they change is parallel to how the view of women has changed overtime. In works before 1900, Morgan Le Fay is portrayed as a simple being. Though she has…

This experience made him question his previous religious beliefs. The legend of the golden carp begins a long time ago with some of Earth’s earliest people, these people wandered for many years but never gave up faith in their gods. The gods rewarded them for their faith with the fertile valley of the llano, but on one condition…

The book that I have been reading is True Legend by Mike Lupica. This book is about a kid named Drew “True” Robinson who is an insanely good basketball player. He’s so good that he has made it into the sportscenter top ten plays. He lived in New York up to his Sophomore year in highschool when a extremely rich guy named Seth Gilbert. He completely changed Drew’s life by helping out financially and basically becoming a second parent. Seth Gilbert and a bunch of his rich friends created the…

alone with no one to remember them. Examples of those affected by the actions of the priests and nuns who ran the schools can be found in Sammy Aandeg of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Motorcycles and Sweetgrass and in the Sugar Girl of Joseph Boyden’s The Legend of the Sugar…

Kid was, but as I have told people what I was doing my essay on, I have gotten many confused looks. This was surprising to me. I thought that everyone at least would recognize the name, but boy was I wrong. Since no one knows who this western outlaw legend is, I guess I will just start off with the basic boring information. Billy the Kid was said to be a very handsome man. He had a slim physique, sandy blond hair, and blue eyes. He wore a signature sugar-loaf sombrero hat with a wide decorative…

Many people have heard the legend of Molly Pitcher, the Heroine of Monmouth, but do many people know her story? Do they know her name wasn't "Molly" at all, or even if Molly was an actual person. The legend of Molly Pitcher goes all the way back to the start of the American Revolution, but who were they exactly? What was their childhood like, what were they known for before the Battle of Monmouth, and what did they do exactly to make her such an icon for the American population? The most…

The main character in “I Am Legend” is Robert Neville portrayed by Will Smith. Robert Neville is a medical doctor, scientist, and who was thought to be the lone survivor in a Darkseekers epidemic. Robert was bitten by a bat that had the infectious virus that would soon wipe out the entire population of the human race and turned them into vampires, Darkseekers. This bite made Robert immune to the infection. He lives his life in a barricaded home with a German shepherd named Sam, while working…