Legend

Two main characters (and a one sentence description of each): Narrators/ Protagonists (group of friends): Bernard: A warm, introspective, talkative person who believes in the perfection of expression to connect people, causing him to gain the most insight about each character’s lives. Neville: An empathetic, poetically artistic, upper-class intellect who falls in love with one of the minor character: Percival and later, he becomes a famous poet. Louis: A lower-class Australian who is an…

Mansa Musa, the man with the famous legend of his haji to Mecca. He had lived from 1280 to 1337, and was the fourteenth century Mali Empire emperor. In 1312 Musa became emperor following the death of the previous ruler of Mali, Abu-Bakr II. Mali was an empire in West Africa that lasted from 1230 to 1600 and under Mansa Musa’s rule it became the largest and richest area of Africa. As Ruler of Mali he had captured the kingdom of Songhai and made its most major city, Timbuktu, a very vital and…

Many books and movies have the same basic storyline. Star Wars: A New Hope and Arthurian Legend both have a very similar storyline; however, there are a few differences. The Force and the Holy Grail are both something that people are trying to find. Han Solo and Lancelot are both main characters but they have very different endings. Star Wars: A New Hope and Arthurian Legend are similar because they both have something that the main characters are trying to find, but they are different because…

Washington Irving was an American short story writer, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" who are both from his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon". "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story Irving written while he was living in Birmingham and published in 1819. Considering it has been adapted for a lot of other media like cartoons, films, operetta or even stage…

displayed in several of the writings that we have covered in this class. When we look at Irving, Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe’s writings we can clearly see men who were concerned with their needs and desires above anyone else. In the story of “The Legend of Sleepy Hallow,” we read about a schoolmaster by the name of Ichabod Crane who spent his time drifting from neighbor to neighbor for his shelter and food. One day, Ichabod set his sights on the inheritance of a young…

indie dungeon crawlers and first person shooters. I listen to old 80s rock and EDM music. My family and friends shaped me into this person, and they’re the reason there’s an essay here at all. Nerdiness runs in my blood. My Great-Grandfather played Legend of Zelda and Sims. My parents are therefore, of course, nerds. Different, and more old school, but nerds nonetheless. They and their friends gather together and play Dungeons & Dragons, perhaps the most nerdy game ever. Because my parents are…

The portrayal of women in a newsroom is interesting to watch in movies about journalism. Often times, women are shown as minor roles throughout the movies. If a woman is put into the movie as a main character she is often doing something that hurts her reputation. A man could also be shown as superior to a woman. This creates interesting viewpoints of shows as the directors of movies show a strong male lead. Because this scenario is true in so many movies about women journalists it could hurt…

In the novel, Legend, the author Marie Lu conveys the theme of revenge and truth through the actions of June. First off to begin , Thomas killed metias because he was a rebel of the republic .“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”(245,Lu) The blog that Metias wrote for June before he died opens up many questions about how a person should respond when they know their society is corrupt. When Metias found out about the…

Make sure to have your signature, which includes a link for your site, at the bottom of everything that you write online. If you participate in forums, place a link to your site in the signature of your posts. Make sure you link your website to your email. This helps you get the word about your website out to everyone you meet, and it may also have favorable SEO effects. Put a catchy slogan right before the link to encourage people to click it. If you are considering promoting your blog it is…

Canadian residential schools, education, literature, politics are all in a stage a recuperation. In Joseph Boyden’s Legend of the Sugar Girl and Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits a consistent theme of intergenerational trauma is present. Both Boyden and Episkenew express concerns with matters regarding health, family, and identity. Boyden’s literature being in the form of a legend and Episkenew’s a critical text; what is interesting is how the form of these texts are being used to heal…