Saga

The complete saga of Star Wars plays a powerful role in today's culture and modern mythology, and gives a wonderful take on the classic myth of The Hero’s Quest. The Hero’s quest follows a character with either mysterious or humble beginnings, somebody who the average folk can relate to. This quest takes the Hero on a journey that often leads to self discovery, and as the name implies, a chance at true heroism. Star Wars is a classic hero’s tale that follows Luke Skywalker from his humble…

The first book series that I have ever started and finished was The Twilight Saga. I had gone with some friends to watch the dreadful fist movie when I came out in theaters. Stephanie one of the girls that we went with told me “well the book was so much better that the movie”. I had never really understood that idea until I went and purchased the first book of the saga. I found my self at home lying in bed wanting to read. The way that Stephanie Meyers writes pulled the…

A metaphor is a word or phrase that describes an object, which content cannot be taken literal. An example of a metaphor is Liberty’s school motto, “Knowledge Aflame”. The school is not going to actually set knowledge on fire. The phrase represents the faculty’s goal is to spark an interest in education and learning among their students. Liberty University wants to provide the best education to its students and in return expects the attending and future students to come to be educationally…

ship, and cover them to keep them safe from the weather. The Vikings weren’t just soldiers, but they had families of their own. The Viking children did not go to school to learn, but instead they heard long stories, or sagas. The stories were told by traveling storytellers. Sagas told adventures of the gods or of special vikings. Children would also help their parents around the farm. Their jobs included feeding the animals, gathering firewood, or helping out around the house. The children had…

Valerian: Luc Besson’s hero drives a Lexus A younger generation raised after Star Wars might think, when looking at Valerian, the film, that it borrowed many ideas from George Lucas blockbuster, but the reality is different: Valerian inspired Star Wars. Valerian, the film, picks the comic series from 1967 and mixes it with a promise of the future: the Skyjet vehicle designed by Lexus for a world set 700 years in the future. The first trailer from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,…

10th, and 11th centuries. Norsemen: A term used to describe the people who spoke the Old Norse dialect in the Middle ages. R Ragnar Lothbrok: A mythical Viking ruler and king during the Middle Ages. He is mentioned several times in the Icelandic sagas, but evidence of his true existence is still debated among historians. Ragnarok: From the Norse mythology. It is described as an event where many waves of apocalyptic events will occur and where the nine worlds and its inhabitants will be…

championship. Faber and Cruz over the next few years will continue to exchange words with each other and even coached against each other on The Ultimate Fighter: Live but their trilogy and final fight would not come until UFC 199. In the last fight of the saga Cruz was able to one-up Faber where he defeated Faber via unanimous decision to remain the bantamweight championship. Their UFC 199 bout marked the end of one of the promotions most intense rivalry's. Cruz won the three fight series…

similar to the courts of monarchs. Through this transmission from one generation to the next, these stories developed exaggerated mythological elements, of which Beowulf is the only extant work from the period. Over the course of the three-thousand-line saga, the eponymous hero of Beowulf engages in three distinct but…

This quote is said at the start and finish of the epic. Following the stories of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, the two character’s sagas move in arcs that perfectly contradiction and complement each other from one end of the book until the other, between the two versions of this quote. When this quote is mentioned at the end of the epic, Gilgamesh is speaking with Ur-shanabi, the boatman, after having spoken with Uta-napishti. The quote above is the last words spoken in the novel; ending there rather…

and seven long rows of iron rivets outlined the vanished planks. The Ladby ship was narrower than the Norwegian ships and appeared not to be seaworthy; 20.6 meters long and only 3.2 wide. Critics did not believe the accounts that were told in the sagas of much larger longships with the same amazing…