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URBAN LEGENDS AND HOW THEY SPREAD

Though urban legends have always been around, thanks to the Internet, theyre easier to spread these days. According to college pro...

The Importance of Religious Stories

investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...

Tennessee Folklore: The Ghost Lights of Chapel Hill

his lantern, as he searches for his lost head" (Brown). In addition to the lights, some people have reported UFOs in the sky; oth...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Scarlet Letter Compared

Crane was followed by a mysterious headless horseman, he does not return to marry Katrina. She in turn marries someone else. The s...

‘Sports Night’: An Exciting and Memorable Experience

with my pen and autograph book, I was ready to meet these larger-than-life sports figures I had heard and read about my whole life...

Washington Irving’s Worldview

(Irving [1]). The author indicates that if he were left alone he would have been very happy doing nothing for his entire life. Thi...

Agamemnon and His Many Faces

a major figure in each of these works. Based upon the legendary king of Mycenae, Agamemnon in the Iliad is depicted as the command...

The Wild West and Wyatt Earp

Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, on March 19, 1848, Wyatt Earp is one of the most remembered names in American histor...

Hawaiian Kingdom's Ali'i Ruling Class

foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...

Celtic Mythology and the Morrigan Legends

or most, of the myths surrounding Morrigan she is seen, as noted, as a woman of battle. She was there with every war of the Celts ...

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

Rama from a Legend and Historical Perspective

the culture and chariot races were commonplace(Divine Life Society 1994). The various divisions among people began with occupation...

Betulaceae Plant Family

The Birch tree has long been involved in the life of mankind. Early man utilized the bark for writing upon and...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

2 Trade Textbooks on Investment and Mathematics Reviewed

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

An Analysis of the Arthurian Legend

and the Lion which he saves from a snake dragon. ANALYSIS: The story of Yvains reconciliation with Laudine mimics that whic...

American Author Washington Irving

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

Magical Applications of the Legend of King Arthur

King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...

The Baby Train and The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Brunvand

so show that certain themes are consistent in the stories and how they are a part of urban and societal life. The stories contain ...

Lt. Gen. James Maurice Gavin

have reacted the same given Gavins situation, or would he have stood by his command and followed through in spite of any personal ...

Brad Pitt and Why Women Find Him Appealing

In six pages this paper discusses Brad Pitt's adoring female fans and considers such films as Thelma and Louise, Meet Joe Black, I...

Arthurian Legend Role Played by Morgan Le Fey

pagan religions, and therefore belief in her fading, being overtaken by the new religion of Christianity. A comparison ca...

Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and Ichabod Crane

A character analysis of Ichabod Crane as featured in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving is presented in a paper co...

Davy Crockett's Frontier Life

married to Polly Finley, and as he would later wryly comment, he had proven himself "better at increasing my family than my fortun...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

Gaelic Ulster Mythical Cycle

In six pages this paper discusses the Ulster Cycle in a consideration of characters, tales, legends, and myths. Ten sources are c...

Dodona Legends and the Zeus Sanctuary

In four pages this paper discusses the Dodona legends in an historical overview of the Zeus sanctuary. Six sources are cited in t...

JFK's Presidency and 'Camelot'

In a research paper consisting of six pages the ways in which the mythological connection between the legend of Camelot and John F...

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

In six pages various Arthurian legends are compared with The Once and Future King by T.H. White in terms of time period and the ch...