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York Columbia University Gawain And The Green Knight
2,655 words... s, meaning a bowl. " There are three likely possibilities for what the Grail represented that are supported by evidence: "The Grail as Celtic talisman, as fertility symbol, as Christian relic" 28 Despite this, the actual of the Grail and the quest for it has been one of the primary attractions in these legends. The Christian interpretation is that the Grail was originally the cup used at the Last Supper, with which Joseph of Arimathea caught the blood of Christ on the cross. However, Loomis ...
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Tale Also Implies Tale Also Implies That Females Sexual
1,147 wordsWe have all heard of strange and gory stories that are supposedly true, experienced by a friend of a friend. Whether true or not these so called "urban legends" tend to circulate throughout society thriving on each individual's fears and curiosity. What most people don't realize is, within these tales lies the attitudes and values of a community. These tales do not survive throughout the years solely on the basis of their entertainment level, but due to the fact that they reflect society's fears...
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Minoan Civilization Sir Arthur
1,521 wordsCottrell, Leonard. 1958. The Bull of Minos. New York, NY. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Encyclopedia Americana. 1995. Knossos, pg. 514. Danbury, CT. Grolier Inc. New Encyclopedia Britanica. 1997. Knossos, pg. 514. Chicago, IL. Encyclopedia Palmer, Leonard R. 1969. A New Guide to the Palace of Knossos. New York, NY. Frederick A. Prayer, Publishers. Starr, Chester G. 1991. A History of the Ancient World. New York, NY. Oxford Wunderlich, Hans Georg. 1974. The Secret of Crete. Translated by Richard Wi...
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Thoughtful Committed Rosa Parks Hero
698 wordsYou always hear about the people who do wrong, hurt others, take advantage, rob and steal. But they are the minority. There are people considered heroes who are everyday real people who step up to the challenge and help others when they " re needed. You also always hear or once heard stories that contain a hero called legends. They are "legendary heroes." These two words are used together in the same subject but have very different meanings. A hero is someone who puts his own personal safety at ...
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Poem Is Written Fourteenth Century
1,107 words... Cambrensis' De Principis Instructions in which we are told that Arthur's grave has indeed been found in Glastonbury, also known as the Isle of Avalon. The Get Regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings). contains the hint that Arthur is not dead but may return: "But the tomb of Arthur is nowhere seen, whence ancient dirges still fable his coming." In 1125, a tomb had yet to be found. The bridge between the fairly simple early material and the more complex later material is Geoffrey of Monmou...
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Opened The Door Urban Legends
1,079 wordsWhat is an Urban Legend? They are usually stories that have a wide audience, have circulated spontaneously, and have been told in several different forms. Many have chosen to believe these stories despite the lack of actual evidence to substantiate the story (Urban). What makes an Urban Legend is how it is told. This depends on whether the story is being told in first, second, or third person. Most of the time the real event happened to someone entirely unknown to the person telling the story (U...
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1,118 wordsBilly lived a life of an outlaw because of the loss of his parents, he gained friends and lost enemies, which led to his death. The legends of Billy the kid are many, like so many legends are. This legend is a mix of three to fore legends out there they all contain most of the same content. There might be one or more things the writer might put in there that he found in a trip to Lincoln. This is the story he found to shear with all. The Wild West out law famous for many things Billy the Kid. Re...
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Generation To Generation Nez Perce
1,086 wordsI Shamans A. definition B. purpose 1. balance 2. success hunting 3. planting 4. cure sickness C. Usually males 1. post menopausal women 2. blood powers II passed down from generation to generation A. usually from memory 1. sand drawings 2. birch bark scrolls 3. paintings on rocks 4. animal hides B. children 1. eight-familiar stories 2. ten- know history III answer basic questions A. where do we come from B. where are we going C. how the world came into being D. how it was transformed E. guidelin...
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Myths And Legends Ancient Egyptians
1,710 wordsCivilization of Ancient Egypt covers more than 3000 years, it was formed in the year four thousand B. C. and can be divided into three historical periods: Ancient (years 2800 - 2250 B. C. ), Middle (years 2050 - 1700 B. C. ), and New Reign (years 1580 - 1070 B. C. ). Correspondently, there are three conditional periods in the development of Egyptian culture. Ancient period is characterized by development of culture of Sumerian civilization with deep spiritual traditions, based on mythology. Desp...
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Spartan Women Spartan Society
1,881 words... to be good in wrestling, running, hurling the javelin and discus throwing, foot races, and staged battles. All these skills could be extremely useful for future soldiers. Although the men were mainly involved in wars, the Spartan women had to defend themselves if the men were outside the city and some danger occurred. Yet, Plato says that Spartan women, for all their gymnastic training, had no military role whatever, and even in a crisis were incapable of handling weapons (Powell 249) The fa...
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Arthur Court Knights Of The Round Table
617 wordsDaniel Cappadora Monsignor Farrell Ms. Brick The Catholic Church has many influences on King Arthur and the rest of his Knights of the Round Table. The knights depended on the church for its teachings and the great power the church held in society. The Knights of the Round Table pledged great loyalty to the church. Also the knights held the teachings of the church in great reverence and were never disloyal to the church. There are many links between the Catholic Church and the way that Camelot (...
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Thousand Years Ago Similar In Many Ways
1,316 wordsBetween five and six thousand years ago, the Hmong people lived in todays Hebei province, said Professors Wu and Yang. Their leader at the time was the legendary Chiyou, and his people were known as the Jiuli tribes. The ancestors of the Han Chinese, ruled by leaders Huang Di and Yan Di, lived to the northwest of the Jiuli Kingdom. As Chinese population grew, they expanded southward into Hmong territory. A major war broke out between the two sides on the northwestern part of modern-day Beijing. ...
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1,091 wordsCuster and the Great Controversy by Robert M. Utley The controversy of General Custer and the actions that culminated his fate and almost three hundred men under his command has long been discussed and debated by many historians as well as important military officials all trying to conclude what happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn. There have been countless myths and legends of what occurred on that fateful day in American history, but there has yet to be a solid right answer. This answer i...
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Urban Legends Good Times
1,927 wordsImplicit in the rhetoric of the Information Superhighway is the understanding that through this technology, individuals will better understand the world around them, establishing a stronger sense of community through open dialogue. An examination of folktales and urban legends on the Internet, however, suggests that, if anything, this technology is becoming increasingly mythologized and is leading to a new sense of domestic alienation. In the years since Carl Lindahl noted that turning to modern...
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1,021 wordsGreek Mythology, beliefs and ritual observances of the ancient Greeks, who became the first Western civilization about 2000 BC. It consists mainly of a body of diverse stories and legends about a variety of gods. Greek mythology had become fully developed by about the 700 s BC. Three classic collections of myths-Theogony by the poet Hesiod and the Iliad and the Odyssey by the poet Homer-appeared at about that time. Greek mythology has several distinguishing characteristics. The Greek gods resemb...
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2,025 wordsJuliana Chang While jazz and blues rhythms and aesthetics have been used by a number of Asian American poets, Inada's poetry stands out in its consistency and depth of engagement with jazz. Inadas himself cites jazz as the strongest influence on his writing. His collection Before the War: Poems as They Happened (1971) begins with a whimsical portrait of a Japanese American figure playing " air bass" ; it includes tributes to jazz musicians and singers such as Charlie Parker, Lester You...
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490 wordsThe very early creation legends are difficult to trace to their original sources, since they were passed along by word of mouth from one generation to the next. There are many different legends about the origin of the earth, some similar to those told in other cultures. It is interesting that most of these legends can be tied together in one or more ways. The Greek and Inuit tribe versions of early existence are related in many ways. In both interpretations there is one creator. The Greek versio...
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Arthurian Legends Middle Ages
3,808 wordsKing Arthur The legends of King Arthur of Britain and his Knights of the Round Table, among the most popular and beloved of all time, originated in the Middle Ages. As they do today, medieval people listened to the accounts of Arthur with fascination and awe. It is certain that popular folktales were told about a hero named Arthur throughout the Celtic parts of the British Isles and France, especially in Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany (Lunt 76). Other stories of chivalry that did not include Arth...
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836 wordsOlympic Olympic Legends Tristan Yapuncich Olympic Legends 9 / 21 / 00 Olympic Legends There are many important Olympic athletes. Three of the most amazing, however, are probably Jim Thorpe, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Mark Spitz. These legends were super athletes as well, as amazing people. Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma. Although there is much confusion on Thorpe's date of birth, this is the date according to his estate. The career biography of Jim Thorpe ...
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553 wordsBob Grotjohn Inada refuses to separate the internment from a broader American experience. In a poem that follows his " legends, " Inada insistently maps the internment onto the American landscape (here I think of recent efforts at turning the Manzanar camp into a national park). In " Concentration Constellation, " he draws imaginary lines from point to point on a map of the United States, each point being one of the ten internment camps, creating jagged scar, massive, on the ...
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