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    Main Challenges in the Story Legend: Legend is a story about two 15 year old kids. From one side we have‚ as the story tells us in a beginning‚ a kid called Day. Day is a famous criminal who has given many problems to the republic From the moment he failed his trial‚ a test designed to be taken by every ten year old kid in the republic to test their physical and mental capabilities‚ Day was sent to the work camps which turned out to be labs that experimented on the kids who failed their test. Since

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    Made Up Folktale

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    Once upon a time‚ a little child named Knil was walking through the forest looking for his sword. As he was searching‚ he said to himself‚ "I think I will retrace my steps to find my sword." So Knil set off to his tree house in the Irikok Forest. Once he got there‚ he said‚ "Ok‚ now all I have to do is start from the beginning of the day." Knil started off by getting up from his bed and going to his bathroom to where he washed up. No sword. Next‚ he went to his friend Airas’s house and asked

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    time of Shakespeare and ancient Greece. Found within Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and E.M. Berne’s book Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome‚ there are two specific children whom bore similar childhood experiences and and faced important life tasks once they were of appropriate age. Prospero’s daughter Miranda‚ from The Tempest‚ and Polydectes’s adopted son Perseus‚ from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome‚ face similar life circumstances throughout each of their stories. In their

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    Urban Legend

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    Gravity Hills: Urban Legend Urban Legends are stories‚ usually false or exaggerated‚ that are repeatedly told and embellished over time until they are believed to be true. Gravity Hills is known to be an urban legend and it is also surrounded by scary stories. It’s said that in various hills of California‚ if a car is parked on neutral it will somehow roll up the slope of the nearby hill. There have been stories due to this belief that children died in the hills as they helped push their school

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    The Legend of the Minotaur

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    most popular Greek myths is the story of Theseus and the Minotaur‚ it centres around an early civilisation on the island of Crete‚ it is a myth told long before Athens became the ruling capital. It is the legend of the Minotaur. The legend of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth of Knossos in Crete has enthralled many historians‚ archaeologists over‚ anthropologists and so on over years‚ even centuries. However‚ one archaeologist was captivated by the entrancing and beauty of the myth of The Minotaur and

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    Urban Legends

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    Summary of: How Urban Myths Reveal Society’s Fears By Neal Gabler Urban Legends; secondhand stories about something horrific‚ iconic‚ or even magical‚ that are told to us in a way that makes them very believable‚ even though the contents of the stories may not truly be backed with any tangible proof. Urban legends tend to capture our imaginations. In his essay‚ which was first published in the Los Angeles Times in 1995‚ Neal Gabler presents the question as to “why are we so willing to believe

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    Black Legend

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    The black legend was the name given to the concept of cruelty and brutality spread by the Spanish during the 14th and 15th century. It can be said to be an anti-Spanish movement‚ which was started due to political and religious torment done by the Spanish on the people. It was the dominance and control of the Spanish over Europe that lead to the black legend of the Spanish. It was through this particular propaganda that the people were able to understand how various European countries had fallen

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    Philippine Legends

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    THE LEGEND OF SAMPALOC LAKE Sampolac Lake is the biggest lake in San Pablo‚ and it is named after a giant tamarind (sampolac) tree. Though there are many different versions of this legend‚ the basic premise remains the same. Sampolac Tree. There was an orchard owned by a rich couple‚ filled with the most delicious tamarind trees. One day‚ a fairy decided to test their hospitality‚ and came to the orchard‚ dressed as a poor‚ old woman. She begged the couple to give her a few

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    The Legend Of Baseball

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    the beginning of time‚ it has evolved. In the history of American sports‚ there is the story of baseball’s invention by a man named Abner Doubleday. The theory or legend that baseball was created in the U.S. was supported by Chicago Cubs president‚ Albert Spalding and the National League president‚ Abraham G. Mills. According to the myth‚ he set up the first baseball game in the year 1839‚ in Cooperstown‚ New York. A mining engineer by the name of Abner Graves made a claim in the press stating that

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    THE STORY OF THE AGED MOTHER A Japanese Folktale by MATSUO BASHOLong‚ long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged‚ widowedmother. They owned a bit of land which supplied them with food‚ and their humble werepeaceful and happy.Shining was governed by a despotic leader who though a warrior‚ had a great and cowardlyshrinking from anything suggestive of failing health and strength. This caused him to send out acruel proclamation. The entire province was given strict orders

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