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In this traditional Korean folktale, a bird, monkey, and elephant lived near an old tree. One day, while swinging on the tree, the three friends fought over who got to stay on the swing the longest. The elephant claimed he should swing the most since…

This story is a traditional Korean story based on Aesop's Fable "The Tortoise and The Hare." In the story, the two animals run a race. Just like "The Tortoise and The Hare," the Rabbit falls asleep during the race, and the Turtle wins.

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The poem is entitled Ame Nimo Makezu “not losing to the rain”. It is one of the most famous and influential pieces. This simple poem inspires hundreds and thousands of people to this day. The poem depicts the ideal person in a listing manner –…

Based upon the refrain that slaves sang in the field, “I’ll be all right someday,” Reverend Charles Albert Tindley published ”I’ll Overcome Someday” in 1901. In 1945, workers striking against the American Tobacco Company sang ”We will overcome, and…

“Negra sombra” [Black Shadow] is one of the poems in the collection Follas Novas [New Leaves] published in 1880. This poetry collection, together with Cantares gallegos [Galician Songs] is widely considered as one of the foundational works in…

This is a well-known poem by Galician writer Rosalía de Castro (Santiago de Compostela, 1837-Padrón, 1835). The speaker of the poem says goodbye to his homeland, his house, his loved one, before migrating to Latin America. The poetry collection…

This version of the classic Little Red Riding Hood follows the Charles Perrault 1697 story with an abrupt and gruesome ending, both Little Red and Gramma get eaten by the big bad wolf. The story has a clear and unequivocal moral: children should not…

This version of Little Red follows Brothers Grimm’s story: both Little Red and Gramma get eaten by the big, bad wolf, but they are miraculously rescued by a huntsman or a woodcutter who open the wolf’s belly. This ending is more suitable for younger…

This version of Little Red follows Brothers Grimm’s story: both Little Red and Gramma get eaten by the big, bad wolf, but they are miraculously rescued by a huntsman or a woodcutter who open the wolf’s belly. This ending is more suitable for younger…

The story is about a princess, Scheherazade, who tells bedtime stories to a king for a thousand and one nights. But every night, just as the story is getting exciting and intriguing she stops and the king, who is very curious, has to wait until the…