Prompt : You have been arguing and defending your point for the past two essays.

Prompt :
You have been arguing and defending your point for the past two essays. I think it’s time we take a small break from that, so for your last essay, you will write a research paper on an urban legend of your choice. You must answer the following questions in your body paragraphs and organize your paper accordingly.
1. Why are people fascinated with urban legends in general?
2. What is your urban legend, and where did your urban legend originate from?
a. Provide a brief background.
b. How did your urban legend spread and become so well known to that region, state, country, etc.?
3. Provide two eyewitness accounts and what they saw, heard, etc. to support this paragraph.
a. What did the believers have to say about the urban legend?
4. What did the skeptics have to say about the urban legend?
a. What are their reasonings for not believing?
5. How did the urban legend affect a group of people? For instance, some urban legends led to more racist/xenophobic/homophobic and other discriminatory rhetoric and/or acts.
a. Did the urban legend change over time? If so, in what ways was it modified, and what was the effect on its audience?
b. Guiding questions:
i. What is the demographic that was impacted the most by this urban legend?
ii. What demographic, if there is one, benefited from spreading this urban legend?
This assignment is worth 35 points.
Guidelines:
1,800 words minimum
o Papers that do not reach the word count minimum will lose eight points from their final assignment grade.
MLA format
First- and third-person point-of-view are allowed, but you should limit the number of first-person statements.
o Keep an academic tone.
Minimum number of sources required for this essay: 5.
o Sources must be credible, so avoid sources that are overly biased and sources that are not mostly factual.
o This assignment has no date restriction because some of your urban legends will date back hundreds of years, so feel free to dig deep into some historical texts! As always, cite properly.
Must include a works cited page
Grammatical and punctuation errors should not impede or distract the reader from understanding the writer’s intentions. Revise, revise, revise.
My topic : la mano peluda
Tell me what urban legend you plan on writing your paper on. Lean into it by using the guiding questions to help you.
Guiding questions:
• What interests you about this urban legend?
• Tell us some background information on it.
• Does this urban legend remind of you another one or is it pretty unique?
• What’s the origin of this urban legend? Is it originally from one country and then grew in popularity? Is it an ancient urban legend?
• Is there a copycat urban legend that’s really similar to it in another place?