Essays 601 - 630
(Pallas Athena, Goddess Of Wisdom). Mans first instinct is to provide for his - or her - own preservation, to tend to his...
makes it clear that he considered the ideal life to be of adventure and lofty purpose. In the preface to his first two cantos f...
action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...
rap artists came to be regarded as heroes by many. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001, however, we have once again com...
the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...
those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...
plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...
almost all of them are loners. Even when they are surrounded by a large group of people, there is this inner stoicism, this inner ...
The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...
a transformational leader. According to Burns, Burns, transformational leaders are change agents, they take more risks than others...
and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring" (Hemingway 13). There is little said about Fre...
they are also alike in that there are ties of friendship and devotion between the various characters that threaten the pairings as...
particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...
Philosophy "Hero" as used by Campbell (1990) is androgynous, and he underscores this fact by using the pronouns "he" and "s...
hero may have incredible moral fiber, but have a tendency to love women he can never have. Tragic flaws, if one looks at any story...
given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...
were refusing to speak. They were not going to name any names of people who may have been, or were, communist sympathizers or comm...
working for the occupying Turks to anti-Turk resistance (Machin, 1998). Vasilis, similarly, changes his role, both in relation to ...
the apparent violence of the game. In these regards we see many things that mankind strives for. We, as Americans, are powerful ...
end of the epic. This is different from the Homeric hero Odysseus for we generally like this man right from the beginning. The god...
is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...
Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...
his book, Does God Exist God: The Oldest Question, that yes, God does exist 2000). OMalley seems to be addressing his comments to ...
of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...
tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...
does provoke Didos suicide one has to question to what extent he would embrace the label of hero. At the same time, besides the in...
his control, or often, the hero will choose this separation for himself. Neo lives in a chosen isolation, but he also chooses to f...
a hero in strength and abilities, not in actions and deeds. With Enkidu, however, he finds a soul mate. He no longer seeks out the...
This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...
In four pages this historical Native American hero is discussed as he is portrayed in [The] Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue L...