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Shintoism Ritual, Symbol, and Myth

been influenced by Japans contact with other cultures, particularly China (Shinto). The most striking feature of the Shinto reli...

Ramayana and King Arthur Myths

the Protector, one of the three great gods of the Indian pantheon, and Sita is the avatar of Lakshmi, goddess of wealth and prosp...

Politics and Christianity's Role

the Netherlands, said: "God the Lord unmistakably instituted the basic rule for the duty of government. Government exists to admin...

Oedipus Myth and D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

all the necessary stages in that development would be as futile as Oedipuss attempts to challenge the Fates....

Levi Strauss' Myth Analysis by Applying Ferdinand de Saussure's Structural Linguistics

but an anthropologist and he made use of the theorist in his studies, including kinship and myths. The idea of Saussures t...

Creation Myths of the Navajo and Chinese

China). This was too much for the earth and it burned and cracked (A Creation Story from China). The rivers became dry and the peo...

Summary of the PBS Documentary Myths and the Moundbuilders (1980)

this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...

The Myths of Westward Expansion

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

GLOBAL WARMING - THE FACTS AND THE MYTHS

the sea of nutrients that animals need for survival. On land, a global warming trend could impact agriculture; providing too much ...

Barriers Between Readers and the Other

West, who defined the native American tribes as "savages"; and by so doing, made it possible to justify killing them (in self-defe...

COMPUTING AND PRODUCTIVITY: MYTH OR REALITY?

way to truly cut costs was to outsource jobs to other countries where wages were lower and where overhead wasnt quite the issue. F...

The Myths of Innovation (Book Review Summaries and Analysis)

the processes used by several investors, something that might be used as inspiration (Matazan, 2008). The gist of this review, asi...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Payment for Donating Blood

the blood utilized by the pharmaceutical industry in developing vaccines, diagnostics, and drug products (114). That of course mak...

American Immigration Paradoxes

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

Issues Facing the Transgendered Person

(2001). Duberman got his doctorate in 1957 and was firmly "in the closet" at the time, but when he wrote in 2001, he no longer had...

BIOMETRICS: MYTH AND REALITY

purposes: identification and verification (Watching You, 2001). Joano de Barros relied on the first known type of fingerpri...

Mythology for Nations and Individuals

the will to live together is the result of sharing past memories. These shared memories of common experiences, whether "of glories...

White Skin as Privilege?

generally focuses on how so many people have worked hard to become part of the white race. This, in and of itself, would clearly b...

Chaucer, St. Luke, Aristophanes and Their View of Social Issues

even screenwriters who disguise them as interesting stories. The original Star Trek was great at teaching these moral lessons whil...

No Climate Crisis According to Author Michael Crichton

most entertaining books ever written, including Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and The Lost World among others. His 2004 "tec...

There’s Something About Mary

fool has a wondrous capability of truly providing many different elements of human nature to the audience. They can be ridiculous ...

Myths From Ancient India and Mesopotamia

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

Studying Creation Myths

studying it in the same way we study language (Csapo, 2005, p. 220). His theory puts more emphasis on the meaning of myth rather t...

Eliade's Ritual and Mythology and Durkheim's Ritual Theory

In six pages Durkheim's ritual perspectives are examined in terms of their implications when applied to Eliade's arguments on ritu...

Analysis About U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War and the Creation of Myths

American values were the primary motivation of the U.S. participation in the southeast Asia conflict. Author Richard Slotkin expl...

'The Noble Lie' or 'Myths of the Metals' in The Republic by Plato

In five pages this paper examines The Republic in terms of what meaning Plato attached to the 'myths of the metals' and considers ...