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Myth and Allegory in Beowulf

and Christian values that are embedded within the narrative; in other words, it, like many myths, intends to convey a central less...

Woolf and Nancy: Interruption of Myth

community in Between the Acts fits with Nancys conceptualization of the interrupt of myth because Woolfs intention was to offer an...

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...

Comparing the Christian Account of Our Creation to the Yoruba Creation Myth

warm and light the new creation (Awolalu, 1996). Obatala then made human figures from dirt, human figures that were varied and co...

Will Margin Trading in Russia Increasing Volatility and Instability of the Russian Stock Markets?

full consensus regarding the evidence. Others argue that margin trading can increase stability and reduce volatility. In order to ...

Myth and Mystery at Custer's Last Stand

1868 (Little Big Horn Battlefield Archaeology & History, 1998; http://www.custerbattle.com/home/ec_hist.htm). This agreement crea...

Zora Neale Hurston's Writings and Voodoo as Culture, Myth, and Religion

Voodoo is the focus of this paper consisting of eleven pages and considers how it is depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's writings and...

Myth or Archetype of the Hero

These "myths" satisfy our "hunger for community." The hero embodies the values of a community. May writes: The myth of the home...

US Family Myth

In five pages this research paper considers the American family ideal in an analysis of 3 essays from the Rereading America multic...

Crime and the 'Black Myth'

In five pages this paper dispels the mistaken notion that blacks are responsible for committing more crimes than whites are. Six ...

The Way American Families Never Were and the Nostalgia Myth

Americans were actually upset over their own perceived decline of morality. And if you read headlines in the 1950s about juvenile ...

Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

The Myths of the British Cabinet by Richard Crossman

In five pages this paper summarizes and critically assesses this text by Richard Crossman. There are no other sources cited....

Historical Objectivity Myth and Peter Novick's That Noble Dream

In sixteen pages this paper analyzes the text and then reviews the issues the author addresses within the context of contemporary ...

J. Sterling Livingston's Article 'The Myth of a Well Educated Manager'

In three pages this paper presents a review of this article by J. Sterling Livingston. There is no bibliography included....

Myth and Reality of Outlaw Jesse James

In five pages this research paper examines the Old West outlaw in terms of how yellow journalism and the political landscape of th...

Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer

Language (1946) According to Cassirer, "myth, art, language and science appear as symbols. . . in the sense of forces, each of wh...

Kingship in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Myths of Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley

In seven pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of how kingship is presented in each. There are no other sources ...

Classical Myth by Barry Powell

In a paper consisting of five pages mythological goddesses such as Hesiod's Pandora are considered within the context of Powell's ...

Analyzing Myth of the Welfare Queen by David Zucchino

In nine pages the views expressed by the author in the text are compared with those by other authors on the same topic. Five sour...

Myth in Homer's Iliad

This essay utilizes a feministic approach and an anthropological approach to interpretation of Homer's Iliad. Eight pages in lengt...

Enlightenment and Entwinement Myth of Horkheimer and Adorno

In seven pages the correlation between enlightenment and mythology as argued by Horkheimer and Adorno is examined. There are no o...

Myth and Reality of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra

in "All for Love" presented a much more traditional Cleopatra, that is, someone who is more of an addictive substance then a ruler...

Myths on Creation

In ten pages the various stories on creation such as Western, Aztec and Mayan, Greco Roman, China, Mesopotamia, and Egypt civiliza...

Beauty and the Beast and Cupid and Psyche Myth Comparisons

"Soul"; Comparing "Tam Lin" To "Cupid and Psyche"). When suitors stopped coming to see Psyche, her family consulted the Or...

An Analysis of The Myth of Self Esteem

self-regard, not egotism" (Anonymous The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Rosenberg.html). But, it is only one aspect of the notion of ...

The Myth of Er and Scipio's Dream as They Relate to American Society

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

The Jesus Myth by Andrew Greeley

edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...

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...

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 ...