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story revolves around an American news correspondent, Jake Barnes, who lives and works in Europe, as well as his assorted friends"...

we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...

killed, Betty gets involved in a con game run by a transvestite named Raulito and takes the Rosalies place as a porno queen. Bert,...

that he could not control it (Marcus 188). On the one hand, there are the critics who claim that Frankenstein had no...

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...

The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...

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...

Philosophy "Hero" as used by Campbell (1990) is androgynous, and he underscores this fact by using the pronouns "he" and "s...

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...

the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...

almost all of them are loners. Even when they are surrounded by a large group of people, there is this inner stoicism, this inner ...

(Pallas Athena, Goddess Of Wisdom). Mans first instinct is to provide for his - or her - own preservation, to tend to his...

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...

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...

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

suitors, who grossly outnumber him. Odysseus himself vows that he will fight "while Ive got arrows to defend me", committed to the...

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

ill with cancer and dying, Cosby would have loved to have had the support of a loving father, but, she felt totally disconnected f...

of the youth that generate that this assessment, that is, his pleasant smile, his eyes, etc. There is a allusion to Narcissus, who...

Television has played a critical role in womens...

cape and superpowers? Someone who follows the dictates of his conscience? Or perhaps someone who overcomes his fear to rise to per...

granted authority" (Knox, 1990, p. 33). Hector is a man of peace born into a time of war, and therefore forced to fight (Knox, 1...

Brian Williams, NBC news anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, was one of the most trusted journalists in mass media. Ev...

Seger explains why people respond strongly to characters in film when those characters go on a journey that touches the audience. ...

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

/ so long as we men of Achaea soldiered on at Troy. / But once wed sacked King Priams craggy city, / boarded ship, and a god dispe...