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The Myth of Western Outlaw Johnny Ringo, 2006.
An analysis of the life of mythic hero, Johnny Ringo.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 24.95
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This paper analyzes the mythic hero, Johnny Ringo, defined as such because Western frontier society admired perceived gunfighter traits such as courage, self-reliance, ambition and individualism. According to the paper, the real man possessed these traits to a certain extent, but he was not the heroic figure many of his contemporaries and twentieth-century movies and TV Westerns made him out to be. Like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and other gunfighters of the Old West, he became a symbolic hero of a Western frontier culture that never really existed. It further reports that the true story of Johnny Ringo can be ascertained by examining Internet websites such as Johnny Ringo.com, where the factual history of his life is available.
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"Johnny Guitar", 2002.
A review of the film "Johnny Guitar".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, £ 24.95
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A critical analysis of the western genre movie "Johnny Guitar" directed by Nicholas Ray.
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"Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic", 2002.
Examines the representation of organic existence and consciousness in Gibson's "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 30.95
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This essay will argue, with respect to the stories "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic", that Gibson represents the relationship between technology and the body as a dynamic process that is in continual flux. The characters in his stories attempt to determine fixed meaning in this cybernetic chaos, but come to accept the deferment of certainty and meaning that is a consequence of technology's continual reshaping of the boundaries of the body and its consciousness.
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Analysis of "Johnny Got His Gun", 2000.
This essay looks at the moving book by Dalton Trumbo inspired by the horrors of World War One.
2,715 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 56.95
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This paper examines Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun", a book which attempted to enable its readers to understand the horrors of war. The main character, Joe, who is completely crippled, unable to speak, hear, see, or move, is analyzed by the author who discusses how his thoughts are all he has to live for. The paper also looks at how war is romanticized by people, but in reality, is sheer hell.
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"Joe is crippled by an artillery shell which takes out his face and all of his limbs. He can not speak, move, see, hear, taste, or smell. Amazingly kept alive by doctors, he is essentially a piece of meat which can think. There are several specific messages which Trumbo strongly asserts in his novel: the idiocy of regimentalism and nationalism; that we can not comprehend what it is like to be a casualty, dead or alive; that war is terribly brutal and dehumanizing, and therefore unnatural; and that it is always the little guy who fights the rich man's wars. Trumbo's sentiment is reflective of the pacifism of the interwar period, and which led to appeasement towards Hitler until his invasion of Poland."
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"Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic", 2002.
Analysis of the literary genre known as "cyberpunk" and its focus the use of computer technologies.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 42.95
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The literary genre popularly known as "cyberpunk" blends elements of hard-boiled detective fiction with speculative reflections on the impact of computer networking technologies upon the body politic and the body organic.
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Oral History of Johnny Hemphill, 2003.
This is an oral history of an African-American, WW II veteran. It is the result of four hours of interviews.
1,538 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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The paper presents a straightforward history of the man and then provides some analysis to place his experience in the context of world events.
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"Johnny Hemphill, born in Asheville in 1924, was drafted into military service in 1942 directly after graduation from high school. He was initially taken to Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C. for a battery of tests to determine his physical and mental condition. At the time, Fort Bragg served as a sorting point for soldiers and draftees from North and South Carolina so Hemphill, along with two friends from the Asheville area, boarded a bus for Fayetteville to await their fates. Hemphill recalls being desirous of a position in the National Guard, as he perceived it as an institution where ?a colored guy could really get ahead, could actually move upwards.? This stood in direct contrast to what Hemphill had heard about other branches of the military; ?my brother had just gone to the army and he told me, ?don?t you go in the army?, he said ?don?t you go where you got to sleep on the ground.??
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Myths and American Culture, 2007.
An examination of the cultural connections between the "myth of the cowboy" and the "myth of origins" in American cultural history.
1,159 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the "myth of the cowboy" and the "myth of origins" in American cultural history. It specifically focuses on the cultural connection between the two myths. The paper argues that these two mythic narratives may be seen to be fundamentally identical in that their narrative elements and ultimate purpose are to justify the expansion and assertion of Euro-American power in the New World.
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"In conclusion, it is clear that the "cowboy myth" is a potent cultural construction that - while distinct from the "myths of origin" in terms of time frame - nonetheless may be seen to be intimately related to these myths in how it justifies the extension of European settlement and authority over North America. The myths together effectively displace the Aboriginal First Nations of the continent from their historical role as the first settlers of these lands, and thus achieves on the level of cultural history what European power achieved on the landscape of the continent itself: the displacement and marginalization of Aboriginal culture. In this way, we can see how cultural narratives, while not even historically valid, can possess enormous power to create meanings and determine how we understand our histories and ourselves."
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Myths about Sex, 2004.
This paper addresses the key issues regarding the myths about sex. It has a "Myth: Fact:" format and has numerous issues, which are discussed with relevant factual information.
2,849 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 58.95
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This paper addresses the main myths that are spread regarding sex. It addresses each myth and discusses it in detail, considering the reality and the facts that deny or prove that myth.
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"Youngsters face enormous confusions throughout their early years with regards to sexual knowledge. Their questions and queries either fall on deaf ears or they are to shy to discuss this. This results in a lot of confusion and therefore gives rise to rumors and stories which they hear from peers and class mates."
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The Ritual Theory of Myths, 2002.
The paper explores the ritual theory of Roman myths by examining the myths and rituals surrounding two Roman Gods, Demeter and Dionysus.
927 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 22.95
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The paper analyzes the connections between the ritual calendar of the Romans and the cyclical elements contained in the myths of Demeter and Dionysus. The paper discusses the issue of whether myths or rituals came first and concludes that it is likely that the rituals preceded the myths.
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"Demeter was the Roman goddess of corn and the earth?s fertility. She and Dionysus were considered to be benevolent helpers of mankind. Like many of the Roman gods and goddesses, they were honored and represented by daily activities. Demeter and Dionysus were represented by the acts of breaking bread and drinking wine. Demeter lost her daughter to Hades and Dionysus died with the coming of the cold season. It is not difficult to see the mythological connection to death and the coming of cold in the ancient world. The story of Demeter has many cyclical elements, including the compromise that Demurrer?s daughter would spend only a portion of the year on earth. This coincides with the fertility cycles and winter on earth."
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Myths and Avoiding Stagnation, 2002.
A detailed demonstration of the meaning of petrification of the myth and its effects on myths.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper presents a detailed demonstration of the meaning of petrification of the myth. The writer takes the reader on an exploratory journey to discover what the term means and how it effects the myths. Using several examples of its occurrence the writer demonstrates the term and its meaning.
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"Petrifiction of a myth can mean death to a myth. The petrification process is a process by which a substance is hardened to such a point, that it will hold its current look and value for all time. The petrification of stones for example can create some beautiful discussion pieces, while the petrifications of dinosaur shapes can tell the world the history of their existence. Petrification in many areas can be a positive thing, but the myth that petrifies ceases to serve its purpose and soon dies. Therefore, the petrification of the myth is the myth?s biggest challenge and one that it has to work its way around for its entire existence."
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God, Myth, and Society, 2004.
This paper discusses that the social sciences have searched to identify the purpose of religions, but in their efforts to define the purpose of myth, sociologists are still at a loss.
5,645 words (approx. 22.6 pages), 23 sources, MLA, £ 94.95
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This paper explains that ideas about moral values, religions, or myths, which have an absolute foundation in a ?god? who is essentially ?other? than ourselves, have been replaced in the minds of this generation by the treatise of relative morals and ethics. The author points out that there are the two common frameworks that classical mythologists used to understand the construction of myth: (1) Belief systems, which attempt to give the person a sense of control over that which is larger than him or herself, and (2) myths, which allow the person an understanding of themselves and the world around them. The paper stresses that, in the wake of man?s self-enlightenment, the striving for knowledge has left behind an unexplained vacuum in the minds and hearts of men to still remain connected to myth-belief systems.
Table of Contents
Levi-Strauss?s Conundrum Regarding Myth
Personal ?Needs? for a God Identity Myth
Myth Definition
Myth Construction
Myth?s Purpose
Conclusion
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"As consequence to the failure of religious leader to adapt an argument for God?s existence in scientific terms, man?s continued desire to connect with a ?higher being? was reduced to the idea of myth. Thus construction of the myth has absorbed much of sociologist?s activities for the last half century. How and why man creates belief systems for something that is not real poses a problem to the scientific mind. If God does not exist, then within mankind there must be internal desires which create the longing and psychological need for attachment to an ethical system, or moral compass. Another hypothesis is that within the social construct of a community, there exists a collective need for the group to find identity with a ?higher order'.?"
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Man?s Myths, 2004.
This paper discusses that myth is not only a sociological function, but also has a basis in reality, which does not fit inside the scientist?s world of logical and visually measurable phenomena.
5,370 words (approx. 21.5 pages), 13 sources, APA, £ 91.95
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This paper explains that the reason for developing a myth is to understand the existing social order in terms of things that are familiar to the members of the society; myths are designed from experiences of the people. The author points out that the continuation of religious myth in the collective experience of mankind after developing scientific rational has presented anthropologists with a continuing dilemma. This paper explains that myth is a moral code, such as the story that delineates right and wrong or good and bad to those people who believe in and live by a specific myth.
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Personal ?Needs? for a God Identity Myth
Myth Construction
Myth?s Purpose
Conclusion
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"Boyer also identified what he calls activation points around which the oral tradition is elevated to the level of a myth. The activation points for Boyer are the complex set of circumstances which men and women can experience as they mature. These events are often in need of an explanation that resides in an external locus of control. According to Boyer's research, these anthropological and sociological experiences trigger a specific physiological ethos in the brain, and the brain is primed to ?look for? traditions which explain these experiences. It is by chance that the myth and a religious framework is the best framework to give these experiences a cohesive meaning."
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Greek Myth as History, 1979.
This paper examines myth as history as exemplified in the Greek Pantheon of the characters of Oedipus, Theseus, and Hercules stressing conflicts between myth and reality and sources and functions of myths.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 10 sources, £ 77.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the topic "Myth as History" as exemplified in the Greek Pantheon of the characters of Oedipus, Theseus, and Hercules. The structure of this study is bi-focal. It first analyzes the concepts of myth and mythology, perhaps from an anthropological point of view. Second, it compares and contrasts the mythical and possibly historical elements in the myths surrounding the three above nominated characters of that Pantheon:
The prime function of myth is to codify, support, and validate the traditional belief and behavior . . . knowledge of the mythical past gives incentive and justification for rituals and moral action,and also guides to the correct performance of sacred acts.. ... "
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The Medusa Myth and the Female Gaze, 2002.
This paper explores the portrayal of female figures in art and myth, focusing on the Medusa myth and the castrating power of the female gaze and their effect of the female self-image.
2,240 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 48.95
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The paper reviews in detail the image of Medusa that pits femininity and masculinity against each other and allowing masculinity to triumph. The paper continues by stating that the gaze of the painted female subject often is depicted with her eyes either diverted from the viewer, or coyly regarding him. The author states that myths like the Medusa myth and the female gaze instruct women that their sexuality is something to be suppressed, that a powerful woman is a dangerous woman, and that the male will triumph in the end.
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"Though the familiar image of Medusa as a serpent-haired monster is attributed to the Greeks, the myth of Medusa actually has its roots in pre-classical Mediterranean culture. In the matriarchal societies that existed before Greek civilization, Medusa was far from reviled as she was by the Greeks; instead, she was worshipped as a beautiful mother deity who symbolized wisdom, fertility, and female power. With the advent of Greek civilization, the existing gynocentric religion and mythology were compelled to adapt to the new patriarchal value system."
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