The book “American Born Chinese” by Gene Yang covers a lot of issues that affect our current society. The topics it covers include family, culture, identity, race, gender, and social class. Although the book mainly is about Jin, it begins with a story about the Monkey King. The book then proceeds to Jin’s story in […]
Everyday millions of Americans plop down in front of their TVs to get their daily intake of news and current events of what happened that day. Sadly, most of the news and facts they are getting have been altered somehow by someone at the news corporation or by the reporters themselves. In the numerous news […]
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Get startedIs the Media Bias? Many people including myself believe that it is. On the other hand, there are people who believe that media is not biased and just states facts. These people (i.e. my dad). who believe that media is not biased also believe that everything on TV is true, in my experience. We see […]
Bias Media 1Running head: BIAS MASS MEDIABias of the American Mass MediaRace Issue PaperDrake GlasenEnglish 111Jacqueline CasonMs. Cornell4/05/2006Bias Media 2The Bias of the American Mass MediaRace and gender codes are constructed from cultural histories, beliefs, and most influentially, the media. According to Omi, (1989) people use race and gender to help identify with a person […]
Personal liberty supersedes the constraints of societal conventions. This is the message of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” which centers on Louise Mallard, a married woman who learns she is now a widow. Her sister informs her that her husband has died in an accident, causing her to break down into sobs. However, […]
In the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, the author Oscar Wilde uses a significant pun in the word “earest”. Separate from being the title of the play, there is a character whom goes by the name of Earnest Worthing in the city, but goes by the Jack Worthing in the country. The word earnest […]
As much as people prefer to see themselves as individuals, society controls us more than we admit or even recognize. Oscar Wilde’s lighthearted look at societal expectations in The Importance of Being Earnest ironically suggests that society provides pressure to appear perfect, but often this pressure warps or destroys one’s perfectly genuine self. In Wilde’s […]
The latter half of the nineteenth century was an important period in Chinese American history. The story of their migration from their homeland to America to seek riches. With their combined strength, knowledge and skills changed the face of Hawaii and the American West. Unfortunately, this dynamic period also saw the rise of racism and […]
I am Robinson Crusoe’s wasted life: The Comparison of Fight Club and Robinson Crusoe regarding the theme of self-Fulfilment. When asked, most people would say that money is not the important aspect of life. In the case of self-fulfillment, this is a very true case. Money alone, after-all, can not bring a feeling of self-fulfillment to someone. […]
In Chuck Palahniuk’s book, Fight Club, two social classes, the working class and the multi-billion corporations, were displayed throughout the book that caused mayhem between the two within society. The two social classes cannot work together due fact of their economic status, but even if one social class was being sabotaged, threatened, or mistreated the two […]
In Smoke Signals, Thomas and Victor fulfill each part of the Hero’s Journey, from “The Ordinary World” to “Return with the Elixir”. For instance, Suzie Song acts as the maiden presenting the heroes with gifts as their reward at the end of their journey. Their first journey is to Phoenix to retrieve Arnold Joseph’s […]
Is it possible that stories from all around the world follow a certain pattern? According to Joseph Campbell, it is. He is an American scholar who identified and described a pattern of narrative that appears in storytelling, religion, myth, drama, and psychological development called the “Hero’s Journey.” There are around 10-17 stages to the monomyth, […]
In the Land of Heroes: A Comparison of Greek and American Mythology Throughout every generation in every culture there is an apparent connection that continues to tie the human race together. From the beginning of time story telling has been a way for humanity to explain different subject matters, metaphors, events, and even religion. Often […]
Superman vs. Gandhi: An Analysis of Heroic Literature What are some characteristics that heroes in your life possess? Most would say undeniable strength, a kind heart, and a chiseled jaw. However, unfortunately, not all men with these features can really save us. In order to identify true heroes in our lives, we need to identify […]
What Makes a Hero This year in British Literature, heroes and antiheroes have been a consistent and central theme. Starting with Winston Smith acting as an antihero in the novel 1984 by George Orwell, then to various other stories with heroes and antiheroes. The classic heroic character was introduced through the epic poem, Beowulf, in […]
In the novel The Outsiders by SE. Hinton, Ponyboy discovers that Greasers and Socs are not as stereotypical as the Greasers think, and that each are unique people with varied interests. The heroes’ journey is a framework upon which all stories dating back to Greek mythology follow, and the main character(s) embark upon. This journey […]
The story of Harry Potter begins as Harry Potter is about to celebrate his eleventh birthday. All of his other birthdays have come and gone rather plainly and uneventful. The Durselys whom he lives with have never given Harry a birthday present and constantly abuse Harry both physically and mentally. Harry begins to receive mysterious […]
No Man Can Walk Out of His Own Story Gore Verbinski’s animated film, Rango, portrays a chameleon who accidently winds up in the Las Vegas desert after being thrown from the back of his owner’s automobile, and becomes the desperate needed sheriff in the town Dirt. The main character, Rango, demonstrates Joseph Campbell’s monomyth of a hero’s […]
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel set in a future where books are outlawed and any that are found are burned by firemen. Guy Montag, one of these firemen, meets a seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan who causes him to question society and become increasingly dissatisfied with his life. This drives him to steal […]
Fate: The Impetus Behind the Protagonist’s Journey Commonplace in literature, especially in epic poems, the protagonist is bound by an assured fate. This theme of fate and prophecy is used by authors to foreshadow later events. Fate, in both the Odyssey and the Aeneid, was the supernatural force that drove the heroes destiny whether or […]
Often in myth, the audience will watch a character undergo a miraculous series of challenges or events in a “quest” like fashion. This is known as a hero quest myth. These hero quest myths however, no matter the date they were written, or culture from which they came, hero quest myths often have parallel underlying themes, […]
Dreams and the Hero’s Journey The book All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy follows the boy, John Grady, throughout his travels in Mexico. The story is a bildungsroman, or a story about a hero who matures with the experiences gained during the adventure to ultimately become a fully developed individual. The methods McCarthy uses […]
The tale of Hamlet carries on its legendary back many dynamic characters, however none of them develop as much or change as much as the character of Hamlet himself. Hamlet is a story written by William Shakespeare about a prince named Hamlet trying to get revenge for his father’s death. In this story the character of […]
The Medieval romances are fond of using conventions that are often stereotypical of day-to-day living especially in the realm of romance and upholding virtues. These associative scenarios usually make it a familiar experience for the readers or audiences. According to Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey is an identification of the pattern common with medieval romances. Sir […]
“When we quit thinking about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness”, said Joseph Campbell. The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a story of an Afghan boy who has to go through many trials and suffering in order to make up for his sins. The main character Amir […]
The question of whether or not parenting should be regulated or licensed is a difficult one. On the one hand, the number of children who end up in foster care because of incapable parents is staggering as is the number of children from broken homes who are unable to regain their lives after being abused. Even […]
The Foster Care systems that are in operation today are very minimally funded and provide a very low success rate of the children that come out of the foster child system in most states. The media labels the system as a last resort, that it is almost a punishment, when in reality the children have done […]
Can you imagine being born already in the foster care system? Then being adopted and after that going back into foster care? Some can’t even fathom going threw it but I did. As soon as I was born I was a ward of the court and after that I was adopted by my auntie. Ten years […]
Forty percent of all adolescents that age out of the foster care system end up homeless (Scannapieco, M, Carrick, K, & Painter, K., 2007). From the Orphan trains to the Children’s Bureau, foster care has been a controversial and well researched topic in the United States. The Orphan trains gave children the opportunity to be […]
In today’s world, children grow up in seemingly perfect homes and have everything they need to survive, thrive, and be happy, but this doesn’t happen for every child. Some children grow up in a totally different way. Imagine being raised by people who aren’t your biological parents. Oftentimes, being transferred from home to home. Never quite […]
