...In the Black Freighter, the stranded sailor attempts to jump into the ocean to his death, but doesn’t sink because he finally found land. This comic is becoming darker as it seems the world outside of it is falling apart. The gang at the newsstand are agitated and looking for blood. They blame the costumed heroes, and one of them believes he knows where Nite Owl lives. But it’s not Dan, they find Hollis Mason who answers the door, expecting trick-or-treaters. Mason tries to fight them off but one of them kills him with a statue of himself. After the gang leaves, some kids show up in costume to trick or treat, but candy is not what they...
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...themselves with the inborn, unargued stupidity of older people and the life-affirming gaiety and resourcefulness of young ones. The lovers thread their way through obstacles set up by middle aged vanity and impercipience. Parents are stupid and do not know what it best for their children or themselves . . . [Romeo and Juliet] begins with the materials for a comedy - the stupid parental generation, the instant attraction of the young lovers, the quick surface life of street fights, masked balls and comic servants" (Wain, p. 107). Indeed, one could view Romeo and Juliet as a transitional play in which Shakespeare merges the comedic elements perfected in his earlier work with tragic elements he would later perfect in the great tragedies -- Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. This mixture of styles ultimately hurts Romeo and Juliet, exposing the immaturity of the playwright. The heroes of the play must contend with external forces that impede their relationship, but, unlike the great tragic heroes, they are devoid of the inner struggle that makes for great tragedy. The influential Shakespearean scholar, A.C. Bradley, went so far as to neglect the play entirely in his well-known collection of lectures on the great tragedies, Shakespearean Tragedy. While no one can deny the merits of Shakespeare's powerful, inspired verse, the themes Shakespeare stresses in Romeo and Julietalso seem to reflect his immaturity as a writer. To understand properly who this is so, we must examine...
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...If somebody were to ask you what a hero is, your mind would probably jump to characters ripped straight out of the DC Universe. However, there is more to a hero than just flying and wearing your underwear on the outside of your pants. True heroes exhibit important traits such as bravery, perseverance, and willingness to devote yourself to helping others. There are many great examples of heroes in literature, some obvious, some quite unexpected. One great example of a hero would be Elie Wiesel from his memoir, Night. In this novel, Wiesel recounts his experiences with his father in a Nazi concentration camp and describes the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust. At the end of the novel, his father becomes sick with dysentery. It is during this part that Wiesel exhibits heroic qualities, such as him saying in the novel that he “did everything I could to give him hope.” This proves that he is devoted to helping his father, even though his situation is almost as bad as his father’s. That devotion is an...
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...Public Domain Super Heroes is a collaborative web site about comic book, comic strip, film, literary, pulp, mythological, television, animation, folk stories, etc... Characters in the public domain fitting in genres such as the masked vigilante, caped crusader, villains, scientists, magicians, robots, jungle lord, and their supporting characters. Open source characters are allowed. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create the site. For info on what constitutes "public domain", check out the Public Domain FAQ. After Action Comics #1 gave the world Superman in 1938, there was an explosion of costumed heroes in comics. New publishers and characters sprang up everywhere. After World War II, these type of characters fell out of favor with readers. This caused many publishers to go out of business and many characters were lost. Those comics and their stars have since fallen into the public domain. This enables anyone to use those characters and those classic stories any way they wish. Over the years many publishers have taken advantage of this, including AC Comics (FemForce, Men of Mystery), Malibu (The Protectors), America's Best (Terra Obscura), and - most recently - Dynamite (Project Superpowers), and Image Comics (Next Issue Project, Savage Dragon, and Hack/Slash) among others. HERO Initiative is a non-profit organization that creates a financial safety net for comic creators who may need emergency medical aid,...
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...batman legend: example of the dark knight trilogy There are a lot of differences and similarities between the heroes and gods of the Greek and romans myths and traditions compared to the superheroes and legends of the comic’s books and Hollywood movies. Scholars often conduct researches to define and analyze pieces of art to check its methodological features in terms of form and content. In this humble research we will try to shed the light on the aspects of mythology in batman as a superhero and a legend taking the dark knight trilogy as an example to examine how mythology is represented in this masterpiece by the brilliant director Christopher Nolan. The dark knight trilogy consists of 3 movies: batman begins (2005), the dark knight (2008) and the dark knight rises (2012). The three of them was directed by the filmmaker Christopher Nolan and were inspired from the batman character created by Bob Kane. ``Batman Begins`` movie was basically about the origin of the batman legend as a force of good in Gotham city. In the light of his parents tragic robbery murder (Bruce Wayne) took a journey around the globe looking for meaningful values and tools to fight injustice and criminals. He was taken in by a strange instructor called Ducard and taught him how to become a ninja in what is named the League of Shadows after that he came back to Gotham and uncover his masked crusader (Batman) in order to start fighting gangsters to end their rule in his native city streets. In the second...
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...Tragic heroes are often characters whose flaws cause them to have poor judgement and arrogant responses. Therefore, in “Antigone”, Creon is a prominent example of what a tragic is. He is full of pride, has a stubborn sense of character, and a large amount of power. One reason Crean is seen as a tragic hero is because of all his pride. For example. Creon said,” No woman shall be master while I live.”. However, his proud is what caused him to criminalize Polyneices, even though Creon’s lust for power is the same reason that caused Polyneices and Eteocles to fight. Creon is too prideful to allow a woman to persuade him, or even realize the hypocrisy of certain situations he’s involved in. Throughout the entire story, Creon showed an...
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...In traditional stories, “heroes” are portrayed as the masked, justice-driven super humans who halt villains and rescue victims from perilous situations. In reality, however, this isn’t the case. In Isabel Allende’s story And Of Clay Are We Created an emotionally repressed journalist befriends a girl on the verge of death; they “save” each other, though in the end they part ways forever. In 102 minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, the tragedy that was 9/11 drives otherwise unlikely individuals to rush to the aid of the victims affected. In any turn of event that calls for a hero, even the most unexpected person can rise to the occasion. Heroes are not born but rather created by...
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...00’s. It all started with the Batman-movie who was published in 2002 and became a massive success. If we look at the cold facts we can see, that in the list of best selling movies are The Avengers from 2012 and The Dark Night from 2008 present. This is an independent genre, although it’s got a lot in common with the action-genre. In both genres, we have an outstanding hero who saves the day and is unbeatable. But in the action-genre we have heroes like Harry Callahan and John McClane, who comes home at the and of the day and still remains the same hero. Unlike Spiderman and Batman who comes home in the end of the day and becomes a whole other person when they take their masks of. Often, when they get home, the superheroes turn into the opposite of a superhero- someone that you would never expect to save the world. And someone you could identify yourself with. And that is one of the most important parts in a superhero movie, because the hero stays anonymous and that creates an exiting story and a different view on the heroes. These superheroes are also different, because they take care of business by them selves. They do not get help from the police and doesn’t care a great deal about the law. Actually they usually don’t follow it. You could call them a lawless. If you take a closer look at the word superhero, you can start to wonder where “super” comes from. It’s a big word and a little bit odd. Rambo for instance would never call himself “super” -it’s like he has...
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...raised to be. Although the powerful superhuman wears a great costume while it is not very humbling it sets him apart from the person everyone knows as the calm and collected Clark Kent. What distinguishes Superman from most high flying superheroes is that his human form Clark Kent is the real costume where when he is superman he is able to show off who he is and where he came from. Other heroes use their masked persona as a way to keep their personal life in check and to also do what they were made to do. People found most of these characters emotions pretty relatable and felt at times they were putting on a costume for people to think of them as normal as well. The secret identity and personality of superheroes is one that differs in importance and priority a lot in comics, such as how Superman and Batman are portrayed to how Iron Man and Captain America are. Notably, Spider-Man, like Deadpool and others, represents an identity that is quite humorous to some and weird to others. Spider-Man's polar opposite, troubled and antisocial teen Peter Parker, transforms into a crime-fighting superhuman. Heroes such as the Hulk or the Fantastic Four present normal humans with a new life as a superhero. For Batman, with unmatchable wealth and free-time that is quite questionable of owning a billion dollar company, Bruce Wayne relates to the person stuck in the dark feeling out of place in society and the wealthy white guy with everything he wants before him. These fan favorites give a different...
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...The Dark Knight- English ESSAY The Dark Knight, released in 2008 and written, directed and produced by Christopher Nolan is set within a year after the events of Batman Begins. Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious criminal mastermind known as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Through the use of various visual codes and conventions the central ideas of Chaos vs Order, Heroes vs Villains and Light vs Dark are reinforced during the final scenes of the film. Viewers of The Dark Knight are challenged to respond to the central themes and ideas and explore the in depth characterization within the film. The idea of order within Gotham collapses when Harvey Dent, once seen a symbol of order as Gotham’s elected DA declines rapidly and becomes a representation of chaos or anarchy. This is revealed through Harvey Dent’s dialogue at the ending scene in the film, saying “the only morality in a cruel world is chance”. This dialogue is paired with the symbolic action of flipping a scorched 2 headed coin, signifying Harvey’s change from a symbol of order or Gotham’s “white knight” to his decline into chaos. The Joker is known throughout the film as a agent of chaos as he said during this dialogue with Harvey Dent in the hospital “Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I am an agent of chaos. Oh, and...
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...Okonkwo’s self-awareness begins after he returned from his expulsion of seven years with a plan in mind. But, it is not long before Okonkwo realizes that Umuofia is extremely different than it was when he was sentenced to exile and he is not as important. He understands that “a man’s place is not always there, waiting for him” and that “he [has] lost his place among the nine masked spirits” (Achebe 20.1-2). However, Okonkwo does not realize the extent in which the white man has rooted himself in his village. Achebe notes that “the church had come and led many astray” and the white men also brought a government (20.15-16). Okonkwo does not like that the Igbo people have accepted Christian customs and religion and his violent character leads him to coax his tribe to use violence to drive the white men out of Umuofia. Many clan members supported the church and would not support the proposal: “There were many men and women I Umuofia who did not feel as strongly as Okonkwo about the new dispensation” (Achebe 21.1). However, Okonkwo does not realize that “Umuofia will not go to war” until none of the tribe members go...
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...Why American society needed heroes in the aftermath of World War II- Paul Gallico, described athletic stars as "the Golden People", nothing that in the years following World War I sport had " its first million-dollar prizefights, and the adulation of sports heroes rose to the point almost of national hysteria". As World War I came to a close, however, the " Golden People" were anything but. The horrible devastation of the war and its terrible new weapons had shattered the idealistic notions of the Progressive reformers. The decade of the 1920s was termed the "Golden Age of Sports", and the media's creation of sport heroes during this time provided a stabilizing influence in a rapidly changing American culture. Sports stars were lionized as All-American types who exemplified American cultural values. The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame represented the American ideology of spirit, teamwork, and assimilation of diverse groups within society. Babe Ruth, the most famous of all the athletic heroes, symbolized the American dream, the land of opportunity and meritocracy, where one could succeed despite humble origins. The depiction of such heroes presented a more homogenous culture and solidified an American cultural identity, but it also masked social tensions inherent in the United States in the aftermath of World War I and during the Great Depression and World War II The media's role in constructing a popular culture- The new communication medium of radio became commonplace...
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...Watchmen, you feel a slight disappointment... this is because you know that it's over, and you won't be able to sit at home and read a continuation tomorrow.You are also left feeling excitement, knowing that this graphic novel is going to be made a Hollywood reality in March, 2009. A summary is in order, what IS watchmen? It's a comic book... it's a philosophical piece... it's an epic literary work that has been remarked as the greatest graphic novel of all time. Watchmen was written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Picture this: It's 1985, but not the 80's you remember. This is a futuristically inclined 80's era, another version of the 80's if you will. "Masked vigilantes" are regular here, and we are quickly introduced to the prospect of them as this book centers around a retired group of heroes, and their predecessors. With the exception of one of them, these are ordinary people living in tough times who just wanted to bring justice to New York City. This is where I will get into my reaction, therefore, my review of this amazing piece. It is not only inspiring, but it will invoke emotions in you that you might not have even knew you possessed. The book goes from story to story to story, with one main focus being the state of the world, and a secondary focus on who the people are who have been fighting to keep the peace. It doesn't stop there, as another primary point of the book is a mystery including our main characters being attacked and killed off one by one...
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...Throughout southwestern America, there are several western Pueblo Native American cultures that exist. These cultures all share a similar cosmology and spiritualism known as Kachina, which is most prominent in Hopi culture. Kachina is a term that relates to several things. Kachina is a religion, and the term also refers to spirit beings or personifications of things in the real world. In Hopi culture, these Kachinas are embodied by masked members of the tribes who dress up like them for religious ceremonies. Ceremonies were the most predominant interest of the Hopi people. In fact, they were the focal point of most of their thought and energy, and an expression of their genius. The Hopi believed that the Kachinas lived in the San Francisco Mountains, where they remained for half of the year. The other half of the year, there were numerous ceremonies that took place, bringing the Kachinas to their tribes. The second half of the year was devoted to the various ceremonies which were part of their religion, and performed in an attempt to bring rain. There is evidence of ceremonial calendars that marked the dates for each of the sacred ceremonies. These ceremonies can be considered performances, as they combined music, dance and song in one art form. The Kachina dances played a huge role in Hopi culture; every man took an active part in the dances throughout his life, and the women and children were also involved, but in different ways such as preparation and audience participation...
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...10/17/2014 Org. Behaviour & Management: MBA_ 607 Lecture No.5 Organisational Culture Dr Kwasi Dartey-Baah 1 Overview What is organisational culture? How does culture develop Impact of culture Work Applications 2 1 10/17/2014 What is Organisational Culture” Organisational Culture: What is it? Organisational culture is a system of shared values, assumptions, believes and norms that unite the members of the organisation. Organisational culture is also referred to as Corporate Culture (Internal Environment). Culture is ‘how things are done around here’. It is what is typical of the organisation, the habits, the prevailing attitudes, the grownup pattern of accepted and expected behaviour (Drennan,1992). 3 Type of cultures /how culture develops Types of organisational culture Charles Handy describes four types of cultures basing his work on the earlier ideas of Harrison. (i) Power culture: This is very political, revolving around a central power source found in small entrepreneurial organisations. Few rules or procedures. Emphasis on results rather than means. Advantages: ‘proud and strong organisations’ and has ability to react well to threats or danger. Disadvantages: Only as good as their leader/s. Have problems with increased organisational size and complexity and with management succession. 4 2 10/17/2014 Type of cultures /how culture develops (ii) Role culture: Bureaucratic with...
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