In a book written by urban legend specialist Jan Brunvand‚ “The Vanishing Hitchhiker‚” there is a trilling chapter about the theme of contamination in different urban legends. Whether it is about food or body contamination‚ those legends of contagion have been in place for quite some time‚ but not always exactly in the same form. The way those legends are infiltrated in our culture can tell us a lot about their importance and their evolution. The two legends “Alligators in the sewers” and “Spider
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Allow me to start with the definition of what is called a myth and what is called a hero. There is not one and a unique definition of the word myth but there are many. As a matter of fact‚ we have to distinguish between ancient mythology and today’s mythology. Ancient mythology consists of folklore stories that put in connection the world of Gods and the world of Men. So we hear about supernatural people and conflicts between the gods that fight over the earth; but nowadays mythology has modified
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Angelica Diaz ENC 1102 Reference #809838 The Myth of the Cave and a Rose for Emily The stories “Myth of the Cave” by Plato’s and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner reveal how people are compelled to live their life in an illusion or a different way rather than to live in reality‚ thinking that’s how life is supposed to be‚ not knowing what life really looks like‚ they make this illusion seem real‚ at least to them. Even though the plots of the stories are different‚ they both share similar
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12 Myths about Hunger Why so much hunger? What can we do about it? To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught. Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it. Myth 1: Not Enough Food to Go Around Reality: Abundance‚ not scarcity‚ best describes the world’s food supply. Enough wheat‚ rice and other grains are produced to provide every human being with 3‚200 calories a day.
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The Death of Reality and the Reality of Death Death is never easy. Afterall it is the only sure thing anyone will ever do. Yet how one dies is determined by how they live. One who lives their life to the fullest will be content and open to death‚ while one whose life has been empty will fear it; but what if the difference between full and empty was not so easily differentiated? What if reality and falsehood were the same? This idea is contemplated in both Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and
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culture Ethnocentric culture is an affinity to think that one’s cultural group is centrally significant‚ and that all other groups are considered in relation to one’s own. Culture universal The culture prevalent in the world. Culture and Reality We are living in the age of postmodernism‚ post modernism is a world view 1‚ and it is not a single world view at all. There were so many world views before this‚ not before‚ but simultaneously too. But we are discussing here the most prominent
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HUMANITIES - OPINION PIECE Have the Anzac commemorations become too commercialised? Before venturing into an answer‚ it’s important to understand the question. What does ‘commercialised’ really mean? The Free Dictionary describes commercialised as “organised principally for financial gain.” It does not mention popularity‚ a broadened reach into mainstream consciousness or increased awareness of what something is. However‚ these very things may occur if something organised for the purpose of financial
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CLA204 Lecture 1 Notes What is myth? - mûthos (ancient Greek) – “story”‚ “plot” of a narrative - myth – “a traditional story of collective (social) importance” – character‚ plot‚ temporal and special setting - mûthos (story) + logos (account) = “study of myth”‚ mythology - set in distant past or time so long ago when humans did not exist - mythical place – ie. garden paradise‚ world of the dead‚ etc. Circulation of Myth: oral (Orpheus‚ Homer‚ Hesiod) literary (Ovid‚ Euripides) artistic
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Legend of the Seeker Misrepresents Every person can name at least one or five or ten books that have been turned into a movie or a television show. Books such as Twilight‚ Harry Potter‚ Lord of the Rings‚ Of Mice and Men‚ Wizards First Rule‚ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ - though that is a play- and many more. But how many of these productions actually portray the book in the fashion in which it was written. My guess is that the number is very few. People read books because they enjoy them and get excited
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