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    Hero’s Journey (Night at the Museum) The story of "Night at the Museum"‚ produced in 2006‚ is often portrayed as just a comedic movie‚ but in reality‚ it’s a heroic tale of preserving the powers of an Egyptian tablet that lets the beings within the museum come to life at night. This story is a supernatural take‚ because things happen in this movie that are impossible to occur in the real world. The plot of the story revolves around a man named Larry Daley‚ a part time night guard for the New York

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    Fahrenheit 451 takes place in the future and is of a dystopian society where reading and possessing books was made illegal.To take care of this problem the government has made the jobs of firemen to set books on fire rather than to put out fires.The main character Guy Montag is a firefighter that was going through the motions in life and doing his job until his views and ideas were changed. He begins to question the ways of society and ultimately becomes in his own way a hero. People are capable

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    The Hero Workshop Philosophy Part 1 – The Hero’s Journey You’re the hero of your own journey Joseph Campbell set out the idea of an archetypal hero’s journey in 1949 after studying religion and mythology across the world. He later applied it to the life of everyone‚ famous hero or not. What follows is a simplified version. The Mundane World The first part of the Hero’s Journey sees the hero in the normal world. The hero has yet to be introduced to their journey. Often they are being held

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    The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell states that all heroes go through different stages on their path to becoming a hero. Nelson Mandela from “World Leaders: Nelson Mandela’’ is considered a Hero because he goes through The Hero’s Journey stages. The stages he went through were The Road of Trials‚ Allies/Helpers‚ and The Supreme Ordeal. In The Hero’s Journey the stage Nelson Mandela goes through is the Road of Trials. “The Road of Trials is a Series of tests‚ tasks‚ or Ordeals that the person must

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    Amulya Surabhi‚ Bell 1‚ A Hope More Powerful than the Sea by Melissa Fleming Doaa‚ a real hero. Quickly picture a hero. What do you see? I’ll produce to you a popular image. Grand music to elevate the figure is playing in the background. A man with perfect posture‚ and confidence echoing through his pose is smiling almost victoriously at you. The background could vary‚ however chances are there is a yellow gleam coming from the man as if he were the sun itself. It’s not an entirely unjust stereotype

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    Wandering free‚ wish I could be‚ part of that world.” Ariel sings this in the beginning of The Little Mermaid after an adventure with Flounder. She wishes to be a human with legs and live the way the humans do. The Little Mermaid is an example of a monomyth‚ also called a heroic adventure. Ariel may not seem like a so-called-typical-hero throughout the majority of the movie‚ but she has her own heroic ways. Three characteristics of a hero are a remarkable birth‚ troubled childhood‚ and being able to

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    Eduardo Palacios Week 6 assignment Archetype Love Based on Romeo and Juliet. In the movie Romeo and Juliet‚ film directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968. I chose love as archetypal. “Why do we struggle with love or why does love so often get so difficult? We as people are all born with the character of love and most people want to be in a relationship. So why do so many relationships go wrong? As with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet we often believe

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    the movie seems to be a typical pirate/hero story‚ but after closer inspection‚ the viewer can see that the story closely follows the classic hero’s journey‚ or the monomyth. Pirates of The Caribbean also has several characteristics of Romanticism strewn about in the movie. Starting off‚ the film does stray a bit from the monomyth with the introduction of the main female lead. The audience is lead to believe that she is the main hero of the story‚ and that is correct in a way‚ but the heroes can

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    the hero can apply all the wisdom he’s brought back to the Ordinary World Return with Elixir The hero returns from the journey with the “elixir”‚ so everyone in the world can use to heal physical or emotional wounds. Archetypes in the Film Archetype Who plays this Archetype in the Film? How do you

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    Plato’s Theory of Forms is not something that is easy to understand. According to him the forms are a class concept that is a perfect example of the form itself. To anyone scanning through the forms they might not grasp the full concept Plato is trying to get across. However‚ if time is taken to examine Plato’s theory it can make sense. For Plato everything has a pure form. If you take any property of an object and separate it from the object itself‚ you are left contemplating a form. Plato

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