Hell in popular culture

Elaine Showalter pointed out in her book, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, “the long-term repression of signs of fear that led to shell shock in war was only an exaggeration of the male sex-role expectations, the self-control and emotional disguise of civilian life.” Thus, leading to men creating a form of resentment towards…

constructed languages, based on Finnish and Welsh, which he later used in some of the novels he wrote. All of these factors and his uniquely creative stories contributed to the success he achieved during his lifetime. In The Two Towers, one of his most popular works, Tolkien shows that old legends and medieval tales continue to be relevant and give wise advice that is still…

Once upon a time, Disney created an animated television programming block known as Disney Afternoon that aired from September 10, 1990 until August 29, 1997. This was the highlight of a child’s life growing up in the ‘90s. Many of the shows were spin offs from Disney’s feature films that came out at the time, such as Aladdin, Hercules, and The Little Mermaid, while others were comedy shows starring anthropomorphic animals such as Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, and TaleSpin. All of these shows were…

Louise are described not as a male bashing and anti-feminist film (Miller 201). Male dominance over female characters such that the woman knows no freedom of choice and voice, no respect, and always submissive to a man’s snaps and tantrums drives the hell out of her. She is not by nature violent as initially depicted of Thelma, a wife to an egoistic and overbearing man, but keeps her voice down while she carries her duties well and puts up with her husband’s cruelty. Her counterpart, Louise…

the things the Mestizos wanted to do was not possible because the Europeans made harsh rules saying what they could and could not do. Many Europeans thought that,“Blacks lacked everything , even a soul; they did not have the right to enter heaven or hell” (Marquez 234). Just like the natives had been discriminated against, so were the blacks. Since the Europeans did this to everyone in the Americas, this clearly shows that the natives and African Americans were being oppressed. With all these…

legends. So, what if the story moral is about a good vs. evil, and it is about a boy…who finds out he is a wizard? What are the effects of Harry potter on the western World? Harry Potter is one of the central tenants of 21st society and century pop culture; it revolutionized what we know as fiction, you can ask anyone what the boy they the lightning mark and the goofy glasses is and many will respond with “You’re a wizard Harry” (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone). It has…

1. What insights have I gained about my role as an educational leader from these chapters? Within chapter six, our book they quote President Ronald Reagan, “We establish no religion in America, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe, or not to believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief” (p. 155). What I…

before either of their voyages. The Native Americans, ironically misbranded as Indians by Columbus, can trace their history of this land back much further than the colonists are able. It is no surprise, therefore, that the Native Americans are a popular subject among colonial authors. Three authors who write extensively concerning these original settlers of American Land…

dream"? This work discusses color and its place in culture. A lot of things in the reality surrounding us we perceive by means of colors and through them. Color terms bear in themselves much more information than it might seem at first glance. Understanding and insight into the world happens primarily by means of perception. Color also has a significant effect on the physical and emotional state of a person. This fact turns color into a culture-forming factor and an important part of one's…

To a lot of people it was as if the Devil himself has leaked through a crack in the Earth says Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University Professor who studies mass communication and popular culture. In the end Manson couldn’t live up to the hype. He and his three co-accused were convicted in early 1971 and sentenced to death. A year later all their sentences were automatically reduced to life in prison because California’s top court has…