Joseph McCarthy

What are the characteristics of a hero? Does a hero have to have a power, great looks, and are privileged? Does every hero have to be a hyper masculine male who go to a far off land to battle monsters? In movies and novels, heroes are depicted as a perfect hyper masculine male who is considerably perfect in all aspects from the moment of their birth. Going beyond the movie and novel realm, in the modern world most people’s concept of a hero is fairly narrow. Rarely do most people concern…

As Americans, we have fought in many wars, as a nation, we picked up our weapons and fought for what we believe is right. Some fought for land, others for freedom or simply because they are too diverse in their mindset. We will take a walk through history and analyze a battle that was the revolving summit in the American Civil War. A very complex and costly battle, although one nation they had different ideologies, beliefs and views. The South a culture developed around a status quo, the…

affected. Both novels present two major characters who present the ideology of the societies they represent. These characters embody represent the aspects of the cultures that molded them for both good and bad. Set in the dense heart of the Congo Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness revolves around an essence of European imperialism masked by good intentions. Throughout the novel, Conrad presents the world through the eyes of a European who is able to see both sides, civilized and savage. The two…

Joseph Campbell, in his book chapter “The Self as Hero,” argues how all heroes go through similar, if not the same, stages on the way to complete their journey. He supports his claim by citing evidence from classic literary tales like “The Princess and the Frog” and “When the Two Came to their Father” and appealing to pathos and logos. Campbell’s purpose is to educate readers on how most hero stories follow the same path and can influence and be influenced by the public, who can learn from the…

The ideologies and goals of the Mexican and Russian revolutions were both engineered in hope that the result would strengthen the lower class, redistribute mass amounts of land, and create more equality between the rich and the poor. Although the results of both revolutions are viewed as successful, the conclusion of the Mexican revolution was drastically less radical than the Russian revolution because of Mexico’s multiple revolutionary leaders with conflicting ideas of change along with a lack…

5 Traits All Successful Startup Entrepreneurs Have Achieving success in your business has nothing to do with the conditions under which the business was established; neither is it a function of luck or good fortune. Enjoying a successful run in your business is based solely on level of commitment, hard work and financial diligence exhibited by you as an entrepreneur hard work and commitment by the entrepreneur. However, the first major step in deciding whether you want to start a business as an…

If you’d asked audiences in 1825 to name the most popular composer of the day, it would not have been Beethoven, it would have been Gioachino Rossini. From the time Tancredi premiered in 1813, Rossini’s operas were the most popular and influential all over Europe, in part because he blended the elements of opera buffa and opera seria into works that appealed to audiences from a wide range of nationalities and class. Rossini was born on Leap Year Day in 1792 in Pesaro, Italy on the Adriatic…

Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) Innovation is the process of creating a new technology, device or procedure (Rogers, 2003). Diffusion is the process of spreading ideas, concepts, skills and knowledge through society. The innovation diffusion theory (IDT) describes how innovations or technology become accepted and spread through societies large or small (Rogers, 2003). In IDT the process of choosing to use a technology is known as the innovation-decision process. Through this process a person…

Whilst The Hobbit offers a Western interpretation of good and evil, Le Guin’s The Wizard of Earthsea propose an alternative perspective of what good and evil entail. These two worlds differ in many different ways. For example, the landscape of the Hobbit tends to resemble that of Europe and all the characters tend to be described with European colouring. Whereas Earthsea is a mixture of islands that house “isolated communities”, the cultures and people of each islands ranging from “pale haired…

A movie versus a book the age-old debate but how much can they differ when telling a story about something as universal terrible like the Holocaust? This is what I intend to find out when comparing the movie Life is Beautiful (directed by Roberto Benigni) to the book Night (Elie Wiesel). The most notable way these two differ is in the way they are presented (book vs movie), their plot and most importantly the reason they both were created in the first place. The most glaring way these two work…