The New Batman Adventures

win the championship cup. These ads can make such a difference in a person’s life. It can help children realize that they can express themselves through their imagination and it should not matter what the scenario is, from being a princess saving Batman from a disaster in the kitchen, to a pirate dressing up as a princess while they rob the town. These ads inspired the UK to push for gender equality in their ads as well once they saw the effort they were making in Sweden. Other countries are…

He took to writing around then and snagged a few creative gigs: He wrote advance obituaries for a news service, did publicity material for a hospital, and briefly performed with the New Deal’s WPA Federal Theatre Project. His family couldn’t afford college, but as luck would have it, his cousin was married to a publisher named Martin Goodman, who had leaped into the nascent-but-booming world…

bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” (Quotes 1) This quote from the Adventures of Superman is usually what comes to mind when the word hero is mentioned. Superheroes such as Superman, Batman, and Spiderman have abnormal powers that allow them to be transformed from ordinary men into idols that always succeed in their quest to save the people and the world. But, are they the…

them as a genre. How it started. Westerns have been around in novels before film in books such as “The Lone Ranger” The American Film institute describes films as "set in the American West that embody the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier."…

Hero With a Thousand Faces” and a comparison to the plot of his movies and Campbell's monomyth easily reflect that. The comparisons however don't end there and several other modern stories showing the archetypal hero's journey include The Matrix, Batman Begins, and the Lion King. The fact that these stories continue to be told and remain popular give us insight on all of us as humans and why Gilgamesh has been able to stand the test of time. Joseph Campbell has given many interpretations on why…

Light to Show Them the Way: Superman as the Messiah As a child, I would always watch the old TV show The Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves. Like many children of my time, I would take an old towel and tie it around my neck for it to be my cape so I could ‘fly’ around the house being Superman because of that old TV show. I later became a fan of the comics and read many of his adventures in DC Comics. I loved the action, the powers that Superman had, and wished to be like him in every…

Hero is a word associated with a completely different type of being in our modern world. When we think of a hero our minds immediately go to the stories we were told as children such as superheroes like batman, superman, and wonder woman. All characters who have exceptional talents or powers to protect mankind. Unlike our heroes of today, who are made up, the heroes of ancient Greece that immediately comes to mind were very real to the people. The Odyssey by Homer does an exemplary job at…

ideologies practiced on screen to such audiences. It gives its audiences belief that there are thing that can be perpetuated into existence. For example, such sitcoms portray family values that are seen moral to viewers. So hit drama portray real life adventures (like the Real World) to where some television shows drama portray crime (see The Sopranos). All television shows have many different genres for the viewers liking. While there are various amounts to choose from,…

On May 9, 2015, Garvey’s Advanced Band and Mustang Choir went to the Trills and Thrills Festival at Burbank Middle School. We had to be at school by 7:15 AM since it was our call time, and that was way too early for me since I usually sleep at 12 AM. I was in Advanced Band and I played the clarinet. Of course I was excited to play at the competition, but I was also nervous since we were going to Six Flags afterwards and I had a huge fear of heights. Once the bus arrived at Burbank Middle…

finding out ways on how to use their superpower or going to a place where they can find out how to use it. The hero leaves their “normal” place. ‘Where Three Stories Meet’ states, “As the hero prepares to pass from the Ordinary World into the world of adventure, she must get past a threshold guardian or guardians who block the way. In order to progress, the Hero will have to pass the test, co-opt the energy of the threshold guardian or defeat the guardian entirely.“ Jesus crosses the threshold…