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Nature of Siva in Hindu Myth

This paper is in outline form and pertains to literature promoting understanding of the nature of the god Siva in Hinduism. ...

Roman Art, Use of Myth

This essay presents the thesis that Roman artists used mythological subjects to symbolize ideals and virtues and examines analysis...

Myth in Homer's Iliad

This essay utilizes a feministic approach and an anthropological approach to interpretation of Homer's Iliad. Eight pages in lengt...

Commercials Illustrating Gender Myths

This 3 page paper gives an overview of gender myths in commercials. This paper includes descriptions of a commercial for Pantene. ...

Myth and Reality: Abraham Lincoln

against injustice and for the downtrodden. One author notes that, "However successful he may have been, Lincoln the young attorney...

BIOMETRICS: MYTH AND REALITY

purposes: identification and verification (Watching You, 2001). Joano de Barros relied on the first known type of fingerpri...

Studying Creation Myths

studying it in the same way we study language (Csapo, 2005, p. 220). His theory puts more emphasis on the meaning of myth rather t...

Myths From Ancient India and Mesopotamia

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

Comparing the Christian Account of Our Creation to the Yoruba Creation Myth

warm and light the new creation (Awolalu, 1996). Obatala then made human figures from dirt, human figures that were varied and co...

The Myth of Scientific Progess

themselves, but rather because of sweeping conceptual changes across culture as a whole (Kuhn, 1996). For instance, the industrial...

Environmental Initiatives at GM: Truth and Myth

manner that goes beyond the superficial. This is especially true when analyzing the strategies employed by competing companies. In...

The G-Spot, Real or Myth?

as to whether or not the G-spot actually exists from the time that Dr. Ernst Grafenberg first described it in 1950. At that time, ...

Woolf and Nancy: Interruption of Myth

community in Between the Acts fits with Nancys conceptualization of the interrupt of myth because Woolfs intention was to offer an...

Myth and Allegory in Beowulf

and Christian values that are embedded within the narrative; in other words, it, like many myths, intends to convey a central less...

Debunking the Myth of Useless Foreign Aid

a vital fulfillment of a fiscally successful nations responsibility in the world at large, and there are those who oppose such act...

Ovid & Hesiod/Creation Myths

narratives opening reveals. Hesiod pictures the "Void or Chaos" as primordial environment, then comes Earth (Gaia) and then Ero...

The Myth of the Melting Pot

we like, and in public, since these people attacked us first. The problem with this distorted thinking is that it is the product...

Ramayana and King Arthur Myths

the Protector, one of the three great gods of the Indian pantheon, and Sita is the avatar of Lakshmi, goddess of wealth and prosp...

Middle Age of Human Development Myths and Reality

a great deal of study of late due to the fact that there are so many "baby boomers" coming of middle and elderly ages, pushing asi...

Dispelling Police Investigation Myths

In three pages this paper exposes the false myth that all crimes are investigated by law enforcement officials. Three sources are...

Shintoism Ritual, Symbol, and Myth

been influenced by Japans contact with other cultures, particularly China (Shinto). The most striking feature of the Shinto reli...

Oedipus Myth and D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

all the necessary stages in that development would be as futile as Oedipuss attempts to challenge the Fates....

Levi Strauss' Myth Analysis by Applying Ferdinand de Saussure's Structural Linguistics

but an anthropologist and he made use of the theorist in his studies, including kinship and myths. The idea of Saussures t...

Creation Myths of the Navajo and Chinese

China). This was too much for the earth and it burned and cracked (A Creation Story from China). The rivers became dry and the peo...

The Power of Myth: The Monomyth

of achievement and experience" (123). They are individuals who have ultimately given themselves to something that is larger than t...

Role of the Feminine in Ancient Creation Myth

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

Northern California Myth

up there" (Rigsby). However, while David admits that the days of the pioneers are over, "like many myths," he supposes that ther...

The Myths of Westward Expansion

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...

Summary of the PBS Documentary Myths and the Moundbuilders (1980)

this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...

The Myths of Innovation (Book Review Summaries and Analysis)

the processes used by several investors, something that might be used as inspiration (Matazan, 2008). The gist of this review, asi...