The Measure of a True Western Hero What defines a true western hero? A typical western hero is usually a frontiersman‚ cowboy‚ or sometimes an authorative law abiding figure‚ such as a sheriff‚ who has qualities‚ ethics‚ morals‚ and talents that stand above common standards. What exactly are the qualities that separate the true western heroes from the character that has good intentions‚ but is not a true hero? In the classic Western film Stagecoach directed by John Ford‚ John Wayne’s character
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act done to another person since 1915 in Armenia. After 1945‚ it was 49 years later that another mass genocide occurred in 1994‚ the Rwanda genocides took place. Most notably‚ in 2003 to present. There is still mass killing in the Darfur region in Western Sudan. Which is surprising to a lot of people.
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Space Westerns. space Westerns use the themes and tropes of Westerns within science fiction stories while taking place in space. These influences can include subtle things like the exploration of lawless frontiers‚ or the more extreme side with space cowboys riding robot horses and shooting ray guns. The origin of this sub genre can be traced back to late 1920s and early 1930s space opera comic strips such as Buck Rogers. When superhero comics declined in popularity in 1940s America‚ Western comics
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Western civ 2 notes 1848 * Known as the hungry 40’s * Industrialization sweeps over Europe * Railroad transforms the world and makes the world “smaller” because news got around quicker * France – 1830-1848 – “july monarchy” Louis Philippe is a bourgeois monarch. The bourgeoisie benefitted from him because of Liberalism * French workers started to get pushed into the streets because of food shortages and rising prices * In fear of violence‚ the royal family flees and goes
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Inventing Eastern Europe: the map of civilization on the mind of the Enlightenment The author of this book‚ Larry Wolff shows through various sources such as accounts from 18th century travellers to eastern Europe‚ maps and atlases from the 18th century‚ how and why Western Europeans created the idea and separation of an Eastern Europe and how they came to view Eastern Europe as a place so uncivilized‚ backward and barbarian that it could not be classified under the same continent as Western Europe
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Mariah Mitchell was born in 1818. Mitchell grew up in Nantucket Massachusetts‚ she was the third oldest of ten children. Her father was the one who helped her with her interest in astronomy. At an early age Maria’s father “used stellar observations to check the accuracy of chronometers for Nantucket‚ Massachusetts‚ whalers and taught his children to use a sextant and reflecting telescope” (Sarah Zielinski‚ smithsonian.com). Maria got a good education at a “school at which her father was the master”
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Imperialism Near the end of the nineteenth century‚ there was a sharp increase in the need for people of Western civilization to expand their way of life across the globe. Colonization had begun in the 1600s as a method of economic gain for European countries. The reasons for expansion in the late nineteenth century‚ however‚ had deviated from only economical prosperity. The notion that evolution as well as the belief in their racial and cultural superiority caused many white Europeans and
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Social media based social comparison Social media sites are an ideal platform for adolescents to engage in social comparison as the most prevalent activities on social media are viewing other user’s profiles (Pempek‚ Yermolayeva‚ & Calvert‚ 2009)‚ and browsing and searching for other individual’s information (Wise‚ Alhabash‚ & Park‚ 2010). Social media provides the opportunity for adolescents to portray themselves in an ideal manner by using selective self-presenting techniques that highlight their
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Defending Conceptions of the Mind What are ideas‚ and where do they come from? Epicurean philosopher Lucretius explains them as a result of the mind focusing on simulacra‚ thin films of atoms released from everything. From a logical standpoint‚ even without taking modern technology into consideration‚ Lucretius’ theory of Simulacra does not hold up well against scrutiny due to the weak foundational assumptions and contradictive information. Lucretius theory of simulacra is that simulacra is made
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The Western Frontier The romanticism of the west employed the frontier as the outer edge of the wave meeting “between savagery and civilization.” To historians‚ a frontier is “is not a lining of marking the start of an empty place but a zone of interaction where two or more societies vie for the use of land.’ In the “frontier thesis”‚ Frederick Turner describes the frontier as “gradually peopled.” However‚ the congress in 1862 funded the transcontinental railroad‚ the union pacific‚ and
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