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Boston + Brahmin = White Anglo Saxon Protestant
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(5 pp) The term "Boston Brahmin" is associated
with -- among other things -- the American premiere
of Brahms' Second Symphony. It was performed by
the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the historic
Orpheum Theatre built in 1852, on Hamilton Place
off Tremont Street. Many in the audience walked
out, and music reviewers called those who stayed
"Brahmins." Oliver Wendell Holmes called Boston
"The Hub of the Universe." Some of the so-called
"Boston Brahmins" referred to the city as
"The Athens of America." Those are some notes of
the past concerning the Brahmins, but where are
they now?
Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BBbosbra.doc
Chupacabras: Clearly Fictional Creatures
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7 pages in length. Fantastic creatures have existed throughout time as the direct result of man's overactive imagination. From the Loch Ness Monster to Bigfoot, history has never had a shortage of wholly unaccountable, bizarre living things and the people who have sighted them. The fervor and hype surrounding one particularly intriguing creature named Chupacabras was especially noted during the last decade of the twentieth century, with its telltale legacy of leaving behind blood-sucked animal carcasses a recurring find in Puerto Rico. Indeed, arguments are strong from both sides -- with believers surmising the short, red-eyed reptilian-like attacker to be an alien, mutant or, worse yet, a secret government experiment gone awry -- but the lack of any more convincing evidence beyond visual sightings does not establish much credibility to its existence, leaving only one possible theory: Chupacabras is wholly fictional. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TLCChupa.rtf
Comic Books / Modern Mythology or Escapism ?
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This 6 page paper examines the comic book genre to determine if contemporary comic books are representative of modern mythology or are merely pure escapism. Bibliography includes 6 sources.
Filename: Comicb.wps
Comparing and Contrasting Zeus and Odin:
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This 7 page paper compares and contrasts the Greek God Zeus to his Norse counterpart Odin. This paper argues that the striking similarities between these two mythological gods illustrates how influenced the Norse culture was by the Greek culture. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: GSGreekg.rtf
Egyptian Journey to the Afterlife
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A 15 page discussion of the critical components of the ancient Egyptian's belief in an afterlife. Notes that much of our contemporary knowledge regarding ancient Egyptian culture is based on archaeological findings. Among the most interesting of these findings are those which relate to the elaborate worship rituals of the Egyptians, rituals which to a large degree were comprised of those relating to death and the afterlife. Provides an overview of Egyptian belief, preparation for the afterlife, mummification, the preparation of the body, rituals instructing the dead, the tombs, and ceremonies. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PPegyDth.wps
Ernst Cassirer: Language & Myth (1946)
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(5 pp) Philosophers are always asking themselves
questions. What a philosopher is trying to do,
is figure out the way in which people understand
the world, or their sense and place of reality in
the world. The German philosopher, Ernst Cassirer
(1874- 1945) felt that we use mentally created
symbols to understand our current reality. It was
Cassirer's idea that scientific laws, theories of
religion and the unique qualities of a given
language were all symbols, which we as humans
create to facilitate understanding the world.
The logic of understanding then is to give some
sense of order in the chaos of the world that we
face on a daily basis.
Filename: BBcassir.doc
Fairy Tales: Now and Always
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(10pp) Since the time that someone rubbed two
sticks togetherto make fire, people have loved a
good story. It may loosely be called a legend, a
story, or a tale, Joseph Campbell links most of
them together with a thematic approach called the
"hero's adventure." We will test some current
fairy tales ("The Princess Who Stood on Her Own
Two Feet," Jeanne Desy; "Prince Amilec" Tanith
Lee; and "Petronella" by Jay Williams) to see how
they fit the traditional model. Bibliography
lists 2 sources.
Filename: BBfrytls.doc
Fantasy in Contemporary Cinema: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Harry Potter
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A paper which looks at the function of fantasy in contemporary cinema, with particlar reference to myth in film, as evinced by Lord of the Rings, the Star Wars series and Harry Potter. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: JLcinfan.rtf
Here Be Dragons!
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(5 pp) No single continent or culture has an
exclusive claim on dragons or dragon lore. The
animals have survived in time and imagination.
Just as an adventurer might claim land for his
sovereign, a wise traveler would also know when
dragons would be about, and then, even whisper to
himself, "here be-- dragons." This discussion will
allow the reader to learn of these marvelous
creatures, so he too can learn to recognize them,
and the places where they live.
Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BBdragon.doc
Jan Brunvand’s Works on Urban Legends, “The Vanishing Hitchhiker” and “The Baby Train”: Development of Changes in Format and Presentation
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This is a 5 page paper discussing the differences found in Brunvand’s “The Vanishing Hitchhiker” and “The Baby Train”. Jan Brunvand’s text “The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings” (1981) introduced a generation to contemporary American urban legends, their origins, their development, and contained detailed accounts as to the depth of research in understanding the legends. Twelve years later, Brunvand released his fifth volume of urban legends entitled “The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends” (1993). The format of his presentation in this volume changed somewhat to include shorter narratives and less accompanying explanatory statements about each legend. Instead, Brunvand focused much more on the typing and cross-referencing of the legends contained and on the international contexts many have reached. The reason for this change in format was mostly due to the fact that the field and the interest in urban legends had grown a great deal since his original text and because of this Brunvand was able to contain less explanatory text in regards to the research involved and thus avoid repeating himself and offering instead his readers a chance to see the extent of the field and the extent to which the knowledge of urban legends has reached on an international basis as well as an American one.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TJBrunv1.rtf
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