...Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus is best known as the one who discovered America. Christopher wasn’t just an Italian explorer, he was also a navigator, and colonizer. His “discovery” was made when he wanted to try and find an alternative way to reach India and traveled west. When he had reached what Columbus thought was India, he found himself face-to-face with Native Americans who he then named “Indians.” Many would say without Columbus we wouldn’t have America, but maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing. If Columbus had not “discovered” America, the Native American race might not have been so low. Technology probably would not be as advanced, such as in industrialization, therefore the Earth’s population could have been lower causing...
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...In Kingdom Come, Wonder Woman confronts Superman about his ideals, and says “Kal, whether you like it or not, you’re a world leader, and the league is getting tired of you adjusting to that role. As far as I’m concerned, if the situation with the Gulag prisoners gets 1 Micron worse, the league will be forced to make a final decisive action.” (pg. 136, Chapter 3) Wonder Woman and Rorschach were both characters that were written to symbolize the definition of retributivist, meaning that the policy of the justice system vindicates the criminals (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Web. 13 Dec. 2016). Wonder Woman’s tone appears to be aggressive because she had failed her mission to demonstrate peace through a violent world. Wonder Woman, like Superman, has lost faith in society. This same concept is paralleled in Watchmen, where Rorschach’s Ink Blotch mask is symbolic to how he views the world as black and white, which branches from his own tragic past with his mother, and his father’s willingness to pursue a better life. Wonder Woman and Rorschach were both characters that had setbacks that had inspired them to take their anger out on characters who commit the greater atrocities, which were reflected upon how big of the crime was committed ("Deontology - By Branch / Doctrine - The Basics of Philosophy." Deontology - By Branch / Doctrine - The Basics of...
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...Tony Stark is no Superman Tony Stark is Iron Man, but he wasn’t always the high flying supersonic hero we all know. Before becoming Iron Man, Tony was a self-centered, alcoholic playboy billionaire. He was also a genius that accomplished more than most children will attain in their lifetime. At the age of four Tony built his first circuit board, when he was seven he assembled his first engine. He also graduated with top honors from MIT at the age of seventeen. It was technology and his brilliant mind that brought us the super-hero we know as Iron Man. Iron Man is a picture of how advanced the world is in the 21st century unlike the Superman of Smallville. Superman was as Gary Engle says in his essay “What Makes Superman So Darned American” an immigrant and an orphan after his parents rocketed him to earth before his home planet of Krypton exploded. Superman, soon to be known as Clark Kent, the name given to him by the farmer who found him, was born with his super powers. Super human strength, the ability to fly and his super senses were all he needed to battle crime and evil in the 20th century. In the 21st century we have all kinds of computerized luxuries that will do just about anything people need them to do. GPS for example, satellites can give us our exact location at any given time, give us directions, and even track packages we are expecting. The advanced technologies haven filtered into our super-heroes. The improved conquers of the world have...
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...Masking for Effects Aspiring to idols and glorifying fictional characters has been the norm within society since Superman has been around. Little kids pretend play the roles of super heroes with hope that one day they may become one and even adults sometimes attend conventions with the same goals. They are loved for different reasons. Some being their powers, others being their appearance, but most commonly because it is someone to look up to. The start of WWI and WWII changed our countries face to a traumatic terror. Left and right loved ones were being sent out to defend the country and many weren’t returning. The public was in mental despair over the devastation and hope was greatly needed. Even though they were a fictional character it was still someone to turn to, Superman and Captain America soon became...
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...In his short autobiographical essay “Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie uses powerful sentences, visualization, and repetition to create a well-written vivid story. Alexie addresses his own childhood experiences with education. He was a young boy that lived in poverty on an Indian reservation where Indians were derided for being educated. He states that “Indian children were expected to fail in the non-Indian world” (Alexie 584). His parents would be considered poor in most western standards, but to reservation standards they were a middle-class family. Even with the odds of expectation and poverty against him, Alexie describes how he escaped these circumstances by teaching himself how to read. This ambition for success derived from his father who had a passion for reading. Because of his love and dedication to his father, he decided to have the same passion. Before he could read words he was able to review his father’s books and distinguish what a paragraph was. This initiated his path to success by comparing everything in his life to a paragraph “a paragraph was a fence that...
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...people’s moral values. One great example of a superhero that must be the inspiration of many is Superman. Superman is famous for his big muscles coupled with super strength and other special powers. But, his fans did not base their love and awe on these. First, they love Superman for his humanity despite not being human. Many of his fans even believe that Superman is more human than humans. Humanity here means the sense of people to be a group and not to be ignorant individuals. Superman believes that it is true that humans must climb their own destiny but they still need him to catch them when they fall. This is because he cares unconditionally. Moreover, despite the lurking evil everywhere, he still believes in the inherent good nature of people. Second, Superman, for them, is more than just a crime buster. He is, as his “S” symbol say in Kryptonian, the hope for all. Third, Superman is not a superhero because of his powers. He is a superhero because of his ability to prevail despite how difficult the condition is. Regardless of his tragic childhood without guiding parents, he faces life with a smile. Superman, then, is a good man. And a good man is an American. Some would argue and say, “No, he’s an alien!” I could go shallow and reply, “No, he lives in America and he works in a metropolitan newspaper in America. So, he’s an American,” or I can prove that Superman is an American through Woodrow Wilson’s definition. First, a...
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...have their beginnings in the golden age. Characters like Captain America, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman were introduced to the American public during this era. However, with these new personalities, there is one who brought modern and innovative ideas to the genre and is often overlooked. That major player is Captain Marvel. Let’s face it, comparisons are everywhere. People usually want to compare things that are somewhat similar and feature just a slight change. These contrasts include the first incarnation of an item and the subsequent follow up creation. For example, in music, some may consider this true for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, in electronics it’s usually the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy, and for me, growing up, it was the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. The earliest model is great but the follow up incarnation is sometimes exclusively judged against the original because of subtle changes or simply because the original came first. Can this be true for the Captain Marvel and Superman comparison? In 1940, many companies created copycat characters to attempt to gain from Superman’s popularity and profitability. As the saying goes - from success imitation is bred. A perfect example of this was Fox Publications’ super character Wonder man, who was created and illustrated by Will Eisner. Wonder man is a good representation of a complete Superman imitator. Wonder man lasted just one issue after National comics, now known as DC, sued Fox publications...
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...break the law and fight for the power and authority that the citizens have lost due to their rights being taken away. A person must be able to accept the outcomes and consequences of their own actions when they disobey. Being civilly disobedient is not only about breaking a law. The actions of these individuals spread ideas. In the end, the outcome of the struggle may involve a change in a law like the way Cesar Chavez used this method to get the workers a union. In Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, the outcome may be to influence and empower others to change their minds about supporting a law, war, or other action. He wanted others to realize the importance of using one’s individual freedom to fight against government corruption. In Batman, the hero must battle political corruption as well, despite...
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...the term “hero” is spoken aloud, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Many imagine someone gallant, or rather, someone who possesses qualities such as integrity and rectitude. A few may even envision someone that has a greater purpose in this world, not just to live their own life, but to shield those that are deemed incapable. “Hero” originated from the ancient Greeks, and for them, a hero was a mere mortal that had done something magnificent and far beyond the relative norm of human experience. These “heroes” left an endless image in their place when they died, thus earning admiration, equal to that of a god. In this day and age, we use the word “hero” to describe various types of people that we deem fit for the title,...
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...Superman Or Batman For years Superman and Batman work together against injustice but they have differenten aspects to examine. Superman was the first superhero created by DC comics company since its inception has always been one of the most emblematic of American society superhéroes. But few know one of its most important partner Batman, who was conceived in a more humane manner and in a society with stronger economic differences. They have impacted various aspects of the country and society. It is for this reason that analized, from her point of view of his Alter ego similarities and differences in economic aspects in wealth that each possesses, the political influence they have generated and culturally education each received. Being Batman the most influential superheroe in all these aspects. Superman and Batman have some similarities regarding the influence they have had on politicians, the first one is more important. Given the importance of politics in a society regarding laws and public policy that there can be generated. Superman and Batman find who since its inception have impacted various areas of the United States. On the one hand superman heroic actions during the Great Depression and World War II. In which I caused a complete change in the laws of distribution of wealth, generating hope for the population. On the other hand their battles against Lex Luthor in service of saving society, caused the president and government ministers began to trust him. His actions...
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...Oral Roberts University SUPERIORITY AND BLURRED LINES: An observation of the themes communicated in major DC Comics storylines Joshua Gallego Philosophy of Science HONR 102 Dr. Ken Weed/Dr. Samuel Thorpe March 13, 2014 Introduction Superheroes are part of an American upbringing. Stories of persons with capabilities that far exceed that of the human race are popular and appealing to our youth and even to many adults. Entertainment in general pervades the American culture, and this specific type of entertainment dealing with superheroes is of considerable size and has been a constant for several decades. Images of Superman, Captain America and many others are immediately recognized when seen. The entertainment value of these fictitious tales has caused the companies that own them to expand into creating computer games and producing movies, which has made them even more visible. It is considered weird if a person does not even know the basic story of these costumed figures. The adventures, stories, and even lives of these fictions have become a part of the American Psyche. Throughout the course of this semester, discussion in the Philosophy of Science class has led to topics such as the paradigms and presuppositions that we approach our world from and the metaphors that we use to communicate ideas and concepts. Such discussion has led to the asking of questions concerning things that we encounter in everyday circumstances. Questions like “What are the presuppositions...
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...“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.” ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn. We can see Peter Beagles, an award winning american author, quote still apply to heros of now. From fictional heroes such as superman or real heros such as Nelson Mandela; both went through hardships. Superman lost his civilization and faced many difficulties when he was transferred to earth. Nelson Mandela faced the racism that took grip of Africa causing his rise to power to be a long and enduring journey. Even old heros of ancient times faced hardships making them the legends they are remembered as. In The Odyssey by Homer, the brave hero Odysseus, was loved by the people of ancient Greece. He goes through many hardships after winning the war at Troy....
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...Film Analysis: Waiting For Superman Essay In the film Waiting for Superman, the filmmakers investigate schools where there are low expectations of student achievement. Some of the social factors seen in the film that contribute to non-functioning educational environments are Income, school location, neighborhood.. It seems that families in poverty or with low incomes are not interested in learning. They feel like they have been hit with the short end of the stick. The schools are generally over crowded with few good teachers. When there's a great public school there is not enough space for every child in the neighborhood. Children are stuck in low achieving schools because of how the school districts are divided. A lot of children end up in poor public schools because their parents do not possess the income that it takes to send them to a private school. Since 1971 education cost has increased from $4,300 to more than $9,000 per student. As seen in Bianca's case, her mother cannot afford to pay for her tuition and Daisy's father is unemployed. These kids are forced into "bad education." Some students do not have any aspirations. They live in a neighborhood full of crime therefore their main focus is survival instead of learning. Minority kids between 5th and 7th grade go from being B students to D students. As they get older their grades drop so they feel like they are not going anywhere. Sixty eight percent of inmates in Pennsylvania are high school dropouts. The average inmates...
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...Homer gave us earthly warrior heroes battling with one-eyed monsters and women with snakes for hair. In the Middle Ages, the enduring tale of a mythical hero was that of King Arthur, a man who wielded a magical sword to save his kingdom from ruin. These days, the average person might be hard-pressed to suspend belief in such gloriously bloody stories, but that hasn’t stopped us from telling tales in which Good is pitted against monstrous Evil. The most prevailing of these modern heroic tales have been the creations of storytellers whose medium is the comic book, and in turn, the film industry. Today we’ll compare two of the champions of the comic book genre, in this episode of The Infographics Show, Marvel vs. DC. First we’ll start with an introduction to DC, which is often hailed as ‘the...
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...“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.” (Reagan online) A hero doesn’t have to be big, BOLD, or outgoing; they just have to be someone who focuses on others rather than him/herself. A hero is someone who willingly helps, saves, and/or rescues someone. A hero can be anyone to anybody. For example, to someone a hero, maybe a superhero such as batman or superman because they save cities and even the world while to others, a hero may even be a firefighter. Both of these examples define because they put others before them and they don’t accept recognition. A good example of how a hero functions is the firefighters during the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers. According to the New York Times article “The Firefighters had 29 minutes to get out of the World Trade Center or die.”(Dwyer, O’Donnell online). This shows that these hero’s, knowing they had 29 minutes to get out, still rescued several people and taking them to safety. They put others before themselves even in this terrifying situation. It takes a lot of will power to be a true hero....
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