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Necessary Myths
<p id="x-x-docs-internal-guid-8d2cc371-7fff-813d-a31e-9dfb29234b27">My thesis essay was inspired by my search for a belief system that could transform despair over what will be lost through climate change into valuing what we still have. In researching the earliest iterations of belief structures, …
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Staging Hitler myths
In my thesis Staging Hitler Myths, I analyze the depiction of Adolf Hitler in the contemporary German movies Der Untergang (2004) and Mein Fuhrer-die wirkliche wahrste Wahrheit uber Adolf Hitler (2007). Both movies have been harshly criticized for offering a personalized depiction of the historical …
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Myths of War: Constructing and Challenging Literary Myths of War in Germany, 1914-1930
… World War in Germany from 1914 to 1930 and the myths of war that were manifested within and created by such narratives of war. Beginning with an exploration of 'myth' and its relationship to the Great War, it progresses to a consideration of the role of war in the Weimar Republic and the …
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Forge of Myths and Legends
Forge of Myths and Legends is a coming-of-age novel that explores identity, diplomacy, justice, liberation, and acceptance while pushing against the historical narrative of imperial conquest and supremacy, elevating the untold stories of myths and legends during the medieval Viking Age. The story …
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Outlaws: Individual Myths in Films
… that are commemorated in individual or hero myths. Robin Hood is a mythical character in British history and literature, influencing other countries’ somehow outstanding figures. For example, Jesse James who is one of the most significant outlaws in the United States of America and has been …
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Hidden Hout Bay mainstream, myths and margins
This essay, which accompanies a photo-book, constructs a different picture which I have made of Hout Bay; a picture that lies behind the glossy postcard and calendar photographs of this global tourist attraction; one that lies hidden from foreign tourists as well as from local visitors to the …
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The assessment and structure of rape myths
… amount of research on the topic of rape myths, this research has been limited by several factors, including the lack of effort devoted to understanding the structure and composition of rape myths, and the poor quality of existing measures of rape myth acceptance. This project addressed …
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Myths of rebellion : Afrikaner and countercultural discourse
… heritage in performances of rebellion. New myths are appearing that seem to fulfill a young generation's need for a history outside of apartheid. It is suggested that these myths assist Afrikaners who feel alienated in post-apartheid South Africa to foster a sense of legitimacy and …
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Myths and Blueprints: Enacting Utopia through Fiction
The study of utopia generally takes place in isolation from empirical social science based on its classification as either political theory or literary genre. While both approaches are well-suited to the academic study of a concept that does not exist in reality, each on its own also lacks the kind …
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Redlining urban neighborhoods : mortgage risk myths or realities
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Graveyard Shifts: Unearthing Identity Myths and the Retro Rebrand
<p>This essay examines a trend in brand identity at the time of writing wherein icons of several decades past are resurrected to play to nostalgic feelings associated with a product or service. It begins with a case study of iconography for popular pizza chain logos through several decades …
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Latina Immigrant Mothers' Counterstories of Education: Challenging Deficit Myths
… Majoritarian storytelling perpetuates deficit myths about working-class Latin@ immigrant students and their families not valuing education. This study joins a growing body of research that uses counterstories to challenge deficit mentalities in education toward working-class Latin@ immigrant …
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Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities
<p>This dissertation interrogates the global material consequences of the rhetorics of digital literacies in the One-Third World. Building on the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"-a public discourse wherein digital …
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Rewriting myths through life writings in Marina Warner's fiction
… mechanisms and the taken-for-granted ideas or myths surrounding it. In other words, once the biographer's research methods and artistic writing techniques are fictionally uncovered, the alleged detachment and factuality of the genre are destroyed. Moreover, Warner's metabiography presents such …
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