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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"outlaws"”.
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Outlaws Don't Cry
A childhood built on deceit has prevented an older, meditative Hank from accepting the truth as he recounts his life. Desperate to learn who his father is, a fifteen year-old Hank runs away from his home into the vastness of the American Great Plains in the summer of 1927. He quickly learns that he …
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Outlaws: Individual Myths in Films
… Jesse James who is one of the most significant outlaws in the United States of America and has been compared to Robin Hood due to his deeds. However, there is an Australian mythical figure, too, whose life reflects some similarities to that of Hood’s. He is called Ned Kelly. They do not only …
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"The Lawmen Faced the Outlaws, No Badge Upon a Breast:" Historical Memory and the Legacy of Henry Plummer and the Montana Vigilantes
<p>In the winter of 1863-1864, the Montana vigilantes hanged over twenty men in and around Bannack and Virginia City, including the region's elected sheriff, Henry Plummer. The mob claimed that these men were members of a highly-organized Road Agent Gang. While no evidence of this organization of …
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"The Lawmen Faced the Outlaws, No Badge Upon a Breast:" Historical Memory and the Legacy of Henry Plummer and the Montana Vigilantes
<p>In the winter of 1863-1864, the Montana vigilantes hanged over twenty men in and around Bannack and Virginia City, including the region's elected sheriff, Henry Plummer. The mob claimed that these men were members of a highly-organized Road Agent Gang. While no evidence of this organization of …
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"Tell Them I Don't Smoke Cigars:" The Making of Bonnie Parker
… her companion Clyde Barrow or among other female outlaws of the Great Depression. The historiography of Bonnie remains largely inaccurate with portrayals of her either as ringleader of the Barrow Gang or the passive girlfriend aiding her criminal man. While the truth lies somewhere between these …
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The dark South
… Luke must contend with a bevy of killers and outlaws, while at the same time coming to terms with his own role in this new world. This section of the novel starts from the very beginning, and details Luke’s arrival in the South as well as the events that follow.
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Bellicose Beauties: Villainesses, Gender Transgression, and Martial Drama in Beijing, 1774-1911
… various dubious identities like wantons, outlaws, demons, and deities, whose intimidating power contradicted the Neo-Confucian value of normative femininity. However, portrayed as attractive capable characters with first-person voice to speak for themselves, these villainesses gained …
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The shepherd of the hills
… protection, especially the most dangerous of the outlaws, Wash Gibbs, takes it upon himself to prove that Daniel is not what he says he is, but is actually sent by the Law to spy on them. Meanwhile, the more Sammy becomes educated in the ways of the city, the more she realizes that she really …
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King Campbell : the public career of the Marquis of Argyll (1607?-1661)
… of the Campbells, of Highland rebels and outlaws, notably Gilderoy. The chapter introduces the religious crisis in Scotland which erupted as a result of Charles l's liturgical "innovations", and examines Argyll's efforts on behalf of two controversial opponents of those "innovations" and …
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King Campbell : the public career of the Marquis of Argyll (1607?-1661)
… of the Campbells, of Highland rebels and outlaws, notably Gilderoy. The chapter introduces the religious crisis in Scotland which erupted as a result of Charles l's liturgical "innovations", and examines Argyll's efforts on behalf of two controversial opponents of those "innovations" and …
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Painting life in extremes Charles Maturin and the Gothic genre
… there is a similar parallel between the outlaws and the supposedly holy Crusaders. Maturin took the Catholic church so often as his subject, not simply because it provided a colourful, stereotyped background (as some have suggested), but because it was a context in which he could …
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Portrait of a Popular American Badman : Jesse James
Jesse James was an outlaw. He was the first and most notorious of that type of horseback desperado that has become identified with the Old West. Jesse James robbed banks, waylaid stagecoaches and shot people. Oddly enough, however, Jesse is not considered a blot on our history, but instead has …
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Women's legal consciousness in a poor urban community: finding order in and around the law
This thesis is a qualitative empirical study aimed at understanding the legal consciousness of women in a poor urban community. Through the narratives of women who were interviewed for this study, articles in the media, social media, and film, it explores the predominant problems experienced by …