Superman
The story "Superman and me" revolves around the subject of reading and books, however, it lacks a clear beginning and ending. The author emphasizes on how his love for books developed and what influenced him to start reading. In midst of talking about his love for books, the author introduces another problem as well. The problem revolves around the bad living conditions and social conditions of the Indians living on the reservation. A transition is made by the author from books to the living conditions of Indians. Unfortunately, the transition made isn't smooth enough and in the middle of the story, it appears that the author is trying to carry on with two story lines.

There is quite a details about the type of books Sherman liked reading. The different types of books further go on depict his love and admiration for reading books as well. The argument that the author…...

Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie and "One riter's Beginning" by Eudora elty
These two stories compare modern writers' accounts of their childhood and how they learned to read. Sherman Alexie is a popular writer who has had an exceptional career. He is a preeminent Native American poet, novelist, performer and filmmaker. He has garnered high praise for his poems and short stories of contemporary Native American reservation life. Eudora elty has also had an exceptional career for her short stories and novels about the American South that has resulted in countless awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Both of these authors developed an exceptional love of language early in life that later became their life's work. It is fascinating to read about their stories which provide insights as to how a natural talent can be further honed into a successful career that touches millions of lives.

Discussion

Sherman Alexie accounts…...

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Works Cited

Alexie, S. "Superman and Me." 19 April 1998. The LA Times. Online. 25 February 2014.

Poetry Foundation. "Sherman Alexie." N.d. Poetry Foundation. Web. 25 February 2014.

Welty, E. "One Writer's Beginnings." N.d. Hornell School. Online. 25 February 2014.

Nevertheless, Gilgamesh and Enkidu are depicted as physically equal. When the gods first create Enkidu, he challenges Gilgamesh and the two men fight. Gilgamesh prevails, leading to their mutual respect and friendship. Immediately, the beast Enkidu tames the god-man Gilgamesh. The two men embark on a journey of friendship that transforms both characters. Enkidu becomes more civilized and knowledgeable about the ways of human beings, and Gilgamesh likewise becomes tamer and more compassionate toward others. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's humanity emerges fully as the King of Uruk mourns.

The death of Enkidu is the climax of the Epic of Gilgamesh, forcing the title character to ponder the natures of life, death, and love. Whereas Enkidu remained an entirely simple character until his death, Gilgamesh is intense and complex. The main feature distinguishing Enkidu from Gilgamesh is the latter's greater intellectual capacity. Gilgamesh's godlike features emerge in his eventual ability to initiate…...

51). Ramsden reacts predictably, by becoming defensive, but Tanner shows that he knows Ann, "Ann will do just exactly what he likes. And what's more, she'll force us to advise her to do it; and she'll put the blame on us if it turns out badly" (p. 52).
It is fitting that Ramsden's role in the dream is the statue. During a discussion in Act III between Don Juan, the Devil, the Statue and his daughter Ana, the Statue says of his wife, Ana's mother, "when I married Ana's mother - or, perhaps to be strictly correct, I should rather say when I at last gave in and allowed Ana's mother to marry me - I knew that I was planting thorns in my pillow, and that marriage for me...meant defeat and capture" (p. 159).

Ann enters with her mother. She is a lovely young woman, full of expression and life.…...

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Bibliography

Shaw, George Bernard. Man and Superman. New York: Penguin Books, 1946.

Waiting for Superman
Sociology

Film: Waiting for Superman

This is a disturbing film about the education system and the resistance to change. Students are caught in the middle. Before you start watching this film, recall your high school education experience -- both good and bad parts. Then think about taking on the role of a teacher -- what kind of teacher would you be? What would it be like to have been your teacher in your classroom?

At the end of your documentary review, connecting the film to course content, please address these questions.

According to the movie, what are the problems in education? List them below

Financial aspects to education -- although spending per student has increased, the quality of education has not improved or even diminished in many areas.

The U.S. is not keeping pace with the rest of the world -- the U.S. education systems ranks far below that of other industrialized countries.

Number of…...

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11. Michelle Rhee is now living in California. Does California need Michelle Rhee?

(Here is an article: Why or why not?http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/27/5143422/michelle-rhee-just-getting-started.html)

Personally, I'm not sure I agree with Rhee's proposed solutions. While she makes a reasonable argument, I would need to research other systems before I could construct a more comprehensive opinion. However, that being said, I believe that California could definitely use people like Rhee for the fact that she has opened a dialogue that addresses the problems with the system. The dialogue about the issues associated with the educational system is one that is well overdue and Rhee has played a major role in bringing it into a national debate.

Man and Anti-Superwoman: The dramatic art of Shaw's "Man and Superman"
Although George Bernard Shaw paints himself as a revolutionary iconoclast in the concluding afterward to his play, "Man and Superman," ultimately his philosophy is anti-feminist. It is reactionary rather than revolutionary in its nature, portraying extraordinary women fulfilling their ultimate philosophical function as the helpers of extraordinary men, rather than achieving astounding mental prowess in their own right.

In Shaw, and his hero Jack Tanner's estimation in "Man and Superman," women are essentially physical creatures. Men are essentially intellectual creatures. Through the mouthpiece of Jack Tanner, Shaw notes, in Chapter 5 of what he titles 'The Revolutionist's Handbook,' "Even a joint stock human stud farm (piously disguised as a reformed Foundling Hospital or something of that sort) might well, under proper inspection and regulation, produce better results than our present reliance on promiscuous marriage." Tanner is loud-mouthed and shocking to conventional…...

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Work Cited

Shaw, Bernard. Man and Superman. Cambridge, Mass.: The University Press, 1903; Bartleby.com, 1999. www.bartleby.com/157/. [24 November 2004].

Nietzsche and Nihilism
"Nihilism" was the term used by Friederich Nietzsche to describe what he considered the devaluation of the highest values posited by the ascetic ideal. The age in which he lived was viewed by the German philosopher as one of passive nihilism, which he defined as the unawareness of the fact that the religious and philosophical absolutes had dissolved in the emergence of the 19th century Positivism. Since traditional morality collapsed, along with its metaphysical and theological foundations, the only thing that remained was a sense of meaningless and purposelessness.

The triumph of meaninglessness coincides with the triumph of nihilism, under the slogan "God is dead." Nietzsche believed that people would start seeking absoluteness in nationalism, just as they previously did it in philosophy and religion, a conception which later lead to catastrophically consequences.

Nihilism is most often associated with Nietzsche. The philosopher felt that there is no objective order or…...

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Reference:

1. Elbe, S, European Nihilism and Annihilation in the Twentieth Century. Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions, Winter2000, Vol. 1 Issue 3, p43

2.Ramos, A., Triumph of the will. Review of Politics, Winter96, Vol. 58 Issue 1, p181

3. Berges, S. Plato's Defence of Justice:Socrates contra Nietzsche University of Leeds www.bilkent.edu.tr/~berges/phd.htm

4. Encyclopedia Briatannica 1997 edition -- Articles on Nietzsche

graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore. It is basically about what inspired Watchmen's themes, story, and characters. As well as what Watchmen has influenced and how it has been influenced by other comics and heroes like Batman and uperman among others. Watchman and its influences
Watchman, authored by Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins was created in 1986 / 1987 in response to contemporary anxieties and as means of critiquing the superhero concept.

Watchman recreates history where superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1950s who helped the U..A. win the war against Vietnam and later is involved in preventing nuclear war with the U...R. Most former superheroes have retired or are working for the government, so contumely freelance vigilantes are arbitrarily and voluntarily doing the job of protecting the country. The protagonists actively fight and strategically plot to help retired superheroes survive and they work to stave off…...

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Sources

Amaya, Erik. (September 30, 2008) Len Wein: Watching the Watchmen. Comic Book Resources..

Cooke, J.B. (August 2000) Alan Moore discusses the Charlton-Watchmen Connection. Comic Book Artist.

Contino, Jennifer M. (December 28, 2008. ) Who Watches Rich Johnston's Watchmensch. Comicon.com.

Kavanagh, B. (October 17, 2000.) The Alan Moore Interview: Watchmen characters. Blather.net.

cult TV series (e.g. True Blood) watched, making
Television of Steel

There are several different definitions of, and criteria for, what constitutes a cult television series. Smallville, however, is one of the few television series that fulfills nearly all such requisites for the attaining of cult status. The show was broadcast before a national audience during prime time hours for 10 years, has won a host of awards, and generated a following that has spanned so many different genres, media, and spin-offs, that virtually the only word to describe it would be cult. However, one of the primary factors that readily afforded Smallville to be able to attain a cult like status was in place well before a single scene was shot or before a solitary actor had been cast. The fact that Smallville was based on the character of Superman, originally a DC Comics character and best selling title, as…...

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References

Sumner, D. (2011). "Smallville bows this week -- with Stargate's world record." GateWorld. Retrieved from  http://www.gateworld.net/news/2011/05/smallville-bows-this-week-with-stargates-world-record/ 

Bennet, C., Gottesfelf, J. (2002). Smallville: See No Evil. New York: Little, Brown Young Readers.

Ives, N. (2003). "The Media Business: Advertising -- Addenda; Verizon and WB Join for Promotion." The New York Times. Retrieved from  http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/business/the-media-business-advertising-addenda-verizon-and-wb-join-for-promotion.html

Democratic Education
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What are the principles of democratic education? How are these principles and values in tension/contradiction with our social construction of children and youth? For example, what assumptions do we make about teaching, learning and youth that democratic schools challenge? How does "one size fits all" centralized curriculum contribute to what Apple called the "de-skilling of teachers"? What is lost when this approach is adapted, especially when it is combined with the "intensification" of teaching? Explore the contradictions between what we say we want our students to be when they are finished their schooling (engaged, critical thinkers, active contributors and problem solvers) and how we are often educating young people. How does democratic education address this? What are some of the challenges educators who want to introduce democratic principles into their schools face? What are some of the potential rewards? How does democratic education address the notion that…...

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References

IDEN International Democratic education Network. (2010). Retrieved October 2012, from http://www.idenetwork.org/idec/idec-english.htm

Apple, M.W., & Swalwell, K. (2011). Reviewing Policy: Starting the Wrong Conversations: The Public School Crisis and "Waiting for Superman." Educational Policy, 368-381.

Ayers, W. (1992). The Shifting Grounds of Curriculum Thought and Everyday Practice . Taylor & Francis, 259-263.

Ayers, W. (1994). Can City Schools be Saved? Educational Leadership, 60.

Post-Impressionist artists were interested in the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, particularly in his concept of the Ubermensch, a superman who would be capable through intense struggle of surmounting the lower forces that would limit his ability to achieve. The idea that man could evolve beyond his present capacities influenced the relationship of European man to previous cultures and to contemporary but less "civilized" societies. This paper explores the ways in which Paul Gauguin applied the Ubermensch concept to his art and to his life, and examines parallel motifs in the oeuvres of his contemporaries.
The Artist Gauguin: Man, Nature, Ubermensch and God

At the beginning of the enaissance, Massacio painted The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, and initiated a new view of humanity: an intensely personal and emotionalized struggle against fate. In spite of the Neo-Classical return to the formal norms of the past, the human agony…...

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References

Biography of Gauguin.   (November 14, 2002).http://www.abcgallery.com/G/gauguin/gauguinbio/html 

Dillon, John K. (1997) The Death of Tragedy: The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche's Ubermensch.   (November 14, 2002).http://www.nsula.edu/scholars_college/Thesisabstracts/HSTtheses/dillon.html 

Gauguin, Paul. (1897) Noa: The Tahitian Journal. 1985 ed. Dover Publishing.

Norris, George. (1996) Expressionism: Its Spiritual and Social Voice. (November 15, 2002).http://www.br.cc.va.us/vcca/norris.html

Victorian New oman: Shaw's Views
Victiorian New oman

In their analysis of the 'sexualized visions of change and exchange' which mark the end of the nineteenth century (Smith, Marshall University) 1 and the uncertain formation of the twentieth, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar read the leitmotif of the late-Victorian New oman as one fantasy among many, part of a sequence of imaginative literary extremes that reflects the changing stakes in an escalating war between the sexes. As Gilbert and Gubar understand this sequence, the New oman emerges against palette of other phantasmagoric images-most notably, the femme fatale, who, in Swinburne's words, incarnates male anxieties about that 'silent anger against God and man' which 'burns, white and repressed, through her clear features.' Like the femme fatale, the New oman is also commonly read as an image of hyperbolic female ascendancy. In fact, both images seem to answer the narrative of the sexualized but…...

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Works Cited

Smith, Sherry.  http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/rossetti/abstract/smit.htm 

Author Unkown. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gbshaw.htm

Author Unkown. Major Barbara, Characters, Major Barbara

Individual Knowledge and Power
19th century poet Emily Dickinson is famous for her writing about the sometimes odd quality of being human, or rather the unnatural social norms that humanity has constructed. Dickinson claims that "[m]uch Sense -- the starkest Madness -- / 'Tis the Majority," meaning that most people guide their lives through typical principles of an objective common sense. Despite the best efforts of the philosophers and statesmen who have fostered Western principles of common sense throughout the centuries, people are not mathematical certainties; and while general rules are essential to the well-being of the population, individual lives cannot be dictated by a standardized social formula. True human growth and progress is a journey often taken alone, in which a person has to develop his or her own ideas of right and wrong. This short essay examines three different ways individual knowledge and power is originated, fostered, and remains…...

This accounts for the durable popularity of the superhero -- Superman can fight Nazis during orld ar II and terrorists today. A comic hero can remain the same, yet always seem relevant to the reader's daily life, just like the daily work of a newspaper political cartoonist. The reason that this type of popularity is spurned is because of the fears of mass production of written material. McCloud agrees with Kunzle that mass production is critical to the genre. McCloud calls comics "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequences, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer" (McCloud 9). This response it elicits from all readers on a visceral level, however, should not be undervalued. Part of the reason for McCloud's trumpeting of the medium, however, may be his broader-reaching focus, while Kunzle tends to focus on more narrow historical or political works designed…...

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Works Cited

Kunzle, David. History of the Comic Strip. Volume 1: The Early Comic Strip. Berkeley:

University of California Press, 1973.

McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993.

This is another reason that a person who relies on others to solve their problems becomes continually weaker.
Overall, this discussion has shown that Bryan D. Dietrich is correct when he argues that people become weak when they rely on others to solve their problems. It has been shown that relying on others to solve one's problem produces weakness in a range of ways. In every case, a person facing a problem always has the potential to face the problem and use it to become stronger. hen a person ignores this potential and relies on others instead of solving the problem, they become continually weaker. In effect, a person who relies on others is choosing not to rely on themselves. In doing so, a person does not give themselves the opportunity to gain knowledge, skills, confidence, or independence. Instead, the person will only become increasingly reliant on others, which also…...

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Works Cited

Dietrich, B.D. "Man or Superman." Krypton Nights. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2002, p. 29.

Lazarus, R.S., & Folkman, S. Stress, Appraisal, and Coping. New York: Springer, 1984.

Seamon, J.G., & Kenrick, D.T. Psychology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.

1. Batman and Superman represent conflicting ideologies in popular culture through their different approaches to justice - Batman’s vigilante methods of seeking revenge and fear tactics versus Superman’s more traditional, moral-driven sense of justice.

2. The characters of Batman and Superman reflect the debate between individualism and collectivism, with Batman embodying the rugged individualism of taking justice into his own hands while Superman symbolizes the collective good and working within the system.

3. Batman can be seen as a representation of the darker, more cynical aspects of human nature, while Superman represents hope, idealism, and the belief in....

1. Batman and Superman personify contrasting philosophies on justice and vigilantism, demonstrating the inherent tension between upholding the law and exacting personal vengeance.

2. Through their conflicting approaches to crime-fighting, Batman and Superman reflect the broader debate in society about the limits of state power and the role of individuals in upholding justice.

3. The divergent perspectives of Batman and Superman underscore the enduring tension between idealism and pragmatism, with Superman representing the unwavering belief in hope and Batman embodying the grim realities of a corrupt world.

4. Batman and Superman's contrasting methodologies illuminate the underlying fears and anxieties of society, highlighting the....