Myth Article Reviews Samples For Students

In Dalton’s article on Horatio Alger’s myth, the main point is that myths are not only false but also socially destructive. He puts forward this critical point through his objection of the fact that each individual has equal opportunities of prosperity in life. The main message of Horatio Alger in his myth is that with the existing social landscape, individual success solely lie in their hands, that what comes out as a persons achievement, fortune or misfortune is by choice and only depends on the effort they put. Cohn Powell, according to Dalton tries to conceal important social ...

In any conflict, argument or even debate it is standard practice to call for rational thinking and presentation of points. Irrationality is perceived as a negative attribute in a good negotiator. However, Robert Benjamin in his paper series, “Irrationality of Being Rational” argues that human beings are inherently irrational perhaps because of evolution, and therefore the expectation rationality is actually irrational. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and analyze the articles by Robert Benjamin where he explains his concept of the irrationality of being too rational.
It is common knowledge that human beings are never truly rational ...

The Issue Investigated

The “Dogs of the Dow” investment strategy promises investors abnormally high returns in the top yielding stocks from DJIA (Dow Jones industrial averages). The article investigates the Dow of Dogs myth which was propagated analyst John Slatter in an article titled study of industrial average in August. Since its inception, the myth became quite popular. The popularity of the myth is measurable by the not only sale of its publications but also by the investment trust and mutual funds tied on the basis of its investment philosophy. The analysis in this article shows that there is no evidence to ...

Is Subliminal Persuasion a Myth?

Subliminal persuasion is technique that is used to make an individual acknowledge something without the need of making an outward suggestion, or without making the individual realize the attempt to influence him or her. So is subliminal persuasion a myth? Yes it is, according to Simons & Jones (2011) who observes that many social psychologists conclude that subliminal persuasion is a myth. Various studies demonstrate that subliminal tapes have no therapeutic value. The study that supposedly gave birth to subliminal persuasion was the Vicary Study, but this study has never been described in professional literature, and it has not been replicated successfully. ...

List some examples of your recent personal behavior and trace their sources. Are you your own invention? Explain

When analyzing certain events that happened recently in my life, I understand that some of them were indeed influenced by the myth of the individual described in this article. In fact, I see that today it is difficult not to be influenced by this myth, as its traces can be found all around us – in the advertisements, films, thoughts expressed by friends and classmates. Below I will try to analyze a couple of instances of my personal behavior and show that despite proving that I am one of the victims of the myth of individual, I am still my own ...

This article talks about how social construction of sexism has changed over the past half century. In this article, things are not the way they used to be fifty years ago, and the perception of sexism is also changing, because as males dominated the family, today its either women who dominate the family or both. Women are rising into powers, and their salaries are increasing dramatically while that of men remaining constant, meaning that women are learning to be independent. Therefore, women are proving to be who men think they are not, and do all that men can do, ...

Beyond the myth is a film about a certain breed of dogs commonly reared in the United States. The dogs from this particular breed of dogs are referred to as “pit bulls”. The dogs are believed to be a threat to the safety of people living in any given neighborhood. This is based on an instance where a 12-year old boy was bitten to death by his family’s two pit bulls as Fredman reports (Beyond the Myth). The concerned agency, in this case the agency concerned with animal breeding, passes a law in four states in America (Miami, Denver, San Francisco and Cincinnati) ...

1. What is the general problem the author is addressing? (2 points)
The study by Spielmann et al. (2013) was created in order to investigate how the myth that single people suffer from their loneliness affects the feelings of the singles. This myth has existed at all times and has been particularly actual for women (Spielmann et al. 1049). As a result, many people are afraid to be alone so much that settle for less in relationships not to be alone at all. This myth was spread in the society rather quickly, so now many people see a relationship ...

What is the thesis of Takasi’s Essay? What is the evidence that he offers for its truth? Do you find this argument convincing?
In the essay entitled the Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority, author Ronald Takaki tries explain that contrary to what other members of cultural minorities in the United States perceive or believe, Asian Americans are not superior both in terms of their personal and family income and educational background. Takaki exposes that most American cultural minorities such as the African Americans, for example, perceive that Asian Americans are superior to them as a cultural minority. The ...

Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?

Introduction:
In this excellent book, Thompson takes the old myth on the Old Testament God to task explaining the fact that life is not to be taken for granted in any way. Many view God as someone who is forbidding, always ready to castigate and create situations where his obedience is unquestioned and/or without any sort of parallel. Thompson does attempt to dispel that myth accordingly focusing on life in general and how the many episodes in the Bible can be said to dispel this theme accordingly.

The main points of the book:

Principally the book attempts to tackle certain aspects of life which ...

In his article Parsons purports to analyze the up-to-date organizational structure of the American family. This work is informative enough and may be used as the valuable source for carrying out further research concerning the topic. At the same time the authors point of view is presented in rather complex way. That is why it is important to review the main ideas articulated by the author specifically. For this end we shall refer to the work «The anti-social family» written by Barrent and Macintosh. This work considers the similar topic, but the ideas expressed by the authors are slightly ...

Donna Haraway attempts to create an ambiguous political myth that supports the concepts of materialism, socialism, and feminism. She formulates the analogy of a cyborg by using gender to create a manifesto of the creature’s power. The cyborg that is central to her myth entails a cybernetic being that is a hybrid of an organism and a machine. It is a creature of science fiction as well as a creature of reality. The cyborg is utilized as a metaphor for new technology and political and postmodern identity. This essay provides a succinct evaluation of the primary ideas in ...

Technology is advancing at an alarming, almost exponential rate; as human progress increases, so does technology, and its effects on our society become somewhat more truncated. Vincent Mosco, in his article “When Old Myths Were New: The Ever-Ending Story,” notes that human society has a tendency to repeat history when it comes to technological advances; with each new stop, we hail our latest invention to be the be-all end-all for communication technology, ignoring that we have done that many times before. According to Mosco, “there is indeed a remarkably willful, historical amnesia about technology, particularly when it turns to communication and ...

Question at issue

Why a sense of narrative tradition is essential to democracy?
Enthymeme
For one to find out the basic cause of things they must involve tradition and democracy itself is considered a tradition. Tradition provides the base for reasoning. In the modern days people have lost a sense of narrative tradition contributing to their inability to form sensible dialogue which will lead to democracy. This is illustrated in the Chorus of Greek tragedy.

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In his work Pozzi illustrates that;
“takin the pre-Dorianmyths from the Homeric renaissance and presenting them to the Athenian Audience, the playwrigths objectified the cultural tardition of ...

Introduction:

In today’s day and age, social media is the next big thing and this has become intrinsically part of our popular culture in many ways. As argued in Reading the Signs, popular culture can be defined in several ways which include the portrayal of adverts in a given commercial and other similar issues.
However it is social media which is now gaining the upper hand in popular culture and this is reflected in the phenomenal growth and success of sites such as Facebook and Twitter which dominate everything these days. Before popular culture was more centralised in issues ...