.... found in folk music of the colonial period, James Fenimore Cooper's novels such as The Last of the Mohicans (1826) (re-made as a feature film at least three times - 1920, 1936, and most recently as a popular film starring Daniel Day Lewis as a white scout named Hawkeye raised as a Mohican in The Last of the Mohicans (1992)), Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail (1849), Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain) Roughing It (1872), Bret Harte's short stories, and other mythologies (tales of Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Jim Bowie, Gen. George A Custer, Calamity Jane, and outlaws such as the James Brothers, the original Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Billy the Kid). Westerns are often ....

.... to draw on classic styles and timeless stories to create something new and absolutely original. The main factor in both of their positive reviews is the skill of writer and director George Lucas to blend the old with the new. They were both impressed with his miraculously fresh configuration of many different themes from classic film and mythic origin into a cohesive and entertaining movie. He has achieved a witty and exhilarating synthesis of themes and cliches from the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers comics and serials, plus such related but less expected sources as the western, the pirate melodrama, the aerial combat melodrama and the samurai epic. The movie's irresisti ....

.... King Hamlet urges his son to “Revenge his most foul and unnatural murder” (Shakespeare 72). This puts the play into full action and Hamlet puts his intelligence to work. He formulates a plan “to put an antic disposition on” (82) in order to move about the castle to get information about Claudius in order to avenge his father’s death. This is a truly ingenious plan in order for Hamlet to gain what he needs. He has made believers out of those around him that he is mad (when actually is not). Polonius says to Ophelia “That [rejected love from her] hath made him mad” (94). The king, however has a different opinion that “since nor th’ exterior nor the inwa ....

.... it over in to her play. Beneatha a character in knows much about her African past. Mama is very proud of her African heritage and believing it^s importance. During the stage directing of the play Lena has the ^noble bearings of the women of the heroes of the Southwest Africa , but she totally ignores her African past and does not care much about it either^ (Cheney 59). Asagai Beneatha^s acquaintance talks allot about his African past and believes deeply in his culture and heritage. He is from Nigeria where there is a lot of poverty. is a quiet celebration of the black family the importance of African roots, the equality of women, the vulnerability of marriage, the true ....

.... of goods to Europe. Slavery became re-introduced into society during and many Muslims worked as slaves in Italy. Money lending and trade contributed to the excessive wealth of city-states in Italy. City-states possessed enough money for people to explore new kinds of art, philosophy, and government. People explored new areas and the use of maps increased. Access to literature increased due to the invention of the printing press. Books became widespread and affordable to the general public. Education and literacy increased as literature became available in a variety of languages. People expressed their vies openly in their publications, which did not go over well with th ....

.... the play one could imagine the stresses put on a man with such stories of battle that Othello himself told Brabantio. “Her father loved me, oft invited me; /Still questioned me the story of my life/From year to year- the battles sieges, fortunes/That I have passed.”(I, iii, 128-131) The numerous battles and the hardships of war wear a man down. The stresses of everyday things at work get to us but the stresses of battle must be and uncountable times worse. Othello seemed to be and was mentioned as a good leader with the respect of the Duke. The stresses of being a black man leading an army of white soldiers that might respect you as a leader but might not respect you ....

.... man was a mean nor selfish individual. Macbeth originally portrayed a courageous soldier and a loyal man; he praised King Duncan and was very successful on the battlefield. Likewise, Raskolnikov’s thoughts and actions confirmed he was a compassionate individual. When he saw the young girl being followed by the suspicious man, he immediately called the police and tried to protect the girl. When his friendly acquaintance Marmeladov died, Raskolnikov gave his last twenty rubles to Katerina, Marmeladov’s wife. He did not want to see her suffer any more than he could help. Also, Raskolnikov feared his sister, Dunia, was marrying Luzhin for the wrong reasons, so he ....

.... Torvald, treats Nora more as a possession then an equal partner. He uses, manipulates and molds her to fit perfectly into his facade. Krogstad, a morally diseased man who works for Torvald, also uses Nora to gain a higher position at work. He believes herto be an easy target for blackmail. Nora's best childhood friend, Christine Linde, helps her realize that a woman can think, act and live independently for herself. As Nora realizes that she must find her true self, the ways in which Krogstad, Christine and Torvald perceive her dramatically change. Christine Linde, a woman who has had to live independently since her husband died, suddenly comes back to visit N ....