Mythology Article Reviews Samples For Students

Offshore outsourcing has been an increasing trend in recent years. Businesses opt to have some of their operations handled by an outside provider due to its reduced costs. However, some companies tend to overlook a variety of things when it comes to client-vendor relationships. In outsourcing, it is important to note that the how the process really works is not as easy as it sounds like. Puranam and Srikanth (2007) debunked seven myths about offshore outsourcing, ranging from unrealistic expectations to poor ideas about structuring contract and convoluted views of risks. They further state that belief in these myths would ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a vast argument between Egyptologists and other writers, whether Bible is an ancient scripture inspired by Egyptian Mythology. There are so many sources available to show us the resemblance between Genesis 1 and Ancient Egyptian creation myths, especially the process of the creation of world. As it is said in Genesis; God created the world in six days and kept the seventh day for rest. In the same way in Egyptian myth, God had created the world in six days and rested for the seventh day. The order, in which the creations had been made, too has a remarkable ...

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 ...

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- What is the main point that you want someone to read this paper to understand?
I want to point out the brilliant capacity of decision making of Telemachus. His maturity is reflected through his decision making and his adaptability. That is what I want to highlight from Telemachus's character.
- Where did you focus particular efforts in this paper?
I focused on the deep study of each and every action and decision of Telemachus. I just want to focus on the immense maturity level of Telemachus while dealing each and every situation.
- What ...

1. "Design for a Sustainable World" Margolin 1998 JSTOR. Published in Design Issues, Volume 14, No. 2 (Summer, 1998), pp. 83 - 92, by The MIT Press

In the article Design for a Sustainable World written by Victor Margolin and published by The MIT Press in Design Issues in Summer of 1998, Margolin traces the history of sustainable design from the late 19th century on. When Margolin starts his story on sustainable design he observes that it was “conceived as an art of giving form to products for mass production” ("Design for a Sustainable World" Margolin 1998, at pg. 83). In this ...

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, ...

Political Science

Review of News Article
Introduction
In an article in The Diplomat (2014), Michael Green and Jeffrey W. Hornung have analyzed the myths being perpetrated in world media after Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe approved a proposal to end the self-imposed ban on allowing its military forces to exercise the right of collective self-defense (CSD). The authors have identified ten myths surrounding the announcement, and have proceeded to discuss and debunk each myth (Green and Hornung, 2014).

Review

Analysis
Japan’s amendment of the scope of activity it envisages in the case of its Self Defense Forces, and resultant expansion ...

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 ...

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) ...

The summary of ‘America can be a full-employment economy once again’ article

The article focuses on the lack of full employment among the people in the United States as the main cause of poverty. It shows the connection between employment and the economy. When the levels of unemployment are too high, the economy becomes poor because the purchasing power of the people is low. Some factors that have led firms to hire few employees include high rates of taxation and unfavorable government policies. According to the article, the labor market has reduced the number of employees, which has created a big challenge because individuals need jobs to earn a living (Komlos ...

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 ...

- What are traditional myths about electronic commerce?
There are several myths about electronic commerce such as; before electronic commerce growth, phones were believed to be for making a call only, telephone lines were laid down in town. In 1990’s websites were used to search information when doing research for academician, people didn’t use it for other purposes. Companies compete with their competitors through marketing in town for their products to be sold at large number since customers were believed to buy these marketed products. There were no forums for discussion of products with customers since it ...

Article review: Micro-moments, choice and responsibility in sustainable organizational change and transformation: The Janus dialectic.

The authors are forthright in stating the purpose of the paper as to examine and elaborate the crucial role in organizations of micro-moments in organizational transformation process. This objective of the paper is clearly reviewed across the paper as the author seeks to justify the implications to the sustainability of an organization during the change process. It is pertinent to note that the title of the article fails to acknowledge the center of the implications of the change process which the author claims to be the behavior exhibited across an organization. Both authors have a broad research scope with each ...

Introduction

Sexuality is an important aspect that features prominently in the lives of all individuals. Sexuality is however perceived differently by various people and/or societies. One of the main focuses of change of perception towards this vital subject is involved with the elderly. Sexuality and the chronically ill older adults is an important subject that has been widely discussed. Verna Pangman and Marylyn Seguire in Sexuality and Disability broadly discussed the issue of sexuality and the chronically ill of the older people.

Summary

Though sexuality as a whole has been extensively discussed and researched in this article, the main focus has been ...

The Lament for Prince Peer of the Sun, of The Lament for Prince Kusakabe, is among the earliest poetic works of Kakinomoto no Hitomaro that have survived until modern days. The poem, which is an elegy in form, was originally intended to commemorate the late Japanese crown prince Kusakabe, a successor of the emperor Tenmu. The beginning lines of the poem point to the place of Kusakabe’s temporary burial palace and express the poem’s relation to the mourning period following Kusakabe’s premature death.
The first meaningful section of the poem is a clear allusion to Japanese ...

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 ...

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“Society`s Storyteller: How TV Creates the Myths by Which We Live”
This article talks about the hidden impact television has on people. The author argues that television shapes the human view of the world, which might have quite a dangerous effect. It is important to note that this article was written in 1992, when television was the peak of the mass media. Today the situation has changed dramatically since more than twenty years have passed since then. Therefore, this article should be analyzed carefully, considering all the recent changes in the media sphere.
I liked the idea that “ ...

The article gives us an overview of the sleeping Eros, which is a Greek goddess of love. Since the discovery of the sculpture, it was transported and put in a museum. People from all walks of life travel just to behold how the original image looks like. This has also seen the modification of the sculpture as many artists come up with what they believe is a modern representation of the goddess. The sleeping Eros has been reproduced through paintings, wood and stone carvings and placed at strategic areas. Apart from its archaeological significance, it also has spiritual significance to the Romans ...

The main thesis of Hixson’s article is that researching the relationship between popular culture and national security policy will help historians understand the processes through which society “absorbs and perpetuates predominant themes of national security discourse. Specifically, novels by authors such as Tom Clancy, le Carre, or Fleming, reflect perceptions of Russian and American behavior and perpetuate American myths, symbols, and images.
Tom Clancy is cited as reflecting American policy during the Reagan administration, and authors such as Spillane reflect an earlier era (1950s). By the 60s and 70s, the literature had become more ‘morally ambiguous,’ 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 ...

Sexual assault is an assault of sexual nature or sexual act directed on another person without their consent. Most Sexual assaults are committed by men towards women but it may also involve man to man, woman to man, woman to woman or even towards children. The term sexual assault may be defined as an involuntary sexual act in which a person could be threatened, coerced or even forced to engage in sex against their consent or any sexual touching of a person against their will.
Rape is a form of sexual assault in which there is intercourse or actual penetration either ...