Conservation Of Hawaii's Imperiled Species Islands are well known among biologists for having a wealth of endemic, unique species found nowhere else in the world. Unfortunately, there is another reason why island organisms have attained celebrity status among biologists: they are extreme...
Made in 1959 and released in 1960 The Magnificent Seven marks the end of the traditional style of the Western genre. It is a Good Samaritan story with a difference, and it is clear to see the change in certain existing preconceptions within the film that contrast so greatly with those of it's predecessors amongst the traditional western. The initial perceptions of Mexicans within The Magnificent Seven are the same typical Mexican stereotypes within American Western movies up to and including the 1960's, these being the terrorising Bandido, and the helpless peasants. These two ste...
Recent studies have begun to see the Homeric epics in the light of other epic traditions, notably epics from Mesopotamia, and have begun to look at striking similarities. There is a supposed lineage that can be seen connecting the Homeric epics most directly with the world of Akkadian epics (Gresseth 2). The connections run from similarities in methods of transmission, namely the oral traditions, to themes, characters and formal structural components. The epic of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, and the Iliad, with its focus on the menis of Achilles, provide a look at heroic life and its relations...
