No Heroes, No Villains Essay

In the short book of “No Heroes, No Villains” by Steven Phillips On June 28, 1972, a Transit Authority patrolman, John Skagen, was on his way home from testifying at court for an arrest he made a couple of weeks prior. Skagen was taking the train home to the Bronx when he saw and stopped James Richardson who was awaiting the subway train which would take him to work at Lincoln Hospital. Skagen ordered him to “put up your hands, and get against the wall”. Skagen’s actions seem unprovoked and unnecessary. After a short tussle the two men exchanged shots and Richardson fled the scene on foot. Two other officers that were on the main street above the subway station rushed to the scene.

There is no doubt that the popularity of the anti-hero as we know it has increased in recent times. With unlikely, yet popular moral gray protagonists like Jack Bauer, Dexter, and Gregory House leading some of the most popular TV shows and characters like James Bond, Lisbeth Salander, Tyler Durden (from Fight Club), and Jack Sparrow being some of the most memorable in movies, it is not surprising that there has been an increased interest to understand what causes this characters to be so popular (Peter Jonason in et al., 193). What is it that makes them as likeable, if not more, than a normal hero? How come we relate to characters that perform actions that, if done in real life, would cause us to see them in a whole different light?

“Monsters, in the language of mythology, were beings of unnatural proportions or parts, usually regarded with terror, as possessing immense strength and ferocity, which they employed for the injury and annoyance of men”(Thomas Bulfinch). This quote defines a monster and describes them as unnatural and often feared by the people they terrorize. There are many different types of monsters and all monsters fight different heroes, but all their purpose is the same, to strike fear in the people surrounding them. In Greek mythology heroes are often sent to defeat these creatures that are thought to be unbeatable. Heroes are often sent to beat these monsters as a way to gain passage to a better life. The heroes who fight with

The shooting occurred at the Fruitvale train station on January 1st, 2009. At the station, a fight broke out in one of the trains and when the train stopped the fight started again outside of the train at one of the stops. While they were fighting on the train the BART officers were called. The officers came and arrested everyone that was in the fight. A guy named Oscar Grant was in the fight and was also arrested (Meyer). While Grant was being arrested by Officer Mehserle, he resisted the officer’s attempts. Since Grant was resisting he was pushed onto the ground on his stomach to be handcuffed. Johannes Mehserle was having trouble handcuffing Grant so the other BART officers helped him. When Grant was on the ground Mehserle was going to tase him since he would not stop resisting. When Mehserle thought he pulled out his TASER, he instead pulled out his gun. Mehserle accidentally shot Grant with his gun since he thought he pulled out his TASER (Bulwa).

Superman, Wonder Woman, Spiderman—what do all these characters have in common? They are all products of the human aspiration to be saved. The word hero is passed around too much these days. A hero is not a football player that scores the game-winning touchdown or the goaltender who saves his team from a loss. A hero is usually an ordinary person that did extraordinary things. A true hero is really never a hero at all; at least not in their own mind. However, there are various cases today in which we see the exact opposites of these characters, the anti-heroes. The anti-hero is one who cannot be classified as a hero, for that said character lacks natural heroic qualities. However, the anti-hero cannot be described as a villain either.

In Module/Week 8, you will write a 1500-words (about 5–7-pages) essay that addresses one of the plays from the Drama Unit.  A minimum of six citations, including the primary source and at least five secondary scholarly sources, is required for this assignment.  Before you begin writing the essay, carefully read the guidelines for developing your paper topic that are given below.  Review the research paper Grading Rubric to see how your submission will be graded. Gather all of your information, plan the direction of your essay, and organize your ideas by developing a one-page thesis statement, outline, draft, and bibliography for your research paper.  Format the thesis statement and the outline in a single

There are many reasons on why Yato would be considered an anti-hero, not just for his behavior and his situation, but also for his pride. One he only helps someone if they give him money, for example, in chapter one when Mutsumi called Yato he only offered help when she provided him 5 yen. Throughout the chapters you can see this behavior go on, in chapter 2 he helped the boy find his cat for 5 yen, and also in chapter 3 he helped Mutsumi because he owed her 5 yen, as he was not able to help her. These traits are not just shown for money, but also his behavior. His behavior has always been that he is a god and everyone needs to follow that, despite anything or any advice that is given to him like Someone tried in chapter 1. In chapter 1 Mutsumi was crying as Yato was not to help

Hero Squad – pixel part extend in which a small band of saints to protect a seized princess. What's more, the person who secures her in the jail itself will be King of the Demons, making travel extremely hazardous and not unsurprising.

Beyonders A World Without Heroes is about a well-adjusted 13-year-old boy named Jason Walker who works at a zoo. One day, while he was working at the zoo, he was cleaning out the Hippo habitat when something crazy happened to him. He was hearing music from the mouth of the Hippo, curiously he got closer to see if the Hippo had eaten anything and then was abruptly eaten by the Hippo. Jason entered the hippo’s slimy mouth and entered down a tunnel and realized when he came out he was next to a tree in a completely different world called Lyrian. In this world, he finds a library. In this library he finds a book called The Book of Salzared. This book describes how there is a six-syllable word that can kill the evil ruler of Lyrian, Maldor. Jason is given the first syllable from this book, and he learns that the only way to get home is to defeat Maldor, the evil ruler. Now Jason realizes he must find the rest of the syllables to defeat Maldor. On his adventure he meets another person from the normal world named Rachel and one of Maldor’s evil minions, Ferrin. Rachel and Jason try to get back home and defeat Maldor.

Like any other term in a language, it will inevitably change as society progresses. The word ‘hero’ was a term to constantly change as the world continued and grew quickly. More people started to relate to the word hero, or achieve a status high enough be considered a hero with their extraordinary achievements. A person who was considered a hero was expected to have no flaws, yet we all know no human is flawless. As the world advanced, ‘hero’ was slowly becoming old fashioned due to people in modern times not relating to the word, or not becoming a hero themselves.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground (1864/2008) comes across as a diary penned by a self-described “spiteful” and “unattractive” anonymous narrator (p. 7). The narrator’s own self-loathing characterized by self-alienation is so obvious, that he is often referred to by critics as the Underground Man (Frank 1961, p. 1). Yet this Underground Man is the central character of Dostoyevsky’s novel and represents a subversion of the typical courageous hero. In this regard, the Underground man is an anti-hero, since as a protagonist he not only challenges the typical literary version of a hero, but also challenges conventional thinking (Brombert 1999, p. 1).

In a play, there are always heroes and villains. Sometimes, one can not always tell who are the heroes and villains. William Shakespeare, in his play, Julius Caesar, shows the difference of heroes and villains using the senators of Rome to show the difference between heroes and villains. The hardest character to determine was the hero Brutus, by analyzing his loyalty, background, and his intentions, one can determine that Brutus was a hero to Rome.

What is a modern day hero and how do they hide themselves in everyday life with the rest of the world? Modern day heroes do an amazing job at blending in with society by disguising themselves as “Unknown Civilians” (W.H Audon) who partake in everyday life. These heroes use their strength for the greater good by working hard in society and finding jobs that need someone willing to work their body into the ground. Along with everything else, these hidden gems are amazing family members who are always willing to do just about anything to treat their family and friends to better lives.

Within my group, many ideas were shared. Our first idea for our pre-existing piece was sparked from a concept from the movie ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ in which a villain is the protagonist, who learns to accept who he is by the conclusion of the story. This inspired our idea of a ‘Villain support group’ to be the main concept of our story. This then developed into a ‘Side character support group’, and the discussion of which characters would be included in either side. Ultimately, this was as far as this idea got and was scrapped when a future, more relevant idea came along. I felt as though this idea would be great for a short scene in the show, but was not elaborate enough to create a 10-20

The story of The Guest is about Daru, a lonely schoolteacher in Camus’ boyhood home of Algeria. Daru likes living in solitude, but he must learn to recognize that choices are unavoidable and that his choices matter. The story takes place in the middle of the nineteenth century when Algeria is still a land full of conflict between the oppressed Algerian people and their French colonial rulers. At the beginning of the story the French send the gendarme, Balducci to Daru with an Arab convicted of murder. Through Balducci the prisoner comes under the charge of