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    In his novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Jules Verne introduced the reader to a brilliant professor by the name of Aronnax and the eccentric Captain Nemo who mans the Nautilus, a remarkable submarine. When the passage opens, it tells that Aronnax is debating with the other crew members, and he believes there is more to the pole than just ice. This illustrates that Professor Aronnax is a very curious ,yet simplistic person. In the first place, Professor Aronnax is a very optimistic person

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    Wonder Woman is a super-hero dating back to the 1940's when she made her debut in All Star Comics volume #8. Since then Wonder Woman has appeared almost exclusively in DC Comics. The character is based on, and said to be a princess of the Amazon women who through her travels comes to spend most of her time on Earth with the humans. Her home is an island called Themyscira (formerly Paradise Island) named after the Greek home of the mythical Amazon women. The character is a heroine and possesses many

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    In the movie The Avengers, the main characters Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, and Hawkeye fit the hero’s journey archetype through their adventure of saving Manhattan. In the Departure stage, God of Mischief Loki comes to earth through a portal caused by the Tesseract and Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, and other agents of S.H.I.E.L.D try to assemble a team to stop Loki. The heroes chosen by Nick Fury, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and Thor, don't want to join together to defeat

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    In Gerard Jones' essay “Violent Media is Good for Kids,” he argues a position not taken by many in today's culture. Jones advocates children should be exposed to violent media in order to overcome real life hardships. The problem with Jones' argument arise when he fails to develop his somewhat dated ideas and leaves his audience questioning how effective such exposure would be. In the exposition of Jones' essay, he tells the story of his sheltered childhood. Growing up in a “progressive” family

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    implicitly stressed a common interest in public welfare and strong federal government all based its comics around the Social status of America at the time. While Marvel comics took up the cause of WWII patriotism in the early creation of Captain America, by showing Captain America punching Hitler. The biggest underling message of comics during the Golden Age is the defense of normal people and good citizens. After WWII, the energy driving the Golden Age died off, but that didn’t mean that the comic book

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    Was J.P. Morgan a Captain of Industry or a Robber Baron? In the early nineteenth century the USA was very corrupt. It was a time were monopolistic businesses thrived, and small ones failed. In this time was when J.P. Morgan became the man controlling the most money in the world and ended up owning at his peak, forty companies. In the early nineteenth century J.P Morgan was both a Captain of industry and a Robber Baron. J.P. Morgan was considered by many a robber baron, and there are many reasons

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    the quality and meaning of what is presented in the media. Captain America conversations stay around the Captain America and Marvel subreddits, however their users vary; people come out as professors, marines, artists, etc. This section will examine several pieces of fan testimony explaining their interpretation of his character, as well as their responses to how his current media portrays him. Knotsteve addresses the development of Captain America’s character over the years his comics ran, and their

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    gun she stole from Rumlow, in hand. 10:18 AM Meanwhile, Captain America had already compromised two of three helecarriers that were to shoot at civilians. He stood in his classic uniform as he stared down his childhood friend on the balcony inside the third helecarrier. He hoped that Bucky would remember him and their friendship if he presented himself in the same suit they fought together in. But the Asset looked annoyed by the Captain. "People are gonna die, Buck. I can 't let that happen,"

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    who lives in a mythical wonderland where no one ever ages. He and his fairy friend invited Wendy along with two other children on an adventure to wonderland. On their journey, they encounters many challenge circumstances at same time are aware of Captain Hook, greatest

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    Shannon Keel Dr. Francis Feminist Reading of Culture October 19th, 2017 Ms. Marvel: “No Normal” Reading “No Normal” was my first ever experience with the “Ms. Marvel” spinoff, and I absolutely loved it. I think choosing a sixteen year old, Pakistani-American, Muslim girl as the main hero was a bold move for the American comic book giant Marvel, but I believe it truly paid off. In “Ms. Marvel: No Normal,” Kamala is a wonderful representation of female empowerment through self identity

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