Outlaws

Ophira Edut is the editor of Body Outlaws: Young Women Writing About Body Image and Identity , and Rebecca Walker created the foreword. Ophira Edut has spent almost a decade creating media projects for young adult women, and is the founding publisher of HUES ( Hear Us Emerging Sisters) which is a intersectional magazine geared toward women of different walks of life. She is also a contributor to Ms magazine which is a popular feminist magazine. Her work has been published in major magazines such

The Baron in the Trees: Reason Reforms Society In Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees, a boy rebels against his father by climbing up trees, where he spends the rest of his life on, without ever touching the ground again. The philosophical residue is the idea that reason advances the human knowledge, which is a powerful influence to individuals, making people seek for it through books and logic. Accordingly, it is necessary for the improvement of society that it should govern people with justice

What is a vigilante? Well, a vigilante is a civilian or an organization that, without legal authority, acted as law enforcement on the purpose of pursuit (usually self-perceived) justice, when they felt that the punishment for the crime was insufficient. Having existed long before the word “vigilante” was added to the English dictionary, and can be traced all the way back to the Dark Age (early Middle Ages), these “vigilante” has truly been a pain in the back of the ruling government, and law enforcement

Ned Kelly is thought to be an awful murderer but in reality Ned Kelly is a thoughtful, nice, heroic man that protects his family and saves the lives of many unfortunate people. Ned Kelly a bushranger built into a hero, saved the many lives of family, friends and passing by individuals. When Ned was only eleven years of age he saved Dick Shelton a young boy from drowning in a river. Dick Shelton was a young and curious student walking to school when he fell into a river and started to drown. Ned passing

Ned Kelly is a renowned Australian Bushranger, known for his courage when rising against the colonizers of Australia. However, it is still argued whether Ned Kelly is a hero or villain from the perspectives of the modern society. Ned Kelly is more commonly depicted as the Robin Hood of Australia considering his purpose for his malicious deeds rather than a murderous villain having done criminal deeds. There are visual representations that deliver Ned Kelly’s intentions on being a criminal and these

Why do Australians idolize Ned Kelly? Ned Kelly wasn't a man to be idolized, he was a villain disguised as a vigilante, An unearthly, inhumane and devilish man. He committed his first crimes at the age of twelve by stealing a horse from his neighbour, displaying downright harassing behaviour. Not only harassing people, he also took to a life of crime at an early age by teaming up with a known bushranger, a bushranger who spent thirty-two years of his life in jail. The poor choices Ned made, not only

Matthew Magill Mr. Kearney American Hero (6) 12 November 2012 The Outlaw Josey Wales In The Outlaw Josey Wales, the viewer finds the hero, Josey Wales, representing Christ to a world of sinners. It is unclear whether Clint Eastwood intended to direct the movie in mind with such similarities between Christ’s role as a savior and Josey’s actions. Christ is an archetypal, mythological hero figure that the well-read viewer finds often. From the physical wound in Josey’s right rib, to the fact

It comes as no surprise that motorcycle gangs or, as law enforcement officials refer to as OMG’s (outlaw motorcycle gangs), predominately have a fundamental hate for law enforcement. Factually, OMG’s were usually thought to be less of threat because of their lower numbers compared to street gangs. A study from the NAGIA in 2013 study showed that OMG’s represent about 2.5% of gang member in the United States. When it comes to violence and problematic gang types it starts at neighborhood gangs at 54%

Outlaw Heroes in Literature In "The Thematic Paradigm", Robert Ray explains how there are two distinctly different heroes, the outlaw hero and the official hero. The official hero embraces common values and traditional beliefs, while the outlaw has a clear sense of right and wrong but operates above the law (Ray). Ray explains how the role of an

and misconstrued every step of the way. The first video I watched addressed some of the modern misinterpretations of the medieval outlaw. It was abundantly clear that the heroic and chivalrous we have of Robin Hood and other noble outliers of justice is a highly romanticized and inaccurate depiction of these outlaws. Through the years of the medieval age, the term outlaw took on many varying legal definitions. In certain communities and under their current laws being declared an outcast was an extremely