This essay argues that the semi-biographical film 8 Mile represents Eminem as being both racially distinctive and as possessing universal commercial appeal. 8 Mile accomplishes this paradoxical construction by portraying ‘‘Rabbit’’ as ‘‘white trash,’’ a discursively ‘‘dark’’ (white) object, and as an American mythological white subject. The film makes whiteness hyper-visible by subjecting it to...

Yuri Pines – the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prepared for the SSEC-AAS conference, Chicago, March 2009 The Rong Cheng shi is one of the largest and relatively well preserved texts from the Shanghai Museum collection of Chu state bamboo manuscripts. This previously unknown text is the only recently unearthed work that presents a systematic account of the earliest stages of China's history, be...

The mythological tradition expressed in early Greek hexameter poetry offers an ancient and influential witness to one of the most pervasive assumptions shaping Western cultural constructions of gender, the assumption that there is a link between two inescapable aspects of the human condition: the fact of being born from a woman and the fact of having to die. That body of poetry, which includes ...

The following is a brief excerpt from a larger study on the analysis of the archetypal patterns of suicide.2 My intention with this sensitive work is to explore the complexities of suicide, not as a form of tourism, but as a pilgrimage, with respect for those who have chosen this path and the loved ones that remained as witnesses. A review of mythological accounts of suicide, ancient and curren...

Personality disorders represent a medico-legal problem that refuses to go away, despite continuing attempts to debunk them as ‘mythological’ (Mullen, 2007). In the 1970s and early 1980s psychiatrists became increasingly reluctant to use the ‘psychopathic disorder’ label to section people under the 1959 Mental Health Act (MHA), with the consequence that personality-disordered offenders were incr...

Different aspects of medicine and/or healing in several societies are presented. In the ancient times as well as today medicine has been closely related to magic, science and religion. Various ancient societies and cultures had developed different views of medicine. It was believed that a human being has two bodies: a visible body that belongs to the earth and an invisible body of heaven. In th...

Sangam literature occupies a unique place in classical and is mirror that accurately reflects the lives of people. Both books, Ettuthozhi Pathupaattu, are called "Sangam literature." This also known as "Pathinenmerkanakku." "Kanakku" means song. "Merkanakku" song having lot lines. The total number lines 26,350. Agam (1862) Puram (519) two 2381 songs from literary histories. on love war were com...