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Mythology - Teachers' Edition
28,800 words, approx. 96 pages
A complete lesson plan by Educational Impressions. For Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.
Mythology - Students' Edition
19,200 words, approx. 64 pages
A complete lesson plan by Educational Impressions. For Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Myth [addendum] Summary
1,196 words, approx. 4 pages
Myth [addendum] As Alasdair MacIntyre says, some philosophers have treated myth, disparagingly, as the opposite of logos, as a nonrational form of understanding the world that either has been or should be displaced by science and reason. Others have...
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Mythology Information
3,852 words, approx. 13 pages
The word mythology[1] refers to a body of myths/stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. Mythology also refers to the branch...


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Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
Visual mythologies
07/07/2004: 342 words, approx. 1 pages
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 07-07-2004 A vital part of the First Peoples' Festival is the appreciation of visual arts. Several different locations throughout the city of Montreal played host to art exhibitions which promoted a resurgence of Aboriginal mythologies through the hands...
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The New York Observer
Right-Wing Health Care Mythology
10/9/2007: 553 words, approx. 2 pages
Once among the most frightening and effective epithets in American political culture, “socialized medicine” seems to have lost its juju. These days, that phrase sounds awfully dated, like a song on a gramophone or a mother-in-law joke or a John Birch Society rant against fluoridated...
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AP News
Hindus: project harms 'Rama's Bridge'
12/31/2007: 365 words, approx. 1 pages
Thousands of Hindu hard-liners protested Sunday against plans to dredge a new shipping channel off southern India, arguing the project would damage a marine formation that Hindus believe was created by the god Rama.The $550 million project, aimed at cutting up to 30 hours from...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by C. Scott Littleton
17,033 words, approx. 57 pages
In the essay that follows, Littleton studies various versions of the widespread and pervasive motif of the divine king, and concludes that the theme does not have a single Indo-European origin.
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Critical Essay by Jaan Puhvel
10,856 words, approx. 36 pages
In the essay that follows, Puhvel discusses the ancient epics of India—the Ramayana and the Mahabharata—considering in particular the intermingling of myth and history in these complex narratives.
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W. Michael Kelsey
10,785 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Kelsey examines the use of the snake figure in Buddhist and Shinto narratives of evil and redemption.
 
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Essay Grade: 92%
What is Mythology?
717 words, approx. 2 pages
What makes mythology mythological through examples from the book 'Mythology.'
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Essay Grade: 88%
Europa Mythology
645 words, approx. 2 pages
Describes the importance of the images based on European mythology. Explores how mythology has applied a persistent influence on the arts throughout Europe from the earliest times and thus, numerous images were created because of such inspiration.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Role of Myths in Society
744 words, approx. 3 pages
Mythology refers to the body of stories that explain some aspect of the human condition, especially the creation of the world and the acts of nature. They are found in every culture in the world, and the Greek and Roman myths are the most influential.


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