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This paper analyzes the mythic hero, Johnny Ringo, defined as such because Western frontier society admired perceived gunfighter traits such as courage, self-reliance, ambition and individualism. According to the paper, the real man possessed these traits to a certain extent, but he was not the heroic figure many of his contemporaries and twentieth-century movies and TV Westerns made him out to be. Like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and other gunfighters of the Old West, he became a symbolic hero of a Western frontier culture that never really existed. It further reports that the true story of Johnny Ringo can be ascertained by examining Internet websites such as Johnny Ringo.com, where the factual history of his life is available.

Tags:johnny, ringo, myth

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A critical analysis of the western genre movie "Johnny Guitar" directed by Nicholas Ray.

Tags:johnny, guitar

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The paper describes how Esther Forbes' "Johnny Tremain" recounts the role of a young orphan in the events that occurred before the outbreak of civil war. The paper notes the theme of identity and belonging in this book and the inclusion of many factual details of the American Revolution. The paper posits that "Johnny Tremain" is excellently written and very worthy of its status as a children's classic.

From the Paper
"Although working as a silversmith's apprentice, fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain is the grandnephew of Jonathon Lyte, a rich but dishonest merchant who is despised because of the way in which he is playing a double game with both the Whigs and the Royalists. Before dying, however, Johnny's mother told her son not to go to Jonathon Lyte unless he was desperate. Instead, she ensures her son's future by enabling him to enter into the silversmith trade before her death, by teaching him to read, and by giving him a silver cup that will prove Johnny's identity. Thus, Johnny is working as a silversmith's apprentice, and lording it over the two other apprentices because of Johnny's skills and position."

Tags:American, Revolution, civil, war, identity

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This paper examines how "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo is about Joe Bonham, a soldier who went to war believing in one thing, and returned a forever-changed man. The paper discusses how the novel is simply an antiwar novel that contains a good many messages. The paper relates that, using everyday language, Trumbo offers the reader a novel rich in symbolism and theme that may cause even the most devoted military person to rethink his or her commitment.

From the Paper
"Trumbo gives great insight into the inner working of Joe by giving us his extreme point of view. Trapped within his own thoughts, he rethinks his actions and how naive he was to believe in such a word as "liberty." In the novel, Joe says, " What the hell does liberty mean anyway?...a guy says let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how in hell can he be telling you to fight for it?" Joe is angry, first at himself, and later at the military and the government who trick simple working class fools into fighting for an abstract concept, which has no concrete meaning. Because Joe is on the brink of death, he has nothing to lose by angrily attacking those who made him this way, he has nothing to lose by feeling like he should be the new face of war, and he has nothing to lose by wanting to tell the truth about what he has learned, if only there was a way to get the message outside his head and into the minds of others."

Tags:Joe, Bonham

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This paper describes the life of John R. Cash, the son of humble sharecroppers from Dyess, Arkansas (Cash), who eventually became known as Johnny Cash, The Man in Black. The metamorphosis of Cash from the son of humble sharecroppers to "The Man in Black" and the twists and turns along the way, are the focus of this research. Ultimately, the paper reveals that Cash's story is as much a story of the pleasures and pitfalls of celebrity as it is a tale of the human experience, of sin and redemption, and the endless quest of the human soul to attain purity.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
A Great Man from Humble Beginnings
JR Cash Becomes "The Man in Black"
The Man Comes Around
Conclusion

From the Paper
"According to Carl Perkins, an early band mate of Cash's, lifelong friend and a star in his own right, is probably the single most important catalyst to the occurrence that would transform JR Cash, struggling musician into Johnny Cash, rising star. As Perkins' account of the story goes, JR was rehearsing some pieces of a song he was working on with Perkins' help, but it seemed to be missing something. In the course of the work session, Perkins spoke casually to Cash about the temptations of being a musician on the road, and warned Cash about the loose women who would try to lure him into adultery."

Tags:celebrity, june carter, hymns temptations opry

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This essay will argue, with respect to the stories "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic", that Gibson represents the relationship between technology and the body as a dynamic process that is in continual flux. The characters in his stories attempt to determine fixed meaning in this cybernetic chaos, but come to accept the deferment of certainty and meaning that is a consequence of technology's continual reshaping of the boundaries of the body and its consciousness.

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This paper examines Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun", a book which attempted to enable its readers to understand the horrors of war. The main character, Joe, who is completely crippled, unable to speak, hear, see, or move, is analyzed by the author who discusses how his thoughts are all he has to live for. The paper also looks at how war is romanticized by people, but in reality, is sheer hell.

From the Paper
"Joe is crippled by an artillery shell which takes out his face and all of his limbs. He can not speak, move, see, hear, taste, or smell. Amazingly kept alive by doctors, he is essentially a piece of meat which can think. There are several specific messages which Trumbo strongly asserts in his novel: the idiocy of regimentalism and nationalism; that we can not comprehend what it is like to be a casualty, dead or alive; that war is terribly brutal and dehumanizing, and therefore unnatural; and that it is always the little guy who fights the rich man s wars. Trumbo s sentiment is reflective of the pacifism of the interwar period, and which led to appeasement towards Hitler until his invasion of Poland."

Tags:anti, blind, deaf, death, injuries, pacifism, peace, protest, war, world, wound

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The paper presents a straightforward history of the man and then provides some analysis to place his experience in the context of world events.

From the Paper
"Johnny Hemphill, born in Asheville in 1924, was drafted into military service in 1942 directly after graduation from high school. He was initially taken to Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C. for a battery of tests to determine his physical and mental condition. At the time, Fort Bragg served as a sorting point for soldiers and draftees from North and South Carolina so Hemphill, along with two friends from the Asheville area, boarded a bus for Fayetteville to await their fates. Hemphill recalls being desirous of a position in the National Guard, as he perceived it as an institution where ?a colored guy could really get ahead, could actually move upwards.? This stood in direct contrast to what Hemphill had heard about other branches of the military; "my brother had just gone to the army and he told me, "don't you go in the army?, he said "don't you go where you got to sleep on the ground.?"

Tags:civil, rights

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The literary genre popularly known as "cyberpunk" blends elements of hard-boiled detective fiction with speculative reflections on the impact of computer networking technologies upon the body politic and the body organic.

Tags:the, body, electric

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This paper examines the extraordinary friendship between Owen and Johnny in John Irving's novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany." The review describes their friendship as transcending the normal and further discusses how each protagonist possesses unique characteristics that combined to form the likeness of one complete person. The reviewer concludes that "Owen and Johnny's friendship is something so deep it could never be defined or limited. They are two bodies that live and thrive off the other to form one whole being".

From the Paper
"In A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Johnny and his best friend Owen have a relationship characterized by many things that most people would consider to make a relationship special, such as forgiveness, trust, loyalty, protection, and sacrifice. But their relationship is much deeper than it appears to be. Johnny and Owen's friendship transcends beyond special and takes a leap into extraordinary. Society as a whole sometimes seems to overlook what makes a true friend. Anyone can refer to someone else as a friend of his or hers, but how many people actually mean it? How many people have a true friend who would lay their life on the line for the other? Some people have a close friend who they would even go as far as to consider them family, much like Johnny's mother, Tabby, and grandmother, Mrs. Wheelwright, see Owen. But how many people have a friend that actually acts as half of them? Not only do Johnny and Owen do things to be an extraordinary friend to one another, but they both possess unique characteristics that combine to form the likeness of one complete person."

Tags:A, Prayer, for, Owen, Meany, Owen, Meany, Johnny, Wheelwright, friendship, John, Irving