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Atwood, Sandra Bartlett. "Understanding myth and myth as understanding| An interdisciplinary approach to mytho-logic narration." Thesis, Utah State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586765.
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I wanted to see if there were points of overlap between the various accounts of creation found in folklore, philosophy and physics. In order to justify such a project, I initially considered literature from each of these disciplines regarding the necessity of interdisciplinary dialogue generally and specifically the need for both intuition and logic when considering how anything actually exists. Through my research and casual observation, I hypothesized that opposition seemed to be a universal characteristic of nature. I then looked at how each discipline has described fundamentally opposing pairs and created a list of primary features that those accounts had in common. Finally, I demonstrated (in my study The Symmetry of God) the utility of an interdisciplinary approach to myth by showing how science and philosophy can improve our understanding of myth and conversely how folklore (myth in particular) may suggest meaningful and potentially revolutionary relationships not yet considered by science.
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Krueger, September Zoller Christine. "Nascent Myth." [Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2673.
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Dorman, Daniel. "Creation Myth." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1493918336967034.
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Livornese, Karen Elizabeth. "Unfinished myth." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53292.
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I have always claimed that places are stronger than people, the fixed scene stronger than the transitory succession of events. This is the theoretical basis not of my Architecture, but of Architecture itself.Master of Architecture
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Vcislo, Mark Vance. "Sartre's creation myth." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0016/MQ27551.pdf.
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Miller, Lucasta. "The Bronte myth." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439846.
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Hanks, Jennifer R. "Myth Protagonist X." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2158.
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H, Mironov Yu. "SCIENCE OR MYTH?" Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2017. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/28078.
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Oliveri, Christopher J. "The Untethered Myth." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428652540.
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Vasiliadou, Xanthippi. "Myth, Myth-Making and the Formation of Cultural Identity in Greece." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514220.
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This research addresses the place of myth in the constitution of the nation and the construction of cultural identities in Greece. Considering the ever-changing nature of identity in postmodern analyses, it focuses attention on Greek museums and their potential as loci for the formation of new identities within the contemporary socio-cultural context. Furthermore, it concerns the ways they can work together with schools by reinforcing their educational role both as learning and cultural centres. In present times, with homogenization and continuity being challenged under the pressure of internal and external changes and the emerging quest for cultural diversity, collective identities need to be redefined. Therefore, I suggest that myths offer a negotiable cultural context connected with the museums' and schools' identity work embracing both the preservation of traditions and cultural innovation. I consequently introduce a project with the intention of exploring the dynamics of this relationship by way of a pilot study across museums and secondary schools working with myths in Greece. Through it, and by analysis of its consequences and implications, I hope to make a contribution to the development of culturally inclusive approaches in the museum
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Siani-Davies, Peter John. "The Romanian revolution of 1989 : myth and reality - myth or reality?" Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338645.
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Woloshyn, Cameron. "Myth, image, dianoia: Situating the myth of Er on the Divided Line." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28117.
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Perennially, investigations into Plato's use of myths have hinged on a distinction between muthos and logos, from which logos is privileged as philosophical discourse, while muthoi are relegated to tools of persuasion for the non-philosophical. Focussing exclusively on the Republic, this thesis argues that Plato's myths can constitute a necessary, although not a sufficient component of Plato's philosophical discourse. In his discussion of the section of dianoiu in the Divided Line, Plato writes: "the soul, using as images the things that were imitated before, is forced to investigate from hypotheses, proceeding not to a first principle but to a conclusion (510b4-6)." Elaborating on this passage, I shall demonstrate how dianoetic understandings rely on the collaboration of both images and argument. I argue that Plato presents the Myth of Er as a dianoetic image, on which Plato's arguments concerning the justice rely.
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Augustus, Brent C. "Man and myth studying the power myth and folklore has over man /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.
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Zimmerman, Erin. "MAKING MYTH MATTER: INTERROGATING NARRATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTING METANARRATIVE IN CLASSICAL MYTH ADAPTATION." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/710.
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Making Myth Matter analyzes the influence of classical myths and their adaptations on cultural values and offers a prescription for how the adaptation process may be improved for cultural sensitivity. My concern is to address the troubling treatment and interpretation of acquaintance rape in three Greek myths: Cassandra, Persephone, and Philomela. I see the treatment of the rape in these myths' adaptations from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Timberlake Wertenbaker and Joanna Laurens as creating metanarratives that shame rape survivors and demean the violence of the rape act. I begin the scholarly portion of the dissertation by examining the difference between narrative: the events of a story, and metanarrative: the discursive function of the story. I address the contemporary Western understanding of rape and survivors' experiences, which reflect how influential metanarratives are in survivors' healing process. I further explain the care that is necessary in adapting myths involving rape because of those myths' strong influence on attitudes cultural attitudes about rape. I analyze the variety of adaptations of the three myths and how disempowering most have been. I use Neil LaBute's bash as an example of care in adaptation being a play that asks questions of the audience but does not provide answers. I see LaBute as engaging the tradition of catharsis without offering its comforting closure, creating a contemporary response to classical work that engages the values of the culture to which it is addressed. I finally provide a set of terms I believe necessary to follow in order to create considered adaptations. In my creative response, which forms the second half of the dissertation, I adapt the myths of Cassandra, Persephone, and Philomela to create metanarratives that empower survivors and engage cultural prejudices against them and their experiences. Through the writing process, I find my own understanding of the survivor experience challenged and explore the idea of adaptation an action of catharsis in itself.
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Scott, Emma. "The nature of myth." Click here to view, 2010. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/socssp/15/.
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Thesis (B.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2010.Project advisor: Stacey Rucas. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Apr. 20, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
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Plum, Guclu Emily Lupita. "The myth of gravity." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
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Saunders, George A. "The myth of cyberfaith." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1230604.
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This study used random sample survey data from the Middletown Area Survey of 2000 to examine the use of the Internet for religious purposes. The survey data was supplemented by follow-up phone interviews with survey respondents who identified themselves as frequent users of the Internet for religious purposes. Two hypotheses were tested: the Church Dissatisfaction Hypothesis - that religious use of the Internet is positively correlated with church dissatisfaction, and the Conservative Religiosity Hypothesis - that religious use of the Internet is positively correlated with conservative religiosity. This study found no evidence for the Church Dissatisfaction Hypothesis, but did find evidence for the Conservative Religiosity Hypothesis. In fact, 80% of those who used the Internet for religious purposes fit the study's definition of conservative religiosity.Department of Sociology
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Crichton, Michele Gaynor. "The myth of inclusion?" Thesis, University of Hull, 2007. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:6500.
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The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action (UNESCO 1994) embedded the idea of inclusive education and its guiding principles were the motivational forces behind the UK policy document Excellence for All Children (DfES 1997). Yet since that time, there has been a range of outcomes for schools and Local Authorities, pupils and parent/carers. To help explain these outcomes, the thesis has sought to draw parallels between inclusion and myth. The research question asks, to what extent can inclusion be considered to be a myth? A discourse analysis was carried out on eight selections from key documents used to implement and perpetuate an inclusion agenda. Four questions were used to 'search for patterns', consider differences or similarities and to consider the 'participants orientation'. This was in terms of the effects and outcomes inclusion has had for the 'participants' within it, namely, schools and Local Authorities, pupils and parents/carers. An extensive literature analysis was also used to consider six dimensions of myth across four themes of inclusion. These six dimensions were myth as the popularised notion of a widely held but mistaken notion, the narrative qualities of myth, myth's complex nature, its relevance to some and not other, the quality myth has of perpetuating over time, and myth's ability to move people and have an inspirational quality. The four themes of inclusion were defining inclusion, implementing inclusion in consideration of schools and Local Authorities, pupils and parent/carers. To draw a conclusion to the research question a criterion was used to view the extent each dimension matched with myth. The thesis considered that although there was mixed evidence, inclusion appears to have many of the characteristics of myth, with myth is a widely held but false notion and its narrative qualities matching most substantially.
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Hargreaves, Julian. "Islamophobia : reality or myth?" Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/80451/.
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This thesis examines the concept of ‘Islamophobia’ using statistical data from available large-scale social surveys. The primary aim of the presented research is to determine the extent to which available statistical data support or challenge assertions and conclusions concerning ‘Islamophobia’ found within recent scholarly and policy literature. It uses five large social survey datasets containing data collected and made available between 2006 and 2011. In total, these data relate to the reported attitudes and experiences of over 15,000 Muslim respondents in respect of crime victimization, discrimination and attitudes towards British society and the British state, and the reported attitudes of over 300,000 non-Muslim respondents towards Muslims and Islam. The central contention of this thesis is that available statistics challenge the scholarly literature in that they suggest a more nuanced and complex picture of Muslim victimization and discrimination than the one offered by the various conceptualizations of ‘Islamophobia’ within the literature. Although there is an expansive and expanding body of published research concerning British Muslim communities, ‘Islamophobia’, anti-Muslim discrimination and anti-Islamic sentiment, recent studies have been dominated largely by political, rhetorical or polemical writing, and by qualitative research designs that have used only small samples. This study of nationally representative survey data aims to make a contribution towards criminology and the social sciences by offering a large-scale quantitative study of ‘Islamophobia’ and British Muslim communities and the foundation of an evidence base for future research in this area.
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Wilkinson, Alexia A. (Alexia Anne) Carleton University Dissertation Journalism. "Journalism, myth and metaphor." Ottawa, 1993.
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Kearney, Hemma. "The myth of celebrity." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/198025/1/Hemma_Kearney_Thesis.pdf.
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The Myth of Celebrity is a creative practice research project that undertakes a detailed analysis of American singer Katy Perry and exhibits the findings in a short documentary script. Using an interdisciplinary approach from creative industries and psychology, the research uses Perry as a sample case study to address issues of persona underpinning celebrity identity and the duality that occurs in the celebrity's public presentation to society. The research explores issues of authenticity or inauthenticity within celebrity culture.
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Formby, Zoë. "The myth of 9/11." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11900/.
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Conceptualisations of modern literary history are premised upon a series of dynastic successions, whereby one is able to trace, albeit simplistically, the evolution of the novel through its realist, modernist and postmodernist manifestations. Considered in this linear manner, the emergence of altered cultural movements is ordinarily attributed to a crisis within the former mood; as society ruptures and alters, existing modes of representation prove inadequate to reflect, or else engage with, the emergent structure of feeling. As an event with far-reaching implications, many critics and cultural commentators have attributed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 with the inception of an altered global mood. Moreover, in the days and weeks following 9/11, the publication of a number of articles penned by authors emphasised the extent to which the event had precipitated a profound crisis in representation. As an ever greater number of articles and studies emerged proclaiming the final death knell of postmodernism and the emergence of a more anxious global mood, so the myth of 9/11 quickly developed. The thesis rests upon a very simple question: to what extent has 9/11 precipitated a change in the novel? Through examining a wide range of fictions published largely within Britain in the last fifteen years, the study explores and ultimately dispels the assumptions of the myth. Rather than examining the fictional representation of 9/11, the study’s focus is on assessing the significance of the novel after the event, and moreover on interrogating the manner in which the terrorist attacks might have engendered a shift in the contemporary mood that is reflected in the subsequent novels published. Through emphasising the novelistic concerns and themes that transcend the assumed cultural rift, the thesis proposes that the ‘post-9/11 mood’ might more usefully be interpreted as an exacerbation of an already existing structure of feeling that responds to the banal superficiality of the postmodern condition.
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McNeill, William Edgar Sainsbury. "The myth of the hidden." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/17259/.
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Traditionally, it has been supposed that both minds and mental states are unobservable. If the mind and its contents are hidden in this way, our knowledge of others' mental lives would have to be indirect. In this thesis, I argue that it is not plausible to suppose that all of our knowledge, of others mental lives is indirect. It is more plausible to suppose that sometimes, we can perceive others' mental states. Thereby, we can sometimes come to have direct, perceptual knowledge of when another is in some mental state. The hypothesis that we can sometimes perceive each others' mental states is plausible because it is possible, and because if it were true, it would best explain our knowledge of others' mental states. It is possible to perceive others' mental states, because others' behaviours need not conceal those states. Rather, what behaviour sometimes does is to reveal another's mental state. When behaviour acts this way, knowledge of another's mental state need not rest on any beliefs about their behaviour. If others' behaviour could inform us of their mental states only in so far as it could be our evidence of their mental states, then the evidence it would provide could not be sufficient to secure all the knowledge we take ourselves to have about others’ mental states. If so, the claim that all we have to go on in discovering how others think or feel is the evidence of their behaviour could not hope to explain that knowledge. So, only if it were true that others' behaviour sometimes enabled us to perceive their mental states could we adequately explain all our knowledge of their mental states. For these reasons, I claim that the hiddenness of the mental is a myth.
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Lai, Hoi-yan, and 黎藹欣. "Beauty myth in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B21375525.
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of thesis entitled Beauty Myth in Hong Kong submitted by Lai Hoi Van
for the degree of Master of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in February 2000
After the first and second waves of feminism, women in Western societies have the right to vote and work in public. However, in late capitalism, many scholars proclaim images of female beauty are used as a new political weapon against women's advancement. This weapon is the beauty myth.
The general popularity of feminine culture of beauty and the abundance of related beauty consumption can be observed in Hong Kong. In order to find out how the beauty myth is operating in Hong Kong and whether women are the victims being hindered from social advancement because of the beauty myth, the case of Hong Kong is investigated.
There are two parts of the research. The first part makes use of secondary and primary data on the positions of women in Hong Kong to construct the dominant standard of beauty. It is found that the positions of women in Hong Kong are not as advanced as women in Western developed countries in terms of work, education and family. In addition, the existence of a dominant standard of beauty can also be found in Hong Kong from analysis of beauty parlors, magazines and beauty guidebook contents.
The second part of the research is an ethnography of 13 respondents who are supposed to be the victims of the beauty myth. It is discovered that they generally accept the dominant standard of beauty but negotiations and personal politics are detected in their daily encounters with the myth. They are not "cultural dopes" but express certain degrees of agency. They actively make choices under the circumstances not of their own making. In their beauty practices, they find the specific women's community and knowledge, in which pleasure is intertwined.
Combining the macroscopic and the microscopic parts of research, women's pursuits of beauty should not be narrowed down to a totalitarian statement. For the advancement of women in Hong Kong, the present forms of beauty need not be abandoned. More perspectives and options in terms of beauty and other aspects of life such as work and education, have to be provided for women, as well as for men. The positions of women in education, work and family can only be advanced with the general political awareness of women and the struggle to change the structure. To advance the structure, the present ideologies of femininity and masculinity based on dualism have to be changed. Education, mass media and the present feminine communities of beauty can be viewed as the sites promoting a new political awareness.abstract
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Lindenmeyer, Antje. "Autobiography as myth of origin." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4031/.
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The following PhD thesis will explore the connection between autobiography and myth of origin: On the one hand, I am concerned with the ways in which women autobiographers rewrite classical myths of origin; on the other hand, I contend that autobiography itself is a myth of origin, a recreation of the forces that created the narrator. Throughout this thesis, I will develop two main themes: the first is the use of myth as a framework for autobiographical writing. This is possible because of myth's characteristic double focus on the universal and on the particular version, the historical context. Myth allows feminist autobiographers to connect themselves to universal truths from which they are barred by patriarchal tradition and to carve out their own, highly personal version. The second theme is that the autobiographers depict the origin as the core of the self and utterly Other. First, the narrator has to rely on the stories of other people, or a 'family memory'. Second, the past can be seen as connected to or leaving traces in the present; at the same time, it can be completely Other and incompehensible. Third, the autobiographical I is often cut off from her origins, and a constructive return that integrates the past and the present self is only possible through a deliberate act of mythmaking: It is mythmaking and storytelling that provides a connection between self and Other. I hope to make a contribution to feminist theory of autobiography as well as to feminist theory. Reading autobiography as myth of origin approaches the persistent problem of the relationship between the historical author and the autobiographical self. Moreover, I will explore the the specific relation between women and origins, and address the necessity for feminist theory to develop a framework where self and Other are intimately connected.
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Mongold, Neal J. (Neal Joseph). "Community architecture : myth and reality." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78981.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 67-70).
This thesis examines the origins and the claims of the community architecture movement. Community architecture, which has recently attracted considerable professional attention in the U.K., is a movement that argues for the importance of user involvement in the design, construction. and management of the environment. Many theoreticians see the movement as a reaction to the disastrous failures of modern architecture and planning schemes. The important lesson that community architects claim to have learned from these failures is that participation is a better process than anticipation with regard to the users and their environmental needs. Definitions of community architecture are often vaguely delimited, and can encompass other activities such as community planning, community development. community technical aid, and community landscaping. This study presents a summary of the "new" techniques used by community architects, and then explores the nature of the claims that such practitioners have made. Using five well-publicized case studies of community architecture. the following three fundamental claims are evaluated: a) User participation leads to greater user satisfaction. b) User participation is more economical, at least in the long-term. c) User participation produces psychological and sociological benefits. There is a lack of definitive proof as to the superiority of the community architecture method, although the experience thus far suggest that the p~rticipatory approach produces environments of equal merit as the results of a high quality nonparticipatory process. Since it seems that the objective benefits of community architecture may not, by themselves, justify the extra initial cost of the practice, the question of political implications and appeal is explored. Concern for the survival and growth of the movement has led some advocates to claim that community architecture is apolitcial. but this myth is refuted here. Finally, an attempt is made to understand what elements of community architecture are applicable to the context of the United States, and what changes would be necessary for housing groups to allow for user participation in design.
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Loke, Wei Sue. "The myth of 'semantic ambiguity'." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621109.
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Havers, R. P. W. "Changi : from myth to history." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272826.
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Tanous, Helen Stone. "Myth, Logic, and the Monster." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243016152.
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Estes, Steven G. "Sport myth as lived experience /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487678444257747.
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Sousa, Marco António Couto. "Star Wars: escape to myth." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/9734.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesEsta tese propõe-se a procurar explicações para a popularidade da saga de filmes levando em linha de conta o contexto cultural e histórico no qual A Guerra das Estrelas encontrou a sua génese. Desde os primeiros anos de vida do mentor da saga, George Lucas, fontes de inspiração para a série de filmes são exploradas, e ligações são estabelecidas com outros objectos culturais previamente existentes ou posteriores à saga. Premissa central a esta tese é a de que A Guerra das Estrelas veicula, por parte do seu autor uma leitura alternativa à história recente dos Estados Unidos, particularmente à participação norte-americana na guerra do Vietnam. O caminho proposto foi o do Mito como fator regenerador. Seguindo a uma abordagem teórica relativa ao contributo de diferentes disciplinas para o estudo do Mito tais como antropologia, história, psicologia, religião, semiologia ou sociologia; é abordada a forma como são endereçadas política e ideologia na saga de filmes. Uma análise relativa ao género cinematográfico, tendo em consideração a fluidez do conceito, ajuda a identificar a saga de filmes como transcendendo género, englobando elementos relativos à ficção-científica, ao Western ou mesmo à telenovela. O derradeiro capítulo discrimina personagens arquetípicas (heróis, vilões e mentores) que fortalecem o argumento de que a saga de filmes alcançou o estatuto de mito na sociedade contemporânea.
This thesis aims to search for explanations for the popularity of the saga of films taking into consideration the cultural and historical background in which Star Wars had its genesis. From the early years in the life of its creator, George Lucas, sources of inspiration for the space opera are explored, and connections to other previously exiting or posterior cultural objects are made. Central to this thesis is also the idea that Star Wars elicits on behalf of its creator an alternative reading of recent American history, particularly of the Vietnam War. The route proposed was that of Myth as a significant healing factor. Following a theoretical approach to the contribution of different subjects to the study of Myth such as anthropology, history, psychology, religion, semiology or sociology; the way ideology and politics are addressed in the Star Wars saga are the focus of attention and study. An analysis of film genre, bearing in mind the fluidity of the concept, helps to identify this saga of films as transcending genre, encompassing elements from science-fiction, to the Western or even soap opera. The final chapter discriminates archetypal characters (heroes, villains, mentors) who are consistent with the argument that the saga of films has itself achieved the status of influential myth in contemporary society.
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Ward, Rachel Allyn, and Rachel Allyn Ward. "Sustainable Fashion: Breaking the Myth." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625236.
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Sustainable fashion is "clothing, shoes, and accessories that are manufactured, marketed and
used in the most sustainable manner possible, taking into account both environmental and socioeconomic
aspects" (Green Strategy, 2017). Sustainable fashion has gained traction over the past
20 years amongst researchers, retailers, manufacturers, and especially consumers. For my thesis,
I am investigating whether fashion retailers are truly reducing the environmental impacts of
producing their apparel brands or if they are simply incorporating new consumer preferences into
their business operations in an attempt to capture a new segment of consumers. I describe the
current state of sustainable fashion, several retailers that have chosen to participate in the
sustainable fashion movement, and how these retailers are currently serving their green
customers. The retailers discussed throughout my thesis include both fast-fashion retailers and
apparel brands that claim to sell sustainable fashion and market themselves as such to consumers.
I will discuss their related supply chain operations, as well as the environmental and social
impacts of those processes alongside attitudes and behaviors of green consumers. Based on my
analysis, I offer conclusions as to whether sustainable fashion is, in fact, attainable.
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Fawcett, Jacob. "Corporate ideology and legal myth." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3420.
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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2008.Vita: p. 105. Thesis director: Denise Albanese. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 17, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-104). Also issued in print.
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DeSantis, Gary G. "Penn State: Symbol and Myth." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002889.
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Mueller, Johanna. "Creature alterations, myth & transformations." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4568.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--George Mason University, 2009.Vita: p. 72. Thesis director: Helen Frederick. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Art and Visual Technology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71). Also issued in print.
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Gale, Monica R. "Myth and poetry in Lucretius /." Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge university press, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb357278268.
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Werlang, Guilherme. "Emerging peoples : Marubo myth-chants." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11121.
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This thesis explores the ontological grounds of the interrelations between music and myth among the Marubo, one of the several native peoples of the Pano linguistic family who live not far from the adventitious border between Brazil and Peru, in South Western Amazonia. The thesis lies within the disciplinary boundaries of social anthropology but, inasmuch as it focuses on myth and music, its theoretical and methodological limits overlap any discipline that may relate to these two themes. In brief, it portrays the Marubo as they express themselves and are themselves expressed in their saiti festivals and myth-chants. In their native language, saiti designates a specific festival where myths are performed in a specific musical and choreographic form, the form that establishes the ontological origins of these peoples and those of the world where they live.
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Ostovich, Marta E. "Masada: excavation of a myth." Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27736.
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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Fürstenow-Khositashvili, Lily. "Anselm Kiefer – myth versus history." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16637.
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Eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben der Kunst ist es, unser kulturelles Gedächtnis zu aktivieren, zu errinnern was ist vergessen oder absichtlich in die Vergessenheit gezwungen wurde, selbst wenn das alte Wunde bluten lasst und traumatisch erscheint. Jedes Mal ist das Element der Kritik die ausschlaggebende Komponente der künstlerischen Arbeit, sie charakterisiert nicht nur den Künstler, und die Zeit in der er/sie lebt, sondern auch den Zuschauer, genauer: wie weit ist der Künstler bereit zu gehen und wie weit sind die Zuschauer bereit ihm zu folgen, im Rückblick manchmal mehr ersteres als letzteres. In meiner Arbeit analysiere ich die Aspekte von Mythologie, Geschichte und deren sozio-politische Relevanz in den Arbeiten von Anselm Kiefer, der Künstler der mit seinen Werken unsere Wahrnehmung der Geschichte, vor allem der deutschen Geschichte, beeinflust und in Frage gestellt hat.It is one of the major tasks of art to revive our cultural memory and to sharpen our senses, to remind whatever has been forgotten or is being purposefully given to oblivion and to predict whatever the future might have in store even if it causes old wounds bleed anew. Each time the element of critique, being one of the crucial components of artistic work, characterises not only the artist, the time he/she lives in, but also the spectator: precisely, how far the artist is prepared to go and how much the spectator is prepared to accept, in retrospect more the latter than the former. My work analyses the problems of mythology, history and their socio-political relevance on the examples of works by Anselm Kiefer, the artist whose work is irrevocably related to history, German history in the first place, the artistic means of remembrance as well as the role of mythology in our collective memory.
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Butler, Keith. "Zero harm: Myth or reality." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/109906/2/Keith_Butler_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis is a comparative study of the Zero Harm concept within workplace health and safety. This research includes 13 countries within the Asia Pacific region of a large oil and gas contracting organisation. An examination of Zero Harm and its perceived effectiveness, manifestation and impact on workplace health and safety performance and behaviours is undertaken with a cross section of the workforce including senior leaders, line managers, supervision and employees. The findings from this research programme have practical implications and applications in understanding the concept Zero Harm and its contribution to workplace health and safety.
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MacDonnell, Katherine A. "How the Myth Was Made: Time, Myth, and Narrative in the Work of William Faulkner." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/471.
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It is all too easy to dismiss myth as belonging to the realm of the abstract and theoretical, too removed from reality to constitute anything pragmatic. And yet myth makes up the very fabric of society, informing the way history is understood and the way people and things are remembered.
William Faulkner’s works approach myth with a healthy skepticism, only gradually coming to find value in a process that is often destructive; his works demand of their readers the same perceptive criticism. This thesis approaches myth through the lens of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," Absalom, Absalom!, and "The Bear."
Faulkner's texts ultimately ask readers to bear witness by thinking critically about the process of myth-making, not only in the realm of literature but in the world as a whole.
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Natali, Andrea. "Il mito nell'opera di Giacomo Leopardi." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0063.
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À partir de la constatation de l’absence du mot mito dans les écrits de Leopardi on a essayé de reconstruire le rapport changeant de Leopardi avec le mythe en en mettant en lumière la cohérence substantielle. De l’approche érudite et démystifiant propre à la rédaction du Saggio sopra gli errori popolari degli antichi on est passé à la lecture du Discorso di un italiano intorno alla poesia romantica. Du Discorso on a analysé la défense de la valeur poétique des fables anciennes et la démarcation des conditions de possibilité de l’usage des fables anciennes par les poètes modernes. Les pages du Zibaldone ont nous permis de comprendre le motif du recours au favoloso biblique et le motif de la non-réalisation du projet des Inni cristiani. Si à cause du changement des opinioni popolari les fables grecques ne sont plus capables de susciter la persuasion dont la fiction littéraire a besoin, le favoloso tiré par la tradition biblique se démontre être moins indiqué par rapport à celui païen à l’emploi en littérature. Alla Primavera et l’Inno ai patriarchi semblent prendre congé des fables anciennes or pendant les ans successifs Leopardi émancipe le statut de la mythologie de la religion en créant les bases pour un approche diffèrent à la réécriture des matériaux mythologiques. Le Operette morali et la catabase de Leccafondi dans les Paralipomeni constituent le résultat de l’émancipation des figures de la mythologie grecque de leur propre sfondo di senso : le cosmos. La création d’un sfondo di senso capable de mener au langage ce que de la nature des hommes et des choses est changé pendant les siècles jette les bases pour un emploi moderne des matériaux mythologiquesThe myth in the work of Giacomo Leopardi
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Granger, Kara, and s3041360@student rmit edu au. "Multi-comparisons of rape and rape myth endorsement through analysis of existing modified rape myth items." RMIT University. Health Sciences, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080829.093911.
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Traditionally, rape has been viewed as a crime perpetrated by men against women. However, it is now recognised that males can also be victims of rape. The current research had several interrelated aims to; (i) provide a profile of both male and female rape victims, (ii) compare the characteristics of rape perpetrated against male and female victims, (iii) estimate the incidence of male and female rape within the general community, (iv) describe the reporting practices of rape victims, and (v) determine the relationship between rape and depression, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts. The community's level of rape myth endorsement was also explored. Rape myths were defined as attitudes and beliefs about rape, rape victims, and rapists that are generally false but are widely and persistently held, and serve to deny and justify sexual aggression against women and men. The present study compared rape myth endorsement levels concerning both male and female victims. However, it was first necessary to construct a rape myth questionnaire, the Rape Attitudinal Scale (RAQ), which minimised the methodological limitations of pre-existing scales. The current research utilised online methodology and, in total, 560 individuals participated in the research. It was found that almost two out of every five participants had been a victim of rape during their lifetime, with males accounting for 8.60% of the raped sample. Rape victims emanated from a variety of demographic backgrounds and the gender differences between the characteristics of the rape were discussed. Approximately one in seven rape victims stated that they had reported the rape to police, with half of those rape victims regretting informing the police of their experience. Almost twice as many female rape victims than male rape victims failed to report their rape to anyone. It was also found that victims of rape are more likely to report rape to authorities when the rape fits the
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Slowey, Gabrielle Ann. "Deconstructing the myth of self-government." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30029.pdf.
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Abbott, Catherine M. "Heroic violence : exposing the cultural myth /." Adelaide, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsa131.pdf.
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Usitalo, Steven A. "Lomonosov : forging a Russian national myth." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84204.
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The eighteenth-century natural philosopher Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov (1711-1765) has long been represented by Russian writers and scholars as an encyclopedic figure who not only pioneered the dissemination of a scientific ethos in Russia, but whose own innumerable contributions to science make him eminently worthy of inclusion in a pantheon among the greatest scientific minds. A robust mythology extolling Lomonosov's role in Russian science and culture formed in the years immediately following his death, and would increase in vigor while adapting to changing historical circumstances until well into the twentieth century. This dissertation explores the evolution of Lomonosov's imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the first decades of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the intersection in Russian culture of changing attitudes towards the meaning and significance of science, as well as about the rise of a Russian national identity of which Lomonosov became an outstanding symbol.The processes by which myths can be used to create and shape historical memory are highlighted throughout this inquiry. At first, Lomonosov was depicted very generally as the pioneering Russian natural philosopher; later his contributions, still broadly framed, were conflated with select institutional agendas; finally historians of various disciplines appropriated his life in order to reinforce their own professional strategies. Even as the myth of Lomonosov grew more elaborate, however, it was the inspiring idea of Lomonosov's heroic determination to propagate science, culture, and education within Russia and his successful struggles against myriad obstacles to achieve this end that remained the primary and enduring biographical element. It is this image with which my study is principally concerned.
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Turgeon-Gouin, Catherine. "The myth of Québec's traditional cuisine." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103733.
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Brillat-Savarin famously claimed that "we are what we eat," and it is the duty of thinkers and critics to articulate what can be observed about identities through one's culinary practices. Nowhere is the relationship between identity and foodways as explicit as in a nation's traditional cuisine. In this thesis, I examine how Québec's community has identified eating and cooking practices as being a signifier of its national identity. The process through which Québec elects a certain dish or set of gastronomic practices as representative of itself reveals some of the underlying ideologies that shape its national narrative. Adopting a semiological approach based on Roland Barthes work Mythologies, I investigate how food's expressive potential becomes a way to convey nationalist sentiment even as the national imaginary undergoes significant transformations. Looking at contemporary interpretations of the gastronomical canon of Québec traditional recipes, I research the restaurant Au Pied de Cochon and observed how it recuperates the narrative of Québec's cuisine to convey its current 'bourgeois-bohemian' ideologies, and therefore creates what Barthes refers to as a myth. Though the marketing strategies of the popular eatery claims to revisit the province's traditional cuisine, the actual restaurant experience seems more to embody notions of nostalgia, pride in terroir products, etc. that legitimizes the commercial aspects of the enterprise as well as the financial comfort of its customers. At Au Pied de Cochon, the myth of Québec cuisine is seamless in that it converts the contingent state of social relations and ideologies into an accepted belief and 'naturalizes' this marriage. The question then arises as to whether or not a national cuisine can escape this constant usurpation, and the answer Barthes proposes is that to expose the fallacy of myth, one must transform it into a mythology, which is, in short, an exaggeration and over-extension of the myth that reveals its fabricated nature. The chain of restaurants O Québec in France acts as an example of a mythology, where Québec cuisine is used as a theme for the franchise's menu, décor, and ambiance. Amplifying Québec elements in a manner similar to how Disney uses stories and themes to create fantastic worlds, the fiction of the myth of Québec's cuisine emerges and is simultaneously undone. Uncovering myth points to the ideologies propelling a community, and since as Socrates warns that "the unexamined life is not worth living," to achieve understanding about the narratives at play in one's society is crucial to living a fully conscious life.Depuis que Brillat-Savarin énnonça l'adage maintenant bien connu «dis moi ce que tu manges et je te dirais ce que tu es,» plusieurs penseurs et critiques se sont penchés sur la relation complexe entre les questions identitaires et les pratiques alimentaires. L'endroit où l'on observe cette coorelation le plus visiblement est sans aucun doute dans les cuisines dites 'nationales.' Cette thèse a pour but d'examiner le processus par lequel la communauté Québécoise en est venue à indentifier certaines pratiques gastronomiques comme étant significatives de son identité nationale et propose une méthode de lecture de ce 'language gastronomique.' Adoptant une approche sémiologique, basée sur le travail de Roland Barthes tel qu'expliqué dans son oeuvre Mythologies, j'examine comment le potentiel expressif de la nourriture devient un moyen de communiquer un discours national et propose un canon préliminaire des recettes et ingrédients traditionnels du Québec. Afin d'observer les interprétations contemporaines de cet ensemble de mets élus comme étant représentatifs de la cuisine québécoise, j'analyse par la suite le restaurant Au Pied de Cochon et observe comment celui-ci récupère le narratif associé à la cuisine traditionnelle québécoise pour communiquer une idéologie 'bourgeoise-bohème' et créer ce que Barthes nomme un mythe. Les pratiques alimentaires sont rarement à l'abris des ce type d'apropriation – mais pour exposer l'imposture du mythe, celui-ci doit être transformé en mythologie. La chaîne de restaurants française O Québec sert d'example d'une telle mythologie, en utilisant la cuisine québécoise comme théme à partir duquel le menu, le décor et même l'ambiance de la franchise sont calqués. En éxagérant un peu les éléments typiquements québécois - de manière comparable à la façon dont Disney utilise des légendes et coutumes de certaines communautés pour créer des mondes 'fantastiques' – le mythe de la cuisine traditionnelle québécoise emerge de façon caricaturale, et par le fait même se détrui.
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Hawes, Greta Helen. "The rationalisation of myth in antiquity." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547834.
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Carson, Christopher B. "Russia's economic modernization myth or reality?" Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5810.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.A successful outcome of Russian President Medvedev's recent economic modernization plan, also known as "Smart Russia," could result in a more democratic and prosperous Russia. However, corruption and an energy dependent economy in Russia continue to exist as the main barriers in preventing substantial economic liberalization and a transition to a higher level of economic development. Failure by the Russian leadership to address these issues could result in future economic and political turmoil, potentially leading to a more fragile Russian state. The understanding of corruption within an energy dependent economy, and the international tools available in Russia's economic modernization process, are critical to establishing effective U.S. foreign policy and economic partnerships. To better understand the difficult steps that lie ahead for Russia, an economic statistical analysis, using global economic indexes, was conducted in a three scenario framework to determine which criteria Russia needs to improve in to ensure a transition to the next stage of economic development. The results of the analysis present crucial evidence for a successful economic transition. Failure by the U.S. and the West to adequately understand Russia's modernization challenges could result in a missed opportunity for future Russian political and economic liberalization.
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Gorbett, Kelly L. "Rape myth acceptance in college students." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1343469.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between variables that may be related to rape myth acceptance in college students. Identifying variables that may be related to rape myth acceptance is essential for improving rape prevention programming. The setting chosen to examine these variables consisted of 349 students enrolled in undergraduate courses at a mid-size, Midwestern University. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to examine the relationship between gender, year in school, previous participation in rape prevention programming, knowing a victim and/or past experiences of sexual victimization, and knowing a perpetrator and/or perpetration with rape myth acceptance. Personality constructs were utilized as covariates due to their expected influence on the dependent variable. Overall, only Openness to Experience significantly correlated with rape myth acceptance and the effect size was small.Results indicated a significant 2-way interaction for gender and year in school. The interaction revealed that at freshmen year, men showed much higher rape myth acceptance than women. Rape myth acceptance in men declined from freshmen year to senior year, but consistently remained higher than women. Rape myth acceptance in women only slightly decreased between freshmen and sophomore year, yet were significantly lower from freshmen to senior year. Although a significant interaction between gender and year in school was found, the interaction was ordinal making the main effects interpretable. In fact, results indicated a significant main effect for both gender and year in school. Specifically, men report higher rape myth acceptance than women. Also, acceptance of rape myths decreased as year in school increased. Implications of these findings and future directions for research are discussed.Department of Educational Psychology