This content analysis examined the chivalry hypothesis in six months of crime reporting in a local newspaper. This hypothesis posits that female criminals receive more lenient treatment in the criminal justice system and in news coverage of their crimes than their male counterparts. The study found partial support for the chivalry hypothesis and prompts a more nuanced formulation of the hypothe...

1. introduction in epic narratives, heroes have a specific and key role in the processing of epic development. some heroes’ roles are based on the situation in which they have been created. thus, the epic narrator states their life journey from the beginning to the end in a vicissitude process. however, some heroes do not have a specific position in epic stories as they appear as a thunder in s...

Even in the modesty of its title, Picnic Ruins is a deceptively ambitious novel. At once wry and gentle, depiction various lives stories that become snarled up nonstop eleven-day western thriller set borderlands southern Utah northern Arizona. Mormon country, sure. But as Petersen demonstrates, this region shot through with multiple fiercely competing claims to lands, their management, use, mea...

Possible gender stereotypes associated with altruistic acts presented in two types of vignettes were investigated. A sample of 72 General Psychology students were recruited to participate. The researchers had three main hypotheses: Females would more likely be perceived as the performers of an altruistic act, females would more likely be perceived as the receivers of an altruistic act, and the ...

In her article "Anti-Nationalism in Scott's Old Mortality," Montserrat Martínez García examines national identity through war in Walter Scott's Old Mortality in order to illustrate that war was one of the main catalysts of nationhood and show, simultaneously, the disparity between the institutional and the popular attitude toward war. Martínez García pays attention to the way Scott portrayed wa...