I think the idea of copyrighting makes sense. Personally if I ever come up with an idea or product I am definitely going to make sure it is copy righted, I would definitely not want someone to someone to steal my idea as their own. Copyrighting is a very good idea in most cases, while in others it is kind of pointless. As discussed in class characters like Hercules or other mythological characters are all commonly used as characters and yet companies copyright their character as if the origins of it were their idea in the first place, when in fact they were not. On the other hand this version of it was their creation, so while i do not think they should be able to copyright the name I do believe they should be able to copyright the product they have created.
Ohhh my goodness... When I decided on trying to analyze the mythological origins and references in superhero comics, I had no idea the can of worms I was opening up... On the one hand, it was awesome to see just how many connections there were between superheroes and psychology/mythology/philosophy, but all the information also made it terribly difficult to distinguish what I should be using and how to tie it all together. When I was talking to one of my sorority sisters about it she said, "Oh yeah, well, research essays are kind of like putting together puzzles..." and I think that really sums up what writing this paper was like for me. Fortunately, I was really interested throughout the whole process and I very much enjoyed writing the paper. Being a psychology major, I was especially interested in reading about the Jungian archetypes that had a lot of parallels with major modern comic books superheroes. I was also able to incorporate Joseph Campbell's "hero cycle...
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