I hope it is not just me, but I find Reagan's "Star Wars" defense plan to be quite idiotic. It is extremely difficult for me to believe that a mass group of people seriously thought that the government was going to place some sort of missile mechanism in space that would shoot bombs out of the air. Yet people did! And this leads me to question our intelligence as a human race. We are so quick and eager to accept anything told to us by some "authority," and so rarely do we appear to hold the same analytical nature that distinguished us from the rest of the primate order. I believe the moment we allowed it to become common law to merely accept and not question is the moment we may have failed as a species. We freely allowed the Secret Invasion to occur and the Skrulls presence in our world is our own punishment. Long live the Skrull Empire!!!
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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