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csuitebitches · 1 year

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Reading List: Spirituality, Globalisation, Parenting and the 0.99 Cent Pricing Bias

What I’ve read (🖤) and planning to read (🤍)

Books

• Fall of human intellect - A Parvasarthy (genre: spirituality, humanness) 🖤

Academic Papers

The backlash against globalisation - Stefanie Walter (from annual review) 🤍

In recent years, the world has seen a rising backlash against globalization. This article reviews the nature, causes, and consequences of the globalization backlash. It shows that, contrary to a popular narrative, the backlash is not associated with a large swing in public opinion against globalization but is rather a result of its politicization. The increasing influence of globalization- skeptic actors has resulted in more protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist policies, some of which fundamentally threaten pillars of the contemporary international order. Both material and nonmaterial causes drive the glob- alization backlash, and these causes interact and mediate each other. The consequences are shaped by the responses of societal actors, national gov- ernments, and international policy makers. These responses can either yield to and reinforce the global backlash or push back against it. Understanding these dynamics will be an important task for future research.

The causes and consequences of urban riot and unrest - Tim Newburn (from annual review) 🤍

This review explores those varied bodies of work that have sought to un- derstand crowd behavior and violent crowd conduct in particular. Although the study of such collective conduct was once considered central to social science, this has long ceased to be the case and in many respects the study of protest and riot now receives relatively little attention, especially within criminology. In addition to offering a critical overview of work in this field, this review argues in favor of an expanded conception of its subject matter. In recent times, scholarly concern has increasingly been focused on ques- tions of etiology, i.e., asking how and why events such as riots occur, with the consequence that less attention is paid to other, arguably equally impor- tant questions, including how riots spread, how they end, and, critically, what happens in their aftermath. Accordingly, as a corrective, the review proposes a life cycle model of riots.

Parenting and it’s effects on children : reading and misreading behaviour genetics (from annual review) 🖤

There is clear evidence that parents can and do influence children. There is equally clear evidence that children’s genetic makeup affects their own behavioral characteristics, and also influences the way they are treated by their parents. Twin and adoption studies provide a sound basis for estimating the strength of genetic effects, although heritability estimates for a given trait vary widely across samples, and no one estimate can be considered definitive. This chapter argues that knowing only the strength of genetic factors, however, is not a sufficient basis for estimating environmental ones and indeed, that attempts to do so can systematically underestimate parenting effects. Children’s genetic predispositions and their parents’ childrearing regimes are seen to be closely interwoven, and the ways in which they function jointly to affect children’s development are explored.

More than a penny’s worth: left-digit bias and firm pricing- Avner Strulov-Shlain (from MorningBrew) 🤍

A penny saved. What’s the difference between $2.99 and $3.00? Basic math says one cent, but you probably perceive the difference to be about 22 cents, a new paper by a University of Chicago business school professor estimated. The research explores left digit bias—the phenomenon where consumers’ perceptions are overly influenced by the leftmost number in the price—and it brought receipts, analyzing retail scanner data on 3,500 products sold by 25 US chains. And while it might seem like every price you see ends in .99, the paper argues that retailers are leaving money on the table by underestimating this bias when setting prices.

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fyeahcopyright · 3 months

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The New York Public Library System is trying to close the "black hole in the cultural and scholarly record is harming the progress of knowledge, especially as researchers increasingly move online to conduct their research". They are collaborating with the Author's Guild, University of Michigan Press, University of South Carolina Press, University of Massachusetts Press, and MIT Press -- and Google will be doing the scanning -- to take scholarly works that are out of print, and allow them to "emerge from scholarly invisibility. They will be discoverable and usable by a global audience of readers and researchers even if their level of use would never ascend to a point at which their publisher would choose to put the work back into print."

More at the link -- and more things for us to read and research in the coming year(s).

#copyright #libraries #NYPL #copyright law #academic papers #scholarly press

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april-the-fan-girl · 27 days

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Long papers are SUCH bullshit. You mean I have to put a shit load of work into this paper that I don't care about, run myself ragged, destroy my mental state, and I might not even get an A??? Give me a break.

#long papers #academic papers #academic paper #academia #tw mental health #college #university

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rosethornewrites · 11 months

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I’m going to follow through before my high goes away and my anxiety decides this is a bad idea.

Behold, my Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead academic paper for a drama literature class 13 years ago:

The Idle Hands of Rosencrantz

It is rare to find any work that, in a translation to a different medium, stays exactly the same. This is especially true of movies, which have a blueprint designed to hold an audience’s attention. In the film version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, one of the more interesting changes involves spectacle. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are essentially incapable of acting in any real manner, because their fate is laid out for them. They are merely waiting, as men whose roles were written by the gods, for the story to write them as dead so that they may disappear. Because they are idle except when directly involved in the plot of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, they spend much of their time pondering their existence or, especially in the case of Rosencrantz, playing with random items. Although much of Rosencrantz’s fiddling is amusing to the audience—as the laughter in class indicated—its purpose is not solely humor. In fiddling around with things that are inevitably destroyed and making background noises that ultimately have no meaning, the spectacle of their actions comments on the fact that they are trapped in the background that they are a part of, incapable of effecting their own play just as they were incapable of effecting Hamlet. This serves to reinforce the point of the play: that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are incapable of effecting the world around them in a lasting way because their fate, as the Player comments upon, is “written…there is no choice involved” (Stoppard 80).

For Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the play is already written, and its sheets fall on them in the beginning when they meet the players in the forest, and precede them through the rest of the film. These sheets of paper, the lines of their own play, are what Rosencrantz plays with, trying to turn them into something different. He turns one, for example, into a boat in the bath, which fascinates him as it rises and falls with the water level until it tips and begins to sink. Later, he creates a paper airplane, which he launches and which flies through the entire play, passing Ophelia and Hamlet and Claudius and Polonius before returning to him. That paper airplane, gliding through what is already there without effecting it, is what Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are—and is ultimately why Rosencrantz’s attempt to change it into something more elaborate must be destroyed before it can fly. To let the bi-plane, made of torn pieces of script, launch would be to change the Bard’s script and fate. Everything that Rosencrantz makes that could potentially change the course of the play must be destroyed, from the bi-plane to apple-core-and-script pinwheel that could potentially clue them in on which direction the wind is blowing and thus Hamlet’s state of mind. If these potentially-altering versions of the script are not destroyed incidentally, they are destroyed by either Rosencrantz (accidentally) or Guildenstern (carelessly or maliciously).

Similarly, although it doesn’t involve the script imagery that is throughout the film, there are various scenes that act as a similar sort of metacommentary about their situation. Before playing the word game on the badminton court, Rosencrantz attempts to juggle a birdie, two rings, two balls, and a bowling pin and winds up dropping all of them. Although he was able to juggle the two balls—himself and Guildenstern—when he added the others objects he lost everything. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are inserted into a situation where they must handle not only themselves but various other characters with various individual agendas, they cannot succeed. When Rosencrantz then tries to demonstrate the law of gravity to Guildenstern with a feather and one of the balls, it similarly fails. The rest of the play will fall more slowly than they will. Further on, when Rosencrantz is fiddling with hanging pots in the garden, he notices that it is a Newton’s cradle and attempts to show Guildenstern. However, recognizing gravity and momentum would make the characters self-aware and thus able to make the choices that might save them. It would threaten the fate laid out for them as “victims of the gods” (Stoppard 82), and thus the pot must be destroyed before that can occur.

Shortly after the question game on the badminton court and the observed arrival of the players, Guildenstern listens to Polonius read the love letter Hamlet sent to Ophelia to Claudius and Gertrude. Meanwhile, Rosencrantz makes background noises. Although they are at first unobtrusive birdcalls and ignored by Guildenstern, they slowly become louder and less natural. Guildenstern stops him in the middle of a duck call, and then glares at him for making a completely unnatural sound. When they approach the window again to hear the continuation of Polonius’ discussion, Guildenstern shushes Rosencrantz when he threatens to begin the noises again, as even birdcalls are not acceptable so close to the action. They must be silent observers and listeners or risk changing everything, as they very nearly do when Hamlet stabs Polonius behind the tapestry. They must fade into the background, and then fate moves them to a new location without transition for them.

Every time Rosencrantz and Guildenstern could conceivably change their fate either by accident or by becoming self-aware, they are prevented. The humor doesn’t lie only in the actions being unusual, but in the commentary on their inability to affect their surroundings. The film version allows for this to be presented in a more visual way, utilizing spectacle to refer to the fact that they are trapped by the script within the script—that which was written by the Bard and cannot be altered, and which they are, at the end, bound to continue to repeat. This endless cycle of their lives is shuttered inside the wagon that the players tote them around in, leaving them as sleeping tabula rasas until it is time for them to be woken by a messenger and put on the road to Denmark all over again.

#academic papers #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #hamlet #my writing #literature #shakespeare #tom stoppard #tumblr university

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saint-jussy · 1 year

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S A I N T J U S T

IM SCREAMIN

#I MEAN #IS IT MEGALOMANIA IF HE ENDED UP BEING RIGHT #saint-just #academic papers

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coolspork · 7 months

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Learning history is all fun and games until they make you write a fucking paper about it. Haven't enough people written about it? I'm tired! You have enough writers! This isn't even my major

#roman history #history #school #academic papers

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moviemagus · 6 months

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17.10.2023.

3/100 days of productivity

Today I only had one class, so I was able to catch up on things at home before I went to uni and during the evening.

Made some graphics for two customers

Watched a shortfilm for one of my classes

Read a paper for one of my classes about El Kazovszkij

Started reading a paper that might be interesting for my thesis next year

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esbozosmarie · 2 years

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Domingo, 14 de Agosto

De ciudad y vuelta a la lectura intensiva, el café helado y greens.

MC.

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coming-of-age-witch · 1 year

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the rough sheets that i use for my maths answer script reflects the same trauma as Anne Frank's diary

#It has me adding calculating the most simplest of sums in the weirdest way.#i can't fathom it #Hell #Mathematics #Study #Studyblr #Ok this might be offensive #But like #studyspo #academic validation #academic papers #Academia #academicism #spiteful studying #studies #student problems #exams are killing me #student #exams suck

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damiemontclair · 4 months

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Anybody here happen to have access to: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10044.003.0008 ?

I really need it for my thesis and its not listed for free download on the professors website (https://jbgrimshaw.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/previous-work/) and I don't have the time (or frankly the money) to buy the whole book. yes its late. yes I should've looked for it sooner. no I couldn't have bc I am adhd as hell about this and also burnt out as fuck.

I will be eternally grateful for a copy in any form, I'll even take photos of the pages if thats what is available (as long as its readable idc) I just really need to get my hands on it

#linguistics #academic research #academic papers #academic paywall #paywall #I'm tagging whatever I can think of here to try and get this to people who might be able to get it

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addiepaca · 1 month

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Day 1 of making an academic paper on magic for my dnd campaign, excited to see how this turns out!

#dnd campaign #dnd #dungeons and dragons #magic #academic papers #alchemy #writing #writeblr #thisismywayofcopingfromahorribleresearchpaperiwrote

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april-the-fan-girl · 6 months

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Just wrote a paper on The Hunger Games as a banned book. Should I post it once it's graded?

#the hunger games #thg #banned books #academic papers #grad school

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academicresearch · 2 years

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Here are ways to write a thesis for a research paper

You will need to write a thesis statement that is appropriate for the type of paper you are writing. Here is how to write the different kinds of thesis statements:

Argumentative Thesis Statement:

The argumentative thesis statement identifies your topic, position, and reasons for taking that position. you can use it when you are Making a claim. You can use a thesis Generator tool to create an argumentative thesis.

Analytical Thesis Statement:

Your analytical thesis should describe the topic of your paper, what you analyzed, and what conclusions you reached as a result of your analysis. It should be used when you are Analyzing an Issue.

Expository Thesis Statement:

You should formulate a thesis statement for your expository paper that states the topic of the paper and summarizes the key points of the paper. Best works when Explaining a Topic

Here is a checklist you can follow to make your thesis easy and on point:

A typical thesis may take anywhere from 2 to 3 months depending on your research area and time availability.

It would be good to start early and to keep writing short reports of every experiment you do or every discovery you make.

Keep your research work organized to avoid remembering what to write for each experiment.

Make several backups of your thesis data. Keep an up-to-date backup in some cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive ).

Give proper citations wherever necessary. If you are taking a figure or picture from someone else's work, cite them. Whether consciously or unconsciously, avoid plagiarism.

The thesis statement should appear somewhere in the first paragraphs of the paper, usually as the final sentence of the introduction.

Read through each chapter for grammatical errors once you have written all the chapters.

Whether academically or not, give credit to those who helped you. It is the best way to show your appreciation. In your acknowledgment, include a few sentences.

For your reference you can also go through this article Thesis Writer to help you learn to write in academic contexts.

#research #assignment #textbooks #organization #programs #statistics #publishing #publication #blogs #scholarly #writing #writers of tumblr #academic writing #academic papers #university #study #essay #education

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rosethornewrites · 10 months

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Vash the Stampede as a Contemporary Outlaw Figure

(This is a paper I wrote nearly 20 years ago. It is also a first draft, and were I to rewrite it, I would make major structural changes. It was written for a Robin Hood literature class, and the assignment was to analyze a contemporary outlaw figure in a work of fiction using the framework developed in the course. I received an A on the paper, and the professor loved it because most folks just did it on Robin Hood.)

The twenty-six episode Japanese anime series Trigun was originally published as an eight-volume Japanese manga (graphic novel or comic book) by Yasuhiro Nightow in 1997. In 1998, the manga was turned into an animated series, which was directed by Satoshi Nishimura. Trigun’s genre is rather interesting, as the setting is a desert planet called Gunsmoke, so the series itself is a mix between science fiction and westerns. Interestingly, the year 1998 is sometimes referred to by Japanese anime fans as “the year of the ‘space cowboy’ animes” because of two other anime outlaw series that were produced in the same year: Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop (Raye).

The main character of Trigun is Vash the Stampede, also known as the Humanoid Typhoon, a man questing for love and peace. Vash is tall with spiky blonde hair and bright blue eyes. He is distinctively marked by a mole on his cheek and an earring, and he always wears a red trenchcoat. As the title of the series implies, he wields three guns: one “regular revolver, the hidden gun in his artificial left arm, and… the Angel Arm” (Adam). Vash has a bounty of sixty million double-dollars on his head because he destroyed the town of July with the Angel Arm. The setting of Trigun creates problems for this outlaw, as Gunsmoke is technically uninhabitable. The cities on Gunsmoke have to use technology to protect themselves from the harsh elements, so when Vash destroyed July it was a death sentence for the surviving residents. In fact, there should be no humans on the planet at all, but a colony fleet crash-landed on the planet centuries before. It is later revealed that Vash is not human and was born on the vessels. His twin brother and the major villain of Trigun, Knives, decided that humanity was evil and had to be kept from spreading to the rest of the universe and caused the near-fatal crash. Knives is also able to manipulate Vash’s Angel Arm[1] and was the true cause of the destruction of July. At the end of Trigun, Vash and Knives battle one another. Vash wins, but refuses to kill Knives.

Vash has three companions: Meryl Strife, Millie Thompson, and Nicholas D. Wolfwood. The major villains are members of the Gung-Ho Guns, a misfit gang of technologically or genetically enhanced humans who serve Knives in his quest to rid Gunsmoke of all humans. The Gung-Ho Guns follow Vash wherever he goes and cause trouble that is generally blamed on him. The main members of the gang, who Vash fights at various points in the series, include: Legato Bluesummers, Monev the Gale, Dominique the Cyclops, E.G. Mine, Rai-Dei the Blade, Leonof the Puppetmaster, Grey the Ninelives, Hopperd the Gantlet, Zazie the Beast, Chapel the Evergreen, Caine the Longshot, and Midvalley the Hornfreak. Various other villains not associated with the Gung-Ho Guns, appear in the anime as well.

Vash the Stampede is a contemporary outlaw figure. The series itself follows very closely with traditional outlaw themes, though much of the underlying philosophy and mysticism is decidedly Eastern. Trigun can be easily viewed as an outlaw tale using the tracking outline. In addition, it is important to look briefly at the birth of the Japanese outlaw figure.

Trigun exhibits many qualities common in outlaw tales, though with a different and sometimes unabashedly silly flavor. Instead of a reigning monarch, Gunsmoke is ruled by the Bernardelli Insurance Company, which initially outlaws Vash and places the bounty on his head for the destruction of July. Of course, the desire to gain that bounty causes mayhem wherever Vash goes, and things simply get worse. Gunsmoke is run by the whims of the insurance company, coupled with the whims of town mayors and sheriffs, who are often corrupt. There are several examples of this. In episode four, the owner of the town water supply, Mr. Cliff, turns out to be blocking it for economic gain, which has forced the town residents to flee or die of dehydration. In episode four, the town patron, Grim Reaper Bostock, and the town sheriff, Stan, are revealed to have murdered innocent people to gain their positions. In episode ten, an unnamed town mayor takes a woman and child hostage in an attempt to force Wolfwood to kill Vash so the mayor can acquire the sixty million double-dollar bounty. In each instance, Vash tricks the villains and delivers justice, setting things right again, though often leaving quite a bit of damage in his wake.

Vash “recruits” followers quite inadvertently. Meryl and Millie, two employees of the Bernardelli Insurance Company, meet Vash in episode one, but do not believe that he is really Vash the Stampede because, as Meryl says quite blatantly, Vash acts like a bumbling idiot. However, they keep running into each other because the two insurance agents are chasing Vash sightings. During their initial meeting, Vash rescues them from two bounty hunters who end up destroying a town in an attempt to capture or kill him. As the story unfolds, Meryl and Millie slowly realize that he really is Vash the Stampede. Through their observation of Vash, they come to understand, to a certain degree, that the destruction that follows him is not his fault. In fact, several times they help him restore justice in the towns of Gunsmoke. Despite their reports of this to the Bernardelli Insurance Company, Vash is labeled a human natural disaster and the insurance company stops paying for damages caused by him. Meryl and Millie become outlaws, of sorts, by continuing to follow Vash against company orders. Similarly, in episode nine, Vash saves Wolfwood from dehydration in the desert. In the same episode they work together to save a child. Though Wolfwood doesn’t join the three immediately, they run into him several more times. When Vash and Wolfwood are forced to fight each other in episode ten, it becomes obvious early in that they are evenly matched. Following the battle, Wolfwood becomes a permanent fixture in the series as a traveling companion.

The code that Vash exhibits is also very similar to that of the traditional outlaw. One of his oft-repeated lines is “This world is made of love and peace!” and he travels Gunsmoke questing for those two ideals. In addition, Vash tries to help those in need and believes in protecting the helpless and innocent, especially women and children. However, his biggest code of conduct is his refusal to kill. Vash tries to get his travel companions to follow this particular code of conduct over all others, especially Wolfwood, who has no qualms about killing those who attack him. Wolfwood obeys until near the end of the series, when he kills a child: Zazie the Beast, who controls sandworms and is trying to kill not only Vash and the others, but also several dozen orphaned children. Vash is outraged by this because he was convinced that Zazie was simply misguided and could be helped, and a rift forms between him and Wolfwood, which never heals because Wolfwood is killed. Similarly, Vash is forced to kill Legato Bluesummers, a telepath who can take control of humans’ actions, which drives him to a mental breakdown.

Vash’s determination not to kill is very complicated in its origin and consequences. Vash promised a woman named Rem Saverem that he would never kill. Rem is the outlaw’s love interest, though she is much different from the Maid Marian figure: Rem is dead. Ironically, Knives is the person who killed her when he tried to destroy the fleet of colony ships. Rather than escaping death with Vash and Knives, Rem went back and altered the course of the other ships enough to prevent them from burning up in Gunsmoke’s atmosphere, giving the humans aboard a chance to survive. Rem is a powerful figure in Trigun, and almost acts as a patron saint, appearing in dreams that sometimes warn Vash of danger and in flashbacks that show that she is the basis for the system of moral values that Vash follows. Rem’s appearance is generally accompanied by the Greenwood vision of red geranium blossoms, which, she explains in one flashback, represent determination and courage[2]. Vash’s refusal to kill is his attempt to keep Rem alive, and killing Legato causes a breakdown because breaking his promise to Rem reminds him of her death. Though he would never acknowledge it, part of the purpose of Vash’s activities is vengeance, though in the end he forgives his brother and stands by his promise to Rem, deciding to reform Knives.

Trigun also has some major comparative scenes that fit the traditional outlaw tale. For example, in episode three, Vash plays an altered version of the game of truth. He and Frank Marlon, who repairs Vash’s gun, save a town from bandits using only their fingers, which they pretend are guns, Vash with his in a pocket and Frank with his up against the lead bandit’s head. At various points in the series, mayors and sheriffs, along with other characters, break their oaths, welcoming Vash with open arms only to betray him in an attempt to get the bounty. For example, in episode six, Vash is hired by a woman named Elizabeth to protect her while she repairs the plant that protects the town. However, she sabotages the plant and locks Vash in it because she is a survivor of the July incident and wants revenge so badly that she is willing to sacrifice a town. Vash also has a habit of helping his enemies or taking service with them. For example, in episode two, Vash is hired to protect Mr. Cliff, stumbles upon his criminal activities, and seeks justice. In episode five, Vash saves the women who were holding him at gunpoint when their lives are threatened by outlaw mercenaries hired to kill or capture him. Vash defeats the outlaws and donates their bounty to the town, despite the fact that the townspeople had tried to kill him.

Contemporary outlaw themes also run through Trigun. The Greenwood theme is apparent in most of the flashback scenes with Rem, many of which take place in a garden on the ship and are accompanied by the symbolism of red geraniums. Vash also conforms to the idea of the good outlaw. His “outlawry does not bring shame upon [him], but instead proves [him] to be superior to [his] opponents, both in martial prowess and… in moral integrity” (Ohlgren xxiv). Vash meets his match in his draw with Wolfwood and later in his battle against his brother, though he emerges victorious. There is a repeated carnivalesque theme in Trigun, as the revealed corrupt officials are placed on the level of an outlaw while Vash acts as the official. Vash also plays the role of the trickster repeatedly, disguising himself once as a farmer in an effort to escape his outlawry and its heavy burden. Trigun also contains many elements of Monomyth; for example, Vash and Knives are pitted against one another in a battle over the fate of humanity and eventually must reconcile. In this reconciliation, Vash is able to understand and learn to control his destructive Angel Arm. In his battle against Knives and with his eventual understanding of his brother and also himself, Vash matures.

Trigun contains quite a bit of social conflict, especially between officials and the rich (the aristocracy and bourgeoisie), and the ordinary citizens. Citizens are often helpless against the corruption in towns, and are villein rather than citizens. In addition, the only example of clergy is Wolfwood, who does not hesitate to use violence to accomplish his goals and often abandons a moral value if it is inconvenient. Furthermore, ethnic conflict is rather obvious. Knives falls from grace because of the prejudice he and Vash suffer on the ship because they are not human. In addition, the members of the Gung-Ho Guns are all freaks of nature, mutated by the harsh Gunsmoke climate and are not welcome in society.

Interestingly, Trigun’s Vash the Stampede also fits the Japanese version of a good outlaw, which is rather similar to the European version. Like the European good outlaw, the Japanese outlaw fights injustice for the common good. A famous historical rebel known as Sakamoto Ryouma, a samurai who participated in the Meiji Restoration that moved toward ridding Japan of the oppressive warrior class, fought against the shogun, eventually forcing him to resign and allow a new government to form. Sakamoto Ryouma “did not live to see the Meiji government come into existence,” because he was killed in the chaos in Kyoto following the resignation (Jansen 335). Sakamoto’s rebellion resulted in “the 1868 collapse of the Tokugawa shogun’s military government (Bakufu) and the restoration of power to Japan’s Imperial family” (Huddleston). Outlaw tales about the Meiji Restoration are extremely popular in Japan, the most famous being Rurouni Kenshin, which is at least partially based upon the story of Sakamoto Ryouma.

Trigun takes the traditional Meiji Restoration tale and sets it in the far future on a desert planet far from Earth. Vash is no different from the traditional Japanese outlaw of these tales: he seeks to atone for his sins (the destruction of July) and also wishes to attain justice for the people. His quest for love and peace, as well as justice, leads him to better the lives of many people, despite the destruction he leaves behind him. In addition, he learns important life lessons along the way, and is able to reconcile his past and move on toward the future.

Vash the Stampede’s adventures are that of a contemporary outlaw. Trigun has many of the same elements as traditional European outlaw tales, and the series also contains allusions to historical Japanese outlaws. When looking at Vash in this context, one can easily see Trigun’s value as a contemporary outlaw tale.

Works Cited

Adam. “Trigun Characters and Weapons.” TheOtaku.Com. 27 Sept 2004. 10 Nov 2004 <http://articles.theotaku.com/view.php?action=retrieve&id=21>.

Huddleston, Daniel. “The Meiji Restoration.” Animerica. October 2000: 9-10, 34.

Jansen, Marius B. Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1961.

Nightow, Yasuhiro. Trigun. Geneon Entertainment.

Ohlgren, Thomas H. A Book of Medieval Outlaws. Thrupp: Sutton Publishing, 1998.

Raye. “Trigun.” Spectrum Nexus. 9 July 2001. 10 Nov 2004 <http://thespectrum.net/review_trigun.shtml>.

[1] This is because the Japanese believe that twins have a connection that borders on magical. Often times in Japanese stories, twins have the ability to communicate with one another telepathically. This magical quality associated with twins may be because Japanese twins are very rare.

[2] Vash wears a red trenchcoat for this reason as well.

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