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This paper discusses Carol Tavris the female psychologist. The witty Carol Tavris is the author of many books. Her work on critical theory, anger and gender issues is famous. Although she offers inspiring information about anger and how people deal with it, she has been considered unnecessarily feminist in her psychology of women's issues. She was the pioneer of the critical thinking theory in psychology and continues to work as a teacher, writer and lecturer of psychology.

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"Carol Tavris, in her work Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, essentially attempts to reclaim anger as a healthy rather an unhealthy emotion, and to show how it can be experienced and expressed in ways which will not be destructive to the individual or to others. Tavris attempts as well to come to a clearer definition of anger than has been forged to date in the field of psychology:

Clinicians devote a considerable portion of their energies to helping their clients "deal" with anger, yet few of them distinguish anger from rage, hatred, violence, or chronic resentment, and even fewer conduct experiments to see how these phenomena might differ (23).
As a result of these flawed perceptions and definitions, and ..."

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The paper evaluates the significance of Charles Dickens' own life circumstances relative to his famous novel, "A Christmas Carol." The paper points out the speculation that much of his own life is represented in the novel's story, which emphasizes the importance of the primary characters whom he provides with vivid descriptions in different ways.

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"Charles Dickens wrote his famous novel "A Christmas Carol" with a number of personal life experiences and issues in mind. His own life was filled with challenging ordeals and circumstances, which provided much fodder for his literary career. Specifically, "A Christmas Carol" serves as one of Dickens' most masterful achievements and his strong dedication to his craft is in part a testament to the experiences of his life. This novel continues to be loved and admired by many, particularly during the Christmas season, when there is particular attention paid to this story. The following discussion will demonstrate that Dickens' novel provides many similarities to his own life, addressing parallels between some of the challenges of his circumstances and their relationship to the story presented in the novel."

Tags:dickens, christmas, carol

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This paper looks at the life of Carol Burnett, one of the best-loved comediennes of the 20th century who set the standard for variety shows in the 1960-1970 decade. Her show, The Carol Burnett Show, offered a mix of music and comedy and presented the popular stars of that time. The paper charts her life from her birth in 1933, her personal life and family, her type of comedy and her battle as a woman to become a renowned comedienne.

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"Carol was born on April 26, 1933 in San Antonio, Texas but was raised with a younger sister by their maternal grandmother (Purdy 2002). In her autobiography, ``One More Time: a Memoir by Carol Burnett,'' she recounts a life of poverty and disillusionment. She points to her grandmother as the strongest influence in her life. By some strokes of luck, she managed to move to New York with her sister. In her pursuit of success, she married her college boyfriend Don Soroyan in 1955 but they divorced in 1962. She realized her dream of performing in Broadway in 1959 in the play, ``Once Upon a Mattress.'' She then appeared as guests in variety shows, such as The Steve Allen Show and The Garry Moore Show. But her biggest break was singing a comedy rendition of ``I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles'' on The Ed Sullivan Show. When Garry Moore acquired a prime time spot, he invited Carol to appear regularly from 1959 to 1962.In 1962, she won an Emmy. This was the beginning of her career."

Tags:jokes, feminism, pop, culture

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This paper explains that Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is an example of classic literature because it explores the true nature of mankind. Next, the author reviews the themes of the story, which are morality, generosity, justice and hope. The paper suggests that the most powerful characterizations in "A Christmas Carol" are the ghosts of Marley and of the three Christmas Spirits and, of course, Scrooge, himself, whose transformation is the core of the story.

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"Justice is another theme Dickens explores in the novel. This notion is significant because it delves into the reasons behind Scrooge's transformation. Scrooge's transformation does not occur simply because he is miserly, it occurs because there is something more significantly wrong with him. Scrooge's attitude represents a sickness that afflicts society as a whole. This sickness includes ignoring those in need, exploiting those less fortunate, and abusing the neediest. Scrooge only wants to help those in the way that he wishes to help them."

Tags:miser, hope, transformation, humanization, moral

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This paper discusses how both Kate Chopin and Joyce Carol Oates can best be characterized as feminist authors of their respective centuries who show how apparently positive female social roles actually limit women. The paper first looks at how Kate Chopin was famous for chronicling the frustrations and limitations of the role of married women during the 19th century with such novels as "The Awakening" and "The Story of an Hour." In comparison, the paper then examines how Joyce Carol Oates also delves into the role of modern women in her fiction writing.

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"The wildly prolific Joyce Carol Oates also delves into the role of modern women in her fiction writing, although a quick review of her works spanning the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, suggests it is more difficult to draw as direct a connection between Oates' major works and biography than it is with Chopin. However, like Mrs. Mallard of "The Story of an Hour" briefly delights in a fantasy coming to life, only to find her hopes dashed when the promise of freedom is taken away, the heroine Connie of "Where are you going, where have you been," finds her fantasy of being seductive and more beautiful than her conventional mother and sister to be far different than she realizes in reality. In Oates, much more explicitly than in Chopin, the trap of femininity 'used' as a vehicle of liberation for the teenage Connie becomes a lie, as Connie becomes the victim of rape and possibly (it is implied) even murder. "

Tags:awakening, connie, like, Mrs., Mallard

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The paper examines Joyce Carol Oates' short stories that deal with children or adolescents and unexpected threats and peril: 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been' and 'Heat'. The paper discusses Joyce Carol Oates' own experiences and her social and political viewpoints and concerns. The paper shows how her narrative style is authentic-sounding and fully convincing. The paper demonstrates how Oates is a feminist and how her feminist concerns are apparent within both stories. The paper also analyzes how Oates is both a nostalgic and a realistic writer.

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"For the narrator of "Heat" herself, life after the twins' violent death has simply gone on, with relative non-eventfulness and, ironically, what now triggers her distant memories of the twins and their horrible deaths is when she herself now goes to the area of the icehouse in order to make love. Violence and death was once, the narrator knows, literally "right around the corner" from where she now enjoys the ecstasy of lovemaking, but at the same time the memory of the Kunkel twins' fateful afternoon nearby, so long ago, though it remains sharp and vivid is also, somehow, at the same time, distant and surreal."

Tags:fairy, tale, threats, danger, feminism

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This paper begins by discussing the demographics of women who use the internet, then looks at their surfing habits and reasons for using the internet. It then examines the types of products that consumers purchase and how Carol's Kitchen could fit into a certain niche of these purchasing trends. The paper finally discusses existing competition.

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"The existing and potential customers for Carol's Kitchen are likely to welcome the addition of an electronic commerce Web site. Busy women now use the Web to both purchase online and to also identify candidates for offline purchases for just about any product that they already purchase. While care will have to be taken to foster site usage for certain buyers, the opportunities will well justify the effort. "

Tags:surfing, web, consumer

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The paper studies American author, Joyce Carol Oates, her childhood and writing history. The paper discusses Oates' third book, "Them" about an American family in the 60's, as well as other books by her including "Do With Me What You Will" and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?".

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"She loves to write, and can be very compulsive in her habits. When she is not working on a book manuscript, she "relaxes" by working on short fiction and essays. When she first began writing, she worried that some of her more gothic and horrifying fiction would not be taken well if readers knew she was a woman. "In fact, Oates was known to disguise some of her work. Early in her career, she sometimes masculinized her name with such variations as J.C. Oates" (Horne E15). She has also written several suspense novels under the name "Rosamond Smith.""

Tags:Loretta, Wendall, Detroit, Elena, Howe, Arnold, Friend

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This paper presents the work of Carol Weiss in developing concepts of program evaluation, program development and decision making. This paper defines evaluation as the systematic assessment of the operation and the outcomes of a program or policy, compared to a set of explicit or implicit standards, as a means of contributing to the improvement of the program of policy. The author believes that it is fruitful to look further into Weiss? theory-based evaluation process and into her assertion that it is social science ideas, rather than statistics, which really impact the public process.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Program Evaluation
Researchers and Practitioners (1970s)
Ideology, Interests and Information (1980s)
Program Evaluation (1990s)
Critiques
Evaluation
Summary, Recommendations and Conclusions

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"This is the beginning of Weiss' work in exploring the importance of values, and value conflicts, in program development, operation and evaluation. If there are two different types of people involved in the process, with two opposed sets of values, the likely result is conflict. The researcher does not have a vested interest in the success of the practitioner's program, or the well-being of the people with whom the practitioner is concerned. Correspondingly, the practitioner does not have an interest in knowledge creation, except insofar as that knowledge can be applied to the program to assist in the furtherance of program goals. The two sets of interests develop naturally from the differing value systems of the participants in the process."

Tags:decision, theory, program, policy, measurement