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The paper explores the increasing popularity of the television series "Desperate Housewives". The paper discusses the stories of the lives of the women in the series, particularly how they create more of a storyline through the sexual encounters that they have with a variety of men, the clothing that they wear to aid in attracting those men and the deceit that is related to keeping men, dating men and stealing a man from another.

Tags:radical, feminism, art

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The paper focuses on the actions of Brie, who is one of the main characters in the television show "Desperate Housewives." The writer gives some examples of her behaviour, and then interprets these examples by using the concept of self-monitoring.

From the Paper
"In this example I am focusing on the actions of Brie, who is one of the main characters in the television show "Desperate Housewives." I will give some examples of her behaviour, and I will then interpret these examples by using the concept of self-monitoring. Example 1: Brie's son Andrew tells her he is gay. Brie responds with tightly controlled anger. She tells him he will be damned to hell, and he interprets this to mean that soon she will stop loving him. After this,..."

Tags:popular, psychology, journal

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This paper provides biographical information about Stephen King and discusses the writing technique he uses in his stories. The paper then summarizes and reviews King's novel, "Desperation". The review focuses on the main character of the book, David Carver, and how he fights evil with the help of God's guidance.

From the Paper
"Popularly known as The King of Terror, Stephen King is one of the most promoted and best selling writers of this era. The themes of his stories are usually the agglomeration of psychological chillers, science fiction, suspense and the preternatural. He stands out among other writers as a result of his vivid imagination and intricate details, which he incorporates in all his characters and theme settings. Stephen King has a long list of long and short stories accredited to his name. He is the O. Henry Award winning author of more than thirty books, which includes Hearts In Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Bag OF Bones, The Shining, The Stand, The Green Mile and the stories on which the Academy Award nominated Films Carrie, Stand by me and The Shawshank Redemption are based (Stephen King, Salem's Lot)."

Tags:the, shining, carrie, shawshank, redemption, travelers, tak, monster, faith, good, evil, pie

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"In W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk , we find a wrenching contradiction between the reality of blacks as the author paints it in all its desperation and suffering and injustice, and the hope and optimism which he maintains with respect to the future of the nation, black and white.


As John Edgar Wideman writes in his Introduction to the book, the situation about which Du Bois wrote has not improved substantially, as of 1990, in Wideman's view. Wideman writes that "Nothing has changed, and perhaps never will. I'm chilled and angered by that thought. Anger fades into fear, fear for my children, yours. I'm left with little hope, echo the sentiment Du Bois weaves into the Afterthought of Souls, a wish conveying more longing than conviction: 'In Thy good time may infinite reason turn the tangle straight'" (Du Bois xvi)."

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This paper analyzes the book "Paradise" by Toni Morrison and discusses the issues raised by the storyline. The writer illustrates how the central characters of the book create a society just as abhorrent as the one they escape from.

From the Paper
"However, there is a yin and yang to life, and without one the other cannot exist. Without fear and dread there can be no paradise and Eden, because without the two sides of the coin, the good and the bad, the joy and the sorrow, there can be no appreciation of paradise. We wouldn't be able to recognize it."

Tags:racism, ruby, oklahoma, deacon, coffee, tea

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This paper addresses major themes in psychological training for police work. Law enforcement is desperately in need of a better understanding of the psychological dynamics of crisis intervention. The paper enumerates areas in which the study of psychology and behavior can augment or drastically change law enforcement officers' approach.

Tags:CRIMINAL JUSTICE, LEGAL ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, POLICY / LAWS, behavior police work

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This paper uses this book as its main source to examine the trend of suicide among adolescents. By using two case studies, this paper explores the helplessness that some teenagers feel and how they resort to this final desperate measure. The paper compares trends between males and females and older and younger teenagers. It also examines psychological disorders which lead to suicide such as depression.

From the Paper
"Dr. David Lester's book, "The Cruelest Death: the Enigma of Adolescent Suicide, " presents alarming findings of fact about the third leading cause of death in the USA among those below 24 -- suicide. It points to the recent and dramatic rise in the incidence of the last 20 years as suggestive of an epidemic (Lester 1993) that warrants greater attention and sobriety among those who can and should do something about it. It is a frank inquest into the social phenomenon by providing information support to theory, research, management and intervention helpful to professionals particularly clinicians, crisis workers and parents -- and the entire family with greater insights that can help them device more effective, responsive and successful strategies in the clinic, school and at home, all with the end-view of reversing the trend."

Tags:death, desperation, school, education, depression, psychology, disorder, research, clinic

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The paper compares the era of "Romeo and Juliet" with the times of "Bonnie and Clyde". The paper, by comparing the two works, speaks of the bloody environment in the times of Romeo and Juliet and the desperate economic circumstances during the 'Bonnie and Clyde' era in American history. The paper continues with a discussion on the similarities between these two time periods, noting the similar themes of "romantic outlaws", "passionate lovers", an emphasis on youth, and the anger at society. The paper concludes that the tales of both lovers show how, in a society that seems to have no future, desperate young people seeking validation and autonomy, resort to desperate measures.

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"Although Shakespearean love may be beautiful, especially love forged out of passion and the laws of a society that denies the freedoms of the young, it is not the society of Renaissance Italy that is beautiful and romantic. The fact that love can exist even in an atmosphere that a modern audience can identify as hopeless, crime-ridden, and decadent like Depression-era America will underline the most important aspect of Shakespeare's play, elements that might remain hidden in a production set in the Renaissance. Adult society and the laws of the land are corrupt in "Romeo and Juliet," likewise America ignores the suffering and despair of Americans living in the dustbowl during the Depression. Bonnie and Clyde rob banks, but during that era before banking reform many Americans lost their money in the stock market, or in bank runs, thus showing a lack of regard for the laws was something that was endemic to society and government, not just the outlaws."

Tags:bloody, confrontation, romanticizing, underlining, theme

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The paper considers the ethical questions raised by the Marine MySpace.com recruiting campaign. The paper argues that teens may be swayed by the impulsivity encouraged by the virtual media to explore a path they may not be psychologically or even physically capable of undertaking. The paper concedes that desperate times call for desperate measures, but asserts that desperation combined with the Internet could create a potentially ineffective fighting force.

From the Paper
"Point and click--you're in the Marines, now! While the current marketing campaign to solicit new recruits to the armed forces of America has not deteriorated to the point where the click of a mouse can result in conscription, even the current uses of online soliciting can elicit troubling questions about the ethical nature of modern advertising in the military. Anecdotally, almost every person can think of a poor decision he or she made as the result of the availability and ease of online shopping, and even perhaps some poorly worded personal emails sent that he or she has lived to regret. An expensive pair of shoes or the ruffled feathers of a boyfriend or girlfriend are easier to remedy, however, than the decision to risk one's life by joining the United States Marines."

Tags:troops, conscription, MySpace, ethics, teens

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This paper explains that African-American men and women quite often are exposed to war not because of their patriotism and love of military life, but rather because of economic desperation and political disenfranchisement from the American dream. The author points out that Martin Luther King's speech upon the nature of the Vietnam War called for an end to the war and the draft because it was disproportionately waged upon the backs of America's desperate, poor black men, who could not afford a university education to obtain a deferral and did not have the political connections to obtain service in the National Guard. The paper relates that, in Owen Dodson's WWII poem, "Black Mother Praying", the great post-Harlem Renaissance poet's last poem in dialect, Dodson's fictive mother weeps for a son whose death is only for a nation that hates him.

From the Paper
"Early on in his speech, King highlights the dangerous divide that America is causing by going to war in Vietnam, stating that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools."

Tags:wwii, iraq, disenfranchisement, economics, disproportion