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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.

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"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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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.

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"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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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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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 explains that T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats, who are considered to be the quintessential examples of the modernist literary artists, were both extremely critical of their age and social milieu. The author points out that the Victorian poets Thomas Hardy and Gerald Manley Hopkins also were concerned with predicaments of their age, but their poetry does not have the same intensity and desperation to escape the past that is evident in the works of Eliot and Yeats. The paper concludes that the central similarity of all these poets is the search for a reality, which transcends the ordinary life; whereas, the different between the two eras is the modernist poets are convinced that finding new realities and values has become an inescapable and essential quest in light of the decline of modern civilization. Quotations.

From the Paper
"Modernist literature has been characterized by the phrase "caught between two worlds." This refers to the view that the modernist poets and writers were attempting to deal with previous traditions and worldviews which they were intensely critical of. At the same time they were endeavoring to finds new ways of artistic vision and expression. Essentially the poets in the early Twentieth Century were faced with a radical shift in ideas and views about reality and society which had been engendered by discoveries in, amongst others, the fields of science and psychology; such as the Freudian discovery of the unconscious. The First World War was also to pay a large part in the questioning of the norms of values of Western society in general."

Tags:wasteland, critical, desperation, reality, questioning

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This paper explains that the characters in William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" and T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" experience the condition of alienation differently depending upon the nature of the society from which they are alienated. The author points out that the major motif, which runs through Faulkner's story, is the way in which time shapes people, especially in the South, so that they can be at home only in a certain moment of history; after that moment has moved on, they find themselves fundamentally alienated from this changed world. The paper relates that, in his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", T.S. Eliot presents a profound image of alienation by using technical devices, such as meter, content and imagery, which is far more explicit than in Faulkner's story and which allows the reader to understand the desperation that his title character feels.

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"While the story takes place in the present, and there is some sense that the future is creeping in even to the South, there is always the sense in this story that the past determines the actions of at least the major characters. Emily's father, Mr. Grierson, is the character most responsible for establishing the stranglehold of the past over the present. Grierson grew up in a South in which a man was responsible for the honor of his family, and one of the ways in which Grierson learned to keep untarnished the family name was to keep up the standards of a past era."

Tags:society, time, meter, imagery, desperation

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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 provides a review of Stephen Crane's "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets." The paper asserts that Crane's work offers one of the best glimpses of lower-class life in the late 19th century in urban America that one could expect to find. The paper explains that the novel demonstrates that not only desperate financial circumstances, but also violence, alcohol abuse, ethnicity, gender, and religion all help create the desperation usually associated with poverty. The paper recounts the story of the Johnson family, of which protagonist Maggie is the eldest child. After discussing the negative effect of alcoholism on the local neighborhood, the paper's author concludes that living in such circumstances would have made him an outspoken advocate for Prohibition.

From the Paper
"Nor can they find respite from the violence that permeates their lives. While the novel opens in a slightly mocking way, initially making light of Jimmie's skirmish with the other boys, it quickly becomes apparent that the boys intend to really hurt Jimmie. When Jimmie's father sees his child involved in the violence, he responds with violence and threats to get his son away from the altercation. They return to the family home where it is revealed that Jimmie is alternately loving and violent towards Maggie. The parents are violent towards each other, and towards the children. After Mr. Johnson dies, Jimmie begins to be violent towards his mother, and the implication is that her violent alcoholism demands a violent response. In addition, judging from the response of neighbors and other bystanders, it is clear that violence, whether as a participant or as an audience member, is also one of the only forms of recreation available in the bowery."

Tags:Jimmie bowery, 19th century

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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