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This paper explains that Dr. David Snowdon's book "Aging with Grace" represents fascinating insights into the nature of health, disease and the factors that define the realities of daily life. The author points out that this book also describes a groundbreaking research project that studied the health vectors shaping the lives of hundreds of Catholic nuns across life-spans of many decades. The paper stresses the critical methodological importance of the sample group because it allowed the researchers to eliminate many of the variables that complicate and undermine studies of aging and Alzheimer's. The author indicates that the advantage of the sample was that the nuns presented the researchers with detailed records of their lives, health conditions, and intellectual capacities (e.g., written autobiographies) for a large population spanning decades.

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"Over the course of twelve chapters, complete with pictures and biographies of many of the participants in the study, the author describes how important such practices as reading and emotional stability are to ensuring that the brain has the capacity to repair or "patch" damage over the course of a long life. As the likelihood of Alzheimer's increases with age, one of the surprising findings of this study is that the symptoms of Alzheimer's (e.g., forgetfulness, dementia) often have little to do with the rate of progression of the disease."

Tags:epidemiology, reading, alzheimer's, brain, body

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In reference to the novel, 'Alias Grace' this essay explores examples of historic inequities for women in Victorian society and how one women Grace Marks may have survived by utilizing the penal system as an unlikely refuge. According to the paper, on the surface, the novel 'Alias Grace' is a unique present-day exploration of a Victorian murder mystery. The novel is the story of Grace Marks who was convicted of murdering her employer and his housekeeper.

From the Paper
"Alias Grace is Margaret Atwood's fictionalized biography of the infamous murderer Grace Marks, who, in 1843 was convicted of a double murder in Kingston and served her sentence at Kingston penitentiary and the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto. On the surface, the novel, Alias Grace is a unique present-day retelling of a true crime story complete with dramatized news headlines, sex, violence, a bias judicial system and duplicitous Victorian morals. On a deeper level, this novel tells the story of how one woman may have exploited the very society that oppressed her in order to survive systemic bias and gender inequities. "

Tags:alias, grace, gender

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This paper review's author Jonathan Kozol's book "Amazing Grace." Kozol is well known for writing on issues of education and the way minorities are excluded from meaningful education and marginalized in American society. In his book "Amazing Grace" he continues this criticism with an image of the neighborhoods minorities live in, the neighborhoods around the schools that are not working.

From the Paper
"Author Jonathan Kozol (1996) is well known for writing on issues of education and more and more on the way minorities are excluded from meaningful education and marginalized in American society. In his book Amazing Grace he continues this criticism with an image of the neighborhoods minorities live in, the neighborhoods around the schools that are not working. Kozol describes an area of the South Bronx called Mott Haven, in the poorest congressional district in the city. He presents this area through stories of some of the people who live there, notably..."

Tags:kozol, amazing, grace

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This essay is a review of the book "In the Grip of Grace," by Max Lucado, an extremely prolific evangelical Christian writer who presents an exegetical review of the opening chapters of Paul's letter to the Romans. The paper shows how Lucado tries to reduce this complex material to a parable, and this essay argues that the parable is ineffective, too complex, and illogical.

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"Max Lucado begins his "In the Grip of Grace" with a parable. In the parable, a father has five sons. The oldest is obedient, but the other four are rebellious. Despite their father's pleas to stay away from the river, they go there and are swept away to a distant land. Here, they foraged each day, and gathered at night around a fire to tell stories of their father and older brother. Eventually, one of the brothers gave up telling stories of their father and settled into the local society. A second, shocked by this behavior, took to watching the first brother. A third brother began to build a path back to their father's land. Then the eldest brother came..."

Tags:grace, salvation, savages

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This paper looks at how the prosperous sitcom, Will & Grace, challenges traditional notions of hetero-normativity by seeking to "normalize" a gay character by placing that character within a situation comedy also featuring an attractive heterosexual woman he just so happens to be living with. The paper discusses that even as the series casts a bit of mockery on some old stereotypes about gays, it also perpetuates the notion that gay men are weaker than other men - less virile, in short. The paper concludes that the series is a commendable one, but hardly an infallible one.

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"More than that, the show emphasizes Will's professional success and is unafraid to make explicit "gay" references to human sexuality - scenes that, whatever their dramatic and aesthetic merits, certainly humanize Will (at least in the eyes of thoughtful, moderate viewers) and force the audience to view homosexual men and women as having the same human and instinctual impulses as heterosexual men and women. "

Tags:will, grace, homosexuality

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In this paper, "Amazing Grace" by Jonathan Kozol provides an in depth sociological view of how the people of Mott Haven live within a harshly divided economy in New York City. It explains that by providing interviews in his field work with these people, Kozol is able to get varying opinions that the government or Mayor Giuliani would not like admit or provide to the general public. The author of the paper contends that in this manner, his book helps empirically define poverty in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, revealing how people are really living in a racially and economically divided city.

From the Paper
"This book review will analyze the various aspects of poverty that occur within New York City within Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this manner, the book relates the problems of poverty for minorities within Mott Haven, South Bronx, and the unbelievable living situations that these people must endure. In many cases Kozol seeks to understand why these impoverished conditions exist, and he accurately provides a sociological case studies of why Mayor Giuliani's leadership has worsened conditions. In essence, Kozol provides an empirical sociological outlook on poverty in New York City with a strong ethical and moral look as to how these conditions can be corrected. Amazing Grace is a book filled with data that is helpful to the reader when understanding poverty within the Mott Haven community of New York City. These Bronx neighborhoods are so impoverished that Kozol found ..."

Tags:amazing, grace, sociology

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This paper looks at how in the "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", Robert Louis Stevenson discusses the danger involved in the separation of the two halves within a person. The paper examines how Stevenson describes the life of a proper and logical doctor, Jekyll, who learns how to scientifically divide himself into two different aspects of his mind. The first aspect remains the good-natured doctor while the other turns out to be an evil, passion-driven man, Mr. Hyde, who eventually takes over Dr. Jekyll. In particular, the paper examines how Stevenson's characters parallel the theories that Sigmund Freud proposes in his essays on psychoanalysis and how Dr. Lanyon, Dr. Jekyll, and Mr. Hyde represent pure forms of Freud's divisions of the psyche.

From the Paper
"Lanyon, containing only the superego, lacks an id to satisfy his innate needs and an ego to help him cope with reality, and, thus, he dies. The first piece of evidence that reveals Lanyon as the superego is his fall out with Jekyll. Lanyon states that, "it has been more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and thought of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake"(Stevenson 14). As the superego, Lanyon is jealous that Jekyll has indulged his id by practicing "fanciful", or perhaps immoral, scientific experiments. However, Lanyon continues to "take interest" in Jekyll, because, as the superego, he feels the need to morally advise him. Another piece of evidence stems from Lanyon's interactions with Hyde, or the id. As previously states, the superego directly opposes the id, and for this reason, Lanyon attempts to correct Hyde's etiquette when they meet. "

Tags:psyche, ego, id, Dr., Lanyon

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This paper contends that Dr. Seuss's stories are actually social commentaries on a wide array of issues, including racism, gender and class inequalities, and other interpersonal issues. Dr. Seuss' stories, "The Sneetches, "The Lorax," and "Horton Hears a Who" are cited and reviewed as examples of the writer's contention.

From the Paper
"Horton Hears a Who is an interesting story because it examines how even seemingly insignificant things have an importance in the world. This is a story about an elephant named Horton who goes to great lengths to protect a tiny speck of dust after he hears cries of helping coming from it. This is important because elephants are very large creatures, but Horton still is compassionate enough to help this speck out. Children can take a great deal of meaning from this, as if this large elephant can care about something so small, then so can a child as, "A good children's book, moreover, must provoke a desire to return, to be read to from the same pages again and again."

Tags:children's stories, dr. seuss, racism, gender inequalities, capitalism, social commentary

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A paper that analyzes Dr. Pepper and the soft drink industry.

Tags:dr., pepper, industry

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This paper is a character analysis of the main traits of David Copperfield. The most important feature of David is that he is Dickens' novelist, and his character is examined in light of that.

Tags:david, copperfield, character