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Pornography: Sex Or Subordination?

? In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young, beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his detention in various penitentiaries, he was mentally probed and ...

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Drinking: A Love Story - A Review

In Caroline Knapp’s autobiography entitled, Drinking: A Love Story, you learn from her own personal tewenty year battle with alcoholism, why people drink, why people become alcohlics, and how hard it is to break the cycle of alcoholism. Caroline had her first drink at age fourteen, she was a ...

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Jim Morrison

Mr. Mojo Risin’ and Fallin’: The Life and Death of He is often referred to as the "electric poet" for his tantalizing words and mesmerizing music, and called to be the "Lizard King" for his deep obsession for all creatures of nature. His name is James Douglas Morrison. ...

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Catch-22 & One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Black Humor; A Satirical View Of The Institution

Laughter is often seen as a form of therapy by both optimists and doctors. Joseph Heller and Ken Kesey also saw laughter as a type of medicine. These authors saw laughter as a medium for their criticism of modern social institutions. This criticism can be applied to any significant practice or ...

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Araby By James Joyce And A Sun

“Araby" by James Joyce and "A Sunrise On The Veld" by Doris Lessing are both short stories in which the protagonists gained a consciousness that was beyond themselves. The main characters are both initiated into new realities and truths of which they were not previously aware. Both short stories ...

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Critiscisms Of My Antonia

In the past, critics have ad moralized and/or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cather's novel, ...

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Eve Of St. Agnes Does Porphyro

John Keats’ beautiful poem, “The Eve of St. Agnes,” causes some disagreement among his readers. This work is often either interpreted as an enchanting love story with a fairy tale ending or the complete opposite, a story of deceitful seduction with a grave ending. However, ...

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Basquiat And Davis

Jazz has been an influence in many artist’s work, from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs. The white man began to imitate them in the 1920’s and the music form caught on and became very popular. Two artists that were ...

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Tartuffe

In Moliere’s comedy , The play centers on the family of Orgon, a wealthy and impressionable man, his central target of ridicule is Orgon. Orgon is Moliere’s character of how man can be so blind in his devotion to a belief that he cannot make a good judgement as to the sincerity of others who ...

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The Computer

This report is about the impact that the personal computer has made during the past 10 years on the the community. It is a report that includes detailed information about the personal computer and the way it has worked its way into a lot of peoples everyday lives. It includes information about the ...

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Approach To Edgar Allen Poe’s Writings

Through out Edgar Allen Poe’s life, many factors have contributed and influenced his writing style. He lived a difficult life, because he was raised in a dysfunctional household. He was raised by a step father who did not love him, or he dictated his values so much that it warped ...

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David Lynchs Blue Velvet

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is an exploration of things above and below the surface. This surface is really a borderline between not only idyllic suburban America and the dark, perverted corruption that lies underneath but also between good and evil, conscious and subconscious, dream and ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Physical And Psychological Effects And Consequences Of Adultry

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is about a young beautiful woman, Hester Prynne, who comes to Boston from England. While living by herself, waiting for her husband to move to the New World, she becomes entangled in a love affair with the town’s pastor, Author Dimmesdale. After ...

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Catcher In The Rye 2

The Catcher in the Rye has truly earned its place among great classic works. J. D. Salinger created a literary piece that was completely unique. The entire novel was written in the first person view of the 17-year-old, Holden Caulfield. The majority of the story is compiled of Holden's rudimentary ...

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Stoutenburg's Reel One: An Analysis

Everyone loses their perception of reality once in a while, although others live in a dream world all their lives. Adrien Stoutenburg looks into the ideas of what is real and what is fantasy in his poem, Reel One. He explores the idea of how a movie can relate to and affect our lives. He does ...

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Crimes Of The Heart By Beth He

The play, “Crimes of the Heart,” written by Beth Henley, is brilliantly charming, and Henley is completely deserving of her Pulitzer-Prize for this piece. My mother suggested I read this play because she says that I am very much like one of the main characters Lenny Magrath, and she said that I ...

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The Use And Nonuse Of The Theory Of Repressive Hypothesis In Indian Camp

Michel Foucault uses the theory of "repressive hypothesis" (Foucault 145) to explain the repressed state of sexuality in our society. Repressive Hypothesis states that the repressed subject is guaranteed to be expressed in alternative forms. Foucault uses the deplorable plight of "sex" to ...

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Paradise Lost: Milton's Approach To Lust, Sex, And Violence

There is no reason to apply modern theories to Milton if we do not care whether Milton remains alive. However, if we wish him to be more than a historical artifact, we must do more than just study him against the background of his time. We must reinterpret him in light of the germane thought of ...

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Organization And Benefits In The Workforce

With today's workforce becoming increasingly diverse and organizations doing more to maximize the benefits of the differences in employees, Human Resource managers are evolving from the "old school" sideline player to the front-line fighters. Organizations are relying on managers to get the ...

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Art 3

To see a scorned, beaten, and crucified man, lying dead in the arms of his mother is an image, which can inspire overwhelming emotions within the heart of an observer. Yet, for the longest time I've had such difficulty looking at Michelangelo's art in this way. To me, art has never been about ...

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