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Alter Ego Stephen King
2,087 words
Stephen Stephen King Stephen King Stephen King is
one of the most successful authors of the
twentieth-century. He brings nightmares to life in
a way that no other writer has succeeded to do,
and is now among the most prestigious horror
writers of the time. King is indeed a genius at
work; however, to fully understand the legacy of
Stephen King, one must understand the background
from which he came and the manner in which he
handled it. Due to the desertion of his father and
his lack of self-este...
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Nine Inch Nails Freedom Of Expression
881 words
In April of 1999, two students shot 15 fellow
students and a teacher in Columbine High School. A
few years before that, a teenage boy committed
suicide in his bedroom. What do these two have in
common? In both instances, their choice of music
was to blame. Alternative music has been the
center of a lot of controversy as well as a
scapegoat for many adolescent tragedies. This type
of music is meant to be different and it is being
persecuted because artists do not fall into the
categories of R 0...
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Miss Havisham House Miss Havisham And Estella
1,958 words
Great Expectations: Wealth as an Agent of
Isolation In Charles Dickens novel, Great
Expectations, Dickens conveys the idea that wealth
leads to isolation. The novel begins when Pip, a
young orphan, encounters an escaped convict in a
cemetery. Despite Pip s efforts to help this
terrifying personage, the convict is still
captured and transported to Australia. Pip is then
introduced into the wealthy yet decaying home of
Miss Havisham where he meets Estella, a little
girl who takes pleasure in torme...
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Grendel Mead Hall
664 words
Portraying adolescents as false tragic heroes has
been a theme explored in literature throughout the
twentieth century. In John Gardner? s Grendel, the
protagonist Grendel, portrayed as a parent less
adolescent seeking guidance, finds happiness in
violence. Grendel continually commits the ultimate
act of evilness, murder on Hrothgar? s mead hall.
Gardner creates a character and an environment in,
which the reader must feel sorrow for Grendel, in
order to have fulfillment by the end of the
resolu...
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Today World Dylan Klebold
857 words
Growing up in Today? s World It? s tough enough
being a teenager in today? s world without the
temptations of drugs, sex, and violence, but in
the year 2000 this is what the adolescent? s face.
We face more obstacles and trials and tribulations
than teens faced twenty or thirty years ago. There
is more sexual content on today? s televisions,
more violence in todays school, and more peer
pressure to try all sorts of new drugs. Yet it
seems the youth of today have accomplished more.
We are chess c...
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Estrogen Levels Forty Percent
839 words
Gynecomastia There are many lethal diseases that
affect the human species. Doctors fight every day
to save lives, and research is being done to find
cures for them. Fortunately there are other
diseases that are not life threatening, but they
do cause discomfort and suffering. Some diseases
affect only women, and some affect only men.
Gynecomastia is a disease that affects only males.
Gynecomastia is a common disease that occurs only
in males, and it is generally a bilateral and
symmetrical anato...
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Heroin Addicts Heroin Addiction
1,474 words
Heroin abuse is a serious national problem, one
that is increasing everyday. More and more middle
class, suburban adolescents and adults have turned
to heroin as their drug of choice. In addition,
heroin related deaths have skyrocketed within the
last few years. With heroin on the rise in so many
areas of the country it is important to know and
understand the effects and consequences that
heroin use and abuse can have. First and foremost,
it is significant to understand what heroin is and
where ...
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Mothers And Fathers Teenage Mothers
616 words
Hester Prynne; The Infamous Yet, Exemplary Mother
Henry W. Beecher once wrote, There is no slave out
of heaven like a loving woman, there is no such
slave as a mother. Little did Henry Beecher know
of the future generations of younger women, who
would be slaving diligently to provide for their
children. Furthermore, many modern day teenage
mothers are dedicating themselves to the task of
parenting without the benefit of marriage or the
support of the childs father. On account of theses
things Th...
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White Girl Isn T
1,331 words
Holly In Holly Albert French attempted to open up
his readers to the topic racism. He chose to do
this through the eyes of a young girl, growing up
in a racist environment. The critics appreciate
the novel stylistically and thematically, pointing
out the skill in which French portrays his
characters emotions, and evolutions. While some
mentioned a few negative aspects, they all praised
French s writing style. After having analyzed the
novel thematically myself, the thoughts of the
critics only h...
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30 P M Sleep Deprivation
718 words
How Are Your Sleeping Habits? American teenagers
are getting far less sleep than needed for them in
order to function properly. The health, behavior,
and academic performance of teenagers are
suffering as a result of their sleep deprivation.
According to parents reports in the 1999
nationwide survey, Sleep in America, sixty percent
of children under the age of eighteen complained
of being tired during the school day. Fifteen
percent of these children also reported falling
asleep during school (p...
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E T C Human Relationships
1,720 words
Definition of psychology The concern about life is
a main human characteristic. No matter if his
concern is concentrated in himself or in persons
or things that surround him and constitute his
environment, everybody wants to know why people,
himself included, behave the way they behave.
Everybody, also, wants to improve his behavior, so
as to live in harmony with himself and the
society. The Greek word Psychology, is a word
consisted of the words 968; 965; 967;
942; -soul and 955;...
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Aunt Alexandra Tom Robinson
848 words
The Evolution Of Jem Finch In Harper Lee s To Kill
A Mockingbird, Jeremy Finch is one of the main
characters who evolves from a child to an
adolescent who learns to question the many faults
of his environment. As Jeremy (or Jem) grew up, he
adapted to the adult world as best he could, and
learned that life was not the beautiful day in the
neighborhood that Jem thought it was. And in doing
so, he grows a closer resemblance to his father.
We meet Jem near the age of ten, with his sister
Scout, and...
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Mentally Ill Thoughts
1,075 words
During the 1950 s, mentally disordered people who
were harmful to society and themselves could be
treated with medications and were able to return
safely to their communities. Unfortunately in the
1980 s, the cost of health care increased more
than any other cost in our national economy.
Strategic planning has been made to reduce costs,
as a result, ? The political decision made to
deinstitutionalize chronic mental patients started
with the appearance of phenothiazine medications.
Dramatically r...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Feels
872 words
Life s Many Obstacles In J. D. Salinger s The
Catcher in the Rye the protagonist, Holden, is
faced with many obstacles. Like most tragic
heroes, he is a man who is reasonably happy at the
beginning of the tragedy, but as the tragedy
develops, some failure in his personality begins
to affect events, so that his progress is a
movement from happiness to misery. The ultimate
misery results from his final awareness of his
personalities limits or failures. Much of Holden s
misery is a result of his in...
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Kids Who Smoke Peer Pressure Behavior
356 words
Peer pressure can influence a person to start
smoking, drinking, or doing drugs and other things
that are harmful to his / her body. However, peer
pressure can also be helpful by influencing
someone to do right instead of wrong. For example,
a person can be an example to his / her friends
and let them know he / she wants to do right and
he / she wants to change how he / she acts or what
he / she were like. Peer pressure can be a
struggle for some people because they may be
depressed by what they...
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Period Of Time Massive Amounts
561 words
Based on Pornography 4 Pornography Based on the
evidence Cline presents about non aggressive
pornography I would say that viewing non
aggressive pornography alone does not make men
more callous towards women. I do think that other
circumstances such as the influence of the media
and of the adolescent male peer group can cause
young men to become insensitive towards women. I
agree with Cline that pornography degrades women
in many ways. It is very hostile towards women and
also portrays women hat...
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Clockwork Orange Morally Acceptable
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Goodness Calculated Captivity Calculated
Captivation Goodness comes from within, 6655321.
Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man
cannot choose he ceases to be a man. In Anthony
Burgess A Clockwork Orange, a sadistic adolescent
of the not-so-distant future is rehabilitated of
his violent nature by a special conditioning
treatment. This fifteen year-old hoodlum Alex
McDowell is cured of his savage activities but
when released back into a still violent society,
he is a misfit. Anthony Burge...
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Sibling Society Robert Bly Adults
884 words
The Sibling Society by Robert Bly is a moving call
for the rediscovery of adulthood. It is not about
siblings in a family. Robert Bly has used the term
sibling society as a metaphor to suggest that we
are in a culture that doesnt look up to parents or
to grandparents. What are these siblings like? The
description of the sibling society builds
throughout the book. They are a society of
half-adults who lack dedication to causes,
justices and caring. At what point do they become
full-fledged adults...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs International Olympic Committee
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Steroid Steroids May 11, 2000 Steroid Use Should
Be Legalized The 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South
Korea, proved to be one of the most exciting
Olympic games of all time. World records fell in
everyday of the 14 -day event; in every sport
ranging from shuttlecock to track and field,
records fell like dominos. The most competitive
sport in the 1988 Olympiad was the mens 100 -meter
dash, with a field consisting of the ten fastest
men in the world, at the time. World record holder
Ben Johnson, who sha...
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Year Old Girl Conflict Theory
1,424 words
Conflict Theory is a basic concept that was
founded by Karl Marx. The theory suggests that
everything that happens in society is a result of
conflict. This Theory teaches us that the elitist
class in society does everything in their power to
keep the lower classes where they are. In the
Movie Street Wise, Richard, Duane, and Erin are
subordinate kids who have to deal with the
problems that society has brought on them. This
class of kids learns to deal with life in their
own way, on the principle...
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