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Wicked Thoughts: Article Analysis
Wicked Thoughts:
PINCOTT, J. WICKED THOUGHTS. (cover story). Psychology Today. 48, 5, 52, Sept. 2015. ISSN: 00333107.
The article discusses issues on human behavior, particularly the effects of wicked thoughts and impulses on an individual. The author writes about a lot of wicked thoughts that really happened to people. These thoughts were done by teenagers all over the world and had their future broken. Some of the thoughts that were written were: Creepy thoughts, Sexual thoughts, Prejudiced thoughts, Violent/Murderous thoughts, and Schadenfreude thoughts. The authors purpose of this article was to inform the readers of the some wicked thoughts that people have done that we should not copy. We should care about this because we should know not to do anything like them.

This article is relates to The Outsiders in many ways. First, in The Outsiders Ponyboy said that if the Greasers walked by themselves too much someone will yell out loud GREASERS at them which doesn't make them feel too good.This …show more content…
Metaphysical sociology focuses on the meaning questions that confront all humans, questions about origins, about what to do with one's life, and about death. This talks about the death of people from actors to salesperson and how it matters to the people that are rich not poor. A Lot of rich people have died who are still remembered today but a lot of poor people have died and know one has a clue of whom they are. Also when a rich or a famous person dies the police directly find the killer, but if it was an unknown person, the police would not leave the case unknown killer. Also if a famous person does something bad they would most likely bail him out quickly, unlike the poor person he will have to stay in person to the time he has been sentenced to. If a famous person rose a gun at a police officer, the police officer would not shoot him, on the other side the unknown person would be shot
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