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    Any form of suffering should become a well made an effort for anyone to help relieve others suffering. In “Is Art a Waste of Time?” Rhys Southan describes the Effective Altruism movement and states how altruists live by the philosophy of improving the world by relieving human and animal suffering (Southan). I agree with the intentions of the EA movement. The pain felt by others is not acceptable when many people have the resources to help those who suffer. As an individual who wishes for every being

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    Stephen King’s presumptuous article‚ "Why We Crave Horror Movies"‚ inspects the inner‚ mentally psychotic adaptation of human beings‚ and explores our obsessive attraction to gruesome and tantalizing  horror movies. He believes that we are all secretly morbid and insist on using scary films to produce our psychotic relief from the demanding civilized society we live in; King states‚ " I think we are all mentally ill; those of us outside of the asylums only hide it a little better ". He values the

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    summer of 1983; I was reading my first Horror novel by Jay Anson “The Amityville Horror”‚ it was the scariest thing I had ever picked up. Despite the late hours I continued to read into the early morning hours until my eyes burned for relief. Whenever I got up to use the rest room I would stand on the end of my bed lean over and open the door and jump so not to be grabbed by monsters that might be laying in wait under my bed. This started a long love affair for horror stories. For instance Stephen King

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    Why We Crave Horror Movies I totally agree with King in that we are all a little twisted‚ just some more than others. Our minds are very complex‚ and we may never really know why we enjoy seeing people getting hurt or killed in a movie‚ but for some reason we do‚ and we pay to see it. There are four types of people that watch horror movies: The ones who watch every single that comes out‚ and collects them all; The ones who go because they are tough‚ and want to seem cool because they weren’t

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    how crazy people are who eat lettuce? Would you call out there weakness’ stating they only eat lettuce to fulfill a need for healthy behavior?Or risk exposing the single element of life that allows your business to strive? Well in Why We Crave Horror Movies Stephen King did and today were going to talk about why. Maybe he had a need to express a personal belief. Then again he could have tried to expose a part of everyone’s psyche that is often hidden from one another. Or maybe he is offering a semi-logical

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    Horror Fiction Horror is in many ways a unique genre. It has the ability to make us feel frightened‚ disgusted and fascinated at the same time. During an intense scene in a horror movie or book you often feel tempted to look away‚ but at the same time you’re “glued” to the screen or page – You can’t let go; you want to see what’s hiding in the dark. Another fascinating aspect of the horror genre is the fact that it remains controversial due to its extreme nature. A lot of critiques argue that horror

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    mean when he wrote "not yet‚ rizal‚ not yet. Sleep not in peace" * I felt Happiness because I realize that everyone has the ability to change and improve their lives and their environment‚ if we are just willing to make an effort and put in some time and hard work. I’m also proud to the hospitality of each Filipinos and their willingness to help other people especially other cultures. * The Main point of the Poetry is to emphasize that Filipinos must work together to make the nation stronger

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    Stephen King “Why We Crave Horror Movies” Close Reading 1. Mr. King states his thesis in the very first sentences‚ “I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better- and maybe not all that much better‚ after all. Located in paragraph one. Mr. King states that all people are mentally ill but hold it in better then the people locked up in mental wards. 2. Mr. King is references to “jack the Ripper” and “Cleveland Torso”; it supports his thesis

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    interesting word to you all which is ”horror”. Most of the time we just simply say that “horror thing”‚ “horror movie”‚ “horror place”‚ but are we really know what is the meaning of horror‚ or define horror in a better way? In fact‚ horror can be defined as anything which causes intense feeling of shock‚ fear‚ terror‚ disgust or something frightening. Horror may caused by something ugly‚ bad or disagreeable‚ hence causing strong dislike or loath. Any definition of horror that asserts any form of fear‚

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    A man seen naked is considered a taboo. The world has grown the culture of covering oneself through the times of stone age where a piece of leave so did the task to the present times of most fashionable jeans to still unfashionable cotton clothes. With the development activities rising with every second‚ alongside the fashion doesn’t stand second to it if not first. Covering of just the major parts with fetish designs to wearing just to the price of the clothes that wouldn’t even be worth its size

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