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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The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould With a touch of humor‚ geology‚ evolutionary theory‚ biology‚ cartoon characters and even some references to baseball‚ The Panda’s Thumb definitely makes excellent reading for people with all types of interests. The old cliché‚ "Don’t judge a book by its cover‚" or in this case‚ title‚ holds true for The Panda’s Thumb. Theories concerning adaptations of the panda are only a fraction of the many exciting facts held within
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Stephen Crane’s "The Open Book": Determinism‚ Objectivity‚ and Pessimism In Stephen Crane’s short story "The Open Boat"‚ the American literary school of naturalism is used and three of the eight features are most apparent‚ making this work‚ in my opinion‚ a good example of the school of naturalism. These three of the eight features are determinism‚ objectivity‚ and pessimism. They show‚ some more than others‚ how Stephen Crane viewed the world and the environment around him. Determinism
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once. He said‚ "I know the way-come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon‚ too soon‚ were we Where my eyes were useless‚ And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried‚ "I am lost." Stephen Crane I have chosen to use "A learned man came to me once" as the topic of my essay. This peom teaches us the dangers of following this world. The world we live in today encouages us to blindly follow. We are surrounded by ’false authority’‚ people
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In Freakonomics‚ Stephen D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s purpose was to make the reader susceptible to the idea that there is a concealed yet obvious side of everything‚ if delved into enough. This purpose is useful in uncovering the conventional wisdom‚ a phrase coined by economist John Kenneth Galbraith. According to him‚ he believed that conventional wisdom “ must be simple‚ convenient‚ comfortable‚ and comforting - though not necessarily true”(Levitt and Dubner 86). But‚ what if someone wanted
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In “Desert Places‚” Stephen Crane uses various poetic details to write his own interpretation of a story told within the bible. His poem is derived from when Jesus was telling his disciples to‚ “let the little children come to me‚” in Matthew 19:14. Crane’s poem‚ in its entirety‚ symbolizes how sometimes it is so easy to look down on people within a society‚ never stopping to see the beauty they possess. In the same way‚ the story from the bible takes place after children are devalued because of
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“Do Not Weep‚ Maiden‚ for War is Kind‚” was written by the poet Stephen Crane. The poem is a bitter and emotional protest of the horrors of war. It gets much of its strength from using simple but highly descriptive words in contrast with innocence‚ and also through the use of repetition and sarcasm. The poet portrays bitterness and innocence in the first stanza. It is strongly shown in the lines "Do not weep‚ maiden‚ for war is kind‚ because your lover threw wild hands towards the sky” (1-2). The
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Many of Stephen Crane’s stories reflect much of Mark Twain’s approach to Western stories. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” depicts a East invasion of the West through small role changes in a small western town. The power of the Old West is giving way to the domesticating power of the East. Crane supports this through the description of events that unfold on the train‚ the couples actions after getting off the train‚ and the uneventful showdown at the end. The biggest indicator would be how Crane
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The chapter in Stephen J. Gould’s Bully for Brontosaurus titled “To Be A Platypus” touches on the discovery and classification of the duck-billed platypus native to Australia. The chapter opens with a note on the origin of the telegram‚ in which the platypus was first described using the four words “monotremes oviparous‚ ovum meroblastic” by Cambridge biologist W. H. Caldwell. Fundamentally‚ this translates to the platypus being a mammal that possesses a duck-like bill and lays eggs. The “duckbill”
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This started a long love affair for horror stories. For instance Stephen King is known as the master of horror; I have read all his older novels. Watched a few of his movies and discovered the movies are ‘B’ rated compared to the books. His newer work is a little more farfetched for me more like Sci-Fi‚ but he was the cause for my thirst in horror and mystery. A case in point when summer was over‚ I started looking for Stephen King books on the shelves at school and discovered that they did not
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