... project and her teacher was so impressed that she pushed Hinton to write more, which led to her final copy of The Outsiders. Her books received many rewards and honors. That Was Then, This Is Now was chosen as a notable book by the American Library Association. The Outsiders ... its first person narrative "it is as didactic as modern pop songs "comes off the page with such absorbed conviction, such persuasive truth and emotional power that one accepts it. The story has humor, passion, tenderness, intelligence, action a-plenty and, best of all, compassion- (CLC vol.30 204 ... The Outsiders...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , incorporating elements into his own bold designs for business and industry. Although he extensively studied the topic, Beall found he learnt much of his design-related knowledge simply through reading books and periodicals. Beall set styles and standards in many fields from creative and comprehensive packaging to corporate identities. He demonstrated creative design solutions for problems but could also deal with ... with one goal in mind "to integrate the elements in such a manner that they will combine to produce a result that will convey not merely a static commercial message, but a...

• Word Count: 1023
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... portrayal of war and its tragic aftermath would have been, at the time of its publication, a cathartic novel for those veterans suffering from leftover emotional scars received after serving their country some 20 years earlier. Vonnegut was asked by an old war buddy's wife not to glamorize war (pgs. 14 ... are three components to Billy's story: his time in Germany, his time as a husband and father, and his time on Trafalmadore. Billy is flat, un-emotional, and surprisingly for a protagonist, has very little dialogue. He's a young man in optometry school when he's drafted to the war. Upon...

• Word Count: 1646
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... portrayal of war and its tragic aftermath would have been, at the time of its publication, a cathartic novel for those veterans suffering from leftover emotional scars received after serving their country some 20 years earlier. Vonnegut was asked by an old war buddy's wife not to glamorize war (pgs. 14 ... are three components to Billy's story: his time in Germany, his time as a husband and father, and his time on Trafalmadore. Billy is flat, un-emotional, and surprisingly for a protagonist, has very little dialogue. He's a young man in optometry school when he's drafted to the war. Upon...

• Word Count: 1646
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... she developed for wanting to do things her way under an authoritative parenting style (Monroe, 2010). Her creativity, desire to act and emotional expression were greatly inhibited by Aunt Ida. Her sexual feelings were especially repressed she describes in her poems, which she also admits to having ... was looking from a B-aspect. From this B-aspect, Marilyn saw a Being - a perfect man who would fulfill her need for love and give her emotional as well as psychological satisfaction. In doing so, Marilyn disregarded the D-aspect to a man, which included his deficiencies and thus was not re...

• Word Count: 3517
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... twentieth century, Margaret Sanger was able to convey her message across to women all over the world, regardless of their social class. She wrote several magazine articles and books, created pamphlets, and gave speeches educating women and confronting topics that were seen as taboo. Using her research and extensive education, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control ... to learn about contraception for women than in New York, where the Comstock Law had made the circulation of information impossible." After gathering a variety of contraceptive devices, pamphlets and books, she retur...

• Word Count: 2518
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... longer respond to mass-market appeals; they have more individual tastes and are searching for a more individual style. In a nutshell, consumers seek products to fulfill their emotional and even some physical needs (Kahle and Chiagouris 237). Often times consumers? emotional needs are not fully met after they have purchased thisamazing? product they had to have so badly. If it does fill their ... emotional needs, it only lasts for a short period of time and soon wears off, leaving the consumer feeling emptier than before they purchased the product. Advertisers have often associated their...

• Word Count: 2697
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Saratoga Race Track. (Hall 35) The Hyman's would host dinner parties that would have poets, critics, notable novelists, musicians, educators, and other professional men and women. (Hall 35) Shirley suffered emotional and physical problems. She had anxiety, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, and she was also morbidly obese. (Alession 114) She also had asthma and later arthritis in the ends of her fingers. Shirley ... to wake her up but found her mother had passed away in her sleep (Hall 40). Shirley wrote over one hundred short stories, six novels, two humorous memoirs, three children's books,...

• Word Count: 1916
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of this hopeless regret; I could not even mention her name; but her image was continually before me, and I dreamt of her incessantly." A few months later, Irving was out of the emotional slump and back to writing. In December of 1809, his work "A History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty" was published ... reasons at the United States Embassy in Madrid. From 1829-1832 Irving was a secretary to the American Legation under Martin Van Buren. During his stay in Spain, Irving wrote three books: "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Colum...

• Word Count: 1288
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... The New Yorker after ten years of receiving nothing but rejection letters. He then went on to write many more stories for them, thirteen of which were combined into three books. These books were later put together to form the novel The Catcher in the Rye. "The Catcher in the Rye is a story of and urban American middle-class boy who at ... complained and just viewing everything from the same way he saw life. There are also good things about his book. Paul Engle, a Chicago Tribune reviewer, stated that the novel was "emotional without being sentimental, dramatic without being melodramatic...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... the nowhere, (or the gods for that matter) that is not the debate. However, the emotive and spiritual experiences affiliated with inspiration are not accounted for. Inspiration is evidently an emotional process, yet this has been ignored by psychological theory. "The effects on people everywhere are very much the same. They describe "radiant light", "surges of power", "eternal energy", "boundless ... Web. (Web Document), available URL: http://members.ozemail.com.au/Creative/index.2html. [23/07/2002] Jung, Carl. "Psychology and Literature", in Ghiselin, Brewster (ed.) 1952, The Creative ...

• Word Count: 923
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... back to help World War I veterans after returning from war ( profession 1-2). Music Therapy is basically the prescribed use of music and musical interventions to help restore, maintain and improve the emotional, physical, physiologically, spiritual and overall well being of a person( temple 1-2). Music therapy is emerging as a healing force for many people. Its goal areas of a music therapist are ... communicative, academic,motor,emotional and social skills. Indicated treatment includes creating, singing, writing, moving to and/or listening to music. With being a music therapist you wil...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... , this seem to be some sort of social experiment, where they are using their child to send a message to the world; therefore, it can negatively affect the child's mental and emotional development. The child is not a guinea pig. He/she is too young to have his/her own judgment. Parents should be the light, the guide for their child, not the ... bringing up their other sons. They can choose what they want to wear, learn, and play. They can keep their hair styles as they want. They are free from text-books and school; what is more, they can explore the world themselves without an invisible ...

• Word Count: 910
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... and vulgarisms have flourished. She sees extreme profanity and vulgarity as the speech equivalent of violent action. "Aren't emotions really important in human behavior?" she said. "So these are extreme emotional outlets, and they are important and they do make a difference, because people need that once in a while. The Victorian Age suppressed anger, and I don't think that was especially good for ... talk shows and television programs are screening their callers less and less as it becomes easier to get away with the occasional on-air expletive. Words that used to get books banned are ...

• Word Count: 3630
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... another member will come in and give feedback to that other member. Furthermore, if one member is having legal problems other members of the group will step in and lend emotional support to help the other through a tough time. Another quality that makes the Wu Tang Clan a group is group cohesion. Group cohesion is the strength of the bonds linking members ... similar. The members of the Wu Tang Clan are similar in many ways. First they all lived in the same area, were all broke, all enjoyed hip-hop music, comic books and kung fu movies and the list goes on and on. The next factor that p...

• Word Count: 2421
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... another member will come in and give feedback to that other member. Furthermore, if one member is having legal problems other members of the group will step in and lend emotional support to help the other through a tough time. Another quality that makes the Wu Tang Clan a group is group cohesion. Group cohesion is the strength of the bonds linking members ... similar. The members of the Wu Tang Clan are similar in many ways. First they all lived in the same area, were all broke, all enjoyed hip hop music, comic books and kung fu movies and the list goes on and on. The next factor that p...

• Word Count: 2425
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... Wicked King. Kill for my Master. I turn children into Killers." (Berkowitz-2) Around Christmas of 1975, David had reached the breaking point. Christmas Eve found David in the middle of an emotional crisis. Later that evening, armed with a hunting knife, he drove around for hours looking for the right female victim. Returning back to the Co-Op City where he and his ... , walking home from evening classes when Berkowitz approached her from the opposite direction. He drew a gun and fatally shot her in the face, as she shielded her face with her books. Berkowitz fled the scene on foot. He pa...

• Word Count: 2646
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Veteran's Affairs, University of Melbourne, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre. May 26, 1999. . Slaby, Andrew E., M.D., PH. D., M.P.H. Aftershock: Surviving the Delayed Effects of Trauma, Crisis, and Loss. New York, NY: Villard Books, 1989. Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1953. Survivors No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain Have caused their stammering, disconnected ... population all over Europe had also been severely diminished from war casualties. Most people would expect World War I to bring about massive change for the b...

• Word Count: 2886
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , outstanding dialogue, and relationship with peoples" reactions to mass hysteria are what make this an excellent play. Richard Watts, Jr., of the New York Post says, "It is a drama of emotional power and impact." Robert Warshaw, of The Immediate Experience says, "It is a drama of universal significance." The characters in the play are very well developed. Each has his or her ... years Broadway Tony Award for best revival play. Outline I. Development of characters a. Fear b. Pride II. Dialogue III. Reactions to mass hysteria Works Cited Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York: Penguin Boo...

• Word Count: 688
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in the weather. Throughout the novel, places and settings symbolize the different aspects of the 1920s American society that Fitzgerald depicts. The weather in The Great Gatsby dependably matches the emotional and narrative tone of the story. Some symbols are the green light, the valley of ashes, and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Ekleburg. Nick Carraway: The novel's narrator, Nick Carraway comes ... suicide himself. Owl Eyes: The eccentric drunk, which Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion. Nick found Owl Eyes looking through Gatsby's library amazed that the books are r...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... placing a time limit on each scene produced in the making of the film. This ominous refrain was repeatedly on the Actors and Actresses. Contrary to this attitude, MGM would promote emotional binge for those trained in creativity and empathy not just logic and rationality. Despite the different point voice, MGM would stand its ground. " The preparations for the film were enormous ... the full set was built, it covered twenty o five acres on the studio back lot. Sixty five set in this picture" (p 13, Take One: 1974, Mervyn LeRoy, New York: Hawthorne Books, Inc). "It took six months to fil...

• Word Count: 571
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... view of life and two his unique writing methods in which you can observe from many of his works. Usually Whitman's writing grew from a mild essay to an extraordinary and emotional issue; According to one source, Roy Harvey quotes, "The history of American poetry could be written as the continuing discovery and rediscovery of Whitman, an on-going affirmation of his ... before he died. During this time he was not able to walk so most of the time was spent sitting in a chair close to the window of his apartment reading books. Whitman also rewrote and reorganized the order of the poems in L...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Biography, Capote says, "(As a child) I was very insecure and lonely. I was an only child, very sensitive, intelligent, with no sense of being particularly wanted by anyone it was just total emotional neglect. I never felt I belonged anywhere. All my family thought that there was something wrong with me. I started writing when I was eight, out of the blue, uninspired by any example. I'd never ... was capable of important work, though much of its original notoriety stemmed from its cover photo of the author-. Other Voices, Other Rooms became one of the most popular fiction books of the 4...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... City, he would never have received the change to get these jobs back, which is his overwhelming desire. Tom's chosen path has possible made his life a hell of a lot richer (emotional) then the other path. Diamond, a dog much unlike his name, is the path maker for Mr. Das in "Diamond Dust."" Diamond makes life for Mr. Das' neighbors, co-workers, and ... ; therefore, no matter which path you decide to take it will always be "the one less traveled by."" (Frost) Work Cited Conroy, Pat. The Prince of Tides New York, Bantam Books, 1987. Desai, Anita. "Diamond Dust- Literature 5th ed. Ed. Rober...

• Word Count: 881
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School