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..., it is a safe assumption that the parents desire to take away the lives of their children resulted in the children taking their lives. Sources Used Barker-Benfield, G.J. (2000) The Horrors of the Half-Known Life. New York: Routledge. Blank, H. (2007) Virgin: The Untouched History. New York: Bloomsbury. De Beauvoir, S. (1952) The Second Sex. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Eugenides, J. (1993) The Virgin Suicides. New York: Warner Books. Faludi, S. (1991) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. New York: Crown Publishers. Miller, L. (2004) “We the Characters.” New York Times. 18 April 2004.... an amorphous amalgamation of one another - so much so that, at least at the beginning of the novel, they were virtually indistinguishable from...
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...? Robert Jeffrey Sternberg Robert Jeffrey Sternberg Robert Jeffrey Sternberg is an American psychologist born on 8th December 1949 in New Jersey. In his life he has been the proud holder of many academic positions. He has around 10 honorary doctorates from various universities in Europe, South America and North American universities. He is the Adjunct professor of Education, Professor of Psychology and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. He is also associated with the University of Heidelberg in Germany as an honorary professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology. He has also held various positions in Yale University in the past before his association...
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...or her fantasies. Under the mentioned scenario, Professor Hickey considers it trauma control model of a serial killer. Head injury and brain pathology as the case may be an earlier indication of would be offender who responds to trauma in the initial years. The negative way of having low self-esteem amounts to increasing violent fantasies. This is attributable to the experiences and feelings of a victimized person arising out from the past events. The offender then finds shelter in alcohol, drugs and seeking pleasure in pornography. At last, he commits murder after having sexual intercourse on a creature or creatures easy to access in order to regain control over them. The serial killer and sex offender...
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...have at least one gender identity, nevertheless, the such opinions are considered outdated and society is more tolerant and willing to accept a third gender (Zucker, 1999). References Braverman, M.T (2001). Applying Resilience Theory to the Prevention of Adolescent Substance Abuse, Retrieved from http://4h.ucanr.edu/files/1232.pdf Brent L. B, Kristen A. R (2005). Analysis of LGBT Identity Development Models and Implications for Practice. Wiley Periodicals. Retrieved from http://lbgtrc.msu.edu/docs/bilodeaurenn.pdf Carroll, R. (2010). Retrospective sex: Rewriting intersexuality in jeffrey eugenides's middlesex. Journal of American Studies, 44(1), 187-201. Eugenides, J....
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...Finding the Middle Ground between Family and Personal Identity In his Pulitzer Prize winning novel Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenindes paints an elaborate and epic portrait of America in the twentieth century. Beginning at its immigrant roots to the present, the story takes readers from a Turkish village in the 1920s to the race riots of the late 1960s as it follows a Greek American family across generations. At the center of the story is the voice of the newest member of the family. A member whose gender identity, complicated by a genetically inherited hermaphroditism, incorporates an interesting twist into the family's history. Relying heavily on the relationship between past and present, this historical novel uses strong historical... , it...
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...Jeffrey Dahmer Introduction The stories about serial killing and cannibalism are coming out from lot of countries even though the world is becoming more and more civilized. In many cases, serial killers engaged in such activities under the influence of alcohol, drugs or in some cases because of mental disorders. Serious killers often use same methodologies to kill their prey.
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Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was an American serial killer, a psychopath and a sex offender who threatened the American people during the latter half of the twentieth century. He was accused of murdering 17 men and boys of African or Asian origin. Most of his killing activities were happened between 1978 and...
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...Reflection points from Jeffrey Garten’s addresses The impact of recent financial crisis Garten expressed his sound review, being an Economist, of the impact of the recent financial crisis to the economy. He mentioned the cultural changes in the business world, government regulations, liberalizations and other government activities which are the true happenings in many countries affected by the crisis. These regulations affected business and employment as it has been observed that the economic downturn has affected the lives of many people. Government regulations have controlled the economy by its fiscal and monetary policies thereby affecting employment. Unemployment in the US was last reported at 9.60% as of September...
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...The Development of Sexuality within Teenage Girls as Related to The Virgin Suicides and Towelhead
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides and Towelhead by Alicia Erian are stories that are told from the perspective of the first person, Eugenides' book from the point of view of memory with Erian's book through a sense of the present day, although set in the recent past. The issue of the development of female sexuality within the teenage years is discussed from the point of view of the adolescent mind on the subject. Although told as a memory, the narrators within The Virgin Suicides relate the story as they remember it, from the perspective of their own adolescent experiences of...
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...Robert Jeffrey Sternberg
Robert Jeffrey Sternberg is an American psychologist born on 8th December 1949 in New Jersey. In his life he has been the proud holder of many academic positions. He has around 10 honorary doctorates from various universities in Europe, South America and North American universities. He is the Adjunct professor of Education, Professor of Psychology and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. He is also associated with the University of Heidelberg in Germany as an honorary professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology. He has also held various positions in Yale University in the past before his association with Tufts University. Sternberg held many major positions in various... Jeffrey...
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...with the desperate situations in their lives and seek desperate remedies. Their life is also the barometer of the present societal conditions. The carefree and calculative Madeleine, who is conscious about the strength of her feminine charm and the love-hate drama that she unfolds on Leonard and Mitchell, Leonard who is the representative of the depression that has engulfed the younger generation of the current materialistic world, Mitchell’s desperate hunger for spiritual aspirations and who is strongly confronted by the power of sex and love for Madeleine—the author tackles these intense sentimental issues with restraint and fertile imagination. The mutual interaction over different situations between the three...
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