Stephen King's orks as a Reflection of Today's Society
Stephen King is one of the most successful writers today. He has published hundreds of works, including novels, novellas, and short stories. Many of his works have been turned into movies that have proved just as popular. Is this simply because he is a good writer or simply because he writes horror? Considering that there are many other writers of horror that haven't experienced anywhere near the popularity, it is suggested that there is something more to the work of Stephen King. A consideration of his work will show that his popularity is closely linked to today's society. In fact, his work can be considered a reflection of today's society, showing what modern society wants to read and think about, showing the concrete issues that concern people, and showing how people want to explore, understand, and overcome the deep psychological struggles of…...

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Works Cited

Collings, M.R. St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2002.

King, S. Danse Macabre. New York: Berkley Books, 1983.

King, S. On Writing. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000.

Magistrale, T. The Moral Voyages of Stephen King. Mercer Island, WA: Starmount House, 1990.

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Gray Matter similarly deals with addiction. However in this case there are two protagonists, one is a victim of addiction and the other may become a victim of this victim. Henry is the person who owns a local store from where ichie's son buys beers for his father. ichie is a recluse who is living on disability funds. He is completely confined to his room and rarely ever comes out. No one has seen him for years. The only person who knows about his current state is his son. The little boy tells Henry how ichie has turned into an abominable blob of flesh consuming beer and dead cats. Once this is known, Henry and other local men decide to deliver beer to ichie themselves. When the reach his apartment, they smell a strong stench. When ichie steps out, everyone gasps in horror as they discover…...

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References

Shine of the Times," an interview with Stephen King by Marty Ketchum, Pat Cadigan, and Lewis Shiner. Published in Shayol, Summer 1979, Volume One, Number Three.

Jack Matthews: "Novelist Loves His Nightmares" Published in Detroit Free Press, November 12, 1982.

The supernatural in Carrie is real and is expressed primarily through Carrie's supernatural powers. This power, telekinesis, is presented in a very realistic form in the novel, presenting us with a fear that is real as well as supernatural. For example, King accentuates the supernatural with realism with an excerpt from an article printed in the Tulane University Press that writes that Carrie's "ability to move objects by effort of the will alone comes to the fore only in moments of extreme personal stress" (5). The unique powers, while real, cannot be explained scientifically. This type of supernatural power isolates Carrie socially because they are so real they are horrifying and this synthesis frightens us.

The fantastical and supernatural are born from Carrie's natural experience and, apparently, heredity. e read that she was the unfortunate "victim of her mother's religious mania. e know she possessed a latent telekinetic talent" (89). This…...

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Works Cited

King, Stephen. Carrie. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing. 1974.

Stephen King’s The Outsider: A Persuasive Argument Introduction
The Outsider is a well-written book with exiting and unexpected turns and twists. The book has several well-developed themes. In my opinion, however, the central theme of the story is the rational man’s inability to believe that which does not conform to reality – the inability to believe in the supernatural. It is important to note that one of the most celebrated traits of the modern man is rationality. In basic terms, rationality could be conceptualized as the ability to rely on logic or reason in decision making. This effectively means that from a rational perspective, anything that does not conform to reason and logic cannot be accepted. We all start off in life having outrageous beliefs and fantasies. For instance, as kids we believe in the tooth-fairy and regard Father Christmas as a real benevolent person. These are beliefs we outgrow with time.…...

Stand, by Stephen King [...] personal response to the novel. "The Stand" is a disturbing book that recounts the story of survivorship, new worlds, and man's inhumanity.
THE STAND

Stephen King's "The Stand" is a chilling story about a virulent flu virus that is especially chilling today as the SARS virus makes headlines around the world. Stephen King is a noted horror writer who has written numerous books. This novel was first published in 1991, and has been made into a mini-series. King's books are wildly popular, and this book was no exception. It ranks as the 2,697 most sold book on the Amazon.com web site, and had been released in numerous hard and soft cover editions, including a "complete and uncut" version that numbers 1168 pages. The original version was published in 1978, and numbered 823 pages, so clearly the newer version contains much more material, making it more popular…...

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Bibliography www.questia.com/PM.qst?action=openPageViewer&docId=98115843

Bloom, Harold, ed. Stephen King. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998.

King, Stephen. The Stand. New York: Signet, 1991.

Thus, Mears emerges as an altruist. Mark Petrie is a lot like Ben in his earnest desire to rid the Lot of the vampires. Both Mark Petrie and Ben Mears could have fled the Lot long before tackling the Marsten House. Kurt Barlow is one of the novel's most one-dimensional characters. The head vampire, Barlow is wholly without morals. He feeds only to sustain himself, is concerned only with his own needs, and does not feel any remorse for causing pain or suffering.
Stephen King does not use just blood and gore to convey horror. Although icky and creepy elements do add nuance and amusement to King's work, what makes Salem's Lot a remarkable work of fiction is the author's command of timing and suspense. The novel captures readers' attention because of its multiple layers of horror. First, King establishes Salem's Lot as a vampire story. Vampires are archetypes deep…...

Foer vs. King
The author of this report has been asked to assess one body of work thorugh the lens of someone else's perspective. The work that will ultimately be assessed will be On riting as written by Stephen King. The person whose lens will be used to assess Mr. King's treatise will be Joshua Foer. Specifically, the work Moonwalking with Einstein will be the prism and lens that will be used to assess and describe what is being manifested in King's work. Of course, the main premise of Foer's work was the "art and science of remember everything," as clearly stated by the subtitle of the book. The work of Foer will be described through some recitation and summary of his work and those quote and ideas will then be applied to the work of King when he wrote his memoir. hile the human brain absolutely has limitations, it is…...

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Works Cited

Foer, Joshua. Moonwalking with Einstein. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. Print.

King, Stephen. On Writing. New York, NY: Scribner, 2010. Print.

King's The Man In The lack Suit
The modern concept of self, and the human trait of self-awareness, have been a part of humanity since recorded history -- as has the notion of good and evil, although clearly on a sliding scale. However, it was not until the Middle Ages that the concept of the self in relation to the choices of good and evil coalesced, moving away from the supernatural "the devil made me do it," and allowing for personal responsibility. That did not change the idea that the human individual always has a choice in their path -- the euphemistic fork in the road -- do we choose good, or do we choose evil? Stephen King's short story, The Man in the lack Suit, is a modern retelling of this conflict, albeit not in the traditional manner (King). King's Devil is more like his own Randy Flagg than some…...

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Bibliography

Benet, S. The Devil and Daniel Webster. New York: Dramatist Play Series, 2004.

Goethe, J. "Dr. Faustus." January 1978. googlebooks.com. September 2010 .

King, S. "The Man in the Black Suit." King, S. Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 45-51.

See for example the infamous Randall Flagg as the embodiment of evil in King's post-apocalyptic The Stand (1978); the tempting gentleman Leland Gant in Needful Things (1981); or the finale to The Tommyknockers (1987).

" Further, as previously stated, in the Jewish tradition, it is believed that the Messiah (whom Christians believe is Jesus), must be a descendent of David's line.
The New Testament in fact introduces Jesus as the son of David and of Abraham (Mt. 1:1). Further, in the Gospel of Luke, he describes how Mary, the mother of Jesus, was descended from King David through one of his sons, Nathan. This leads contemporary Christians to believe that Jesus is the prophesied messiah, as well as the rightful king of Israel.

It is interesting that Jesus, despite the fact of David's obviously sinful nature, follows him in matters of conduct. Indeed, the reader notes that Christ used the actions of the pre-descent David as justification for his own (Luke 6:1-5) concerning the eating of wheat from the fields on the Sabbath. (McCall, 1999). However, even more interesting than David's use as a kind of…...

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Aish. Aish.com. Staff. "Jewish History." Web site. 1995. Retrieved on July 8, 2005  http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_19_-_King_Solomon.asp 

Alter, R. "The David Story." Chicago, Norton. 1999.

Bible History.com. Staff. "Biblical Archaeology: Tel Dan Stele." Web site. 2005. Retrieved on July 8, 2005  http://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/israel/tel-dan-stele.html 

Biran, Aaron and Joseph Naveh, "An Aramaic Stele Fragment from Tel Dan," in Israel Exploration Journal 43 (1993), pg. 81-98

Stephen Rushing (461-35-0813)
The five-years between 1997 and 2002 were a financial and emotional roller coaster for me - a true rags-to-riches-to-rags journey of self-discovery. Almost overnight, my life was transformed from that of a typical undergraduate to that of a celebrated Austin-area dot-com guru and millionaire. I fell from this gilded perch as the Internet industry's long winter of discontent began. I finally hit rock bottom in August 2002, when I briefly found myself homeless.

My journey began when I discovered the Wall Street Journal in my high school economics class. During college, I successfully interviewed for a Merrill Lynch internship. Initially, being around those serious business people was intimidating, but I was determined to make the most of the opportunity. I worked about twenty hours per week, in addition to my regular coursework. At first, I disliked cold calling strangers, but success required learning how to make a decent sales…...

Greenblatt also provides us with some thought into what be hidden in Shakespeare's strange epitaph. Perspective is also gleaned on many of Shakespeare's works, including the Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear IV. He also goes into how Shakespeare only had one rival, Christopher Marlowe until 1957, when Ben Johnson emerged. The two men were similarly in age and envy. The two men "circled warily, watching with intense attention, imitating, and then attempting to surpass each other" (256). Here we see how healthy competition can spur talent. Additionally, Greenblatt delves into some of the mysterious aspects of Shakespeare's life with a convincing perspective. His marriage to Anne Hathaway is viewed fairly. Shakespeare's early marriage years and why he left for London are still elusive but Greenblatt attempts to ferret out some of the more popular theories regarding these issues. That Shakespeare did, for all intents and purposes, abandon…...

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Work Cited

Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World. New York W.W. Norton and Company. 2004.

Hawking, Stephen William. The Univese in a Nutshell. New Yok: Bantam, 2001.
The espected physicist Stephen W. Hawking attempts to intoduce the aveage laypeson to the physical pinciples of the mateial univese in his book entitled The Univese in a Nutshell. Hawking is pehaps best known to the wold as the late 20th centuy's most compelling image of pue scientific genius, as Albet Einstein was the most compelling image of genus fo scientific aficionados duing the fist half of the 20th centuy. Of couse, Hawking took issue with some of Einstein's basic concepts. Hawking is famous fo this bit of scientific daing. Hawking is also famous fo possessing a billiant mind, encased in a body that has unfotunately been sticken by a teible neuological condition that paalyzes his ability to feely move and speak -- although, as this book makes clea, not to wite.

The Univese in a Nutshell is a histoy…...

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references to how understanding physics can impact human life on earth in the relative short-term as well as in space and far into the future. Hawking describes how statistical evidence points to the physical limits of population growth and electricity being reached on earth by the year 2600. But by applying the same statistical principles to knowledge as to population growth, to take a more comforting view of things, predicted human knowledge of how to preserve energy reserves could potentially carry the human race forward, faster to possibly attain solutions to this problem of geometric physical expansion.

There is, however, no question that having some background in physics helpful in understanding the text, even while Hawking tries to simplify basic quantum principles. For instance, as the author attempts to explain the rational behind an early and inaccurate Michelson-Morley experiment, when humans imagined that space was filled by a continuous medium called the "ether," he must go into a lengthy explanation how early physics saw "light rays and radio signals were waves in this ether, just as sound is pressure waves in air." (2) In this experiment, because no difference was found in the speed of the two perpendicular light beams, the experiment's observers concluded that ether was non-existent. Still, for a man bounded, essentially, in his own physical nutshell, Hawking has accomplished and understood a great deal in his life and is able to make at least a small 'kernel' of what he as understood, interesting and comprehensible in concrete, physical terms. Also, his book functions as a shorthand introduction to the history of physics, and the different people and concepts that played a role in physic's conceptual evolution over the short distance of human historical time.

Henry of Huntingdon
Kings are weak: this is the impression one gets from reading the twelfth century English historian Henry of Huntingdon, particularly in his astonishing summary of the troubled reign of King Stephen -- for which, Diana Greenway tells us, Henry's is "the only complete contemporary account"[footnoteRef:0]. Stephen's reign was a time of low-level civil war -- which would last for over a decade -- and ultimately would raise serious questions about the legitimacy of the English monarchy. The portion of his chronicle that presents Stephen's reign, Henry makes it clear that Stephen's own accession to the throne, the ongoing issue of his legitimacy while he ruled, and the bizarre circumstances which lead to Stephen's being forced to acknowledge his female cousin's son, Henry of Anjou, as his heir. But to Henry of Huntingdon, Stephen stands an emblem of the overall weakness of kings in this time period, and an…...

Texas History
tephen Austin (1793-1836) is known as the Father of Texas because he was instrumental in leading the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by U.. settlers. His name is on a number of streets, schools, parks, and Texas tate facilities. Based on the text, though, and the way that historical figures tend to become more mythic as their legend grows, I wondered about different points-of-view surround Austin and even the legality and morality of the Texas annexation.

I was surprised that initially Austin was reluctant to accept his Father's empresarial grant after he died, having to be persuaded by his mother. The situation, it seemed, was quite complex. Mexico granted land parcels under one government, and then changed the rules under another. I was also surprised that Austin supported anta Anna, who would ultimately become his enemy. Essentially, if one takes off the myth, it appears that…...

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Sources:

Haley, J. (2006). Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Haynes, et.al. (2002). Major Problems in Texas History. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Next, Colbert skewers Donald Trump. In his role as a conservative newscaster, Colbert begins with feigned outrage that Trump is not running "ho is going to tell OPEC the fun is over?" he cries when Trump is shown making his announcement that he is not running for the presidency. Colbert mocks Trump's hyperbolic self-promotion with his own hyperbole. Additionally, this is another example of how Colbert's deliberate, humorous false analogies reveal the sloppy thinking and fallacies of his subjects of ridicule. Trump had recently created a smokescreen or 'red herring' issue by crying out for President Obama's birth certificate, a non-issue except amongst members of the extreme right.

Then, Colbert shows a clip of former Reagan screenwriter Peggy Noonan endorsing Newt Gingrich as a 'new voice for a new generation.' Colbert states that Noonan is last generation's news herself, noting that young people, watching her speak, are probably wondering: "ho is…...

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Work Cited

Colbert Report. Comedy Central. May 16, 2011.

 http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/386467/may-16-2011/stephen-files-super-pac-request?xrs=share_copy 

Delving into the Macabre: Edgar Allan Poe and the Evolution of Literary Horror

Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the macabre, has left an indomitable mark on the literary horror genre. His chilling tales have shaped our perception of horror and continue to inspire contemporary writers. Delving into Poe's works offers a profound understanding of the genre's evolution and its enduring impact on the human psyche.

The Seeds of Gothic Horror

Poe's literary ancestors were the Gothic novelists, such as Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe. Gothic literature reveled in themes of darkness, mystery, and the supernatural, creating an atmosphere of suspense and unease.....

1. Character development: King is known for creating characters that are complex, multidimensional, and relatable. He spends a significant amount of time building up his characters, providing detailed descriptions, and delving into their inner thoughts and emotions.

2. Descriptive language: King has a knack for vividly describing scenes, settings, and events in a way that transports the reader into the world he has created. His use of sensory details and rich imagery helps to create a sense of atmosphere and tension.

3. Pacing and suspense: King is a master of building tension and suspense throughout his stories. He expertly crafts plot twists,....

Stephen King's Distinctive Writing Style

Stephen King, known as the "Master of Horror," has captivated readers worldwide with his evocative prose and chilling tales. His distinctive writing style has become a hallmark of the horror genre, captivating audiences with its vivid imagery, relatable characters, and exploration of the darker recesses of the human mind.

1. Compelling Narrative and Suspense:

King's writing captivates readers with its gripping storylines and masterful pacing. He deftly builds tension, creating an atmosphere of unease and anticipation that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. His ability to create a sense of suspense and dread is unparalleled, drawing....

I. Introduction

1. Subpoint Title: The Historical and Social Context of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
   
   

   1. Subpoint Description 1: The post-World War II era and the rise of conformity
   
   
   2. Subpoint Description 2: The Cold War and the fear of communism

2. Subpoint Title: Overview of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
   
   

   1. Subpoint Description 1: The setting and characters of the story
   
   
   2. Subpoint Description 2: The ritual of the lottery

II. Body

1. Subpoint Title: The Lottery as a Symbol....