Feeding Our Gators: A Response to Stephen King’s Why We Crave Horror Movies Stephen King writes very accurately on how we‚ the public‚ desire the need “to put away our more civilized and adult penchant for analysis and to become children again” by watching a horror-themed movie. In the article Why We Crave Horror Movies‚ written by Stephen King and published by Playboy Press in Chicago‚ Illinois in 1981‚ King suggests that horror fiction meets an important and critical human need that endeavour
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Part One: Being the director of a local new station‚ I would cover the local story first with a high recap of the celebrity death to follow. When people tune into the news‚ they want to know what is happening around them first. A celebrity death will make headlines on every kind of network‚ but the local happenings will only be the local newscast and be more vital. The park story will have more meaning to the people of the community and could affect the everyday happenings for them. With cities
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majority of film these days are not to be viewed by young audience. From violence‚ gore ‚ to sexual content. it certainly has multiplied tremendously over the past 4 decades. Movies with unfiltered and uncensored contents will bring detrimental effects to young minds when they age. People are desensitize by the movies they are watching. Scenes such as kissing were not screened to young viewers 40 years ago. Today it will not be classified as a "teen flick" if it does not involve any scenes of
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The short video‚ “How Movies Teach Manhood”‚ by Colin Stokes explains the complications of showing certain movies to younger children. His perspective elucidates how men are frequently showcased as strong and mighty and expected to defeat the villain. Along with a predictable trophy at the end‚ usually a woman. Stokes blames the movie media for men’s behavior‚ he doesn’t take into account other aspects of the person. My point is there are many movies with negative ideals‚ yet parents should be teaching
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In the essay‚ “Why We Crave Horror Movies” Stephen King attempts to explain why we love horror movies‚ and he gives a few different reasons why people go to see horror movies. People want to show that they are not scared; people want to have fun; but the main reason that he suggests is that we are insane and we need to watch horror movies to keep that insanity locked up in society. He uses a variety of argumentative strategies and literally decides to prove his thesis. On the other side‚ King surprised
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My Favorite Holiday My favorite holiday is Christmas. Christmas was the month Jesus Christ was born. Traditionally celebrated at home‚ Christmas is thought to be a family holiday. However nowadays the habits and ideas of people have changed very much. Christmas becomes more of a global holiday when it is appropriate to meet with many friends and go out for a round the night crazy celebrations. Every person finds their own most favorite thing about Christmas. In this small essay I will
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watching scary movies really bring us together because that’s mostly all we talk about. In order for a horror movie to be considered great‚ they should have certain characteristics. The first characteristic for any horror movie to be considered good‚ the movies must include a crazy killer. One movie that includes a crazy killer is A Nightmare on Elm Street. Frequently the main antagonist‚ Freddy‚ creeps in and out of dreams and real life of the kids lives he terrorizes in the movies. Through the
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Stephanie Dojaquez Writing Assignment #2 AMS 494 Professor Hattenhauer March 20th‚ 2013 Story #1: “Murders in the Rue Morgue”‚ Edgar Allan Poe In this story‚ the initial situation of the plot is starts when the narrator who remains unknown and Dupin learn about Madame and Mademoiselle‘s death by reading the newspaper. The conflict then starts when the police arrest a bank clerk whom they suspect of committing the Rue Morgue killings. And that is when Dupin takes it personal and decides that
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Why We Crave Horror Movies In the essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen Kings‚ Kings claims with some comical examples that “we’re all mentally ill.” In my personally opinion he is absolutely right. Everyone in this world is mentally ill‚ only the level is different. People’s unusual behaviors are the proof of such illness. Kings says that we watch horror movies to “reestablish our feelings of essential normality.” These movies are the source of some kind of fun and extensively help to satisfy
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