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- 2381: David Burn's Feeling Good: Depression
- ... common cognitive distortions. Most of them are self explanatory therefore I will name all of them and only elaborate on some. The first cognitive distortion mentioned is "All or Nothing Thinking", a tendency to evaluate personal qualities in black or white categories. Second is "Overgeneralization". Third is a "Mental Filter", which is a way of picking out a negative part of a situation and thus assuming that the situation as a ... the cognitive distortions, he then attempts to illustrate how they are used in every day life, which makes the book much more relevant to the reader; this is one of the crucial differences between academic writing and self-help books, such as Feeling Good; the reader automatically understands the relevance of the theory and feels compelled to apply it. The strength of the cognitive theory of depression is that it concentrates ...
- 2382: The Pearl: Prequel
- ... Chucks term is finished and his successor is found. Okay so it wasn't much of a story but hey this is just a start. I got no moral or even a thrill out of writing it but hey it was defiantly a writing experience not to be missed. It taught me to stick with it even if you didn't want to do the project in any remote way. I hope you found my writing style to your liking and subscribe for future installments of prequels to boring books.
- 2383: Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books
- ... put together a gripping story that keeps the readers attention. It is interesting to see how a once controversial topic could create such a dystopia in one place. Fahrenheit 451 had many examples of good writing techniques that made it a good novel. One technique that Bradbury did a good job of using was description. He described things specifically using outstanding similes and personifications. One example is how he mentioned the ... shaven close." (32) The adjectives charcoal and soot-colored describe the color of their hair but also are words that relate to their job as a fireman. Finally, an excellent example of Bradbury's descriptive writing was when Montag pulled the trigger and set Captain Beatty on fire. "There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam." (117) A different aspect of writing that made Fahrenheit 451 a good story was the way he kept the book well paced. There were few dead spots in the story and few spots that pushed the storyline along too quickly. ...
- 2384: A Review: The Day of the Jackal
- ... can tell that the man making the card is an expert. Not because it was mentioned, but because the man has such a large amount of information about I.D. cards to offer. This same writing talent that displays the characters with subtle suggestion instead of giving specific details is also shown when the Jackal goes to purchase his sniper rifle. It is not mentioned earlier, but the way the armorer ... in the book are concerned, no present. The reader gets to know the Jackal's meticulous personality and his great care for every slight detail. This machine like personality, added to the fact that no personal history beyond slight background was given, keeps the reader from caring about the Jackal's well being. One can feel a detached fondness to this character, and want him to succeed, but if, for instance ...
- 2385: As I Lay Dying: Character's Words And Insight To Underlying Meanings
- ... along my body to my face, and then my dress is gone: I sit naked on the seat above the unhurrying mules, above the travail (121). If Dewey Dell interprets his knowing as crossing some personal boundary that she created then that would explain her fantasizing about killing Darl and why she reported his setting fire to the barn. In fact, everything about Dewey Dell is extremely personal. Whereas her brothers report what happened, she tells how she feels about it. She uses language not as a means of describing but rather as expressing. "He could do so much for me if he ... family and she has no means of taking are of herself. Instead of using language to describe the world around her, she uses it to show how she feels on the inside. Language is a personal thing to Dewey Dell and though she does not possess Darl's polished quality of speaking, she demonstrates its power as well as he does. Cash, like Darl, uses language as a means of ...
- 2386: A Comparison and Contrast In Both A's Worn By Hester and Dimmesdale
- ... and that serve the greatest beneficiality in the appearance of the A's are--of course-- adultery and hypocrisy. The separation in the appearance of both of the A's begins with each characters own personal interpretation of the extremity of their sins. Where Hester's A is beautiful and artistically done ("fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom; pg.37) her interpretation of the extremity of her sins is one ... composure and nonchalantness. She views her sins solely as a "violation in the natural order" of the environment and therefore cannot even perceive her sin as being evil except through outside brainwashing. While Dimmesdale's personal interpretation as to the extremity of his own sins is a "violation of God's law," which is the law that he is totally dedicated to and supported by. Dimmesdale's interpretation of his sin ... the A she bears) is as beautiful and natural as she is. So the A's worn in the novel, even though from the same origin, are the exact antithesis of each other separated by personal interpretation and individual consequences. Where one character's beauty and open mindedness to her crime and punishment makes her A and her punishment (Pearl) natural and beautiful. While the other character's torture and ...
- 2387: The Deerslayer: View of The Native Americans
- ... the twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first American writer to gain international followers of his writing. In addition, he was perhaps the first novelist to "demonstrate...that native materials could inspire significant imaginative writing" (p. 13). In addition his writing, specifically The Deerslayer, present a unique view of the Native American's experiences and situation. Many critics, for example, argue that The Deerslayer presents a moral opinion about what occurred in the lives of ...
- 2388: A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man: Themes Developed Through Allusions to Classical Mythology
- ... The crowd brought us together. We both stopped. She asked me why I never came, said she had heard all sorts of stories about me. This was only to gain time. Asked me, was I writing poems? About whom? I asked her. This confused her more and I felt sorry and mean. Turned off that valve at once and opened the spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus, invented and patented in all countries ... how man lives once he is free, James Joyce discusses the motivations and the outlets for human expression. Like Daedalus and Icarus, Stephen Dedalus assumes the role of a persecuted hero, who must overcome his personal weaknesses and the oppression of his environment to gain spiritual enlightenment. Bibliography Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Adams, Robert M. James Joyce: Common Sense ...
- 2389: Notes to Myself: Facades
- ... putting on facades. The novel also questions things we know as trivial' such as watching a cat sleep on our belly or staring at clouds in the sky. The author used an interesting form for writing his collection, omitting page numbers and leaving no indication as to what subject the reader should expect to be encountering upon reading sections. His views are interesting to say the least. Focusing on self meditation ... human thought. There is a wrinkled cellophane wrapper on my desk and it reflects my image just as water does. Randomness is definitely one of this books strong points. (That random sentence beforehand was a personal example of the wandering mind). This is the type of book that you would not want to read between commercials but one that warrants a good hour and a half (at least) of quiet and ...
- 2390: David Copperfield
- ... Beadnell but her father opposed the marriage and nothing became of it. David Copperfield is more of a biography of Dickens life made into fiction than of just a regular story about a boy. Dickens writing skills are apparent as he ties chapters together in an easy to understand novel where the writing seems to move along swiftly. Dickens work is rich with metaphors and enjoyable to analyze as in statements such as, "he eats at one gulp exactly like an elephant." This book is a classic and ... girl named Dora and marries her at the age of twenty one in which time he becomes a successful writer. About a year passes and he starts to have troubles with his marriage, but his writing becomes more successful every day. David is soon expecting a baby and he hopes that it will "make more of a woman" out of Dora, for she is a poor wife. Sadly though, the ...
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