Carrie

find a willing publisher too. He finally got a publisher, Richard Manuel, King’s literary agent. Even though King struggled with publishing more than one book a year, he also struggled with his confidence in his stories. One of his most famous novel, Carrie, when he was first writing it, he thought that it was a stupid story. King apparently threw away the novel for thinking that the publishers would also think that the story is stupid, luckily his wife, Tabitha, retrieved out from the trash and…

“Elderly inmates represent the fastest growing segment of federal and state prisons. The aging inmate population has created new challenges for states”. – Carrie Abner. Elderly inmates should be given the chance to qualify for parole and spend their last days, months, years, with their loved ones. The prison population is ageing. People over 60 are the fastest growing age group in prisons (American Civil Liberties Union). Experts say that the growth of the elderly incarcerated will continue to…

John Travolta was born into a family full of entertainers on February 18, 1954, in Englewood, New Jersey, being the last of six other siblings. Travolta showed an interest for acting when he was young and decided to drop out of high school at 16 years old to pursue his interest. His parents approved of his decision and he was also encouraged by his drama teacher along with an actress he knew. After dropping out, his interest grew into a career. He began acting for commercials and acting in small…

value of each of Stumph’s personal 6.75 million shares of stock in Wells Fargo went up 30 dollars which comes out to more than 200 million dollars in gains, all for Stumph personally. While Stumph was the CEO of the company, Wells Fargo executive, Carrie Tolstedt also played a large role in the scandal. She was in charge of the major unit where Wells Fargo employees opened more than 1.5 million fraudulent accounts. When Tolstedt caught wind of the scandal being exposed to the public and…

Stephen King’s novels The Shining and It are incredible examples of the exploitation of children in the 20th century horror-gothic genre. As American cultural historian David Skal notes, King’s novels “brim with fantasies of sacrificial children” (1993: 362). In The Shining and It, children play a significant role as victims who are being threatened by terrifying monsters. These monsters take very different forms but are nonetheless horrifying. The presence of the child in King’s novels must be…

Mass-mediated experience always involves selective construction and representation, since what is seen is the result of the actions and decisions of professionals as to what is significant and how it should be presented. Thus, national or cultural trauma always engages a ‘meaning struggle,’ a grappling with an event that involves identifying the ‘nature of the pain, the nature of the victim and the attribution of responsibility’ . . . this is the ‘trauma process,’ when the collective experience…

“Dear Mr. Laughlin, It has been suggested by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale that I write you concerning a suggestion which I made to him that sometime during the International Birth Control Conference there be a round-table discussion between the Eugenics group and the friends of Birth Control… “ Margaret Sanger, Sanger Letter (E-1-1), Truman State Special Collections, March 13, 1925. The connection between American first wave feminism and the eugenics movement, at first glance seems unusual.…

known as lake view terrace. I have been to this aquatic center the last two summers and I find it very convenient, fun, and very family oriented place. I decided to contact them and ask if I can volunteer. Our call time was at 10am for new volunteers. Carrie was the volunteer coordinator who showed us the facility, explain the rules, and provided us numbers to call in case of emergencies and for anything else we needed. She also assigned us assignments and our areas of where we can help out. I…

In order to understand a social movement, it is first necessary to understand the different stages that a social movement goes through before decline. According to Jonathan Christiansen, a social movement can essentially be defined by four phases: emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization, and decline. Using his definitions and examples, I will analyze the first wave of the women’s rights, or feminist, movement and its progression through the typical life cycle of a social movement. Furthermore,…

Women were the role models in the Settle House Movement, immigration services and education reform. In June 1916, suffragist Alice Paul formed the National Women’s Party after long disputes with Carrie Catt, who was head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). These organizations participated in protests and demonstrations not allowing women to vote. Conserving capitalism by getting the federal government involved, was the…