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    successful is more than a want for Dexter, is it a dream. With this discovery he becomes a character portrayed in many other stories, yet more complex. Dexter would eventually go on to invest into a chain of high-end laundries near his hometown. He then sold the chain and moved to New York where his social status would peak. However, after reaching this status he comes to the realization that the high life is not what seemed. Dexter's life story is prime evidence of why Dexter defines American…

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    the serial killer. In the end the benefits outweigh the consequences. This is the idea in Dexter; a TV show in which the protagonist, Dexter Morgan works for the Miami Metro Police Department. On the side, Dexter is a serial killer himself, but there’s a twist. What Dexter does is hunt down other serial killers who have been let off because there is not enough evidence to convict them of their crimes. When Dexter finds them, he kills them. Deontologists would say this is wrong because they focus…

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    This Lullaby Essay

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    that he knew who she was and how he remembers her from dexter. After a ruff day remy went out to the same club from earlier and things got out of hand. She woke up to a sound of two guys trying to sing a song about tomatoes, and she recognized the voice it was dexters she was completely freaked out and climbed out the window. Remy really worried her friends they all were mad but it was out of love. Later that night remy was in her room when dexter crawled through her window, at first she was…

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    Winter Dreams Fitzgerald

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    illustrates that in the short story “Winter Dreams”. The main character Dexter, lives a life full of want and contempt, longing for Judy. This story is six sections long which infold the unlikely lives of Dexter and Judy. F. Scott Fitzgerald loads his story with lots of symbolism, starting with the title of this short story. Fitzgerald uses the seasons throughout his story to create a depressing mood to help develop Dexter. The title is important because the story is not set in the spring. All…

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    The Purloined Letter Essay

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    analysis and justice killing; Dexter is a fascinating modern television show with a character so abstract and antisocial when compared to most television programs today, many wonder where James Manos could have thought up such a character. After reading Edgar Allen Poe’s, The Purloined Letter, one can see that there are striking similarities between the misanthropic Dupin and the morose Dexter. I believe that James Manos’s main character Dexter, in the television series Dexter, is strongly…

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    to Paris, but two things deter him in this mission of his. Winter Dreams displays Dexter Green spending nearly his entire life trying to be his best for his version of the perfect woman, Judy Jones, and he then is told later in life that she has grown unattractive. The memories of Judy and the more recent description that he receives both cause Dexter to become less idealistic and to regret his past. Babylon…

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    television shows and movies can be great for giving us the illustrations we need to understand an idea. Over the course of the essay, Dexter will be used as a model for some of the ideas focused on in Sociology. Through the concept of identity, a piece of self, we can dive deeper into how humans manage impressions and techniques used in face saving. In various episodes of Dexter, notions of identity, impression management, and saving face can be observed. TIE IN TRANSITION OF IDENTITY…

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    incorrectly is not just a coincidence, but has happened because of some unconscious desire or wish (Carducci, 2009). According to Freud, even little meaningless behaviors can by subject to psychic determinism (Carducci, 2009). This is applicable toward Dexter because his psychopathic tendencies can be justified by psychic determinism. When he was three year old, he saw his mother being murdered and then sat in her blood for the next few days. This can be seen as a trigger to the sociopathic…

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    the story, “Winter Dreams”, the main character, Dexter experiences the idea of the American Dream in several ways, how Judy symbolizes the American Dream, his experiences shortly after college, and his experiences with Judy Jones. One way in which…

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    representation of ‘The Beast Within’ has evolved in literature, from biblical myths such as ‘Cain & Abel’ and the ‘Epic Of Gilgamesh’, wherein a character has lapsed from good and succumbed to their evil impulses; to modern renditions, such as the TV show ‘Dexter’, wherein the character revels in his dark side. However, the core conventions of…

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