Stout Essays

  • The European Brewing Industry

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    The European Brewing Industry Political Environment  European Union - Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic will join within five years- these countries have young populations with a desire for all things Western. - ING Barings predicts growth in these economies to average 8% p.a. over the decade after which they join the EU. - Europe is moving towards becoming a single market with a stable political environment.  WTO, GATT - The current pressure on Europe from America and Australia

  • Detective Fiction

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    the story. Numerous authors have written many stories and books using the same detective. By using a familiar character, it helps to draw readers back to reading these stories. Look at the Rex Stout fans, these people go to the extreme of following the detectives, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. Obviously Stout was doing something right in using the same characters over and over again in his stories. Conan Doyle had the same allure with Sherlock Holmes. The exact replicas of Holmes’s home, and the 3-D

  • The Golden Spiders Movie and a Recurring Theme of Marxism

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    Nero Wolfe novels are remarkably known for their theme of good versus evil, rich versus poor, and powerful versus weak. The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout was remade into made for television movie, the plot of the movie very closely follows that of the novel. Wealth, inequity, and mistreatment of migrants are central themes within the novel and it is also prevalent in other Nero Wolfe novels. It is the very typical proletariat versus the bourgeois, the primary argument for Marxist thought. The oppressed

  • Antisocial Networking? By Hilary Stout: Article Analysis

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    whether it’s more harmful or more helpful.  In the article, “Antisocial Networking?” from the New York Times by Hilary Stout dated April 30, 2010, she explains her position of being anti-social networking.  She claims that social media takes away the chance for the youth to develop empathy, recognize emotions, and apprehend meanings of facial expressions and body language.  Stout fears these skills will only fade away.  On the other hand, Melissa Healy explains her reasons for being pro-social networking

  • Social Media Butterflies May Not Be Such A Bad Idea By Hilary Stout Summary

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    There has always been controversy on whether or not social media is healthy for teenagers.  In the article, “Antisocial Networking?” by Hilary Stout from the New York Times dated April 30, 2010, Stout explicates why she dislikes social networking sites.  She claims that social media eliminates the opportunity for adolescents to develop empathy for others, understand different emotions, and recognize the meaning of facial expressions and body language.  However, Melissa Healy clarifies how social

  • Essay Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out

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    Images in poems focus on the senses to portray mental images of the picture a poet is trying to paint. However there are some not so pleasant images that appeal to touch, smell, and taste for example in Shel Silverstein’s poem ‘Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out,’ the writer uses imagery to describe the trash that began to pile up because Cynthia did not take the trash out. Along with images, poets use figures of speech to get their point across. Figures of speech make astonishing

  • Jessie's Friendship In The Slave Dancer By Paula Fox

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    Most people assume that friendships stay the same from when they first met till years later. However, in The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox addressed that this is not the case through Jessie’s friendships with Benjamin Stout, Clay Purvis and Ras. She illustrates how these different characters relationships with Jessie developed as the story unfolds. Jessie, who is abducted by the crew of a slaving ship to play his fife for the slaves to make them dance and stay healthy, undergoing this adventure, he gained

  • Review Of The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield And The Rise Of Modern Evangelicalism

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    The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism by Harry Stout Part 1: The Author Harry S. Stout is the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity and Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, and is also an author. He received his B.A. from Calvin College, M.A. from Kent State University, and Ph.D. from Kent State University. Professor Stout is the author of several books, including The New England Soul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for

  • Feminist Undertones of "Over My Dead Body"

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    is her adopted father (Stout 484). She was accused of stealing diamonds from a fencing studio and ultimately questioned in a murder. Wolfe claims that if he is truly her father that she could not be responsible for the theft and becomes involved in the case. The novel proceeds in very typical fashion for a Rex Stout novel or any murder mystery novel of that era. Shortly after they claim that the diamonds are no longer missing, they discover the body of a dead man (Stout 1128). Archie discovers

  • A Critique on "The Sociopath Next Door"

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    sociopath. A sociopath, as Stout asserts, is a person with the lack of a conscience, thus a person not concerned with the suffering of others, to worry only about itself. She goes on to tell us that, because the rate of sociopaths in our society is so high, we must have already met hundreds without knowing it, due to the elusive and enigmatic nature of this psychological disease. However, a rational thinker can clearly see the flaws in the conceptions propagated by Stout. Stout states that practically

  • Creative Writing Trash Out

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    One drizzly, humid day, I overheard my neighbor, Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout, arguing with her father. I glanced out the window to see what was going on over there with all of the disturbance. When I glimpsed over there, I could see through the window, that the trash was completely packed and piling over. I saw that her father asked if she would take the trash out. Then all of the sudden you could hear the annoyance in her voice when she shouted, “NO!” I was startled how she just screamed like that

  • The Golden Rule: Bottle Logic: Bottle Logic

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    that Bottle Logic is living up to the Golden Rule. Bottle Logic is treating others as they would like done to themselves. The beer is so different and intense with taste and flavor, it is definitively craft beer with soul. They have the best stout I have had ever. The other constants in their armada of mouth smacking beers are not to be missed either. The Golden Rule lives at Bottle Logic. Bottle Logic is found in the industrial zoned area off La Palma and Kraemer, or more specifically

  • Ideas of Dissociation in Martha Stout’s When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday,”

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    and he or she does not know what is going on in the physical world. Those that have traumatic histories may experience this. But because of dissociation, victims may not know if they had a traumatic past because a memory of it never really formed. Stout also finds that individuals may use dissociation as a way to protect themselves from trauma. Sometimes the slightest and smallest piece of a traumatic memory may bring into play the dissociation. When these individuals experience dissociation and become

  • Analysis Of Renee Stout's Tales Of The Conjure Woman

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    African folklore. In the exhibition, Stout presents with utter brilliance the depth of the culture through her artistic manifestation of ceremonial traditions, magical hoodoo, and spell-related practices. In her works, Stout uses a unique personification, an alter ego of sorts, named Fatima Mayfield, to explore the African folkloric world of which her exhibition represents. Ranging from simple recipes to intricate descriptions of the aforementioned magical practices, Stout takes on her work with her alter

  • Essay On Mental Illness And Social Media

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    including television and broadcast news are the primary sources of information about mental illness for many Americans (Yankelovichqtd by Stout, Villegas and Jennings, 2004, p.544). The study of Lopez (1991) found that mass media and parents are the most important sources of adolescent’s attitudes on perceived personal experience with someone with mental illness (qtd by Stout, Villegas and Jennings, 2004, p.554). In a study conducted by Wahl (1992), depictions of mental illness occur across several media

  • Poem Analysis: The Road

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    were. The author compares the life of people to the life of a miserable brook stout that has stayed in the mountains forever and whose attempts to get out have become futile. ​Such an ending is implying that the struggle would continue. Also, it also implies that the boy would now get some motherly love. He would become introduced to new sources of refuge, the mother, and God. ​The last bit of imagery involving the brook stout that lives

  • When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday Summary

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    When an individual undergoes trauma their brain is heavily impacted. Martha Stout presents this distinct connection in her essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday,” by depicting different case studies, and the influence of the connection between physical trauma and the brain has on their personal character. Physical trauma being, sexual abuse and physical violence are depicted within Stout’s essay. The brain itself is connected to these examples of physical trauma, by allowing individuals

  • Individual Reality Essay

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    entirely possible that it will differ drastically from the outside reality that exists independently from human biases and perceptions. In her essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday,” Martha Stout highlights how traumatic experiences negatively shift individuals’ perspectives and, by extension, their individual realities when Stout states, “Later on in [an] individual’s life, in situations that are vaguely similar to trauma… trauma may be “remembered” … when there is no hazard worthy of such alarm. In reaction

  • It's Good To Be A Sociopath

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    It’s Good to be a Sociopath Surprisingly, one in twenty five people in our world are sociopaths (Stout 8). With so many people like this, one must wonder how psychopaths are different from regular people. Being a sociopath is often lonely, but, for this four percent of people, there are advantages, such as increased intelligence, business sense, charisma, and manipulation. Sociopaths are able to do better in the business field because of certain traits and abilities that they have. One thing that

  • Martha Stout's The Sociopath Next Door: Socialized Psychoopaths

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    twenty-five people are capable of doing the most heinous, unthinkable, despicable actions to fellow humans without a pinch of guilt. How, you might ask? They lack the “7th sense”, consciousness, according to Dr. Martha Stout, author of “The Sociopath Next Door”. Clinical Psychologist, Stout, has spent the past 25 years at Harvard University studying these socialized psychopaths. With their undeniable charm, impulsivity, cunning manipulation,