Academy Award Trivia: The First Oscar Scandals
This article discusses the very first scandals of the Academy Awards, scandals that included charges of vote fixing and a founding member of the Academy making sure she won over heavy favorites ahead of her.

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The Guilt and Redemption Cycle in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
This is an analysis of Stanley Kubrick´s film The Shining that focuses on the Freudian psychology of the breakdown of the family unit when the "caretaker" of the nuclear unit rejects his responsibilities.

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What Are Rickets?
This articles takes a conversational approach to defining the symptoms, history and preventative measures involved with rickets.

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Clinical Vamprism, or Renfield's Syndrome: People Who Believe They Must Drink Blood to Live
This article gives information on the rare and unusual mental disorder known as clinical vampirism or Renfield´s Syndrome. It gives background on how it got the name Renfield´s Syndrome, the three phases of development that is involved, and how it differs from goths who are merely looking to create a personality for themselves by being weird.

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The Best Faithful Film Adaptations of Equally Great Novels
This article examines the premise that many movie adaptations of novels succeed either because the source material is too literary or too pulpy. The general consensus is that a great movie made from a great book must be changed or altered to great effect. To show that this need not always be the case, the article then examines several great movies that are successful precisely because the adaptation was faithful.

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The Real Story Behind Black Mass and Black Magic
This article gives the reality behind the practices that take place in a Black Mass, including the necessity that it be presided over by a defrocked priest. It also gives some history as to the historical cases of those who have been accused of engaging in Black Masses.

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