« You've all got your heads up your assholes because love is What needs to be remembered is that "it is not the process of love itself that is at fault, but its ...» Document abstract
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SummaryHomosexuals are not a recent plague, their fight for marriage not a new phenomenon. Gay couples have been seeking this right since the day straight couples were guaranteed it. But the times have changed, and the debate over the issue is no longer unequal; in its continuous strive to assert homosexual marriage as the end of the world, the institute of marriage itself has, in theory, asserted most marriages as evil. Marriage has never been a private matter. As a right sanctioned by the state, it is inseparable from politics. It is a tool applied toward the benefit of society. While the meaning behind a marriage may be important to the individuals, both the meaning and the individuals themselves are not in the eyes of society. What is important is the reason for that marriage, the reason determined by those on the outside of the union. Individual reasons like love and the consummation of that love fall at the feet of social reasons, reasons that change as often as religion and psychology. However, what never seems to change is the exclusion of homosexuals from this global plan. Homosexual marriage cannot fulfill the requirements that have appeared and faded through the centuries; to allow it is to allow marriage for the benefit of the individuals alone. And therein lies the sin; marriage for the sake of marriage itself, existing as nothing more than the greatest of proofs of the greatest of loves. Marriage has become a means to an end, a means that has grown more vitally important with each passing year, and the threat of homosexual marriage is the threat of marriage as an end in itself.
Table of Contents- Homosexuals are not a recent plague, their fight for marriage not a new phenomenon.
- One of the first explorations of marriage as purposeful outside the realm of love is contained within Plato's Symposium.
- With the dawning of Christianity, however, such a choice was no longer offered. Marriage had one purpose and one purpose only: God's purpose.
- The sanctions forced upon marriage by the Church drove much of Europe to a 'love rebellion' in the fifteenth century.
- Although society will benefit eventually from superior offspring, Sigmund Freud found in his studies a more immediate social benefit for marriage: the prevention of sexual perversion
- Scientific connections between marriage and the survival of society are just the beginning of the pressures shaping relationships into tools.
- This political joke, this manipulation of marriage into the greatest savior of mankind, has succeeded only in blinding society.
« Lanval got nothing at the King's hand" (XXX). His lover comes to him as an answer to his problems. In Lanval's case, love is the solution. ...» Document abstract
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SummaryLife is full of obstacles – there is no doubt about it. Deciphering why people have certain obstacles and how they can overcome such obstacles is often just as burdening as the obstacles themselves. It is evident everywhere that people are struggling with their obstacles. From books, to movies, to everyday interaction, people are constantly being challenged to overcome. Marie De France’s “Lanval,” the hard life of an underprivileged child, and a CBS sitcom all relate this idea, that life is full of obstacles.
Table of Contents- De France's 'Lanval' is a literary example of the need to overcome obstacles.
- The story takes a complete about-face when Lanval is suddenly stricken with good luck.
- Because Lanval vowed to keep their relationship a secret, his lover will not respond to his desperate cries for her help
- This same theme can be applied to the real world. All people are faced with obstacles at some point in their lives
- His employer claims that his business wouldn't survive if it weren't for this guy
- As obstacles are evident in 'Lanval' and in Roger's helpless life, obstacles are also part of daily entertainment on television
- Greg is initially looked at as the bad guy.
- The fact that all people are affected by life's obstacles is widely known and blatantly clear
- The dilemma over who has it worse between Jimmy and Greg is also Greg's problem.
Similarities and Differences in Men’s and Women’s Cooperative Speaking Styles: An Analysis of Book Club Discussions
« hostage crisis under the rug, we didn't do anything to A: but I thought the Starr Report QUICKLY got very very to, it's one of those things I'd love to get ...» Document abstract
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linguistics
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SummarySome of the most frequently referred to but potentially erroneous stereotypes regarding gendered speaking style differences involve dichotomies. Men are competitive – women are cooperative. Men focus on impersonal topics – women focus on personal topics. Men’s speech is to report – women’s speech is for rapport. The problem with these stereotypes is that language styles are not mutually exclusive to individual genders. Much of the past language and gender research has been based on analyzing these perceived dichotomies in an effort to challenge or corroborate the stereotypes. This research has shown that language styles are not exclusive to gender and more importantly it has brought to light the fact that language and gender cannot be studied in isolation from other social factors.
« the possibility now of realizing her love objects through framing the murder, for he "unbend[s] [his] noble all's spent, Where our desire is got without content ...» Document abstract
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Summary“Dyke,” hiss the schoolboys, to the girls with grass-stained knees and dirt-streaked cheeks. To the girls who run faster, throw further, tackle harder than the prides of fatherhood manifest. A word, but so much more a performance. A stereotype, but so much more an expectation. Sometimes, these girls are wronged. Sometimes, these boys are right. Playground dykes: a first acknowledgment of sexual beings, independent of sex, distorting the being.
I find it impossible to live separate from the homosexual lifestyle. To pass as straight is to deny gay culture, but to embrace gay culture for the sake of camaraderie is to perpetuate a false image. Sexuality and gender are not interchangeable ideals, nor do they obey the certain analogous formula of normal is to normal as abnormal is to abnormal. I can be gay and still be female.
I find it impossible to live separate from the homosexual lifestyle. To pass as straight is to deny gay culture, but to embrace gay culture for the sake of camaraderie is to perpetuate a false image. Sexuality and gender are not interchangeable ideals, nor do they obey the certain analogous formula of normal is to normal as abnormal is to abnormal. I can be gay and still be female.
Table of Contents- To the girls who run faster, throw further, tackle harder than the prides of fatherhood manifest.
- But I Shame to Wear a Heart So White
- I can easily paint a portrait of Lady Macbeth as a lesbian, victimized by the ultimately homophobic culture of the Renaissance.
- The conventional split between masculine and feminine in psychology and culture, that is, the contrast masculine/feminine, speaks also to pleasure, activity and passivity.
- Freud believed homosexuality in women to be caused by an unsuccessful resolution of the oedipal complex.
- Much of Lady Macbeth's masculinity is forged from the natural analogy between sex and violence.
- This idea of creating an other, a foil, is integral not only in the formation of Lady Macbeth's masculinity, but in her careful maintenance of it as well.
- What seems to be at the end of the play Lady Macbeth's downfall, the fall she shares with her husband from the invincible to the vulnerable, is not a fall at all.
- Ironically enough, not only does her masculinity forbid the return of feminine traits, the lack of those feminine traits does not allow for her to admit her changes.
- I Am Not from Your Tribe
- The qualities Lady Macbeth adopts to become a man, her journey toward her dreams of unsexing, become the qualities expected of lesbians.
« roles and to guarantee them equal pay for equal work once they got there (Hurley 36 Girls who retain a love for make-up and dresses and other feminine traits ...» Document abstract
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SummaryOn June 28, 1998, Ally McBeal graced the cover of Time magazine; not in the name of television or Hollywood or fashion, but in the name of feminism. According to The American Century Dictionary, feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights and sexual equality. So how does an upper-class woman who complains about her weight and puts dating before all else qualify as a feminist? Simple: in the misdirected world of the modern women’s movement, Ally McBeal is as much an icon of feminism as the women who shared the cover with her, women like Susan B. Anthony and Betty Friedan, two of the most celebrated founding mothers of feminism. The prior successes of the movement have been overshadowed by these new, ludicrous ideals and haphazard ventures into the mainstream media. Feminism, which at is core strives for a higher quality of life, is one of the main opponents of progress in the United States. As necessary as the feminism was in the past, its continuing presence is completely counterproductive in today’s society.
Table of Contents- Introduction
- Feminism as a successful philosophy
- First wave feminism and the right to vote
- Second wave feminism for equality in the work force
- Second wave feminism for equality in education
- Third wave feminism for women's choice
- Feminism as an unsuccessful philosophy
- Backfire of feminism's successes
- Reasons behind the backfire of feminism's success
- Feminism as an untruthful philosophy
- Feminism as an anti-family philosophy
- Feminism as an anti-gay philosophy
- Lesbians a threat to feminist movement
- Feminists a threat to lesbian movement
- Lesbianism assumed to be a feminist tool
- Feminism as an exploited philosophy
- Feminism in music
- Feminism in television and theater
- Feminism in pornography
- Conclusion
« You've all got your heads up your assholes because love is Paulie will do anything to once again be accepted by beyond a doubt how the person [he] love[s] feel[s ...» Document abstract
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SummaryRomeo loved Juliet, Juliet loved Romeo, and in the end, they both died to prove it. Neither the Capulets nor the Montagues could understand such love, so neither could allow such love. Romeo and Juliet died to prove it. Yet centuries later, William Shakespeare’s darker tragedy is still revered as one of the greatest love stories of all time. The politics of Elizabethan England that pitted family against family are not so prominent in the modern Western world, but the love created between Romeo and Juliet, a love that existed outside the boundaries of societal acceptance, still exists. Many homosexual youths stand on the edge of a lifelong battle for the right to love. But the only love they can ever hope for is one born of loneliness, of desperation, of suffering: the love of Romeo and Juliet; the love destined for end. The love that shatters the very sanctity that love has been expected to preserve. Léa Pool’s Lost and Delirious paints an accurate yet painful picture of a lesbian love torn apart by the predisposed expectations of a private high school.
Table of Contents- Romantic love developed from the practice of courtly love, a direct objection to the prevalent belief in agape, or Christian love.
- Courtly love died with aristocracy and the Christian state.
- As Paulie and Tori realize in Lost and Delirious, romantic love is half loving and half retaining that love, half longing and half suffering.
- At the beginning of Lost and Delirious, the relationship between Tori and Paulie is seemingly perfect.
- Adolescence, as a key period of development, relies heavily on the family unit for support.
- Where Tori can be seen as a disgrace to romantic love, Paulie can be seen as the epitome.
- Romantic love is passion in its darkest form, 'an emotion [that] completely masters the mind' (Webster).
- Whether Tori means to or not, she feeds Paulie's passion.
- There must be more, a bigger pain, a better reason, something that makes Paulie more than another Romeo, another romantic martyr.
« Ross did not link every information she got with the feel the pain of losing someone we love, and we Kalish John Hinton, Dying, 1957 Edwin S Schneidman, Deaths ...» Document abstract
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SummaryOn death and dying, the book written by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1967 has been a turning point in death studies as well as in “patient care”. Having interviewed over 200 terminally-ill patients, she came to the conclusion that dying was a process divided in five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance
Table of Contents- The way she gathered information – her method –
- The interpretation of these data
- The usefullness of what she advocates
« In 1962 Bill and Dave Devoto got together to form the World's We love Wide World of Sports. S: 4.2 Figure Figure is a new branch of women's bodybuilding having ...» Document abstract
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SummaryAmerican sports have evolved from the simple folk games and premodern pastimes of the colonial era to the highly complex, commercial spectacles of the early twenty-first century. (For the purposes of this essay sports are defined as competitive athletic games that demand a significant degree of physical activity.) Many factors shaped the development of sports in colonial British America and in the United States. Among the most significant were industrialization, urbanization, and ideological and cultural trends, especially those involving religion, social class, ethnicity, race, and gender.
During the Colonial Era the English, Dutch, and other European settlers who established the thirteen colonies that became the United States brought with them premoder pastimes and folk games that had been popular amusements in the Old World for centuries. These included early version of cricket, baseball, golf, football, and bowling, and also foot racing and pitching quoits (similar to tossing horseshoes). Combat sports such as wrestling, boxing, and cudgeling (fighting with sticks), and animal and blood sports – especially bull baiting and cockfighting – also enjoyed great favor.
During the Colonial Era the English, Dutch, and other European settlers who established the thirteen colonies that became the United States brought with them premoder pastimes and folk games that had been popular amusements in the Old World for centuries. These included early version of cricket, baseball, golf, football, and bowling, and also foot racing and pitching quoits (similar to tossing horseshoes). Combat sports such as wrestling, boxing, and cudgeling (fighting with sticks), and animal and blood sports – especially bull baiting and cockfighting – also enjoyed great favor.
Table of Contents- Bodybuilding within the American Sport
- The Notion of Bodybuilding
- Brief History of Bodybuilding and Its First Big Contest
- Bodybuilding Organizations
- Competitions
- Bodybuilding as the Basis to Fundamental Kind of Sport
- Tennis
- Basketball
- Baseball
- Bodybuilding as a Creator of New Kind of Sport
- Armwrestling
- Figure
- Fitness
Discuss the emergence of new forms of nationalism between 1848 and 1914. Answer with reference to one or more European country
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SummaryDefining nationalism before considering its development and emergence in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th is useful because it offers us a good base for a greater comprehension of the phenomenon during this period of time. As Michael Hughes correctly points out in ‘Nationalism in Society’, commentators generally seem to agree that the nation is a concept of unity (1). The unity he is speaking of can be based on a variety of criteria ranging from language and culture to religious beliefs, of which Israel and Pakistan are examples. A nation has characteristics that isolates or differentiates it from others, individual features, which render it unique. Professor Mancini puts it as ‘a natural community of people with a common territory and common origins, customs and language, united for a common life and common social awareness’ (2). New nations forming in the 19th century meant fertile ground for new political organisations, and differences in between the political right and left became very apparent. Whereas the right commonly backed nationalism, socialists and the traditional left never came to terms with it. Methods of propaganda were obviously used to gather popular support but these methods varied from country to country, some using racism and xenophobic slogans and some relying solely on the love of the nation. For a nation to be stable it needed to be prosperous and free, like Guizot said, and in 1848 the revolutions broke out because countries had none of these features. The population’s unrest developed into revolts and manifestations, some furthering their actions by going on and forming national ‘revolutionary’ groups. I will call them ‘revolutionary’ because they were a destabilising factor for the ruling forces. All over Europe in the period between 1880 and 1914 nationalism took a dramatic leap, becoming an important actor in politics and creating a number of fanatical movements. These were movements that focused on their nation, proudly lifting a national flag against foreigners, Jews and liberals. Movements within countries or empires developed like in the Austro-Hungarian Empire where local populations, Magyars in particular, demanded independence or at least more liberties.
Commonly, a high degree of aggressiveness could also be attributed to these forces originating from a will to expand or consolidate territories but this wasn’t a general rule of nationalism, some simply wanted to expel foreigners. What is interesting to consider too is if the States drove the people to the First World War or if it is the people who led the nations into it.
Commonly, a high degree of aggressiveness could also be attributed to these forces originating from a will to expand or consolidate territories but this wasn’t a general rule of nationalism, some simply wanted to expel foreigners. What is interesting to consider too is if the States drove the people to the First World War or if it is the people who led the nations into it.
Table of Contents- The decline of the Empire can be considered inversely proportional to the rise in nationalism
- The intellectuals originally wanted to form a nation based on the language and history but also a common envy to expel foreigners was present in the population
- Nationalism and the Franco- Prussian war
- Racial theories exerted powerful attractions all over Europe in the 19th century - ‘Social Darwinism' and its deformation
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