...Stay at Home Moms -Breaking the Stereotypes 9/13/2015 In today’s society, no longer is it common for a woman to make the decision to stay at home and school her children. There was a time when this was far from taboo, but in the year 2015, stay at home mothers have found themselves in situations where they have to prove their worth. Women in the SAHMs (Stay at home mothers) community are labeled as lazy, are said to have it easy, are dumb, moochers, and many other stereo types. In all actuality the life of a SAHM is quite the contraire. In the 20th century the term “house wife” was more so used than the term Stay at home mom. Now, in the 21st century we changed that term because it seemed as if we knew nothing but the walls inside our homes. We are married to our husbands, not our houses. Women in the 1950’s rose to the term house wife and wore it proudly. During this time, the women who worked outside of the home were looked at as some scientific phenomenon that we didn't understand. The role of women in the 1950’s was repressive and constrictive in many ways. Society placed high importance and many expectations on behavior at home as well as in public. Women were supposed to fulfill certain roles, such as a caring mother, a diligent homemaker, and an obedient wife. The perfect mother was supposed to stay home and nurture so society would accept them. (R.C.2005) “Most of the time, when people ask, I tell them that I work from home. Technically this is true, because...
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...Consumer Behavior Paper and Questionnaire Constance Ordish MKT/554 May 7, 2012 Ruby A Rouse, PhD Consumer Behavior Paper and Questionnaire Most of the negative publicity found on the Internet about flavored cigarettes centers on the marketing of the cigarettes and not the product itself. Among smokers between ages 18 to 25 the cigarettes are met with warm welcome. Smokers welcome the change from normal cigarettes and like more flavor options to choose from. The previous methods of marketing flavored cigarettes are under fire. It is commonly believed that the tobacco companies are targeting children and teenagers to hook these customers at a tender age to create lifelong consumers. “Collier County Health Department says it’s a shameless ploy that’s gaining steam. “They know that children are attracted to sweet products, and if they get them hooked on the sweet products then they have a lifetime user,” Rachel Kleist of the Collier County Health Department….According to a 2010 statewide survey, the candy-flavored tobacco trend is catching on. 17.6% of Collier County youth between the ages of 11 and 17 have tried it and 19.9% in Lee County.” ("Cigarette Flavours", 2012). To counter the previous reputation of flavored cigarette marketing to children, Exotic Smokes will make every effort to develop a marketing campaign directed to smokers within its targeted consumer group and not any younger than 18. The ads will be presented only in magazines generally read by the target...
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...Horney Article Paper In Karen Horney's "The Distrust Between the Sexes", she explains how a person's psychological history causes him/her to distrust people of the opposite sex because of certain expectations they might have. Longings for happiness, childhood reflections, and childhood conflicts are all things that invent these expectations. It was interesting to read that these ideas of women being inferior to men are rooted all the way from Adam and Eve. In the article Horney uses the Jewish culture as an example. They have no women idols; they see the woman’s ability to bear children as “partly denied and partly devaluated” because Eve was cursed to bear children in sorrow and because she tempted Adam to take a bite of the forbidden apple they see women as sexual temptresses, “who plunge men into misery”. While I was reading the article the only thing I couldn’t stop thinking about was what happened between my best friend and I, and it wasn’t just because his name happens to be Adam. We were best friends all throughout high school until our senior year. He was and still is the only person who ever understood me better than I even understand myself; it was like he could read my mind. I can say with complete confidence that I never had one romantic thought about him our whole friendship; it was just like we were meant to be best friends. I can’t speak for him but I can guess that he never held any romantic feelings for me either. We did everything together, went everywhere...
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...I spy The story is about a twelve year old boy, Charlie Stowe who wants to smoke a cigarette because some boys at school tease him with never having smoked a cigarette. His father owns a tobacconist store underneath the house. In that store, there is cigarettes. He sneaks into the shop to steal some cigarettes, but he hides because his father and some men are at the shop. The father offers the men cigarettes but they do not want them, because they are on duty. As the father and the men go out Charlie sneaks into his room and falls asleep. The story is properly very old and it take place in England and more precisely in an irregular house close to the sea. I can see that because Woodbine and Gold Flake are very old cigarette packs, which was very popular in England back then. Moreover, I can see that the story takes place close to the sea because he mentions the wind blew from the sea (page 1 line 4). I cannot exactly come up with a date, but it could be in the First or Second World War. I can see that when the main character uses words as “Huns” and “Zeppelins.” Huns was an old word for a German soldier and it was mostly used as slang. Zeppelins was a German airship. I think Charlie and his family live in a rich environment. I can see that because his father has a store. They have a house and Charlie goes in a county school. Charlie is twelve years old. He has a father and mother. He goes in a county School where some schoolmates tease him because he never has smoked a...
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...I spy The story is about a twelve year old boy, Charlie Stowe who wants to smoke a cigarette because some boys at school tease him with never having smoked a cigarette. His father owns a tobacconist store underneath the house. In that store, there is cigarettes. He sneaks into the shop to steal some cigarettes, but he hides because his father and some men are at the shop. The father offers the men cigarettes but they do not want them, because they are on duty. As the father and the men go out Charlie sneaks into his room and falls asleep. The story is properly very old and it take place in England and more precisely in an irregular house close to the sea. I can see that because Woodbine and Gold Flake are very old cigarette packs, which was very popular in England back then. Moreover, I can see that the story takes place close to the sea because he mentions the wind blew from the sea (page 1 line 4). I cannot exactly come up with a date, but it could be in the First or Second World War. I can see that when the main character uses words as “Huns” and “Zeppelins.” Huns was an old word for a German soldier and it was mostly used as slang. Zeppelins was a German airship. I think Charlie and his family live in a rich environment. I can see that because his father has a store. They have a house and Charlie goes in a county school. Charlie is twelve years old. He has a father and mother. He goes in a county School where some schoolmates tease him because he never has smoked a...
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...Kleine Levin Syndrome BY: Tapan Patel & Mark Shihata Kleine-Levin Syndrome (KLS) is a rare and neurological disorder characterized by periods of excessive amounts of sleep and altered behavior. The disorder affects adolescents primarily, the disorder also strikes mostly in males with a shocking 70 percent of cases occurring in men. At the onset of an episode the patient becomes progressively drowsy and sleeps for most of the day and night, waking only to eat or go to the bathroom. When awake, the patient’s whole attitude is changed, often appearing “spacey” or childlike. When awake the person experiences confusion, disorientation, complete lack of energy and lack of emotions. Most patients report that everything seems out of focus, and that they are hypersensitive to noise and light. In some cases, food cravings are exhibited. Instances of no sexual drive and lack of any form of emotion during an episode have also been reported. Kleine-Levin Syndrome episodes are cyclical. When present, KLS symptoms persist for days, weeks or even months, during which time all normal daily activities stop. Individuals are not able to attend school, work or care for themselves. Most are bedridden, tired and uncommunicative even when awake. Affected individuals may go for a period of weeks, months or even years without experiencing any symptoms, and then they reappear with little warning. In between episodes those diagnosed with KLS appear to be in perfect health with no evidence of behavioral...
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...the Mystery of Faith text. Before reading, peruse the questions below that way you can jot down the ideas as they come to mind. It may be to your benefit to read this book in order and in its entirety first before answering the questions. This will help you get a general overview of what Himes is trying to say in this brief theological pamphlet. When filling out this form only the words in bold need to appear on the papers you hand in. CHAPTER _4__ 1. Think: Temptation: The primary meaning in the Bible is of testing. Salvation: Initially, God's intention to rescue from danger; later his promise to establish his Kingdom. Despair: See abandonment, angst 2. Encounter: The first temptation was despair. Adam and Eve were not trying to show disobedience they were just led down the wrong path my pure evil. This concept speaks to me because it is so true. Satan and evil are examples of what happens when the wrong path has been taken. In the chapter they talk about the story of Dante and how when he reached the pits of hell what he saw was not Satan controlling and punishing everyone, he saw even Satan is paying for the wrong that he did. His punishment is being trapped in his own frozen tears and never to be unfrozen. 3. Reflect: In this chapter they go over many good points on how temptations are wrong and how despair is a horrible emotion. We must embrace salvation and accept the goodness in who we are. We must watch who is trying to dictate us and...
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...Rendezvous a meeting between 2 mystic persons, with many hidden signs, about what this meeting might be about. The short text Rendezvous is written by Daniel Ransom and released in 1985. The story is about 2 persons a girl and a man who has a meeting The story takes place on a road, but it is split out in two, so a part focus’ on the girl and the other part on the man. The characters whos name is Payton and Kim meets each other at the end of the story, so it is like the 2 roads the story is split out in meets again. The read they are on is in America, probably on the outskirts of an urban area, but the story can still happen anywhere, which makes it more relatable. The first person in the story is Payton. Payton is driving a vehicle, and the word WV in the text (REFERER) tells that he is driving a Firebird, which is an old american car. He is described with long dirty hair, and he is probably in the 20 or older, but he still got the badass ’look’, since only ’cool’ men drove a Firebird that time, he also got a cobra tattoed on his left biceps. While driving he thinks about a priest, who talks about that he would have reported him to the authority, and Payton is like ’screw that’ and speeds up. The priest makes it sound like Payton might have killed somebody, or some other terrible crime. The drums in his car makes him more agressive. The second character Kim is an 15 year old girl, who probably ran way from home. She is a typical teenager, who is still in the 10th grade...
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...Eve of the 21st century CE Mark Twain, in his Diaries of Adam and Eve, published in May 2000, depicts the day-to-day life of the predecessors of mankind in the form of a journal said to be “translated from the original manuscript”. Adam’s diary begins with his encounter with Eve, that irritating, way too talkative creature with a tendency to name things, following him around. Eve is changing the sights of Eden, that she alas baptized “Niagara falls Park”(Twain, 365). After the fall, Adam eventually learns to appreciate the company of his female companion and ends up falling for her, saying “wherever she was, there was Eden” (377). Eve’s diary recounts her discovery of Eden and Adam, and her growing love for him. Human love, replacing that of God, appears as a feeling that does not need an Eden, a feeling that is in itself a redemption. Throughout the excerpts, an image of the two characters can be shaped but also an image of their respective genders’ roles, behaviors and understanding of love… To what extent does the portrayal of Eve in the extracts apply to the expectations for women today? Millenniums later, some of these expectations may have not changed a lot, but some fundamental changes in the way women are perceived did occur. To begin with, Eve is quite the sensitive kind, and the use of the word “feel” (Twain, 368) repeatedly, and the semantic field of feelings (feel, heart, love, passion, romantic etc.) expended in her first diary entry, highlight her emotional...
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...the person would have done almost everything in the world. Having a future without love must be much more inane and lonely for having experienced love before. Love is the only thing that makes them feel alive in loneliness. Only Lovers Left Alive is the first vampire-themed movie that described detailed daily life of a couple of vampires. By the time there are no werewolves, hunters, and witches, the conventional natural enemies, time is the only thing left turning against vampires. Everyone came to the universe alone, and then facing death by themselves. Escaping from the last trial, the alternation of the day and night is the perpetual chains on vampires. Loneliness and Solitude usually comes from individual. Thus Adam and Eve, the soulmates in the movie, were in love with each other yet endured sufferings from time by themselves. The montage lens, the spinning gramophone record, and the lens composition of Tilda and Tom in the beginning all indicated that it is a story about one...
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...subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace, both joining, As joined in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assigned us, That cruel serpent: on me exercise not Thy hatred for this misery befall’n, On me already lost, me than thyself More miserable; both have sinned, but though Against God only, I against God and thee, And to the place of judgment will return, There with my cries importune Heaven, that all The sentence from they head removed may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe, Me me only just object of his ire.” At the end of “Paradise Lost” by John Milton, Eve makes a speech to an irate Adam imploring him not to leave her and claiming that she accepts full responsibility for the fall of them both. As a rhetorical performance, Eve creates the effect she desires because she is able to bring Adam to submissiveness and commiseration. This persuasiveness that she uses is a talent that she learned from Satan while he was tempting her to eat the fruit. Satan is a very persuasive character. He uses his persuasion throughout the entire play. At the beginning of the play when Satan is in hell, he effectively persuades the other devils that Heaven isn’t beyond their reach and that they should rise up against God to reclaim their old territory. Then while he is trying to enter the garden, he convinces the Archangel Uriel that he is really a cherub and that he belonged in the garden....
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...Caroline Ward Mr. Lane Bible History 2 19 December 2013 Adam and Eve Perhaps the most famous couple in history, Adam and Eve sparked the beginning of humanity, and the loss of innocence. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, plants and animals, light to separate lightness and darkness, the oceans, and then man. Adam was the first man created. While he was sleeping, "The Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and brought her to the man." (Genesis 1:20). As a result, the first couple was created millenniums ago. What is significant about the creation of man is that it symbolizes the origins of temptation and sin. Adam and Eve were placed by God in a garden in a land called Eden. In the garden, there were two trees, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. God told Adam and Eve that they may eat from any tree, except the Tree of Knowledge, and if they were to eat from it, they shall die. A serpent then appeared from the tree. The serpent tempted Eve to eat from the tree, stating that if she did, that she would know both good and evil, just like God. So she took the fruit, and then gave some to Adam. God then punished both of...
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...Living on the Dash Will the life you’ve lived on your short “-“(dash) speak for itself when the sun sets? In John Donne’s Hymn to God, My God, In My Sickness, the poet speaks to both the Lord and the reader as he lies on his death bed. Donne has been fine tuning himself for the triumph in Heaven. He admits that he has had both good and bad in his life, but asks the Lord to seek the good in him and embrace his soul. There is a direct correlation with the life you live here on Earth and with the next (afterlife). Donne is both the narrator and the character of this poem. He speaks of his experiences as he nears death. He realizes death is eminent, and he will soon rejoice with the “choirs of saints” (Donne line 2) in Heaven, but wonders what would he do when he reaches Heaven. Donne’s writing style of metaphysics is used in this poem and in several others. The narrator has an extensive interest in religion, cartography and geography. It is no wonder he shows interest in these areas as it was during this time in European civilization that they experienced the “New Age of Discovery”. There were explorations of new land; the replacing of the Ptolemaic model of an Earth-centered universe with Copernicus’s heliocentric (Sun-centered) model; the invention of Mariner’s compass; and various other developments and reformations. He writes, “...Whilst my physicians by their love are grown/ Cosmographers and I their map” (7) He equates his body to a map and his physicians to cosmographers...
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...God breathed life into the first human being, Adam. He was unique, alone, and an individual. God then breathed life into a companion, named Eve, for Adam.. Unfortunately in the story of Genesis, Adam and Eve betray God’s trust and are cast out of the Garden of Eden. Michelangelo’s paintings of the Sistine Chapel capture the story of Adam and Eve from Genesis. Similarly, in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Creature can be compared to Adam and his creator, Victor Frankenstein to God. The Creature was also an individual, unique, and lonely being created by someone who was supposed to care for him, but unfortunately the Creature doesn’t get that same guidance as Adam gets from God. He says, “I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel" (Shelley 66). In Frankenstein, there are many references towards the story God and Adam in Genesis. Because of these references many think that the stories are a little similar. That may be, but there are by far more dissimilarities. I believe that the Creature’s story doesn’t match up with the story of Adam in Michelangelo’s paintings of the Sistine Chapel. Adam was created in God’s image and born in a more natural way then the Creature in Frankenstein. God breathed life into Adam in Michelangelo’s paintings. It shows God looking at Adam in such a peaceful and loving way. God’s hand is fully stretched out toward Adam, showing how important he was to his creator. Adam is pictured as the ideal human male with large muscles and well-designed...
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...face of the waters. Then God said “let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening, and the morning were the first day. God is the creator of all things. God created the Universe, the World, and everything in them. God created man and woman in his image. God made Man, and Woman above all living things on earth. God so loved Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first woman) he let them name everything on earth. God had only one rule. Do not eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden was where Adam and Eve were created. In the tree of knowledge there was a serpent, the Devil. The Devil was Gods’ favorite angel, cast to Earth after a great war in heaven. The Devil tempted Eve, and she ate of the fruit from the tree of knowledge. After eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge, Eve convinced Adam to eat the fruit as well. God came looking for his Man, and Woman to talk with them as he often did. He found them hiding in the garden ashamed because they were naked. Right away God knew they had eaten the forbidden fruit. God was angry. He cursed the woman to bleed for eternity, and the serpent to be forever under mans feet. God...
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