...My husband The most influential person in my life is my husband. Sometimes in life people might meet somebody who could completely change their lives. Influence doesn’t always have to be positive. Unfortunately, some people are influenced in a negative way, but not in my case. I am a very lucky person, because I have met exactly that man, who transformed my life to the best. When I first time came to the US, I met this wonderful Ukrainian man who is 6.23 ft. and has the most beautiful hazel color eyes I ever seen. We met several years ago and since then my husband was an example in many ways for me. My husband influenced me in three key ways: he taught me to value the education, to be closer to parents, and he awoke a passion of cooking in me. First, my husband taught me to value education. Up until moving to USA my parents treated me like a princess and I thought life would be easy as that always. My parents used to be solving all my problems, deciding all important decisions for me, and I thought that will be last forever. But when I met, at that time my future husband, I felt that I want something more than just be behind my parents’ comfortable backs. After a lot of thinking, I made my first own decision – to move to U.S.A. Very soon my husband proposed to me and we married after some months. Watching him work full time as a brilliant engineer and still pursuing his master’s degree I realized it was time for me to become more independent. I decided to go to college and...
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...young woman that is shaped by something that happened to her while working for a doctor and his wife. She tells about the events when she was 15 that ironically led to the introduction of her eventual husband into her life. Clugston (2010) shows us that “we all filter our relationship to literature through our individual experiences” (Section 7.1, para. 4). In other words, personally, How I Met My Husband, by Alice Murno (1974), is written with the themes of love, heartbreak, and secrecy. Love is a common recurring theme throughout the story. Although love is a common theme in fiction, the type of love in this story is ignorant love. Edie is the main character of How I Met My Husband. Alice Murno sets the story in a first-person point of view. The reader captures the story from Edie’s viewpoint. Henry Baron tells us, “Edie is both eager for and rather innocent about romance” (Section The Story, para. 2). She is young and naïve to anything of love and intimate relationships. The connection she makes with Chris Watters and the eventual “intimacy” they share brings out the young innocent girl in her. Murno (1974) makes this clear in the story when she writes, “I had only kissed a boy on a dare before, and kissed my own arms for practice” (as cited in Clugston, 2010, How I Met My Husband). At the point in the story Mr. Watters is introducing Edie to the first intimate experience she will have. Even if it is just kissing. Although Edie has a burning passion for Chris, almost everyone’s...
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...Comparing and Contrasting “The Story of an Hour” and “How I Met My Husband”. Lora Cruse Ashford University ENG125 11/20/2014 In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two great short stories. One being “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin in 1854 and the other being “How I Met my Husband” written by Alice Munro in 1974. The two short stories share the theme of gender roles/marriage. That being said,, I will be going over plot, point of view and tone. Sometimes women feel like they are trapped in their marriage, and sometimes women cannot wait to become married. Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour represents a negative view of marriage. Every individual takes a different approach when enduring the loss of a loved one. Whether it is bursting into tears or being miserable. When a wife loses a husband, she typically tends to be in a state of depression. The feeling of losing your significant other is a piercing agony going through one's heart, but in this case the feeling of loss can turn into someone's freedom. For Louise Mallard she had an erratic reaction when she was informed that her husband had been allegedly killed in a train accident. She locks herself in her room and sits in front of the window in desolation. She begins to ponder how her life will be without her husband. The sorrow that Mrs. Mallard felt in the beginning slowly turns into joy. “Free body and soul free!” (Chopin...
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...makes a relationship fresh? Hi my name is Sandra I come from a town close to Sheffield which is called Rotherham it’s a small town which can only hold a few thousands. I am aged 25 and I have recently met this Gentlemen aged 27 I have fell in love with him he was is so sweet to me and kind and I have always trusted him for the past few years he’s been miserable please tell me how to make him love me again? Imad Says: Take advantage of new technology; text and send e-cards. With so many of us pressed for time, why not use technology to “keep in touch” during the day. A compliment, an affection or a quick “Hello, You are being thought of” via text can spark anyone’s day. E-cards are fast, and convenient. There are many sites that allow you to send them for free. You can find any type of sentiment from cute and funny, to serious and romantic or teasingly sexy. The bonus is that you can include a personal message along with it if you’d like. Hold hands, hug and give quick kisses often. Nothing is as good for the soul and the emotional health of a person as the human touch. As teenagers, we hold hands, give quick kisses as hello and goodbye and cuddle as we sit close. Why not keep that sense of youth no matter how old we are or how long we have been have together as a couple? Holding hands keeps a connection and closeness, no matter what we are doing. An enthusiastic hug uplifts us; a quick kiss says “glad to see you”. You must convince your husband to take you for a date often this...
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...TREDFOR Before I did the interview, I was already worrying about finding a married couple to interview for our TREDFOR Vocation Exposure Program. Some of my classmates said that I should just interview my parents if I really can’t find other married couple because I can easily interview them whenever both of them are in the house. But then again, I can’t imagine myself sitting down with them, asking them questions about their young married life like how they met and fell in love with each other, what was the sweetest thing that Dad ever did for Mom or what they did on their first date. I know that Dad is a very serious man, and is not the type to share stories about how he wooed Mom to get her attention so it would be really very awkward to interview him about those things. You get what I’m saying? Regardless, I still can’t find a couple to interview for the subject. And then I remembered, I have my sister who was only married last July this year. So I decided to interview her and his husband, Kuya Mac. The first question that I asked her was about the details of their first meeting. She told me that she was in a party with our cousin, Ate Raisy when my sister met her husband. Ate Raisy happened to be the girlfriend of one of kuya Mac’s friends which encouraged her to introduce my sister to Kuya Mac, whom she knows, has already separated with his wife though he already has a daughter with his last wife. Ate Raisy knew that Kuya Mac really needs a wife that will take care...
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...essay is a major part of my life, and it means the world to me. So I want to share my experience of me getting married and/or being married. I will be informative with how it came to where I am today of being married and how I have learned from prior mistakes that was made in my life. And I will also tell how our love for each other has grown stronger and how we have become closer in our path of life. This is a hard journey to accomplish and make it last a lifetime. Life Changing Experience 3 A Wonderful Life Changing Experience I was young and had lots to learn about being married and becoming a wife, the thought I had in my mind that marriage was supposed to be easier, as they make it look in fairy tale stories. I then realized it was not so easy. I was married to a man that never took marriage seriously and it affected our relationship drastically. Our marriage lasted for only six months. In those six months he refused to work to support our family. After several months of financial struggle, I woke up one day with the realization that my sons and I did not deserve this type of life. I decided to move on and search for someone who valued a marriage the same way I did. When I think back on when I first met my husband, it still gives me butterflies. Our first encounter was while we were doing laundry at a local laundry mat. I was standing there folding clothes and when I looked at him I felt my heart melt, like a hammer...
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...lung cancer. Harry appeared in his room going near to him and sit beside him with pitiful face. “ I lost everything I owned ,” Shan uttered softly I thought I had learned my lessons in life and surely wouldn’t make the same mistakes again! But I was wrong. I consider myself to be an irresponsible person. “No, you are good and responsible person, Harry said” I should blame myself Harry, come on don’t be like numb pretending that I’m fine. I’m not fine Harry I’m not. “Ok stop it,” Harry shouted. Harry was a very upright and religious man. A mutual friend of Shan who seeks help to his friend when he needs financial problems. They are best of friends since at the age of 15.Harry knew that Shan is an adopted child of his godparents the wealthiest among the popular person in their country. What happen to you Shan? You are not like this when we were young. What makes you to do this? Harry murmured facing Shan where asleep. Then he remembered before Shan was in the hand of Capobianco couple. Still fresh in his mind that his aunt and his godmother talking about adoption. He was in the kitchen at that time when he heard the story of his godmother. I met my husband while I was living and working in London and we got married when I was 27 and he was 29; says Veronica. I have always been career focused and assumed the desire for children would kick in at some point. A year later after our wedding...
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...Life and Death of a Marriage Steven ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Professor: * Every short story generally follows a set of features. Whether it is the plot, a conflict, the setting, the time frame, the characters, the point of view, the themes, the styles, tone or the symbolism, (Clugston, 2014) short stories all have their similarities and differences. These similarities and differences are evident in the stories How I Met My Husband and The Story of an Hour when the main characters take journeys in life surrounding sad, emotional, and joyful events. These stories both follow a chronological pattern in order to create suspense and drama in stories that create a different style ending in their story; one is a happy ending and the other is sad. Both of these stories take place in different times, times that established different standards and views for all women. The women these stories are center around are both looking for love and happiness, however, the needs and wants of each ladies definition is slightly different as examined by their marriages. * Throughout life, people take on adventures full of journeys, trials, and tribulations. During life, most people will go through the steps of growth and development and one day may face marriage. Marriage is something that everyone seems to view differently these days and as time has elapsed, the definition of marriage has changed. There are quite a few people who have different views one what marriage...
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... voice2 & mother: Alyssa Narrator1: A king and queen have three daughters. Narrator2: Chruuee! In fact all of their daughters are attractive, “but” one of them is absolutely gorgeous – Psyche. (Psyche enters the stage) Psyche: Is this gift or a curse? I never wished for this beauty! My only desire is to love and to be loved… (Sigh) Narrator1: People come from all around just to check out how beautiful Psyche is. Narrator2: Men start worshiping her as if she were a goddess and ignore the altars of the goddess of love and beauty, Venus Psyche: (Psyche refuses the gift) I cannot accept this gift because I do not deserve to be worshipped! I am not a goddess! (Higher tone) Narrator1: Men even start saying that Psyche is more beautiful than Venus. (Uh-oh.) Narrator2: We bet you can guess who got mad about this. Yup, that's right – Venus. Venus walking back and forth (worried and mad), holding an apple Venus: The goddess of love? This is so humiliating! Deserting my temples for a mere human! (Cupid playing with his arrows) Cupid: Are you alright mother? Venus: How can I be fine when this mortal princess is addressed as if she was I? Narrator1: The goddess of love gets kind of hateful and orders her son, Cupid to go. Narrator2: and yes, to punish Psyche by making her fall in love with the ugliest thing around. Cupid: There’s no problem in that… so where is this lady you are talking about? (Venus pointed at Psyche) Venus:...
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...Influence Me Have you ever met someone who has influenced you in every aspect, whether you fully realized? Sometimes it takes an assignment such as this to put into perspective who and what drives you. My influence and inspiration is my husband, William. When you're married, sometimes you forget to acknowledge all of the other persons traits and characteristics that inspire you in some way or just in general. I have known this amazing man for four years and married for one so far, but it only took a few chats here and there as my neighbor to figure out that he was someone whether a friend or more, would bring change for me as a person and my future days. What I Like About You Everyone experiences their own difficulties in life, but I believe it is worth the journey if you learn something from the lesson, whether it's a good or bad journey. In my eyes, this man has learned so much about himself and the world with every uphill and downhill battle without allowing the ugliness of the world to make his heart cold. I have always struggled with seeing the light at the end of the tunnel through the challenges I myself have faced, but Will has shown me there is always a bright side....
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...findings the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”. These findings indicate that there were four processes, and these processes combined can signal an impending divorce. The four processes are the following: Contempt, criticism, defensiveness and stonewalling. Using examples from real life friends and family as well as the novel Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, I will attempt to demonstrate the four processes. One clear indication of the first process, contempt is eye rolling. This shows that the eye roller feels that they are superior and contemptuous of their spouse. An excerpt from Gone Girl, a novel by Gillian Flynn shows the two main characters, Nick and Amy (husband and wife), who are involved in a difficult marriage. Here Nick is discussing his feelings on his marriage: I couldn't think of a decent thing I'd done in the past two years. In New York, those first few years of marriage, I'd been desperate to please my wife […] For two years I tried as my old wife slipped away, and I tried so hard—no anger, no arguments, the constant kowtowing, the capitulation, the sitcom-husband version of me […] Each action, each attempt, was met with a rolled eye or a sad little sigh. A ‘you just don't get it’ sigh… Nick Dunne This excerpt shows Nick’s frustration at his wife’s contempt....
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...– even when she doesn’t know it: “It’s my first day, I cycled here” etc. It all starts “in medias res”, where the reader is thrown into the events and quickly forced to understand everything that is happening. The fact that it’s the narrator who tells the story gives a very good insight into her world and what she is thinking and that is very important when you have to characterize her. The story takes place in an office and we follow the narrator and main character, Laura, as she has her first day at her new job. Not just any job, it’s also where her husband works. Her husband is called Vernon Pringle and Laura describes him as a turtle: “..His name is Vernon. He looks like a turtle. More specifically he looks like a turtle without a carapace which gives him a rather exposed and nervous air.” He is also described in a more bad way: “His arms in his shiny blue shirt are curved protectively around his papers, as if all of us, being human, are prone to cheating”. That shows how little he trusts people and is always trying to protect what is his from all others.” When the story starts and Laura describes her clothing and appearance she seems very normal and not really too interesting. Laura has been married to Vernon “for half a life” which means she can’t be that young but I’d guess she was somewhere around her midlife or younger, even though the story never tells us. She knows Vernon very well and points it out a lot in the story: “I know every line of his face. That face has...
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...Throughout the story Esperanza is determined to find a friend of her own. “One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them” (Cisneros 8). During the novella, Esperanza stumbles upon a girl, Sally, who is not a typical girl. Sally is beautiful, but dangerous. She wears makeup, short skirts, and talks to boys, but Esperanza is drawn to Sally. She finds Sally mysterious and wants to become her friend. Towards the end of the novella, Esperanza realizes that not even women protect each other. In the vignette “Red Clowns” Cisneros writes about how Sally is unfaithful and betrays Esperanza in way that could never be forgotten. Esperanza says, “I waited by the red clowns, just like you said, but you never came, you never came for me. Sally Sally a hundred times. Why didn't you hear me when I called? Why didn’t you tell them to leave me alone?” (Cisneros 99). In this quote Esperanza explains how she has been betrayed by someone she thought was her friend, but just because Esperanza was abandoned doesn't mean she will do the same. The experience of being betrayed affects Esperanza’s identity in a huge way. If she had not met Sally, she never would've developed a strong connection to women. Also, If she had not...
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...When asked to look at my life from a Sociological point of view to better understand my story caused me to truly examine me. My life has had to change so many times throughout my life because of people and things around me changing. But if I am honest with myself I would still have to say I have always been me and been true to who God created me to be. So let’s take a journey and see if we can figure out the Riddle of My Life (TCO 1). My life did not start out as what socialization would call normal. My mother a twenty-five year old female who was told would never have children, been married and divorced, then married again to who would be my father. Six months into the marriage she left him because my father and his families’ social status was that of fruit pickers in the late 60’s. That was poverty in her eyes and she just could not live like that anymore. She returned to Oregon to live with her foster mother. On the first of March she went to see a doctor because she believed she had a “water tumor” which is what she was calling her condition only to find out she was pregnant. Not able to inform the doctor of when her last cycle was or when she could have possibly become pregnant because my father and her marriage was not conventional because my father was gay. My parents did consummate the marriage but that was about it (TCO 4). So on March 21, 1969 at 12:03 a.m. I came into this would to what society called a single mother in all aspects of the word. We lived...
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...Good or Bad, Hard to Say Every day may not be good but there is something good in every day. Good or bad hard to said. I have a new life with my husband in Houston. Well, something has to be changed for when I decided to marry him. First, I have moved to Houston and study English. Second, I need to get a drive license and drive by myself every time I go out. Third, I have to adapt myself to new environment here, meet some new friends. Fourth, my parents oppose that I moved to Houston. I was born in Taiwan. Except my parents in my family members, I have a younger brother, a sister-in-law and two nieces. When I was 7 years old, I started learning how to dance. My major was Chinese Dance and Ballet many years ago in Taiwan. I was a dancer and...
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