...Emotional Confusion in “Sex Without Love” In the poem “Sex Without Love” by Sharon Olds, two contradicting ideals are discussed. This poem is a comparison between the traditional belief of sex only within the parameters of love and marriage versus the belief that love is purely an act of pleasure and can be taken up independently, without emotional strings attached, except Sharon Olds, she cannot understand how others do not become attached with the acts of pleasure. Olds portrays via her imagery, analogies, and philosophical explorations. You find out which is the side she truly understands. The opening line begins with the question at hand, “How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?”(1) Olds’ is asking, ‘How do people manage to be physically intimate, without emotional intimacy?’ Our bodies are our temples. People have been taught that their bodies should not be disrespected in an act like sex without love. Sex is an act that has been deemed only appropriate within the confines of marriage. Religions like Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, etc. have taught their believers that sex before marriage, a partnership based on love, fidelity, and monogamy, is sinful. The Bible seems to portray the man and the woman as two puzzle pieces that are meant to fit together as one unit. This is essentially what marriage is. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall Ugalde 2 become one flesh” Obviously, sex is between two people...
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...Lust Not Love In the poem “Sex without Love” the poet Sharon Olds expresses the pure disgust she has for people who have sex without love. She feels that in the heat of the moment it might satisfy their need for love but in the end they just become unhappy once again that they haven’t found that one person to love. Sharon Olds expresses her feelings in her poems by using expressive and unique writing symbols. The first symbol she uses is “How do they do it, the ones who make love/ without love? Beautiful as dancers/ Gliding over each other like Ice Skaters/ over the ice, fingers hooked/ inside each others bodies, faces”. These parts of the poem first starts off where the poet is astonished by the fact people have a strictly physical relationship without any kind of true love. Just the sexual and lustful relationship they express for each other in the heat of the moment where lies the only passion the two have for one another. Another part of the poem, where the poets makes the heat of the moment a little more intense is when she recites, “give them away. How do they come to the/ come to the come to the God come to the”. This represents the two people have come to the climax of the lustful relationship. Where it leads to the end of their loveless relationship for each other and to their loneliness. This leads Mrs. Olds to her next statement, “Priest instead of the God. They do not/ mistake the lover for their own pleasure, / they are like great runners: they...
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...to “Last Night” John Donne’s love poem "The Sun Rising" was written from a male’s point of view in the 17th century and Sharon Olds love poem "Last Night" was written in the 19th century from a female’s point of view. These two love poems have different themes on the topic of love and both are very different in language structure, as "The Sun Rising" is more formal and much more complex to read than "Last Night". Despite these differences in writing style, theme and centuries apart, the poems have great use of vivid imagery and simultaneously both use the tone of unhappiness in the beginning. In the very opening Olds uses the word “Afraid” and Donne starts off with “BUSY old fool, / unruly Sun”. Both authors rotate the tone of unhappiness in the beginning to more content and satisfied towards the end. When comparing the two love poems, the reader can see how both have great use of imagery. Olds applies a high-pressure imagery throughout the poem, setting up a tension between submissive and aggressive sensations and images. Olds gives us a vivid image of the sexual intercourse as being very hot and animalistic. She describes it as "dragonflies in the sun /100 degrees at noon /the end of their abdomens stuck together". The animalistic and hot kind of imagery, as a reader gave me a mental picture of the sexual activity being wild and just pleasurable without feelings involved just like animals that have intercourse for breeding and not for "love" as human kind. The feeling of...
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...In his article, “Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal” Thomas B. Stoddard discusses the injustice that homosexuals life because they are denying their right to marriage. Karen Thompson and Sharon Kowalski were married to each other spiritually but not legally. In 1983 Sharon was in a car accident, and she was left in poor health. As a result, she could not walk and talk very well. Karen tried to get guardianship over her life partner, but she was refused since both of them were not legally married. Subsequently, Sharon’s parents were given guardianship over their daughter, and they both decided to move her to a care home hundreds of miles away. When Sharon’s health improved, she decided to reunite with her life partner once again. Stoddard...
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...participation in a Cylon experiment designed to attempt to create a viable Cylon/human hybrid offspring. The Cylons track Agathon's progress toward a military base in Delphi, placing him in situations designed to result in affection and ultimately love towards Valerii. The experiment results in a successful pregnancy after Valerii has sex with Agathon,[9] though as an unintended side effect, she falls in love with him as well.[10] Agathon soon discovers the truth about her Cylon nature after spotting another Number Eight copy while trying to infiltrate the Delphi military base. Believing that he is being led into a trap, he runs from the base and Valerii.[11] She eventually catches up to him and reveals she is pregnant. Despite shooting her in the shoulder, Agathon realizes he can't bring himself to kill her and instead, at her urging, takes her with him to the Delphi museum. It is there he is reunited with fellow Galactica pilot Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, who is on a special mission from President Laura Roslin to recover the Arrow of Apollo.[12] After nearly being killed by Thrace, Valerii steals the Cylon Raider and flies off.[13] Agathon and Thrace make their way first to Thrace's old apartment to retrieve a new mode of transportation (an old army truck she owned),[14] and then into the woods in search of another military base. While stopping to get their bearings, they run into a group of Pyramid players-turned resistance fighters.[15] After Thrace is wounded and captured by the...
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...Victims” Response 1) What are the main ideas in the poem? When I read “The Victims,” by Sharon Olds, the main ideas that came to my mind were vengeance, karma, and the effects of divorce on children and parents. The poem starts being written from a child’s perspective, and it ends with a grown up point of view. It seems that not only the child has suffered the father’s abuse, but the mother and siblings too. Throughout the poem, the children in that family are taught to hate their father while the mother takes everything away from him until he is reduce to be a beggar. The poem ends with the same person reflecting on who the real victims were in the story. 2) What about the structure/movements of the poem? The poem has two very well differentiated parts: the first part that is written in past tense, and the second part, which is written in present tense. The poem starts hating the father and being happy when the mother divorced him, and it ends feeling some kind of sympathy towards the father. The author accomplished this shift in the poem thanks to the descriptions and the change of tense, but most importantly, thanks to the comparison of the father to bums. Another thing that I noticed about this poem is that every phrase in each line is not complete; it’s like the author chose to cut the phrase to jump to the next line. I mean, the ideas and phrases in the poem are complete, but Olds cut them to create some kind of “mystery”. This resource or device made me want to continue...
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...sad fact widely known but not nearly as much talked about is that even in the land of the free, people are being bought, sold and smuggled like modern-day slaves. People are slowly disappearing, may it be somebody’s neighbor down the street, an unknown victim at the park or anybody in a known city like San Diego residing on the borders of Mexico. According to the Legal Social Issues Research Lab, “A modern-day form of slavery is known as human trafficking.” Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. We are all victims as they are young children, teenagers, men and woman. Most Victims are trafficked into the Sex Industry. David A. Feingold states in his article that: Moving people across borders is as old as supplies and demand. What is new is the volume of the traffic and –and the realization that we have done little to stem the tide. We must look beyond our raw emotions if we are ever to stop those who trade in human lives. Trafficking in human begins with the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons for the purpose of exploitation. Human trafficking differs from people smuggling. In the latter, people would voluntarily request smuggler’s service for fees, and there may be no deception involved in this agreement. On arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is either free or is required to work under a job arrangement by the smuggler until the debt is...
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...GONE GIRL August 29, 2013 GONE GIRL Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn Screenplay by Gillian Flynn TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX 10201 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT AUGUST 29, 2013 Revisions September 15, 2013 & September 27, 2013 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. COPYRIGHT 2014 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. NO PORTION OF THIS SCRIPT MAY BE PERFORMED, PUBLISHED, REPRODUCED, SOLD OR DISTRIBUTED BY ANY MEANS, OR QUOTED OR PUBLISHED IN ANY MEDIUM, INCLUDING ON ANY WEB SITE, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. DISPOSAL OF THIS SCRIPT COPY DOES NOT ALTER ANY OF THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH ABOVE. GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn Based on the Novel By Gillian Flynn Yellow Revised Pink Revised Blue Script White Script — - 9/27/13 9/15/13 8/29/13 7/30/13 Al BLACK SCREEN NICK (V.0.) When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. FADE IN: INT. BEDROOM SOMETIME Al - We see the back of AMY DUNNE’S HEAD, resting on a pillow. NICK (V.0.) I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, Nick runs his fingers into Amy’s hair. NICK (V.0.) Trying to get answers. He twirls and twirls a lock, a screw tightening. NICK (V.0.) The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? AMY wakes, turns, gives a look of alarm. * BLACK SCREEN 2 EXT. NORTH CARTHAGE MORNING 2 - A carved faux-marble entry—reading FOREST...
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...could have been anyone, even a woman, and that the female heroine viewed and described her lover as a king: as a Solomon.1 How could Solomon, who had 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3), be the same faithful lover this book presents? He could be if he became polygamous after the events in this book took place. That seems a more likely explanation than that he was polygamous when these events occurred and just omitted reference to his other loves. Probably he wrote the book before he became polygamous. We do not know how old Solomon was when he married the second time. The history recorded in Kings and Chronicles is not in strict chronological order. The Shulammite was probably not Pharaoh's daughter in view of references in the book (1 Kings 3:1; cf. Song of Sol. 4:8). One writer contended that she was Pharaoh's daughter.2 Another view is that "Shulammite" is simply the feminine form of the name "Solomon."3 So Solomon could have written this book in his youth. Perhaps he wrote most of Proverbs in mid-life and Ecclesiastes in his old age. The contents of these three writings have suggested that...
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...English 175-‐02: Introduction to Literary Genres Instructor: Aaron Schab aschab@uidaho.edu 209 Brink Hall Department of English University of Idaho Course Meets: Life Sciences South 163 Monday/Wednesday/Friday 9:30 am – 10:20 am January 9, 2013 – May 10, 2013 Course Description In this class, we will learn about the basic conventions and terms used to understand and discuss the three major genres of literature: fiction, poetry, and drama. This class will help you understand the sometimes baffling world of literature, and is intended to provide the general student with basic experience in literary analysis. Additionally, I hope this class will lead you to a lifelong appreciation for (and engagement with) reading literature. Although this class features extensive reading and writing, it is not necessary for you to be a bookworm or a writing superstar to succeed in this class – if you ...
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..."In the best interest of the child, we are breeding superior Aryan children" (SS Nazi chant) The Lebensborn program, was founded and created on December 12, 1935, to promote the policies of Nazi eugenics among other interests. One, of the objectives was to perpetrate, an illusion of superiority (of the Aryan race) over all other inferior races. Some of the ideas used to create the Lebensborn program were extensions of similar programs already practiced and in place throughout North America, such as those created by the Alberta Eugenics Board which was set up in 1928 to eliminate the feeble minded individual from existence. The Lebensborn centers, homes and facilities were also used to house young children between two and six years old kidnapped, to be put through a process of Germanization....
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...surprisingly, after the last decade’s rapid growth, the proportion still is not as high as people imagine. In 2005, two-thirds of online dating website members never had a face-to-face date with their virtual romantic interests. Moreover, some experimenters from Stanford University and Michigan State University conducted research about online dating with a sample including 5,000 couples, which were separated into 2,500 online couples and 2,500 offline couples. The observation showed that couples who met each other online have a higher possibility to break up than those who met each other offline, which is 47 percent versus 29 percent. According to the mentioned data, online dating might be less efficient than offline dating. However, just as the old saying goes, “What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.” Online dating does accord with the trend of the times. Therefore, this article will try to discuss some potential specific causes which weaken online dating websites’ efficiency. As a result, some readers or online dating websites users might obtain a better knowledge about those websites and know how to use them more efficiently. Additionally, being aware of some disadvantages and avoiding them, online dating websites users might obtain a better user experience. In this article, online safety, “overmuch” dating options and “over detailed” profiles will be discussed. A history and genealogy of mediated relationship management...
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...musical act, there are many more things to worry about besides simply playing music. In addition to songwriting and performing, a successful musical artist must juggle many important decisions, of which a single wrong move may end an entire career. These important decisions include record contracts, public promotion, where and when to go on tour, collaborations with other artists, their image (i.e. haircut, clothing choices, makeup), social media presence, and public appearances to name just a few. Musical artists generally become musical artists because they love creating and performing music, not because they love dealing with seemingly irrelevant yet important details of their own careers. That is precisely the reason why personal...
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...Crime Causation Sharon Semien BUS303 August 9, 2011 Katina Douglas Crime Causation In 1980, an Illinois jury convicted John Wayne Gacy for killing 33 young boys and men. Sarcastically, after his conviction, the infamous killer (also known as “The Killer Clown”) said “I should have never been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license” (Star Quotes, 2009, p. 1). Obviously, something intrusively wrong resonated in Gacy for him to make such a statement that negated the intensity of his actions. Gacy buried majority of his victims under the crawl space of his home and discarded other victims in the Des Plaines River (Bell & Bardsley, 2011). People often question what would make someone do such vicious and torturous acts on another person. Criminologists developed theories explaining the reasons people deviate from societal norms and commit immoral acts laws prohibit (Schmallenger, 2003). Particularly, in this case, John Wayne Gacy is a person suitable to study. Certainly, a few crime causation theories explain how his upbringing, life experiences, and other deep, underlying issues led him to committing crimes to the extent he did. Gacy’s Background Information Gacy was the only son of three children born to Marion and John Gacy. He had an older sister (Joanne) and younger sister (Karen). The Gacy’s were a middle-classed, Catholic family who lived on the north side of Chicago. As a young boy in middle school, Gacy kept...
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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Health and Fitness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Organization and Leadership Development . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Nature Study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Outdoor Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Lifestyle Enrichment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 OBJECTIVES Develop leadership potential Provide a climate for fellowship and acceptance Choose a Christian lifestyle Learn to evaluate life and its meaning from the Christian Perspective AIM The Advent Message to All the World in My Generation. MOTTO "The love of Christ constrains me." PLEDGE By the grace of God, I will be pure and kind and true. I will keep the Pathfinder Law. I will be a servant of God and a friend to man. PATHFINDER LAW The Pathfinder Law is for me to: 1. Keep the morning watch. 2. Do my honest part. 3. Care for my body. 4. Keep a level eye. 5. Be courteous and obedient. 6. Walk softly in the sanctuary. 7. Keep a song in my heart. 8. Go on God's errands. How to Use the Instruction Plans To assist class...
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