...two critical things; loyalty and sacrifice. Good relationships last forever and are supportive, such as Lennie and George. They would sacrifice anything, so they can make each other happy. On the other hand, bad relations are created when people are sneaky and selfish, like Curley and his wife. They made bad decisions and are unsympathetic towards each other, which is the opposite of what a loving married couple should do. Being loyal and not putting yourself first is hard, especially as a ranch worker in the book Of Mice and Men. This book takes place in California during the Great Depression. Throughout the book, they show the many problems that workers in general have to face. They also portray the idea of the...
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...ISBN 0-312-31084-6 1. Man-woman relationships. 2. Interpersonal relations. I. Tide: Complete a**hole's guide to handling chicks. II. Marks, Karl. III. Title. HQ801.M37135 307-dc21 2003 2002045213 10 9 8 CONTENTS Introduction: Chicks, What the Fuck? Fifty Tips on Being a Better Asshole ix xiii 1. From Birth to Beating Off The Birth of an Asshole The Purest Form of Asshole Gimme My Toy, You Bitch! Crossing the Dance Floor How Do I Get Her? The Beginning of the End Roughing Up the Suspect 1 1 1 2 3 4 6 2. High School Welcome Mat Firsts The Back-Seat Boogie Chicks Are the Enemy Watch Your Back—Your Friends Won't 8 8 9 15 16 20 vi C O N T E N T S Pecking Order Your First Pincushion So You're Looking to Get Laid High School Final Examination 22 29 31 32 3. College Welcome Mat Your High School Girlfriend You're Not in Kansas Anymore The Chick Roster—Understanding the Enemy The Male Pecking Order Whither the Chicks? Building Your Rep Dating (i.e., Getting Blackout-Drunk and Having Sex) Buttering Her Biscuit College Final Examination 34 34 35 38 42 51 52 56 63 69 70 4. Ages 21-27 Welcome Mat You're Not in...
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...You Gossiping? Men don’t “gossip” and tune down their hearing capability to minimum when girls start talking, while girls like sharing details about our lives to our friends and boyfriends. Not only do we think it allows us to become one but also not let the relationship die by there being an awkward silence. Men, on the other hand, would rather not hear about those details and think they are a waste of time. Sharing details with the opposite sex is very important in the beginning but once they are further in the relationship men tend to not pay attention to those details. When two people are falling in love they tend to listen to details more because they believe that if they remember what the other said that is a way of showing that they are really in love and care about the other. No one wants to tell their significant other something important and for the other not to listen or remember. It is like a waste of breathe telling someone something so important to you and them not to even care. That is why most couples who are falling in love tend to actually listen to each other’s personal life. They like finding out what they like and what they don’t like, because what if the guy buys a beautiful bouquet of red roses but didn’t know that the girl’s favorite flowers are sunflowers. To the girl that is turn off because she would have rather appreciated receiving her favorite flower other than the red roses. It is important to know what their favorite things are because that shows...
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...bastard like he is, he wants to touch ever’thing he likes. Just wants to feel it. So he reaches out to feel this red dress an’ the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on ‘cause that's the only thing he can think to do. [...] Well, that girl rabbits in an’ tells the law she been raped. The guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie.” (41-42) In this quote, it is clear that even though Lennie did not intend to hurt the girl by touching her dress, the citizens in Weed believed her claim that he raped her. Due to the girls fear, Lennie held on to her dress out of confusion, which escalated the situation resulting in this accusation. He really just wanted to feel the texture of the dress, but since he kept holding on to it seemed like he intended to hurt her. Therefore, because of Lennie's propensity to touch soft things, his initial innocent act was misunderstood thus resulting in George and Lennie having to escape a false accusation of being a rapist. This is a prime example of how an innocent intent can be misunderstood and blown out of proportion. Another example of how one's intentions can be misinterpreted is when Curley’s wife was trying to be friendly and let Lennie touch her hair. Overwhelmed with curiosity and unaware of his physical strength, Lennie accidentally pulled on it way too hard, so she started to scream. Since he did not want George to hear, he put his hand over her mouth which unfortunately killed her. Steinbeck describes...
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...a job so they could make a meagre living. Despite all that was going on around him, each man would have his own small dream in his head of becoming a future success. Miller and Steinbeck were inspired by these dreamers and featured them in many of their books/plays. John Steinbeck was born on February 27th 1902. By the age of fourteen he had made up his mind to become a writer. He completed his first novel, Cup of Gold, in 1929. What is considered to be his finest, most ambitious work is The Grapes of Wrath, which was published in 1939. The book tells the story of a disposed Oklahoma families struggle to set up a new life in California, which is in the midst of the Depression. Steinbeck was living in California whilst this sort of thing was going on. Many of his books protested against the American Dream, explicitly illustrating how much disruption and deception it causes. The Grapes of Wrath is essentially a tragedy and it is a...
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...451 "The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You do not have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them” (Ray Bradbury.) In the novel by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, it is illegal to possess books. If somehow a fire fighter finds out, you have books in your house. Fire fighters will burn your house and they will show no mercy. In this book, the protagonist Guy Montag, a fire fighter, faces many changes in himself, to do what he thinks is precisely what he needs, to read. One way that Guy Montag changes is with the people surrounding him. One person that changes him is his new neighbor Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse was different from the other kid;...
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...Manhattan, New York. He would go on to write one of the most popular books of all time. The Catcher in the Rye is his only novel but he did write more than one collection of short stories. This Book takes place in Pennsylvania and New York. It set around the 1950’s. The whole atmosphere is melancholy due to the narrator’s hatred for most things. “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies. Don’t even mention them to me.” Goddamn money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.” The book is told in first person. Holden Caulfield, the 17-year-old narrator and protagonist of the novel, speaks to the reader directly from a mental hospital or sanitarium in southern California. Holden wants to tell what happened over a two-day period the previous year....
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...George was kind and helpful, Lennie had a mental disability, and Candy was a helpless guy that had lots of love for his dog that his so called buddies killed. Similarities between Lennie and Candy are so similar that you would probably mistake them for the same character. One of the main similarities is that George and Candy just want to get away and live off the ranch. St one point George suggest to Candy that they should go away and be free from all their problems, George would of course let Lennie tend the rabbits. Lennie is a very strange character. Something that he finds really interesting is touching soft things, it make him happy. Steinbeck writes about Lennie being so attracted to soft things so the readers can think of him being really weird and strange. As Lennie touches his soft things he tends to get too much into the moment and unintentionally destroyed and crushes it without even thinking about it. Crooks and Candy are the most self centered characters in the story. Steinbeck does this on purpose to give an idea of marginalization. Crooks is an old “black” bitter guy, although he has all right to be that way. Candy is an old crippled man who has lost his hand and is attached to his aging dog. Candy is a passive man who is unable to take any kind of independent action. Both characters are lonely in many ways, they don't associate with many people on the ranch and unfortunately don't have...
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...the little things that make them happy. Others feel the opposite way and that expenses are the way to live. In Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace”, Madame Loisel, a beautiful woman, lives in a wonderful home with all the necessary supplies needed to live. However, she is very unhappy with her life. She feels she deserves a much more expensive and materialistic life than what she has. After pitying herself for not being the richest of her friends, she goes out and borrows a beautiful necklace from an ally. But as she misplaces the closest thing she has to the life she dreams of and not telling her friend about the mishap, she could have set herself aside from ten years of work. This is a story that shows the true irony in life. “The Necklace” ends up to be a very ironic story as it explains why valuing the more important things in life can be very effective towards a person’s happiness. One example of the story’s irony is when she is at the party dressed as a beautiful and fancy woman. ‘She danced madly, wildly, drunk with pleasure, giving no thought to anything in the triumph of her beauty, the pride of her success…’ .(Maupassant) This is a form of irony because Guy explains earlier that Mme. Loisel is just a middle class woman who dreams of a wealthy life, but she is just alluding herself as a luxurious woman. Another example of irony in the story is when Madame found out that the necklace was paste. Mme. Forestier, Madame Loisel’s friend, states that her necklace...
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...1937 OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck Copyright John Steinbeck, 1937. Copyright renewed by John Steinbeck, 1965. Published by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. ONE A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees- willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of 'coons, and with the spread pads of dogs from the ranches, and with the split-wedge tracks of deer that come to drink in the dark. There is a path through the willows and among the sycamores, a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water. In front of the low horizontal limb of a giant sycamore there is an ash...
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...live a dull life. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a book written as a warning to society, the ban on books shows how a society with extreme regulation and an abuse of technology can create a miserable life as seen through the characters Guy and Mildred Montag....
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...of Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife demonstrate the theme of loneliness. Candy is old and disabled. He has no family, the closest thing to family that he has is an old dog. Crooks is an outsider, he is looked down upon because of his race and the fact that he is black. Curley’s wife gets avoided by everyone; no one pays any attention to her. She is marginalized because she is a woman in the 1930’s. These characters are all lonely for one reason or another, and never seem to find a way out of loneliness. Candy’s life is just about to fall apart. He lost his hand four years ago so once he isn’t able to do anymore work the boss is going to kick him out on the road. “I got hurt four years ago, they’ll can me purty soon. Candy says “Just as soon as I can’t swamp any bunk houses they’ll put me on the county”...
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... Tx Date: 25th January 2004 This script was made from audio tape – any inaccuracies are due to voices being unclear or inaudible 10.00.00 This World Theme Music 10.00.09 Denny Pattyn The Silver Ring Thing programme is a high tech, high energy programme. 10.00.10 Title Page American Virgins 10.00.13 Denny Pattyn It is the most effective abstinence programme out there right now and it’s deployable. Sixteen thousand kids have put on the ring. What they get is this ring, they put it on their finger and on their wedding day they take it off and they give it to their husband or wife and say I have waited for you. 10.00.28 Girl We both come from Christian families and so we decided we’re not going to have sex and we’re going to have good morals together. There’s people wearing the ring and they have made the promise as well and also just wearing it every day I see it and it serves as a constant reminder that I’m not going to have sex until I’m married. 10.00.47 Michael Lumsden It’s November 2003. 10.00.48 Music 10.00.51 Michael Lumsden Denny Pattyn has brought together a group of Christian youth leaders to tell them about his Silver Ring Thing organisation which campaigns for a sex free teenage world. 10.01.00 Music 10.01.01 Michael Lumsden With him is a paediatrician and author of a book called ‘Epidemic; how teen sex is killing our kids’, Doctor Meg Meeker...
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...cry so George said “Aw, Lennie!” “George put his hand on Lennie’s shoulder” (Of Mice and Men). “I ain’t taking it away just for meanness” (Of Mice and Men). “That mouse ain’t fresh, Lennie; and beside, you’ve broke it petting it” (Of Mice and Men). Here George demonstrated he cared about Lennie’s feelings. He wanted Lennie to understand that he was not taking the mouse from him just because he didn’t want him to have it; it was because it was died and he could get sick. George showed compassion toward Lennie when George places his hand on Lennie’s should as a way to comfort Lennie because the mouse was taken away from him. Another instant when George demonstrated he cared about Lennie was when Lennie got in trouble for the first time in Weed. Lennie said “jus’ wanted to feel that girl’s dress---jus’ wanted to pet it like it was a mouse---Well, how the hell did she know you jus’ wanted to feel her dress?” (Of Mice and Men). Because Lennie grab this girl’s dress and wouldn’t let go he got accused of raping this girl. Since, no one was going to believe Lennie didn’t do anything bad to this girl but only grabbing the dress both Lennie and George had to escape from Weed before they would kill Lennie. Here George again demonstrates how much he really cares about Lennie because they escaped together. George did not leave Lennie alone in this situation. George understood that Lennie didn’t mean any harm but was mentally unable to recognize that his actions were viewed at...
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...drawn to women does not make it okay to engage in lustful looks. It is not a wise practice for any man who wants to protect his marriage, and in many cases it can be an issue of sin. Jesus said that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has committed adultery with her in his heart (Matthew 5:27-28). So while your husband is likely being honest when he says he has no intention of doing anything beyond looking, the act of looking can still be a problem, especially if he is replaying it in his mind later. Not only that, but in his situation he is not even trying to be discreet about it when you’re around, and that is cause for concern. If he freely looks when you are with him, how bold is he when you are not present? 1) Whenever we go anywhere, could be a reception, stores, etc ( basicly anywhere there are other people) he looks/stare at girls/women.. I have been married for 8 years and been talking to him about this ever since. I have asked him several times not to do it, that it bothers me. He says he likes to look, that everyone is different. The next time I caught him staring, I told him you can stare all you want when I am not there, just don't do it infront of me, .. I sometime ignore him but not all the time... it really hurts me.. For eg. we were doing grocery shopping the other day when he saw this girl and he looked/stare at her, its like she had a magnet on her body.. He couldn't help looking.. He is looking at the girl then he saw me looking at him, he then turned...
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