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- 451: Ovid The Poet
- ... Heroidum, 21 fictional love letters, mostly from mythological heroines to their lovers" (Redmond). "The commentator of his day, he presented most of his findings in the form of love elegies on themes from seduction to abortion, and distilled his professorial wisdom into the witty and comprehensive art of love" (Godolphin xxvi). Ovid's works reflected the issues of the time and the attitude of its people. His poems and writings left ...
- 452: Ernest Hemingway
- ... up skiing in the Alps with a male friend to return to his wife who is having a baby. In Hemingway's story Hills Like White Elephants the man wants his sweetheart to have an abortion so that they can continue as they once lived. In To Have and Have Not, Richard Gordon took his wife to "that dirty aborting horror". Catherine's death, in A Farewell to Arms, saves the ...
- 453: A Study Of Catholicism
- ... priest. The priest then referred the girl to the Cardinal of that area. The twelve-year-old girl comes from a family that can barely afford food and clothes, let alone support a new child. Abortion was obviously not even an issue in this case. The clergy decided it would be best to use church money and support this girl in her pregnancy. This shows openness on the part of the ...
- 454: Euthanasia
- ... with any other person. The idea of active euthanasia is very old. Plato, Aristotle, and Luther- all eminent figures of history recommended it, but at the present, the only legal ways of ending life are abortion, capital punishment, war, and suicide. The issue of assisted suicide has been the subject of intense national debate. In June 1997 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases challenging the legality ...
- 455: Ancient Greek Doctors
- ... is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art. I will not cut persons laboring under the stone, but will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners ...
- 456: Courtly And Uncourtly Views Of
- ... of the sexual encounter pregnant, the speaker often reveals herself to be foolish, vulgar, coarse and silly rather than wicked, cruel or tragic (which could be insinuated given that some of them imply infanticide or abortion). It is the men who are portrayed as sexually predatorial, violent and unscupulous. Even women who are not innocent and naοve are seen as sex objects in these lyrics. Often in poems where the woman ...
- 457: Godesses,whores,wives,and Slav
- ... could only have sexual intercourse with her husband. From the time a woman is even starting in life in her mother's womb she will suffer at the hand of males. If a female survived abortion, it was up to the father on whether or not to keep her. Females were seen as a burden or just another cost to the father. Male children were needed at all times, there was ...
- 458: Ku Klux Klan 3
- ... objectives of the Klan are to start focusing on the family again and to close the United States borders to stop immigration.("Kajun Knights of the KKK", p.1) The Klan also intends on stopping abortion, reverse discrimination, and welfare for those who do not need it.("Imperial Klans of America", p.2) The most important objectives of the Klan today are to outlaw homosexuality and inter-racial marriages. They attribute ...
- 459: On As I Lay Dying
- ... three dollars which will be helpful for the trip. Another example of Darl's perceptive sensibility is his accusation that Dewey Dell wants their mother dead so she can go to town to get an abortion. Cora also pereviously stated that people view Darl as strange and total different from the rest of the family. The first section introduces two major symbols. First the use of the coffin was previously used ...
- 460: Frankenstein: Rights and Responsibilities
- ... this is a mere representation of her life. What is most significant is the abandonment the monster feels throughout the story. He expresses it by telling Walton "...I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on." He claims he is the victim of his wrongdoing and affirms: "You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and ...
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