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- 721: Lesbian Poetry
- ... line, and let it be, "Emily, I love you," and I will be satisfied! Your own Emily (Dickinson 141) This letter to Susan insinuates immodestness as does her poem "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" which suggests sexual behavior (whether female-love or male-female-love), because the speaker's goal is that she "Might . . . But moor - Tonight--/In Thee!" (Line 11-12). Also in "Her breast is fit for pearls" the speaker ... starting out? Society would be deprived of their genious and those who they influenced would have possibly never exhibited their talents, leaving a narrow trail for the future of the arts to follow. Someone's sexual orientation should have nothing to do with whether we enjoy or destroy their works and talents. Now there is much more media sources devoted toward homosexuals such as in television, books, and of course the ...
- 722: A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song"
- ... objects but in the process fails to offer himself. This reveals his superficial attitude towards women where by they can be manipulated with gifts and promises, and in turn shows a sign of his possible sexual intentions. The speaker is possibly trying to obscure his love long enough to take control and have his way with her. This idea is reinforced in the line "I will make thee a bed of roses" (9) , which contains underlying sexual connotations. These intentions are masked in the speaker's persuasive nature as he seduces his love with romantic images of "Melodious birds sing(ing) madrigals" (8) . It can also be observed that all the gifts ...
- 723: Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome
- ... a life and death issue. To have the AIDS diseas is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of my friends has been profoundly altered by it. In my part of the country, one man in10 may already be carrying the AIDS virus. While the figures may currently ... as a disease of gay males in this country. This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year. This figure was much higher than common practice among heterosexual (straight) men or women. In addition, it turned out that rectal sex was a particularly effective way to transmit the disease, and ...
- 724: Religious Life In Indonesia
- ... in a Muslim society and abortion is only allowed when the life of the mother is at stake. Birth control is allowed as long as both parties consent. Islam is also completely against people having sexual intercourse before they are married as well as anyone who commits adultery. Islam also prohibits homosexuality believing that it is dirty and unnatural The key values of Islam are faith, justice, forgiveness, compassion, mercy, sincerity ... payment of alms to the poor and needy. Ramadan is a period of fasting held during the ninth month of the year, it is a time when a Muslim will refrain from eating, drinking or sexual intercourse between dawn and dusk; the fifth pillar is the pilgrimage to Mecca, if health and wealth permit a Muslim must trek to Mecca at least once in his or her lifetime. A Muslim’s ...
- 725: Sex Education -- 2
- ... the information they need about sex. Only then can they make responsible choices and keep themselves protected. However, sex education as it is known today, is ineffective when it comes to lowering teenage pregnancies and sexual transmitted diseases. The government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fund sex education programs that simply do not work. Sex education teachers are inadequately trained and cannot connect with a teenager the same ... Sex." Newsweek. 14 June 1999: 80-81 Krauthammer, Charles. "School Birth-Control Clinics: A Necessary Evil." Elements of Argument. Ed. Annette T. Rottenberg. Boston: Bedford Books, 1996 Rosoff, Jeannie. "Helping Teenagers Avoid Negative Consequences of Sexual Activity." USA Today. May 1996: 33-35 "Schools Skimping on Sex Education." USA Today. Aug. 1998: 13 Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe. "The Failure of Sex Education." The Atlantic Monthly. Oct. 1994
- 726: A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song"
- ... objects but in the process fails to offer himself. This reveals his superficial attitude towards women where by they can be manipulated with gifts and promises, and in turn shows a sign of his possible sexual intentions. The speaker is possibly trying to obscure his love long enough to take control and have his way with her. This idea is reinforced in the line "I will make thee a bed of roses" (9) , which contains underlying sexual connotations. These intentions are masked in the speaker's persuasive nature as he seduces his love with romantic images of "Melodious birds sing(ing) madrigals" (8) . It can also be observed that all the gifts ...
- 727: Song Of Solomon
- ... of Hagar. Throughout his adolescence, Hagar brushes off Milkman's lascivious glances and displays of affection; however, as he matures, Hagar takes interest in Milkman and falls in love with him as she fulfills his sexual desires. Once Milkman's lust for Hagar abates, he chooses to unceremoniously dump her and seek others within his own social group to fill the void (or rather, for him to fill her void). Hagar ... taken towards Milkman, no one wanted both Milkman's dead life and living life more than his father, Macon Dead. Upon Milkman's conception, his father Macon, suspecting his sister Pilate becharmed him into having sexual relations with his wife Ruth, fervently calls for Ruth to abort the child. Macon forces Ruth to make several attempts on the unborn child's life, including enemas and the insertion of knitting needles into ...
- 728: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety" by W.H. Auden
- ... bet with a lying self" c. Naive belief in self and place in life is boundless d. It is the age of belief in the possibility of a future 3. The third age a. The sexual awakening b. Distinction between dream and reality c. Discovery that love, as it was thought to be, is a sharp contrast to love in the bounds of reality 4. The fourth age a. Presents circus ... belief in self and place in life is boundless. It is in this age that the belief in the future is possible (Nelson 119). The third age is termed by Malin as the age of sexual awakening. It is in this age that the distinction between dream and reality begins to surface in the mind of man. With this distinction comes the discovery that love, as it was thought to be ...
- 729: I Knew a Woman: An Analysis
- ... loose feeling (a "liquid" sound in linguistics) like he says in line 17: "She played it [the note] quick, she played it light and loose." This woman he describes is not necessarily "loose" in the sexual connotation of the word, but rather her personality flexible and forgiving, something we see Roethke needs as he compares himself to a rake as she is the sickle (a significance to be discussed shortly). The ... absolute goodness to Roethke. In line 27 he also mentions his "old bones" and how they now "live to learn her wanton ways." "Wanton" has a couple similar meanings, but the most appropriate is "causing sexual excitement." Simple enough -- Roethke wants to say he is sexually attracted to this this woman despite either his age or previously negative experiences. Despite the fact that he deals mainly with her more innocent qualities ...
- 730: Aids And Africa
- ... and are found to be more sexually active than those without the infection. Major routes of HIV transmission in Africa are heterosexual, mother-to-child, and transfusions with unscreened blood. In addition, prostitution and cultural sexual practices greatly influence the increase in transmission rates. Transfusions, though, are now being screened in most major urban areas and therefore are not as threatening as they once were. Homosexuality and i.v. drug use ... from the labor concentration to the labor reserve areas throughout the country which provides not only a vulnerable population but also an efficient mode of spread and transmission” (Bethel, 152). “It is clear that traditional sexual practices by African men, as well as the widespread custom of genitally mutilating a large part of the female population, are responsible for the different pattern of AIDS transmission” (Bethel, 46). However, “the complex mesh ...
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