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- 731: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: Stanza 74
- ... be to reject the offer or bring it to the lord of the castle, but Gawain places the preservation of his life ahead of chivalry. The knight has withstood the lady’s constant barrage of sexual advances, and kept his promise to the lord of the castle, but when the chance to save his life is presented, he snatches it up without a second thought. This point is shown by the ... has done to help him. In this aspect, Morgan represents Satan; using the lady of the castle as her puppet, she endeavors to tempt Sir Gawain and lead him away from God. When her original, sexual attempts fail, she makes a final effort by offering her girdle, using man’s inborn tendency to protect himself at all costs. Sir Gawain, in fact, needs little convincing; "he allowed her to solicit him ...
- 732: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall: Ellen Weatherwall
- ... name. She now has a role that only a married woman can have in her society. (DeMouy, 48) George was a man whom Ellen did not only love, but he introduced her to her first sexual experience. In her society everyone believed women should have no thought of sex. After George created a sexual bond with Ellen, he failed to meet her at the altar. This leaves Ellen with a feeling of shame for the rest of her life. For 60 years “she has prayed against remembering him and ...
- 733: Angina Pectoris
- ... feeling tense by sitting or lying down quietly. Close your eyes, breathe slowly and deeply through the nose, make each exhalation long, soft and steady. An adequate amount of sleep each night is always important. Sexual activity It is true that sexual intercourse may bring on an angina attack, but the chronic frustration of abstinence may cause more tension. If intercourse precipitates angina, either suck on an angina tablet a few minutes beforehand or let your partner ...
- 734: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means tiredness in Icelandic). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings. The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles, the infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is still doubling every ... broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. They go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual contact, incubation periods are two years and more, while in cases of massive infection via blood transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners, incubation periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if the ...
- 735: The Flea: Analysis
- ... Flea by John Donne he is talking to his the woman he loves. He would like to make love to her and she will not respond to his needs. The relationship between the flea and sexual intercourse in this poem is an unflattering comparison described with unique detail. In the first stanza of the poem Donne says: Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deny ... they had at the start. The poem could possibly turn the woman away from intercourse even more because the author drew a parallel with that and a flea which could not be considered romantic. Another sexual turnoff could be talking a lot about mixing blood inside of an insect. These together probably did not combine to give the woman a change of heart.
- 736: Socialized Sexism
- ... socialized. Examples of sexism in America from a very young age to an old age are given to support the idea that sexism is engrained into American society in an endless loop of discrimination and harassment. Socialized Sexism Results of Yale University s Implicit Assumption Test (IAT) On the gender test I received a score of: You have a moderate automatic preference between females and science. That score places me in ... his parent s good intentions through emotional abuse of his peers. It is every boy s nightmare to be picked on, to be the one that is called the girl. He will focus on this harassment and how to stop it rather than his school work, causing his grades to drop. Now his parents have a child who is the model for all children, likes to be nurtured, likes comfort, isn ...
- 737: Freud 2
- ... as a result of the efforts of a highly influential patient. The medical world still regarded his work with hostility, and his next writings, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1904) and Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory (1905), only increased this antagonism. As a result Freud continued to work virtually alone in what he termed splendid isolation. By 1906, however, a small number of pupils and followers had gathered around Freud ... arose among members of his original circle. Most disturbing were the defections from the group of Adler and Jung, each of whom developed a different theoretical basis for disagreement with Freud's emphasis on the sexual origin of neurosis. Freud met these setbacks by developing further his basic concepts and by elaborating his own views in many publications and lectures. After the onset of World War I Freud devoted little time ...
- 738: Like Water For Chocolate Movie
- ... both are developed by different sexes. This obviously could effect the compare and contrast views of this paper. For example, being male, I found that the two images that left the greatest impression were of sexual nature, Gertrudis making love with the soldier, and Tita being intimate with Pedro. The different views of the sexes may also be the answer to some of the contrasts between the movie and novel. For instance, the death of Mama Elena. Esquirel’s version fits the emotional death, suicide, geared toward the female audience, while Arau’s shows a more sexual and violent death, extinguishing the male desire for action. In conclusion, I found the novel more entertaining than the movie. The reason the movie fell short in expectations is because Esquirel does a great job ...
- 739: John Donne And Shakespeare
- ... for man to obey. The violent language that is used by Donne to shows that he needs to be ruled by God. Even more surprising is that at the end of the sonnet Donne uses sexual language as he says, “you ravish me”. By using this language he is again saying that God must force himself on Donne in order to be able to be overwhelmed by him. Both Shakespeare and ... that he would be happier if he was forced by someone else to worship his God than to have to try and force himself by will power alone. The rhyming couplet at the end uses sexual suggestions to reinforce the point that God must force himself on Donne in order for Donne’s faith to be unquestioning. The rhyming couplet however does not sum up the sonnet or stand in the ...
- 740: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... word responses. He was drifting into a nightmare world of unimaginable fantasies. In coming years those fantasies would begin to overwhelm him. The dead in their stillness would become the primary object of his growing sexual desire. His inability to speak about such strange and unsetting notions would sever his connections to the world outside himself." While other boys pursued careers, education, the creation of homes and families, Jeff was completely ... life that focused on having complete control over people...That fantasy life, mixed with hatred, perhaps hatred of himself which is being projected into his victims. If he at all felt uncomfortable about his own sexual orientation, it is very easy to see it projected into these victims and punishing them indirectly to punish himself." Serial murder, psychopathology, necrophilia, cannibalism -- none of these phenomena is unique to modern times. The explanation ...
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