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- 951: A Street Car Named Desire
- ... age of sixteen, she fell in love with, worshipped, and eloped with a sensitive boy. She believed that life with Allan was sheer bliss. Her faith is shattered when she discovers he is a bi-sexual degenerate. She is disgusted and expresses her disappointment in him. This prompts him to commit suicide. Blanche cannot get over this. She holds herself responsible for his untimely death. His death is soon followed by ... do not mix well. Both Stanley and Mitch fail to realize that while Blanche can easily give herself physically to a stranger, she cannot surrender like a prostitute to someone she cares about. In her sexual encounters with strangers, she was the giver, by her own free will. When she is taken forcefully by Stanley, the brutality of the act breaks her fragile nature; she is totally destroyed. When Blanche tells ...
- 952: Should Abortion Be Supported?
- ... this law to rid our country of abortion. The Catholic church is one of the biggest Right to Life organizations in the country. They stress that people should think and behave with standards of high sexual morality. If we were all to practice high sexual morality, there would be fewer teenage pregnancies, illegitimate babies, and consequently no need for abortion clinics in our country. However, some special cases might still existed. For instance, a fetus may have a high chance ...
- 953: Hippies
- ... on farms where people grew their own food and created their own schools.#5 Most of the hippies living in communes as well as others believed in “free love”, or casual sex, and had many sexual partners with the idea of no strings attached and no emotional breakups. Many thought that the idea of getting married and staying with one person was dumb and selfish. “If I were to stay with ... another, then what if our soul mate comes along? We would be so wrapped up in tradition that we couldn’t follow our destiny”#6 Hippies believed in sharing everything, from love and peace, to sexual partners and drugs. Drugs were taken often and openly within the Hippie communities. The drugs of choice were mainly marijuana, or weed, and LSD, usually called acid. Weed was smoked so freely that people would ...
- 954: Hamlet
- ... admit to problems and are much more likely than their husbands to evaluate their relationships as problematic. Women value their husbands earning potential a major attraction in marriage. Men say that what is important is sexual responsiveness and shared interests, while their wives say that the husbands' ability to get along with her family and friends is more important. Men generally rate their marital communication, relationships with parents, and sexual relationships as good, while women rate all of these problematic. Furthermore, it seems that the double standard continues to operate, with women considering their husbands fidelity more important than men do, and men more likely ...
- 955: AIDS: Risk Factors / Modes of Transmission / W. 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 ...
- 956: Television Drama
- ... writers and producers made it clear from the first episode (the “Pilot” episode) that the subject of sex would play a big portion of the show. In the “Pilot” episode, there was a lot of sexual tension between the main characters. The main characters discussed their sex-lives, sexual experiences openly and they talked about sex in general as a lot of teenagers do today. The first scene of the “Pilot” episode shows that Joey has been sleeping over Dawson’s house for 7 ...
- 957: Sigmund Freud
- ... it was the "dynamic unconscious" revealing something meaningful. To many, these ideas seemed to be making science out of a folk art, but Freud had still more controversial ideas to come. He concluded that the sexual drive was the most powerful shaper of a person's psychology, and that sexuality was present even in infants. He shocked society when he published these ideas in 1905. His most well-known theory is that of the "Oedipus complex" -- that in children (boys, that is) there is a sexual attraction towards the mother and a sense of jealousy to the point of hatred of the father. He later developed a parallel theory for girls. In 1902, Freud was appointed professor at the University of ...
- 958: Internet
- ... she gave the person her telephone number. Later in the week, the little girl found out the person on the other end of the computer was an older man. This child molester was caught having sexual activity with his eight-year-old neighbor in the state of Alabama. On another chat room, the mother of the ten-year-old went to scout out another chat room and found a petafile online ... sixteen-year-old male. Within a few minutes the male had already offered alcohol to who he thought was a fourteen year old female. The next thing the male brought up in the conversation was sexual offers. So within twenty minutes this police officer has already been offered sex and alcohol. This officer, Detective Mike Harris, recently went to the middle school where he resides in Jefferson County Colorado. He was ...
- 959: Alcohol and Its Effects On Humans
- ... indirect aggression. Graphs showed the results of the experiments. They show alcohol does cause aggression. Larger efforts might be obtained if a higher alcohol dose was given. Alcohol influences other social risk taking, moral judgement, sexual interest and nonsocial behaviors (Steele 1985). References: Adler J: Kids growing up scared. Newsweek 43-50, 1994 January 10. Buss AH: The Psychology of Aggression, New York, Wilroy, 1961. Permanen K: Alcohol in Human Violence ... 1990), alcohol plays a leading role in accidental deaths in the U.S. through motor vehicle crashes and falls. Having unsafe sex often leads to AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Unintentional injuries, physical and sexual assault, other criminal violations, poor academic performance, physical or cognitive impairment and interpersonal problems have all been associated with binge drinking (Barron’s Profile of American Colleges 1992, Wechler 1992, Hanson 1992). The survey showed ...
- 960: Analysis Of Poem Woman To Man
- ... level, is tenderly revealing her emotions about her 'yet to be born' child she is also taking a feminist stance. She is being up front and confrontational by speaking so openly about the act of sexual intercourse, conception, pregnancy and birth. This was something that was 'not done' in 1949. The physical and emotional context of pregnancy and its effect on Wright also needs to be considered. Wright was heavily pregnant ... reflect on the issues she is contemplating. Wright uses metaphors skilfully. Many of her metaphors are complex: "This is the hunter and our chase, / the third that lay in our embrace." The blind force of sexual instinct (and love) has driven the lovers together, yet at the same time they actively 'chase' the goal of procreation. "This is the blood's wild tree that grows / the intricate and folded rose". Wright ...
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