...The Year of the Elephant follows the life of Zahra, a recently divorced woman navigating her way through life’s obstacles and the short stories of women facing similar struggles as Zahra. The main character, Zahra, was the narrator of the novella, and gave the reader insight into her struggle for independence as she adjusted to life as a divorcee, a taboo among Moroccan culture, and the colonization of Morocco. As a divorcee Zahra was left without any marital possessions and was had to move back into her childhood home were she struggled to become apart of the community. Additionally, she was resistant in conforming to the new cultural norms brought over by the Europeans, which ultimately led Zahra’s husband to divorce her. Left with little choice, Zahra sought to seek her independence. In the process, Zahra, with the help of her friend Roukia, organized a women’s resistance group because Zahra realized the many struggles women faced because of their gender....
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...Churchill was wrong and misguided to support Edward VIII in the way that he did. How far do these sources support this interpretation? All three of these sources present a different image about Churchill’s approach Edwards’s situation. Overall Churchill’s view on the situation was the majority and most people were very angry with the King for trying to marry a divorcee. Sources B and C support the view that Church was misguided by telling us that he had little support from anyone else in the public or in the government. Source B states that people felt an “enraged fury against the King” this point tell us that people were furious with the king because he has gone against s major church rule to marry a divorcee. As Edward was the head of the Church of England his methods were thought to be a direct mockery of the church and everything that it stands for. As people didn’t have support for the king they were not going to have support for Churchill as he supported the king, this means they would have thought that his views were misguided and confused. Although sources imply that Churchill views were different to the majority and this would of lead to people thinking he was misguided there is no use of the word “Misguided” in the sources so we do not know exactly if the views of the people were this. Another thing that supports that the views that are supplied in Sources B and C are the both Source A and B are written in the correct time periods. This means that the facts written...
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...equivalent of abortion, and, if they have, why they haven’t come out against them, too. The use of these drugs frequently results in multiple births, which leads to the death of one of the infants, often after an agonizing struggle for survival. According to the rules of the pro-lifers, isn’t this murder?” — North-State Record This falls into the class of Straw Man. She is exaggerating her rebuttal. It is true that someone who uses fertility drugs can have that side effect and that it is common, it is uncommon to that the babies will have to fight to survive. 3. In one of her columns, Abigail Van Buren printed the letter of “I’d rather be a widow.” The letter writer, a divorcée, complained about widows who said they had a hard time coping. Far better, she wrote, to be a widow than to be a divorcée, who are all “rejects” who have been “publicly dumped” and are avoided “like they have leprosy.” Abby recognized the pseudo reasoning for what it was, though she did not call it by our name. What is our name for it? This is an example of False Dilemma. She is stating that simply because the widows weren’t “dumped publicly” they don’t feel the pain of being alone, that they don’t have to deal with the public criticism of losing their husbands to death instead of another reason. 5. Letter to the editor: “Once again the Park Commission is considering closing North Park Drive for the sake of a few joggers and bicyclists. These so-called fitness enthusiasts would evidently...
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...characteristics that it once had. Your skin is no longer tight like it used to be, now it loose and starting to wrinkle. With mental age (without disease ex: Alzheimer’s) I believe your mind gets wiser. You have lived a long life and most have been through many trials and tribulations that they have learned from. You have seen it all and done it all, to me older people give the best life advice, who better to get WISDOM from than a person who has lived through and experienced so much? 2. The Golden Girls shows an accurate and positive image of aging because it’s about 3 widows and a divorcee who are still able to live a happy life even in their age. Eventually all marriages will end in death or divorce so for someone to see that they can still live a happy and healthy life is good. The Golden Girls shows an accurate and positive image of aging because it’s about 3 widows and a divorcee who are still able to live a happy life even in their age. Eventually all marriages will end in death or divorce so for someone to see that they can still live a happy and healthy life is good. The Golden Girls Excerpt from the article HAS 50 BECOME THE NEW 30? By Frank Rocsi People these days are living longer than ever. And as they go through their longer, fuller, richer lives, they're taking better care of themselves and aging gracefully, so much so that even at 50 years of age and older - once upon a time considered "over...
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...Skip to search. * New User? Register * Sign In * Help Upgrade to Safer IE9 * Mail * My Y! * Yahoo! Yahoo! Lifestyle ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Search | Search Web | Bottom of Form | * Home * Photos * Videos * Love & Sex * Autos * Tech & Gadget * Blogs * Beauty & Fashion * Relationships * Love & Sex * Health * People * Life And Work * Autos * Tech & Gadget * Astrology Practice Yoga to reduce stress By IndiaTodayPrevention | Prevention – Fri, Sep 9, 2011 12:24 AM IST * * tweet1 * Email * Print Strike these poses for a calmer and happier you. Hypertension is not just common, in a strange twisted way it's a status symbol. It shows you have arrived, are busy and lead a stressed life. However, it takes a toll on your heart, spikes your blood sugar and insulin levels and that's bad news. yoga Recent studies show that yoga brings about a balance in your autonomous nervous system and regulates your blood pressure by stabilising your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. As a yoga practitioner, I have experienced the calming effect that this alternative therapy can provide. Being static, yoga postures are less demanding and require less oxygen. This causes minimal strain during exercise and keeps your muscles relaxed. Here are a few postures that you can practise...
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...Fred Astaire is one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century, he is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s. Fred Astaire introduced “Night and Day” on stage, and his recording of the song was a #1 hit. He performed it again in the 1934 film version of the show, renamed The Gay Divorcee, and became his signature pieces. The construction of “Night and Day” is unusual for a hit song of 1930s. Most popular tunes then featured 32-bar choruses, divided into 8-bar section, unusually with an A AABA musical structure, the B section representing the bridge. The vocal verse is also unusual in that most of the melody consists of single note with inconclusive and unusual harmonies underneath. Repeated notes in the verse is an indication of Astaire’s obsessions Night and Day; You are the one; Only you, beneath the moon, and under the sun The melody is just the same, one note either played or held for two and one-half measures. All the repeated notes flatten the melody, which transfers the emphasis to the harmonies and Latin beat. Instrumentation: piano, bass, drums and guitar Performance style: Rhythm: The tune begins with a pedal (repeated) dominant with major seventh chord on flattened sixth of the key, which then resolves into dominant seventh in the next bar. Harmony: Jazz is genre of music with an emphasis on improvisation, and swung syncopated rhythms. It often utilizes elements of the blues, and often uses standard show tunes ...
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...Identifying Fallacies CRT 205 Identifying Fallacies 2. This is an example of an ad hominem fallacy, the author attacks Andrea Keene, and therefore the claim is false. This could also be an example of Straw Man fallacy, while the effects of fertility drugs are not exaggerated, suggesting that one or more of the infants dies “agonizingly” every time is exaggerated. 3. Straw Man fallacy, this is where the author distorts and exaggerates the position. When she said that it is far better to be a widow than a divorcee because all divorcees are “rejects” who have been “publicly dumped” and are avoided “like they have leprosy” she is distorting the truth and exaggerating. 5. This is also a Straw Man fallacy, the author is exaggerating by saying “Then anytime anyone wanted a picnic, he would have to park at the edge of the park and carry everything in—ice chests, chairs, maybe even grandma.” This is also an example of a false dilemma, the author is limiting the outcome to two alternatives when other alternatives may be available. 6. The author stated that “The protestors would of course deny…” This is an example of circumstantial ad hominem fallacy because the author suggests that the Christian groups “would of course” deny any anti-Semitic motivation because they are Christians. The author continues and suggests that there would be no debate if there were a modern Christian scene depicted. 8. The fallacy is “For without these sources those demands will not be met, and it...
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...Gender : Female Astrological Sign : Virgo Location : Noida, India Basic Stats Personality Traits She can be introduced as an austere yet smart, confident, fun loving, caring, understanding, resilient & perfect blend of traditional and modern values with an uncomplicated approach towards life and courage to deal with the situations as and when they come, apart from the above mentioned qualities which make her distinguished person, She is firmly rooted in religious practices and brought up to uphold the values of Hinduism. She has strong belief in core human values and decent life style. Belonging to a closely knit family she listens to her elder’s advice. Though, she has always been very career oriented person, but home remains her first priority, so as per need she can do job. She is a socially poised, family oriented person who can be a responsible and caring partner. As far as marriage is concerned, she thinks it’s a very committed relationship and an institution which should be respected by one and all. Education ✓ Post Graduation from U.P.Technical University in the 2005 year ✓ Graduation from Bundelkhand University in the 2002 year ✓ She did her schooling from D.A.V Collage, Orai in the 1999 year Employment History ✓ Worked with NIIT Technologies (Noida) as Senior Software Engineer ✓ Working with a MNC as Senior Developer. ✓ Current...
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...I had more babies at my party than adults. All my friends came with an average of 2 children and I’ m yet to find Mr. Right. With a smiling face I knew I was in some trouble with the entrance of my mummy and auntie Feza. The whole fun of birthday is about to be changed to advice on my singlehood like I really forgot. With a craspy voice my auntie excused me from the sitting room into the kitchen. We sat at the dining table in the kitchen to have a chat. I knew where we are driving at anyway but morals keep you listening. The sermon went on again into when are going to get settled? Don’t tell me you don’t have anyone you are thinking of? It became unbearable when she told me she was going to introduce me to one of her neighbours” he’s a divorcee” ...
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...breadwinner that works as a real estate agent while his wife Claire Dunphy is a stay-at-home mother. The two of them have three kids; a daughter named Haley who is attractive but known as the “dumb blonde” (but is in fact not actually blonde), a daughter named Alex who is very intelligent but is seen as the less attractive one, and a son named Luke who is a typical trouble-maker. The second family consists of Mitchell and Cameron, a gay couple with an adopted Vietnamese baby named Lily. Mitchell is an uptight lawyer who also happens to be the breadwinner in the relationship, Cam on the other hand, is a very flamboyant person who is a stay-at-home dad to Lily. The third and final is the Pritchett-Delgado family, it consists of Jay a wealthy divorcee who is the owner of his company, Gloria, who is very beautiful but half Jay’s age. Gloria is from Columbia and has a 12 year old son named Manny. The macho men in all three of these families have great jobs while their wives/partner stay at home to take care of the children. Modern Family uses stereotypes quite often especially for the characters named Gloria, Phil, and Cam. The three characters that are portrayed as “normal” are Claire, Mitchell, and Jay who are all related, two siblings and their father. They are white, fairly well off upper-middle class without the stereotypical personality. Cam is stereotyped for his sexual orientation on the show, he is portrayed as an emotional and gentle character, giving him feminine like characteristics...
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...Gloria Kelly Synthesis Essay Dr. Dianne Malone, Instructor August 15, 2011 Drawing primarily from Terry Martin Hekker, Leslie Bennetts, and Deborah Tannen articles, I find them to have their similarities and differences in their version of motherhood and careers and bitterness. Women can decide to love or become bitter to the idea of taking on motherhood alone with or without a career path and with or without a man. Hekker’s bitterness did not come with her career choice as a housewife while Tannen’s interview with the lawyer’s bitterness did come with the career change or becoming a housewife with no help from her husband. The two women’s bitterness came to a point of resentment and annoyance towards their husbands. Hekker enjoyed her married life as a housewife in spite of criticism from family and friends while Bennetts’ lawyer became bitter when she had to become a housewife. Hekker never complained about her housewife career and never mentioned in her article whether or not her husband helped in the childrearing. But Bennetts’ interview with the commercial litigator lawyer reveals the very opposite when it came to taking full responsibility as a housewife. Bennetts explains how the lawyer had “disdain” (contempt) for housewives until she had children and demanding hours, had to give up her career because her husband felt that it was her problem to raise the children (woman’s work). The husband refused to take the time and help with the childrearing...
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...Essay on “A Good Night’s Sleep” You know the feeling. You went to bed three hours ago, and yet you have not fallen asleep. Panic is starting to take control of your mind and the darkness seems like a never-ending struggle. It feels as if you are being choked. It all starts out as tiny, red dots. In the beginning they are nothing but dots. When you notice how harmless they are, they start forming patterns. Suddenly they are everywhere. Among all the red dots monsters start appearing. Your biggest fear is approaching you and there is nothing you can do to stop the horror. A skinny arm of an abandoned child reaches out to touch you and in that very moment – you awake. You are all sweaty and frightened. You know, you have not been sleeping nor been awake. You have been drifting off to sleep and started hallucinating. Just as George Lockhart from the story you have just read. “A Good Night’s Sleep” is a Scottish short story written by Brian McCabe and published in 1993. The story takes place in a tenement building in Edinburgh. The place of action is on the third floor where George Lockhart, the main character, lives. I think the social environment is middleclass. The people living in the building are at all ages and appearances. The story being told from an apartment creates a sense of claustrophobia, which does not get any less when you are told about the noises from the street. The short story is being told from a third person omniscient narrative. It seems as a very reliable...
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...The King's Speech Firth is royalty, even if ‘King’s Speech’ is a little stiff Is civility enough to sustain a film? The audiences who will embrace “The King’s Speech’’ — and they are many and literate — will point to it as an example of the kind of movie that should be made more often. By February they may well have the Academy Awards to prove their point. It’s probably useless to argue in the face of such unerring good taste. Yet for some of us, Tom Hooper’s period drama about the stammer of King George VI is exactly the kind of movie we’ve had enough of — complacent middlebrow tosh engineered for maximum awards bling and catering to a nostalgia for the royalty we’ve never actually had to live with. The movie isn’t badly done, just overdone — a cozy art-house crowd-pleaser coasting on the expectations of its genre. At its heart is another very, very good performance by Colin Firth, one that may win him the Oscar he should have been awarded for last year’s “A Single Man.’’ As Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor — Bertie to his family, the Duke of York and eventually George VI to his subjects — Firth is a tormented paradox, a man born to public life who can barely speak in public without strangling on his own words. “The King’s Speech’’ opens with the Duke’s 1925 address at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium, a radio talk that proved agonizing for everyone involved. By the time his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) brings him to the tatty London offices of speech therapist...
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...Management studies. As a part of my curriculum, I am doing a project on Stress and Work Life Balance among Indian working women with respect to I.T and Banking industry. For the completion of my project, I would like to gather some information from you. I would be obliged if you co-operate me in filling the questionnaire. Since the questionnaire is being used for academic purpose, the information gathered will be strictly confidential. Personal Information A. Name of company: ________________________________________ B. Age: 20 - 25 yrs [ ] 25-40 yrs [ ] 40 – 60yrs [ ] C. Education: _____________________ D. Marital Status: I) Married ii) Unmarried iii) Widow IV) Divorcee E. If married, Do you have children? Yes / No F. If Yes, Number of children: ______ G. Family type: Joint / Nuclear H. Professional information 1. Number of years of work experience: _________yrs 2. Number of years in present organization: _________yrs I. Level in Management: Junior level ( ) Middle level ( ) Senior level ( ) Please read the following statements and give any one of the scores mentioned below: 1. Strongly Agree 2. Agree 3. Neutral 4. Disagree 5. Strongly Disagree |Sr.No | ...
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...Heather Lane Theo202_B22 Short Essay #2 Short Essay on Marriage and Divorce One morning while doing my devotions, I received a phone call from my friend Jane. She told me that Tom and herself had hit a rough spot in their marriage, and were considering their options. Before making and rash life altering decisions she wanted to know if I would meet with them to get my perspective, and to ask some questions about what the bible says about marriage and divorce. I told her I am certainly no marriage counselor, but I would love to help out in any way that I can. Not really knowing where to start I prayed for them, and I prayed for guidance and this is what the Lord brought to me. The Bible actually has allot to say about marriage. Marriage represents a serious commitment by both man and woman, it is a promise not only to the partner but to God as well. Marriage is an exclusive relationship. The total unity of a persons physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. Genesis 2:22-24 “The Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” So it was from the very beginning that Man and Woman were to be together. There are a couple different views when you look at the question, when does God consider...
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