...Fall 2015 The Vagina Monologues is a series of monologues written by Eve Ensler. Eve Ensler went around and interviewed/ talked to countless women about a more untalked about topic, their vaginas. She heard interesting stories, funny stories, sad stories and more about vaginas. She then encompassed them into monologues that have been performed around the world bringing awareness to women about their sexuality, pain, happiness and own bodies. This book is used by feminist to promote self love but is also controversial to many feminist who feel as though the book reduces women to just what is between their legs. One such monoloque to bring about...
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...The monologue from Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues I have chosen to write about is “My Angry Vagina”. In this monologue, the woman Ensler interviewed talked about all the ways the vagina is treated unjustly. I believe what this woman is trying to express in this monologue is that the vagina is simply misunderstood. There are ways that feminine products and routinely doctors’ visits can be improved if only people took the time to get to know the anatomy of the vagina, what makes women feel uncomfortable, and what makes them feel like they can trust someone or something with the most precious part of their bodies. I will explain why some women feel anger, stress, and fear by the way female genitalia is treated and I will conclude by explaining...
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...One of Shakespeare's longest, most perplexing, and, for a lot of people, most frustrating play, Hamlet stays one of his most convincing and the most read play and it lives up to expectations, too. Hamlet can be better seen by analyzing Hamlet's soliloquies. The majority of Hamlet's monologues demonstrate Hamlet's self-loathing and even a readiness to bite the dust. The soliloquy "To be, or not to be: that is the question" shows up in Act 3 Scene 1. It is, maybe, one of the best-known soliloquies by Hamlet in the play, which produces significant scholarly investment even today. Hamlet is feeling profound agony and distress in light of his father's passing. It appears that he is not able to acknowledge this partition. He would like to live. Considering suicide, he doubts himself rationally in the event that it is legitimized to live with so much agony and anguish or if finishing his own particular life is the best conceivable choice. "To be, or not to be: that is the question" Hamlet makes this a stride further and works on the supposition that everybody would rather be dead than living, and is alive simply because he has a trepidation of slaughtering himself. Hamlet is no more addressing whether he needs to die, yet just whether or he finds himself able to slaughter himself, on the grounds that murdering himself clashes with his religion. Hamlet’s sadness over his father's demise and his mother's snappy marriage made him wish for death even before he discovered that his uncle...
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...MONOLOGUE Ten seconds left. I can barely hear anything. I feel the vomit creeping up in my throat as the milliseconds go by. Everything is getting very blurry. Tension is rising. Who would have thought that we would be down by one point and I would be the one trusted to hold this basketball? Why did my coach want me to shoot the last shot in the first place? What do I bring on this court that is any different from what my teammates would bring? Every face on my bench is almost frozen, their eyes locked on to me and the ball. There are hundreds of people in the stands watching my every move. Deep breath. Every little thing has to be on point. Nine seconds. I just want to pass the ball away over to my teammate, get rid of it. Why not? Who cares what my coach says? He’s the one who put me in this situation anyways. Eight seconds left. Its just too embarrassing to miss THE final shot in THE final game of the season. I have earned every second I stepped foot on this court and worked too hard for this shot to be a miss. All the time spent practicing and all the injuries, I just cant let myself and everyone down. Seven seconds. I see everyone in the stands jumping up and down but can barely hear them. What do they want from me? i’m 18 years old for crying out loud! It’s not like I’m in the NBA here! I want to see them try and step foot in my shoes right now... Nonsense, focus. My defender looks really intimidating. His muscles contract as his thumbs rub against his fingertips...
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...states of mind in two or three works of fiction you have studied. Introduction: Throughout both novels, The God Small Things by Arundhati Roy and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, characters often lack rational thought and, speak in Most authors have distinct styles, and in both novels, Roy and Faulkner embed a deeper meaning within them with the use of a subtle and discreet narrative manner, such as stream of consciousness and interior monologues. This is particularly true in As I Lay Dying, a novel of a dysfunctional and unstable family told through fragmented chapters. Each character reveals their perspective in different chapters, but the perspectives are true to life in that they all reveal information about the Bundren family and their struggles to exist. Although stream of consciousness proves to be prevalent in the progression of the plots, a series of flashbacks and flashforwards unfold the secrets of these characters' unhappiness. Through the use of literary devices such as stream of consciousness, interior monologue and analepsis and prolepsis, Roy and Faulkner allow for the flow of impressions coming through a character’s mind to be represented on the surface. Outline: I. Stream of Consciousness A. As I Lay Dying 1. Faulkner imitates the way the human brain works; the progression of thoughts passing through the mind as they occur represents a selective omniscience a. I am I and you are you and I know it and you dont know it and you could...
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...due to the fact that Amanda of an affluent decent and so such things as table manners when she was growing up, would have been of more importance than perhaps to Tom and his current financial situation. Tom does not appear in the second scene and so this could elude to the idea that Tom is trapped by financial burden. As we have discovered from Toms opening monologue, his father disappeared leaving Tom to be the sole provider for the family. This could perhaps suggest, through the theme of being male, that Tom is perhaps trapped by his gender, as in 1937 it was the role of the man in of the house to provide for the women. As a result of this societal norm, tom had to take work wherever he could find it, and so works in a low paid, low skilled job in a shoe factory. Perhaps the shoes are a metaphor to the running he is so longing to do away from his family, but more specifically, Amanda due to the burden of expectations she places on his shoulders to be the perfect gentlemen in a social class where, perhaps such thing does not exist. It could be argued that in scene three, the pivotal moment is not in the monologue when Tom breaks Laura’s glass menagerie, but the prior conversation he has with Amanda. Tom confirms the...
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...Character Monologue It destroys me that they all come running up to me when they need someone to listen to them whine. They just carelessly suspect that I'm immune to sadness and depression. What they don't know is that I'm just like them. To them, I'm this person filled with joy and God knows nothing can drag me down. They assume I don’t have any troubles in my daily life, nope, all just rainbows and sunshine. They don't stop to consider that maybe all this depression surrounding me gets me down once in a while. No, how selfish of me, they've got their own problems to deal with first. They want to hear me say that everything will be okay, and that things really aren't as bad as they seem to be. You know, generic bullshit that’s on every page of social media. I’m having to listen to them ramble on about their crushes not liking them and their boyfriends not spending every minute of every hour of every fucking day with them. Maybe, it's my fault. I put on this front like I'm always so happy and cheery, so they naturally gravitate to the happiest person they can find within a mile radius. Maybe they're hoping a little bit of what’s left of my happiness will be passed onto them. Maybe they think that they'll be happier if they're like me. Oh, God. Stop me. I'm going on an ego trip again. But they wouldn't want this happiness spared onto them, it’s not happiness, quite the opposite. I can barely handle it anymore. People say that I'd make a good psychologist, and maybe they're right...
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...Monologue 7/19.15 Monologue He was a man, cold like his steal knife. I could still feel it on the tip of my skin…so sharp…so lifeless. The blood dripping down my flesh, tears streaming down my face. He could have got me? Oh no…he could have. But did he? She was the first one to go. Who’s she you ask? Hmph…That does not matter anymore. I could hear her screaming as she called for help she grew limp, her voice cracking as he dragged her away. Do you think I am crazy? Doctor. Do you? The blood, the lives. Oh no but she came back, she came back but I knew it wasn’t her. The skin was there, but it was being worn by someone else, someone whom wanted to be her. I knew he wanted to smile, but her skin wouldn’t let him. He wore it, he wore what was hers. I stayed silent as he played dress up. The mirror he stared at was covered in dust, and each day I stared with him. He must have forgot about me? Though he enjoyed her skin a lot more than the others. He continued to wear it as if he knew I was watching, dolling her up as if she was his own. As he was her. This man wasn’t the prettiest, the lights dimming down on his harsh features, even with someone else’s face he couldn’t achieve beauty for he was a monster. How long did it take me to leave you ask? You tell me Doc am I really here or are you the one who’s...
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...1 Journal entry Two: How do media writers influence society? The media influences society through many channels not available even fifteen years ago. We no longer rely only on the evening news or newspapers, we can get instantaneous news from our smart phones, tablets, computers. People are connecting through blogs and social media websites to obtain and share news. Today we are also a celebrity crazed generation that focuses more on who is dating whom or what they are wearing (or not wearing in many cases). The lack of morals and desensitizing of this generation to crime, death, sex and horror weighs heavy on the shoulders of our media. Children are talking about and having sex at young ages, making babies to get on reality shows, kissing the same sex to gain the attention of the opposite sex only. The morality has gone, it is considered “old school” to have morals or believe in saving yourself for marriage, staying married to one person, or not let your parents raise your babies. Even news outlets that are supposed to be legitimate and unbiased are telling only one side of the news to fill a political agenda. Politics are sugar coated and ignored on some networks, or completely farfetched from reality for political gain and control from one party or another. Media writers can put their own agenda and emotion into any piece they report on to give a one sided view of any subject. It is hard to know what is fact or opinion anymore with so many resources out there....
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...Margaret Sanger wrote a book about birth control to educate women Kinsey wrote sexual behavior in the human male about facts that were happening Freud talks about sexual psychology Huey Hefner releases Playboy for romantic sexual pleasure Anthony Comstock in 1800’s tried to ban all open sexual behaviors, no contraceptives info/supplies, public displays of affection and pornography The early 20th century Women had to go into the work force because men were going to war They wanted them to abstain from sex so they don’t get venereal disease Automobile was like an accessory to sex to have privacy Felons that needed punishment received vasectomy’s 1920’s Prohibition was happening New behaviors of women: Jazz clubs and danced, cigarettes and alcohol, rode bikes and drove cars 1930’s and 1940’s The great depression makes women return to being more conservative New laws for women’s right to legal access to contraceptive info/devices World War II Post war back to traditional roles Baby boom began because all men were coming back from the war Televisions became a “must have” Development of penicillin to cure STI’s There was a different outlook on the war for men to have something to be excited about after war 1950’s -1970’s Alfred Kinsey published book about male and female sexuality 1960: FDA approved distribution of Enovid (1st oral contraceptive) Men are volunteering vasectomies 1973: Roe vs. Wade – abortion is legal Homosexuality no longer labeled...
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... | |Sexual Response Cycle | | | |Excitement Phase |The male will achieve a penal erection after |Physical and or psychological stimulation is | | |stimulation. Physically and psychological |what brings the increased blood flow to the | | |stimulation. The Vascongestion in a man is what |vagina. Because of the increases blood flow | | |causes the erection in the male penis. Because of |the walls of the vagina, there is a fluid | | |this there is blood flow which increases in the |that is like sweating that lubricates the | | |Corpora Cavernosa. The male scrotum begins to |females vagina. This means that at the | | |become tighter. |present moment all of the female’s external | | | |genitals are beginning to swell. Just like | | | |the males...
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...Part A, Section 2 • Both young men and young women can make their own decisions about sex. • It doesn’t matter if you’re male or female, if you had sex in the past or if you haven’t. • All teenagers can their own decisions about what is right for them. • As you learned in the first PHE workshop, Decision Making and Communication I, a person can use the 5 C’s to make a decision. • So we’re going to do a small activity. I’m going to need five volunteers. • Okay, so can you guys put the five C’s in the correct order? o Identify my Choices o Understand the Consequences (Both positive and negative) o Decide what I Care About o Carry out the Decision o Communicate that Decision to Others • Thank you all for volunteering. So please turn to page 16, figure D in your workbooks. • This worksheet provides a tool for teenagers to decide whether or not to have sex. • Although there are many decisions that can be made about having sex, this exercise will focus on whether or not to have sex. • So you all will have about 3 minutes to complete the activity……30 seconds….. • Okay, so what are some consequences of having sex? Keep in mind that these can be both positive and negative. o A person can experience the pleasure of sex. o A person can get pregnant. o A person can give or get an STI if they have vaginal sex. o A person can share love with a partner. o A person may regret having sex. • So what are some consequences of not having sex? Keep in mind that these...
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...Asdfasdfsadfsdfasdfasdfasdf Vaginal douches may consist of water, water mixed with vinegar, or even antiseptic chemicals. Douching has been touted as having a number of supposed but unproven benefits. In addition to promising to clean the vagina of unwanted odors, it can also be used by women who wish to avoid smearing a sexual partner's penis with menstrual blood while having intercourse during menstruation. In the past, douching was also used after intercourse as a method of birth control, though it is not effective (see below). Many health care professionals state that douching is dangerous, as it interferes with both the vagina's normal self-cleaning and with the natural bacterial culture of the vagina, and it might spread or introduce infections. For example, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services strongly discourages douching, warning that it can lead to irritation, bacterial vaginosis, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Frequent douching with water may result in an imbalance of the pH of the vagina, and thus may put women at risk for possible vaginal infections, especially yeast infections.[1] In May 2003, a randomized, controlled, multi-center study was conducted with 1827 women ages 18–44 who were regular users of a douche product and who had been treated recently for a sexually transmitted bacterial infection or bacterial vaginosis. Women were randomly assigned to use either a newly designed and marketed douche product or a soft cloth towelette. There...
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...A Sexy Guide bySteelAndSilk© While I was pondering a bit about another how-to, I stumbled onto the idea of one about how women could be sexy (or sexier) toward men, and also, avoid being unsexy. Now, as I've stated in some of my other articles, I have no business telling men how to be sexy toward women. I'll leave that to a woman, seeing as she would know a hell of a lot more than I would. There are the obvious things, of course, for both sexes. Being in decent shape, having a good attitude toward each other (though some women do go for the douchebags, a concept I'll never understand), etc, are all great things. However, not every guy is going to be able to get all ripped out, and not every woman has time to tone her abs or get supermodel hot. Let me share a secret with you ladies...you don't have to in order to be sexy. But, it is good to take care of yourself, just as you would want your man to. Now, understand that when I "speak for men" we're talking about your run-of-the-mill normal guy. Sure, there are guys who think you dressing in a skin-tight latex full body suit with weird goggles for your eyes and a zipper on the mouth while you spank his ass with a spiked paddle is sexy. I'm not remotely experienced with that, so I'm going to leave that be. Nor am I getting into the men who supposedly love obese women. No experience there either. So what do you think of when you think sexy, girls? Maybe waiting for your husband to come home, candles lit and music playing, and he...
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...Newborn Discharge Instructions Feeding: Feed your baby whenever he or she shows signs of hunger (hands in mouth, rooting, lip-smacking, cooing). Breastfed babies usually eat every 2-3 hours but may eat more frequently at certain times of the day. Bottle fed babies usually eat every 3-4 hours. Urination: During the first few days of life, your baby will urinate 2-3 times each day. By the 4th or 5th day of life, your baby should urinate 6-8 times a day. Bowel Movement: Your baby’s first bowel movements are called meconium and are thick, black and sticky. During the first 4-5 days of life, your baby’s bowel movements will change from brown to green and finally to yellow. Most babies have 3-4 bowel movements daily. If you are breast feeding, you will know your baby is getting enough to eat if he/she has at least 3-4 soft yellow bowel movements each day. Bathing: Your baby does not need to be bathed every day 2-3 times a week is enough. Use mild, non deodorant soap and dry the baby very well to prevent him/her from becoming cold. Be sure to clean the diaper area well with each diaper change. Cord Care: Your baby’s cord will fall off in 5 to 15 days. Positioning: Your baby should fall asleep on his/her back. Your baby should NOT sleep on his/her stomach. It is OK for your baby to lie on his/her stomach when he/she is awake and you are playing. Temperature: If you are concerned that your baby is sick, you can take a temperature under the baby’s...
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