Marvell shows the attitude of men towards women in "To his coy mistress" as romantic and physical. ... The man couldn't carry out his intention of being romantic and tender to the woman because his real intention is to sleep with her. ... This shows that she doesn't seem to be involved in the relationship that the relationship is not romantic and it is flawed. ... The poets" use of language presents the ideal of love as romantic in "How Do I Love Thee?" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Psychoanalytic Symbols in "Kew Gardens" Kew Gardens is one the most erotic short stories I have ever read. In Freudian terms it is the description of, if you like, a night's love making. Virginia Woolf intentionally used nouns, verbs, small descriptions that are very typical Freudian symbols, and e...

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The course textbook defines "motivation" as "a process within a person or an animal that causes it to move towards a goal or away from an unpleasant situation." It continues to examine the four central areas of human motivation. These motives include the motives to eat, love, for sex, and to achieve...

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Imagine a world that is overpopulated with children. The number one reason why families are poor are due to the fact that they have too many children. But in today's society overpopulation is not a problem due to the wonderful birth-control movement of Margaret Sanger. In the early 1900s sexual rel...

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In Candide Voltaire discusses the exploitation of the female race in the eighteenth century through the women in the novel. Cunegonde, Paquette, and the Old Woman suffer through rape and sexual exploitation regardless of wealth or political connections. These characters possess very little complexit...

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Should one give up their long-preserved virginity just because eventually we will all die? Based on the remarks of the speaker in "To His Coy Mistress," this mentality is correct. Written by Andrew Marvell, this "carpe diem" poem displays the idea that one should make the most of the present time de...

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In the book "The Catcher in the Rye," by JD Salinger, protagonist Holden Caulfield meets a variety of different female characters. Holden does not respect women as much as he should, and there are many examples of this throughout the novel. The rebellious teenager has a different type of relationshi...

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Things have changed. Teenagers all over the world are experimenting sexual activities more than ever before. Adolescents are surrounded by sex all the time. They hear about it on the radio, television, internet, friends and school. Teens see the affects of sex on our society. But teenagers are not t...

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Love is a hard word to define. Everyone has a different interpretation of what love is and what it means to them. Relationships are complicated things. Every relationship is different, depending on the people involved. In the novels, "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" and "Surfacing", we see...

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• Grade Level: High School

AIDS after 1985 was an astonishing deadly risk for sexually active people as a whole. The days of promiscuity and one-night stands were being re-thought due to the possible contraction of this new disease called AIDS. A fear of sex was brought upon the people and "as the AIDS threat [grew], the m...

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• Grade Level: High School

AIDS after 1985 was an astonishing deadly risk for sexually active people as a whole. The days of promiscuity and one-night stands were being re-thought due to the possible contraction of this new disease called AIDS. A fear of sex was brought upon the people and "as the AIDS threat [grew], the m...

• Word Count: 2205
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• Grade Level: High School

Parental Roles in Sex Education There are a number of obstacles Parent's must hurdle over while raising their children to be productive citizens of this world. These obstacles range anywhere from teaching them the difference between right and wrong, the importance of education, to teaching ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Bible refers to marriage many times throughout itself, whether it is direct or indirect. "God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God," is a quote Max Lucado had said when writing about ma...

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In society today, people are faced with having premarital sex. Premarital sex is when a women and man have sex before they are married. The controversy over premarital sex has never been more profound than it is today. The very mention of the word brings forth radically different reactions. At one t...

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Teenagers in the United States are experimenting with sexual activities more and more today than ever before. According to Charles Krauthammer, "Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and there's not a kid in the world who can avoid it." (Meier, 1994, p. 7). Teenagers are surrounded by some sort of sexual connotations all the time. Whether it is television, radio, school, or even the Internet, teenagers are hearing the affects of sex on our society. ...

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• Grade Level: High School