From school grades to getting the job that you want, beauty can sometimes come between you and your goals if you are not considered beautiful. ... With this considered, on-beautiful people are assumed to be laid back when it comes to aims and achievements and qualitative goals. Parents often have a similar view on beauty when it comes to raising their children whether they are attractive or unattractive in their parents' eyes. ... Going on a blind date is a great example; you are blind to everything about that person besides their appearance. ... After a few dates, you may come to find o...

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According to Aristophanes, this original primeval man had a round body, his back and sides formed into a circle from which two pairs of arms and legs protruded, he had two faces, and most importantly, two sets of genitalia. Aristophanes goes on to say that there were three different kinds of these original human beings, all of which were differentiated by their gender. ... The Gods fought back, but fearing that a total annihilation of these beings would leave the world barren with no one to worship them, instead, decided to sever these creatures in half with a bold of lightning. ... The Gods...

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"Welcome back students, how was everyone's summer?" ... As Jennifer walked toward the back of the room with a big smile on her face, a girl tripped her and all her books drop to the floor, everyone started to laugh. ... That night me and couple of my friends were going to a party and on our way back this couple of school boys started to bang us from the back so I told them I wanted to race to prove that I drove faster and better at the wheel, so we began to race. ... The next couple of days I"ve been spending more time with Jennifer at the hospital then I did at practice sitting in th...

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When it comes to the dramatic structure, writers know that the main character has to evolve dramatically throughout the story. ... Perhaps the tis why Felicity is such a lovable character - she was willing to take a huge leap of faith and go to an unknown place that was going to be life changing. ... So she goes back to her normal lifestyle of splitting up her time between the both of them and having the drama continue. ... When it comes to the specific gender roles, Felicity is the stereotypical girl with Ben but more aggressive with Noel. Perhaps it is why there's always this tension...

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Many go to that next step of compromise and end up going back home to their parents. ... There are many couples that been together for many years and still don't get married, because they afraid of being committed to someone and some may even feel that if they go to that next step their relationship might fail, then they break up. On the other hand, divorce come right after couples rushed to get married because they dint know each other well enough and yet they still end up signing that paper. ...

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As mentioned by Adorno in Beckett's work there is 'a high level of ambiguity generated'11, we as the audience never really know what it is Beckett wants us to think, bringing us back to the importance of interpretation discussed by Adorno. ... However, Adorno offers us the idea that 'it is because hope has been driven skulking out of the world by Beckett that there is hope.'14 Using this we can come to a conclusion that due to the hopeless surroundings, positions and situations Beckett put his characters into, it somehow creates hope. ...

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Peter Helfgott harbours the highest expectations of David to "win" and be the best; however, this comes at a price of pain which David ultimately must bear. ... At the beginning of the film Peter parades his strength when cutting the firewood and then holding David back single-handedly, displays a mixture of both affection and competition as he wishes for David to be "fit and strong" because the "weak get crushed like insects". ... She teaches David important life-lessons : "life goes on, doesn't it Gillian?"...

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Orsino then goes on to say "when mine eyes did see Olivia first, methought she purged the air of pestilence". ... Another example of Orsino's obsession for love is after Valentine explains that Olivia will go into mourning for seven years. ... Orsino is not in the slightest bit disappointed that Olivia has not said she loves him back, he in fact takes great happiness in that if he meets her all the love and affection for her brother will transform on to him, this introducing his arrogance also. ... He goes on using a lot more hyperbolic language even in the very beginning of th...

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It bears different symbolic meanings as the story goes, revealing the changes of the protagonist's inner world, and deepens the theme, intensifying the irony. ... No matter how hard he forces the horse or slashes it with the whip, the wooden horse is only swaying back and forth, impossible to bring him to the place where there is luck, just like it is not possible for Paul at that time to do anything practical to satisfy his mother's desires. ... His quest for wealth by riding the rocking-horse will neither come to an end nor win him his mother's real affection. ... Unlike a r...

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When one goes into a conversation or an interaction, there are certain social norms that they need to follow to make their performance believable, or in Goffman's words validated. ... On the other hand, women are socialized to want to be emotionally connected to their friendships, trust and reliability is going to be the main goal when creating a new friendship with a woman. ... She discusses the difference between sexes is framed in terms of the "asymmetrical" relational needs and wants they eventually they come to have. ... This is the type of relationship where a man and a woman in a h...

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Hera begins her mission by asking Aphrodite, the goddess of love, to assist her under the false pretenses of visiting Okeanos and Tethys to "resolve their division of discord...and bring them back to bed to be merged in love with each other"(Bk. 14, 205-209(320)). ... She offers "I will give you gifts; a lovely throne, imperishable forever, of gold"(Bk. 14, 236-239 (321)) and further appeals with "Come now, do it, and I will give you one of the younger Graces for you to marry, and she shall be called your lady; Pasithea, since all your days you have loved her forever&q...

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With Gertrude, Hamlet would also like to express his anger towards her, as well as possibly kill her or make her go insane, without arising suspicion in others that he possesses a hostile rational mental state. ... He also wants to be able to punish them or hurt them for supporting or potentially supporting Claudius, while going free on basis of insanity. ... She is a convenient target because, being a woman who loves him, she does not fight back against Hamlet (in addition, Hamlet's insanity also prevents her from doing so). ... One means of achieving it would be for Hamlet to ki...

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