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Family Life
Jane Brown has been married for 12 years. She has three children and lives in a suburb outside Columbus, Ohio. When her youngest child reached school age, Jane decided to go back to work. She thought that she should contribute to the household fistruggle and a secure financial situation for her family. Jane also felt bored and frustrated in her role as a homemaker and wanted to be more involved in life outside her home. Jane was worried about her children's adjustment to this new situation, but she arranged for them to go to stay with a woman nearby after school each afternoon. They seemed to be happy with the arrangement.
My Mother's Gift
I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when children couk go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting.
My Mother
My mother is a kind and gentle woman. She is very busy from morning till night. As a teacher she works diligently and efficiently. As Mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort. I have an elder brother. He and I bothe love her dearly, as she loves us.
My Forever Valentine
The traditional holidays in our house when I was a child were spent timing elaborate meals around football games. My father tried to make pleasant chitchat and eat as much as he could during halftime. At Christmas he found time to have a cup or two of holiday beer and do his holly shaped bow tie. But he didn't truly shine until Valentine's Day
Youth
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Freedom in Dying
Gerald Corey
The process of dying involves fewer and fewer choices available to us. Even in dying, however, we still have choices concerning how we handle what is happening to us. The following account deals with the dying of Jim Morelock, a student and close friend of mine
How to Grow Old
Bertrand Russell
In spite of the title, this article will really be on how not to grow old, which, at my time of life, is a much more important subject.
Love of Life
Jack London
Two men walked slowly, one after the other, through the shallow water of a stream. All they could see were stones and earth. The stream ran cold over their feet. They had blanket packs on their backs. They had guns, but no bullets; matches, but no food.
Male and Female Roles
In all societies, male and female roles are regarded differently. The mother role is universally carried out by women, which is biologically based. Roles defined by sex also characterize form are different from those women perform. This difference is not any outgrowth of the biological differences between men and women. A specific task may be associated with men in one society and with women in an other. Milking herd animals, for example, may be women's task in some societies and a man's task in others.
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A Perfect Wife
After thirty years of married happiness, he could still remind himself that Victoria was endowed with every charm except the thrilling touch of human frailty. Though her perfection discouraged pleasure, especially the pleasures of love, he had learned in time to feel the pride of a husband in her natural frigidity. For he still clung, amid the decay of moral platitudes, to the discredited ideal of chivalry. In his youth the world was suffused with the afterglow of the long Victorian age, and a graceful feminine style had softened the manners, if not the natures, of men.
Please Let Me Have a Little World
Please, my dear husband, be so generous as to let me have a little world of my own. If you find m scrawling on a piced of paper, please don't peep over my shoulders. It may be that I'm venting some pent-up feelings, long denied expression, or trying to compose a little poem not something visualized from my childhood memories which glows in my mind like a rainbow. When I am in such a mood, please leave me alone and let me write as the pen dictates.
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Why Women Live Longer Than Men
Edward Dolnick
If you could take an immense group snapshot of everyone in the United States today, it would contain six million more females than males. In this country, women outlast men by about seven years. Throughout the modern world, culrues are different, diets are different, ways of life and causes of death are different, but one thing is the same --- women outlive men.
Love Is a Telephone
Love is a telephone which always keeps silent when you are longing for a call, but rings when you are not ready for it. As a result, we often miss the sweetness from the other end.
Empty-shell Marriages
Charles Zasfrow
Karen Kirst-Ashman
In empty-shell marriages the spouses feel no strong attachments to each other. Outside pressures keep the marriage together. Such outside pressures include: business reasons (for example, an elected official wanting to convey a stable family image); investment reasons (for example, husband and wife may have a luxurious home and other property which they do not want to lose by parting) and outward appearances (for example, a couple living in a small community may remain together to avoid the reactions of relatives and friends to a divorce).
The Choice of a Wife
It is difficult for a man to manage his home affairs well while he serves in society. Therefore, every man wishes to marry a woman who will help him in conducting his domestic affairs.
How to Tell When She Flirts with You
Flirting is an art form -- it takes much practice to do it with perfect timing. It's often hard though, to recognize when a woman's flirting with you.
...
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friends
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Family Life
Jane Brown has been married for 12 years. She has three children and lives in a suburb outside Columbus, Ohio. When her youngest child reached school age, Jane decided to go back to work. She thought that she should contribute to the household fistruggle and a secure financial situation for her family. Jane also felt bored and frustrated in her role as a homemaker and wanted to be more involved in life outside her home. Jane was worried about her children's adjustment to this new situation, but she arranged for them to go to stay with a woman nearby after school each afternoon. They seemed to be happy with the arrangement.
My Mother's Gift
I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when children couk go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting.
My Mother
My mother is a kind and gentle woman. She is very busy from morning till night. As a teacher she works diligently and efficiently. As Mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort. I have an elder brother. He and I bothe love her dearly, as she loves us.
My Forever Valentine
The traditional holidays in our house when I was a child were spent timing elaborate meals around football games. My father tried to make pleasant chitchat and eat as much as he could during halftime. At Christmas he found time to have a cup or two of holiday beer and do his holly shaped bow tie. But he didn't truly shine until Valentine's Day
Youth
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Freedom in Dying
Gerald Corey
The process of dying involves fewer and fewer choices available to us. Even in dying, however, we still have choices concerning how we handle what is happening to us. The following account deals with the dying of Jim Morelock, a student and close friend of mine
How to Grow Old
Bertrand Russell
In spite of the title, this article will really be on how not to grow old, which, at my time of life, is a much more important subject.
Love of Life
Jack London
Two men walked slowly, one after the other, through the shallow water of a stream. All they could see were stones and earth. The stream ran cold over their feet. They had blanket packs on their backs. They had guns, but no bullets; matches, but no food.
Male and Female Roles
In all societies, male and female roles are regarded differently. The mother role is universally carried out by women, which is biologically based. Roles defined by sex also characterize form are different from those women perform. This difference is not any outgrowth of the biological differences between men and women. A specific task may be associated with men in one society and with women in an other. Milking herd animals, for example, may be women's task in some societies and a man's task in others.
...
A Perfect Wife
After thirty years of married happiness, he could still remind himself that Victoria was endowed with every charm except the thrilling touch of human frailty. Though her perfection discouraged pleasure, especially the pleasures of love, he had learned in time to feel the pride of a husband in her natural frigidity. For he still clung, amid the decay of moral platitudes, to the discredited ideal of chivalry. In his youth the world was suffused with the afterglow of the long Victorian age, and a graceful feminine style had softened the manners, if not the natures, of men.
Please Let Me Have a Little World
Please, my dear husband, be so generous as to let me have a little world of my own. If you find m scrawling on a piced of paper, please don't peep over my shoulders. It may be that I'm venting some pent-up feelings, long denied expression, or trying to compose a little poem not something visualized from my childhood memories which glows in my mind like a rainbow. When I am in such a mood, please leave me alone and let me write as the pen dictates.
...
Why Women Live Longer Than Men
Edward Dolnick
If you could take an immense group snapshot of everyone in the United States today, it would contain six million more females than males. In this country, women outlast men by about seven years. Throughout the modern world, culrues are different, diets are different, ways of life and causes of death are different, but one thing is the same --- women outlive men.
Love Is a Telephone
Love is a telephone which always keeps silent when you are longing for a call, but rings when you are not ready for it. As a result, we often miss the sweetness from the other end.
Empty-shell Marriages
Charles Zasfrow
Karen Kirst-Ashman
In empty-shell marriages the spouses feel no strong attachments to each other. Outside pressures keep the marriage together. Such outside pressures include: business reasons (for example, an elected official wanting to convey a stable family image); investment reasons (for example, husband and wife may have a luxurious home and other property which they do not want to lose by parting) and outward appearances (for example, a couple living in a small community may remain together to avoid the reactions of relatives and friends to a divorce).
The Choice of a Wife
It is difficult for a man to manage his home affairs well while he serves in society. Therefore, every man wishes to marry a woman who will help him in conducting his domestic affairs.
How to Tell When She Flirts with You
Flirting is an art form -- it takes much practice to do it with perfect timing. It's often hard though, to recognize when a woman's flirting with you.
...
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friends
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- homemaker [,həum,meikə]
n.持家的妇女，主妇 六级词汇 - elementary [,eli´mentəri] a.基本的；初级的 四级词汇
- efficiently [i´fiʃəntli] ad.有效地；能胜任地 六级词汇
- dearly [´diəli] ad.深深地(爱等)；昂贵 四级词汇
- traditional [trə´diʃənəl] a.传统的，习惯的 四级词汇
- freshness [´freʃnis] n.新鲜 四级词汇
- happening [´hæpəniŋ] n.事件，偶然发生的事 四级词汇
- universally [,ju:ni´və:səli] ad.普遍地 四级词汇
- characterize [´kæriktəraiz] v.描绘；具有...特征 四级词汇
- biological [,baiə´lɔdʒikəl] a.生物学(上)的 六级词汇
- frailty [´freilti] n.脆弱；意志薄弱 六级词汇
- victorian [vik´tɔ:riən] a.维多利亚女王时代的 六级词汇
- feminine [´feminin] a.女性的 四级词汇
- trying [´traiiŋ] a.难堪的；费劲的 四级词汇
- wanting [´wɔntiŋ, wɑ:n-] a.短缺的；不足的 六级词汇
- luxurious [lʌg´zjuəriəs] a.奢侈的；豪华的 四级词汇
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