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The 2004 movie 50 First Dates is a romantic comedy about a woman named Lucy who wakes up every morning believing it is October 13, her father’s birthday. After a traumatic brain injury resulting from a car accident, Lucy suffers from a fictional amnesia called Goldfield’s Syndrome. Although there are elements of truth in Lucy’s amnesia, her symptoms are ultimately a poor depiction of amnesia and the movie contains many factual inaccuracies about memory. This paper will analyze the cause,…

An article on the San Francisco Examiner called “On Date Rape” by Camille Paglia, a humanities professor and cultural critic shares her opinion on today’s dating and rape. Paglia states that it was her generation in the 60’s that “broke the rules” and opened the doors for “freedom” for women. However, she claims that women of today do not acknowledge the risks for “freedom.” On the article, she displays countless of fallacies and weaknesses in reasoning, which might object her position as a…

It was the truth. It was like being pumped full of one of those date rape drugs that make you crave sex. This, was what she wanted. This, to have sex with this man, feel him inside her, over her, surrounding her with his powerful body. “Face the desk,” he ordered abruptly. His hands moved to her waist and spun her to face the desk. While still struggling to right herself, Walker grabbed the bottom of her tank and pulled it up trying to pull it over her head but catching under her chin. “Are…

Top 10 Awesome First Date Ideas for Women By Richard Nata, Nov 2nd 2015 The first date is an early stage for a man and woman got to know each other more closely. Sometimes first date can be lovely for men and women for later on they be in love make a relationship. However, the first date often makes many couples are confused. They don’t know what to do on a first date. Because of first date are the most stressful moments. Hearts were excited thinking about how the impression is going to happen,…

Living a creative life is sensual, juicy and exciting. Going on a creative date with yourself will rejuvenate and inspire all of your senses and open your mind. Go somewhere that feels glorious and freeing for you. Find a place where the beauty brings you to your knees and speaks directly to your soul. When you open yourself up and allow creative energies to burst and then embrace the ideas, your life will change dynamically. You can also consider getting together with a group of friends…

Sex Does Not Equate to a Relationship How to Date a Brown Girl, Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie (HDBG), by Junot Diaz is a satirical manual for teenage boys that advises how to behave around girls based on their ethnicity and the stereotypes that go along with it in order to successfully seduce them. Diaz uses the second person and an instructional tone to write HDBG to portray his experience and authority in dating girls of other ethnicities. The narrator, Yunior, creates his facade by…

On Date Rape and Fallacious Arguments Camille Paglia is not a stranger to writing divisive editorials. As a self-proclaimed ‘social critic’, she said in response to criticism of her first book “Sexual Personae” published in 1990, “it was intended to please no one, and to offend everyone” (20Q). Thus, it should be no surprise that she has views on date rape that are unpopular for the current social mindset. In her editorial “On Date Rape”, Paglia declares “my kind of feminism stresses personal…

Psychoanalytic Theory on Junot Diaz’s, "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" “Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.” Is a quote from Junot Diaz’s, "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)”? In this sartical quote by Diaz, is used to highlights multicultural girl stereotypes. The Characteristic of Yunior’s courters, are described based upon ethnicity and…

sixteen year old that lacked many experiences, which ties in with Junot Diaz’s short story “How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)”. Not only did Yunior lack the experience, he also didn’t want anyone to know of the relationship he had with Miss Lora. Yunior would go as far as to sneak out of his apartment at 3 o’clock in the morning, in like manner to the main character in “How to date a brown girl” he was afraid of the reaction he would ultimately receive once his illicit…

putting feelings into something in order to achieve a certain goal. There is a difference in the emotional labor that is portrayed through the writings of Helena Maria Viramontes and the writings of Junot Diaz. In the articles, Miss Clairol and How to Date a Brown Girl the idea of emotional labor is explored in both the positive and the negative aspects of it. However, the combination of the two can function together, but one may overshadow the other. In the article by Viramontes, Arlene…