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    Greed is a powerful trait that humans have passed down throughout history. From biblical days, until today, greed has destroyed people’s lives. Guy de Maupassant and D. H. Lawrence wrote about how powerful greed is. Maupassant wrote “The Necklace,” which is about a young lady who wanted more than what she already had in her life and Lawrence wrote “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” which describes the life of a young boy trying to please his greedy mother. In both Maupassant’s “The Necklace”…

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    Teens aren’t the only ones impacted by fake appearance; adults also will try and appear better than they are to give off a certain Image. This trend didn’t dawn during the past ten years, appearance versus reality has been around as long as humanity. Guy De Maupassant pushes the image of a false reality in both of his short stories, The Jewels and The Necklace. Bling is used as a route to talk about two couples whose appearance hurt their reality. Jewelry is a long standing sign of wealth and…

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    In Guy De Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace,” it shows an essential human nature through the Mathilde. First of all, people prioritize yourself more than anyone else. In the beginning of the story, Mathilde’s husband gives her the card which can participate the ball, but she refuses to go there because she mentions that she does not have clothes which suit for the ball. Therefore, her husband allows to buy it; however, she complains again that she does not have a jewel although her husband…

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    Ignore the guy, get the guy, By Leslie Braswell, a book used as a survival guide for women who has currently experienced a break up. The main idea for this book is for women to enhance the “No contact rule”, a rule that avoids any contact with your Ex Husband or boyfriend also known as “Mr. Ex” in this book. I believe that this information could be useful to many women who has recently experienced a tough break up. This book teaches you to enable the no contact rule. The no contact rule is about…

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    “Just One of the Guys?”: Reflection “Just One of the Guys” is a book that showcases transgender people, a group that is otherwise overlooked in many cases, showing how social parallels that foster forms of inequality affect everyone not just those in the gender binary. Kristen Schilt’s main objective is to show that these “natural difference schemas” some people continue to abide by are to blame for the continuous of gender inequality. Schilt proves this in her writing by drawing on interviews…

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    comes to teenagers and just the average person these days. There are many ways to break up with someone but the most popular way to break up with someone is by getting the other person to break up with someone so that person does not look like the bad guy in the whole situation. There are many ways to end the relationship by getting someone else to do the breaking up. A few of the classic ways to get them to do the breaking up is by acting as repulsive as a person can possibly be and by being…

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    the “ideal man.” Every guy has his own attributes, both good and bad; some guys are athletic, others are smart, and still others are funny. But the real question is what traits in guys are the “eye-catchers” in the eyes of teenage girls. Understanding these traits of the ideal man can help guide a man to reach perfection in the eyes of a woman. For one thing, a guy needs to know where to start in his search for the qualities of the ideal man. It is essential for a guy to first understand…

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    be more emotionally disturb then girls. Guys will tend to get into fights twice as often. Lastly, they are six times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. During the essay the author tries to diagnose why this is. By the end there becomes several ideas of why this might be. Behind the idea that men are prone to more health issues, the author believes there are three words that might be the cause of the statistics that are listed about “the guy code.” The guy code is defined as a collection of…

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    When most guys join the seduction community, they are on a mission to improve their dating skills with women. Unfortunately, there "side effects" to joining the community that most of the gurus don't tell you about in the fine print. While most guys join with the seduction community sincere desire to improve their social skills, the fact of the matter is there is a very strong correlation between joining the seduction community, and adopting weird behaviors. I'm going to talk about some of the…

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    typically guys are aware of the rules of moral behavior, they just seem to have trouble following them, when there are certain extenuating circumstances. For example: " Zippy, a guy dog who has been told numerous times that he is not suppose to get into the kitchen garbage or poop on the floor, but he has never understood why, so he thinks that it should not apply to him when someone just threw away a seven week old kung Pao Chicken and is home alone." Thinking since nobody is home they…

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