Odd Man Out

Lust Punished by foxes There are many odd things that happen in this story. It is also very different from other things that we have read in the past. The other fox spirits were handled and treated very differently than the one here. This story is about a man that collects aphrodisiacs as a hobby (Songling, 356-58). There are three characters in this story, four if you count the fox spirit (Songling, 356-58). The characters in this story are the wife, the husband, and the husbands friend…

and take care of their husbands, houses, and children. Thus the age of man begun, women became property as time progressed, men could learn to read and write, they could hold high positions in their communities, and all “gods” became male. Fast-forward to the era of Christianity and you get the number one reason gender roles are so wildly accepted, the Bible. In the Bible there are multiple versus on the “ideal” family. “A man should love his wife as Christ loved the church”, he should lead his…

was aimed at getting at the core of why men cheat. 200 cheating and non-cheating husbands were the survey subjects. So what makes men cheat, one might ask himself/herself? The above-mentioned researcher analyzed past male infidelity reports and found out that most answers were deducted from the wife’s point of view. But in order to discover the real reason as to why men cheat, the researcher presented in his book called “The Truth about Cheating” men’s point of view, as, from his perspective, it…

The tall old black man who wears worn down clothes is tough and has heart. The old black man’s face is wrinkled with a gray beard with one eye slightly swollen and blind. Scrap is his name. He walks around slowly, almost with limp probably because of his once long career in fighting. He will sit down at times and looks exhausted. But Scrap is more than an old man working as a janitor in the old run down gym. He walks and talks with a purpose, he has heart. He is the kind of man that spends more…

Vampires don't sparkle, they aren’t real at all. We took turns dispatching the vampire which was named Edward. When class ended, I went back to my dorm room or dorm 325 and flopped onto the, white, clean bed, with red pillows. I look out the windows watching teachers and students rushing around from class to class. Frustrated from the day I hit my head on the white wood wall of my bunk. I noticed a hard object underneath me.I rolled on my bed and ran my hand over a small, red, coin…

For women the idea is to be complacent and let a man rule, and make choice and decision for her; the modern problem for this today relates to women having the right to their own bodies and having control over their own decision (Malacrida & Boulton, 2014). Dealing with women’s aggression, it isn’t as dealt with women; in the book Odd Girl Out, it is stated “Girls use backbiting, exclusion, rumors, name-calling, and manipulation to inflict psychological…

sometimes struggle to find comfort in being a woman. Even though I’m from an affluent, privileged neighborhood, I feel uncomfortable walking home late at night, putting my drink down at a party, or being with a group of female friends, unescorted by a man. Not only is protecting myself an issue, but I also struggle to balance the social pressures of “skinny” vs. “curvy,” and “bitchy” vs. “sweetheart.” Women have been fighting these social structures for generations, yet still feel objectified,…

London’s “To Build a Fire”, an unnamed man decides to go against the warnings of the village elder and travels alone in negative fifty-degree weather that was rapidly dropping. He makes one bad decision after the other which leads to his demise. Jack London wrote, “To Build a Fire” to show how a man can override his instincts by succumbing to his own pride. By showing how he learned through his own experiences in the Klondike, creating an unnamed character, what that man represented, and…

They are expected to be seen, and not heard, while the man does all of the work. Two short stories that break these traditions are Good Country People, by Flannery O’Connor, and Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger. Good Country People is about a girl who does not conform to that society’s rules about women and is seen as odd by the people around her, even her mother. The passage from Catcher in the Rye being used will speak about a young man trying to convince a girl to run away with him and…

McGee is definitely the most secretive man I know or because of this he intrigues me and my fellow students. Dr. McGee more than anything I think wants the very best for his students, all of them, and tries to train them for the rest of their lives in the best way he can. For example, he’s…