David Levithan Every Day

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Many individuals question whether the statement that there are only two sexes is true or not. A male has the XY chromosome and the female has the XX chromosome. There has been several studies proving that an individual has both chromosomes. The Levi Suydam case and the Emma case provides the knowledge of the new revealed sexes.

Everyday introduces the protagonist A, who is an undefined individual that wakes up each in a new body and navigates these individuals world avoiding creating lasting harm. A is neither male nor female, and when it comes to love his attraction is universal. A has no tangible forms of identity, but his e-mail account is the only object within his world that he can truly can his own. Furthermore, A is able to access the memory bank of any individual he is possessing so that he can navigate their life. While A has attempted to maintain a low profile for a long time by avoiding establishing ‘real’ connections with people, that is changed the day he wakes up as Justin. While inhabiting Justin A meets and falls in love with Rhiannon. Although A can accept his ever shifting identity and love Rhiannon, she can only accept a as an attractive male.

The typical person has a variety of roles that they play in their own life, such as son/daughter, parent, friend, significant other, athlete, performer, student, worker, etc. In the novel “Three Day Road” by Joseph Boyden, three characters – Xavier, Elijah, and Niska – have their fair share of roles to play in their own lives, and like the roles one has in life inevitably have influence on one and one's life for better or for worse to some degree; their roles do the same for them.

The author of A Man Called Ove is Fredrik Backman. Ove, a 59 year old man, is the exact definition of a grumpy old man. For those who don’t know him he seems rude and impolite, but there is more to Ove than meets the eye. He has suffered a great deal of casualties. He was only a child when his mother died, and his father departed this world when he was sixteen years old. During those days, Ove did not live a happy life. As time passed, Ove had created his routine, but it was broken when he met the woman of his life. Ove was happy for a while, but things don’t last a life time. On their honey moon, Ove’s wife suffers a miscarriage caused by a bus accident. Not only that, but also she is left in a wheelchair. After years pass, his wife also dies, resulting in Ove living in loneliness. However, his life Changes when new neighbors stroll into Ove’s life.

The movie Groundhog Day, is labeled as a comedy, but in fact it is a story about love, a story about Phil’s transformation based on love.  Phil his character is forced to repeat the same day over and over again. He goes through many phases in this movie and in the end changing his persona. When analyzing love, it becomes apparent that much has been written about it. In fact, love has been broken down into different phases such as Eros, Philia and Agape. Being trapped in Groundhog Day has significant effects on Phil’s practices of these three kinds of love Eros, Philia and Agape.

‘Same Other Bodies’ involves Harper who is dead and is in the form of a ghost waiting for reincarnation from purgatory. Harper is found by Adam, another ghost who has been in purgatory a while, who explains reincarnation and how reincarnation is not all that great. The genre of Same Other Bodies is spiritual as it explores a spirits’ journey from life to death.

Martin woke up the next day in a bed, but not his bed someone else’s bed. He thought to himself where am I, and how did I get here? Martin’s head was aching he didn’t know why his head was hurting so badly. So, Martin got out of the bed, and looked into the mirror.

Shannon and David Beador of The Real Housewives of Orange County may still be married after he had an affair, but that doesn't mean that their marriage doesn't still need worked on. Radar Online has now revealed that Shannon and David are still in marriage counseling working on things, but this is not just random marriage counseling they go to once in a while. They are in a very serious program and the Beador's are working hard on making their marriage a success story. The last season of the show they didn't keep any secrets from viewers and shared all about the fact that David had cheated on her. Shannon did share that if her kids didn't know she might have kept it off the show, but her children knew everything that happened.

The sequel to Just One Day by Gayle Forman is a novel telling Willem’s side of the one day that changed everything in a matter of hours- meaning that he ran away with a girl he met on a train, spent a day in Paris with her, and never once found out her real name. The next morning, he awakens in a hospital, not knowing who he is or what he did the day before. As his memory comes back from amnesia, everything comes flooding back- the girl, the memories, the idea of being free- But there is one thing he is forgetting- the name of the girl who captivated him, even though the day before, he named the girl Lulu after the actress Louise Brooks. After she is gone, he takes up Shakespeare and acting to mend the broken relationship between them and

Mary Roach’s 2003 novel “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” dives into the mysterious world of a cadaver's life after death. Using a strong persuasive voice, Roach informs us about the options we have for our bodies after we die along with how to come to terms with death while we're still living.

A single day of many life changing events for the main character. Kate Chopin tells the story of a women named Ms. Millard in the late 1800’s. Ms. Millard receives, (what anyone would think to be devastating news) that her husband had died. “The story of an hour” becomes founded on the way Ms. Millard reacts in regards to her husband’s death. Her reaction was like no other. She didn’t experience deep sadness, nor disbelief. Ms. Millard simply received the news, wept a little, and went to her room. There Kate Chopin shows through Ms. Millard’s reaction that her marriage was something she had conformed to. Ms. Millard began to express how she felt freedom within. She expressed this repeatedly as if she had conformed herself to her husband, and the life she lived with him for so many years. Ms. Millard made it known that she was basically no longer inferior. She now belonged to herself, and no longer to a man. She lost herself in silent joy for hours, until she sees her husband walk into the door, very much alive. Ms. Millard collapsed, and died, as the story says “of joy” that kills, but in fact of shock, and fatal disappointment. She thought she was free at last, and that once again was being taken from

Things do not always happen how anyone expect them to. “ The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” written by Katherine Anne Porter, is told in third person (limited omniscient). It is about a woman on her deathbed. She realized the life she had lived as her family surrounded her. She talked about the serval times she had been jilted in her life, first by her husband-to-be and finally by death.

Yaakov Levi was a very gentle and loving father. He had a son named Shmuel who he could not find. Mr. Levi was from Poland and he was sent to a death camp, for nine months Mr. Levi was tortured and treated poorly by the soldiers. His son, Shmuel, was always so curious as to why everybody treated him, his father, and other family members so bad. He never understood why his father would never tell him.

Insider trading is essentially the trading of confidential information that is basically sold to the highest bidder. David Hilzenrath, a journalist, describes, “Given the scope of the allegations to date, we are not talking simply about the occasional corrupt individual, we’re talking about something verging on a corrupt business model…” (Hilzenrath). Hilzenrath is suggesting that Wall Street as a whole is being deceitful and doing more than they are letting the public know. Insider trading is not a victimless crime, it takes advantage of honest investors. It is easy to stereotype the rich as greedy due to how they attain their wealth through power but the middle class can be just as greedy by trying to live vicariously behind a mountain of