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    I wonder how many of us regret losing our innocence. Do we remember the exact moment it happened? To me, innocence is the lack of awareness of people being untrustworthy and bad. The moment you realize that the world is not what you thought when you wore your rose colored glasses is very sad. We may wish we could go back and erase what we know or attempt to get back what was lost, but unfortunately that just cannot happen. God is an incorporeal being and the source of all moral obligations. Losing

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    men commit extramarital affairs. C. Hypothesis 3 Working long distance will be a slightly reason why married men are unfaithful. My hypotheses are connected to the literature that I described above. This is because past researchers in their articles tried to show some possible reasons that influenced men to be unfaithful towards their wives. For this reason, due to past research I was able to create my own hypothesis about why married American men commit extramarital affairs. This means American men

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    help to show, assuming the goal is commentary, the dishonest and frivolous nature of society. Newland and Winterbourne’s stories and characters run on corresponding motives, as they are the offspring of that society. Each character has an affair. Winterbourne’s is subtle, presented more as his single interest, but it is told that his presence in Geneva (at both the beginning and end of the novel) is for the purpose of “’studying,’” but “when certain persons spoke of him they affirmed that

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    adultery for The Scarlet Letter, his nineteenth century novel of "seventeenth century sexual repression and hypocrisy" (Zabarenko PG), demonstrates a delicate yet changing climate with regard to infidelity. Historically, carrying on an adulterous affair back in such an era of Puritanism and traditional values was not taken lightly; in fact, by today's standards, such horrific treatment for what is now considered an everyday occurrence was more harsh than murders suffer by current standards. Those

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    In his 2001 film entitled Lantana, director Ray Lawrence provides a dramatic look into the consequences of jealousy and infidelity in relationships. The film focuses primarily on two couples, Leon and Sonja, and John and Valerie, whose relationships are both seemingly in the midst of their own downward spirals. As the story unfolds and the issues affecting each of these relationships are uncovered, the film paints a vivid picture of the different ways that such themes can quickly bring ruin to

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    having an affair. Although this is a correct interpretation, after a second reading, much more is apparent. “Bliss” is a story of the revelation of a vibrant young woman, of criticism of society, and of sexual revolution. In order to fully comprehend the work, we see that significance comes from small details. A tree is the major symbol in this piece, and the details assist in understanding why the pear

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    Kate Chopin's  "The Storm" focuses on two simultaneous and related storms, one a fierce tempest of the natural world with the expected rain, wind, lightening, and thunder, the other a cyclone of the mind and heart which results in an short love affair between the two main characters. With her husband Bobinot and her son Bibi stranded in town by the storm, Calixta finds herself at home alone when an old lover, Alcee, rides up. The storm, the worst in two years, drives the two indoors, where, though

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    engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. At first, the person who hires him is a facade to the real wife of the chief engineer. The original intentional for hiring him was to find out if the chief engineer was having an extramarital affairs with someone else; he was not. As time goes on, the plot thickens with the chief engineer mysterious dying from a supposed suicide. Yet, undeterred J.J took it upon himself with the help of the actual chief engineer wife Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway)

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    a party. She introduced herself to him and they got married a year later. Ted has realized his wife is cheating on him with their building contractor. She is using him for his wealth. Before their marriage was going great but now Ted is having an affair with a girl named Lily he met at an airport, who is also a major character of the novel as she is going to help Ted murder his wife. 2.) One healthy aspect of Miranda and Ted’s relationship is that they tend to get along quite well and never argued

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    Summer Reading 1. Capturing the Main Point of Essays The Signet Book of American Essays offers a selection of works written by many different authors. The purpose of four of them follow: Abigail Adams writes “Letters to John Adams” with regard to give him political advice and advocate for women’s rights and representation in the newly formed government. Albert Einstein’s “On Education” encourages various fundamental aspects of teaching in order to suggest how to structure the learning process to

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