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Well where do i start? i started going out with this guy named Derek on April 3rd 2001. I din't even like him but he seemed like a nice guy so i thought i would give him a try. well we started going out and hanging out alot. I've always been shy around guys and i was with him at first. Then after a few months i started feeling totally comfortable. We hung out like everyday and did everything together! I totally ditched all of my friends for him and he did the same to his friends to me. Well everything was all going well we never really fought or anything. We were perfect i thought so he thought so and so did everyone else. He was my whole world he went everywhere with me and i loved him so much. We had the cutest things we did together, i know we made people sick because of how cute we were. I never though we would break up ever! Well around our 9 months we kinda started fighting and not getting along to well. we were gonna take a "break" but we decieded not to that we wer e fine. (we took a break about 3 months after we started going out becausei kissed someother guy but we went back out and by the way i apologized so much for that i still feel bad about it) but we started fighting more. So we finally took a break it lasted not even 2 days and we got back together i missed him so much in those 2 days and cried so much than i ever have! but then 2 days after we got back together we broke up again. He did'nt want to talk or work anything out at all. and it just seemed like he didnt care anymore. Well we broke up and i still really missed him we still hung out and stuff but it was nt the same at all! then i was going on vacation to flordia for winter break. i knew he was afraid i would cheat on him there so that was another reason that he wanted to break up. neways we hung out before i went and we kissedd and blah blah then i left all i could do was think about him there. i was there a lil over a week and i only talked to him a few times.

Women in the Odyssey

Women in The Odyssey After following an epic that revolved so completely around men, The Odyssey has quite a lot of female roles. True, the ancient Greeks had a better androgynous balance than other civilizations, and this is reflected very clearly in The Odyssey. Femininity has not only a bigger role in this epic, but it seems as though it is honored with its own unique power. This is shown in characters like Circe and Athena, but also subtextually in the many female weavers throughout the story. Overall, women and feminine power have a very influential role in the plot of the Odyssey.Let us begin with the obvious female powers in the immortal goddesses and nymphs. As far as the Olympian Gods, Athena is by far the most involved, regardless of gender. This is made very clear, for example, we see Telemachus preparing for his journey, â€Å"When they had made fast the running gear all along the black ship, then they set up the mixing bowls, filling them brimful with wine, and poured t o the gods immortal and everlasting, but beyond all other gods they poured to Zeus’ gray-eyed daughter. † (2. 430-433) Also, Calypso and Circe play the role of â€Å"Women as Temptress† which greatly hinders Odysseus’ journey.Circe especially has those powerful witch qualities that the uses specifically against the male gender. Luckily, however, she learns compassion for Odysseus and the crew in general. Thus she becomes not only kind but actually a very helpful component in the overall voyage. Calypso needed more convincing about releasing Odysseus, but afterwards she also became somewhat helpful. Other helpful supernatural women appear such as the water nymph, Ino, who saves Odysseus from drowning on his way to the Phaecians. Already we see a huge increase in female importance and their affect on the plot.One of the biggest reflections of ancient Greek culture is the amount of weaving done by the women. However, I think that the images of weaving in the Odyssey have little to do with making a cultural point. In Greek mythology, everyone’s destiny was weaved by the Fates. I think that because of that, weaving has many connections to destiny. This even transfers into the literal sense, from baby blankets to death shrouds. Thus, the women in the epic who are seen weaving are technically weaving the destinies of the characters of the story.Let’s start with Penelope, for her image of weaving is very specific. She weaves by day and â€Å"by night, with torches lit beside her, she would unravel all she’d done. † (2. 106-107) This represents the fact that she keeps her life monotonously the same, and refuses to allow her life/destiny/weaving to progress. We see another very interesting image of weaving with Helen. She is making her yarn, which the preparation work before the actual weaving. To me this means that she was the one who informed the destinies before anything even took place in the Odyssey.Her decisio ns before and during the Iliad were her major contributions, as she set the stage for the female weavers of the Odyssey. These weavers also include Calypso and Circe, who we have already decided are major parts in the book. There are a few more women in this epic who really deserve to be mentioned. Two of them are Phaecians, Princess Nausicaa and Queen Arete. Nausicaa, inspired by our goddess Athena, really helped Odysseus. In her curiosity and level-headedness, she helped Odysseus return to her palace and find the help and support he needed to return home.Once he arrived there, he met with Arete, and it was she who Odysseus chose to plead hospitality, â€Å"flung his arms around her knees,† (7. 167) instead of her husband (the king). From the moment I read this, I thought that Arete must be a very powerful and respected woman, especially if she has power over decisions like that. Another woman I found very influential was Eurycleia. She practically raised both Odysseus and T elemachus, making that bond/parallel between father and son even clearer. She is also the only person to recognize Odysseus before he meant to reveal himself to her.However, when she saw his unmistakeable scar, she â€Å"let his foot fall, down it dropped in the basin-the bronze clanged, tipping over, tipping water across the floor. † (19. 530-533). This uninherently shows her wisdom and compassion at an old age. Another (somewhat graphic) image of women in the Odyssey is the maidens that were hung across the rope by their faces at the end of the battle. This shows the flipside of feminine power, as these are the women who didn’t advocate for themselves or their masters in the least, but decided to live a lazy life of gluttony and pleasure instead.The last woman I would like to mention is Odysseus’ mother, Anticleia. We only get to see her as a shadow, which is the least powerful state of any woman throughout the epic. However, she still stirs a deep emotional r esponse out of Odysseus, which, in turn, most definitely affects the actions he takes and thus the plot as a hole. Overall, I think that women play a very inspiring role in this epic. The show us time and time again that each of us is powerful enough to help write or own destinies, and to be cooperative components in the lives of others.We see again that compassion trumps hatred, and that being helpful is better than being selfish. Setting someone you love free can not only just turn out for the best, but it also might just be what needs to happen in the fate of their life. How different would the story be if Odysseus wasn’t eventually allowed to leave Aeaea or Ogygia? So in conclusion, the women of the Odyssey show us to be present and compassionate in our lives, because who knows? You may just have a lasting effect on the life of another.

The present study used qualitative research methods to...

The present study used qualitative research methods to synthesize empirical findings of how gun control laws in each of the 50 states in the United States are alike or different. The study was also interested in determining whether local and state gun regulations have much in common with federal laws and are similar across the states. The study hypothesized that gun control regulations at the state level do not greatly differ from federal legislation. While there are certain differences between state and federal gun regulation, the variances are subtle and do not necessarily contradict federal provisions. This meta-analysis qualitatively integrated findings from primary research on gun laws across the state, as well as state, local, and†¦show more content†¦The qualitative method was preferred, as it is better suited for gathering unstructured information that is not numerical. Gun laws in the United States and their differences across the country cannot be quantified numeri cally, but are more suited for unstructured observation. This makes qualitative data gathering the method most likely to achieve the objectives of the present study. In addition the qualitative data, which is more descriptive in nature, will be efficient in providing an outlook of the current status of gun laws in the United States and how they are similar or differ from each other. On its part, quantitative research uses numerical data, which can be ranked in order, categorized, and subsequently measured in measurement units. Evidently, it is difficult to use units of measurement for gun laws to determine how they differ or are similar to gun laws in other states. The present research was designed based on the classic Glassian meta-analysis approach that explicitly defines the questions to be investigated in the study (Glass, McGraw, Smith, 1981). 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