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Oh My God A Girl!
Word Count: 810Oh My God A Girl!“OH MY GOD A GIRL!!†This was the cry I was met with when Iarrived to meet our group for a 5 day canoe trip down NewZealand’s Wanganui River. “Are you sure you know what you’redoing?!†a wary fellow in his 50’s exclaimed. I assured him thatsince I knew a heck of a lot more than he did it was in his bestinterest to stick with me. The rest of the group, a collectionof 10 men and women from New Zealand, looked on with someamusement and guarded concern. This fellow had voiced what manyof them had inwardly felt when they discovered that their guideswere ‘girls’. Some had assumed that Sue, a nursing student inher mid twenties, and I, a ‘Yank’ only a bit older, were thegreeting committee. I suspect many hoped at best we were thecooks and at worst that we were driving the …
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Faces of Mom
I grew up living with my mother, and sometimes my father when hewasn’t underneath the ocean in a submarine. I wasn’t the onlychild at home, but it often felt that way, and not just when Iwould lock my sister in the basement, either—my mom was good atmaking me feel like the best pumpkin in the patch.My mom was a working mom. She scrubbed the floors and washed ourclothes and sometimes even finished my science projects for me.I don’t remember her ever just sitting around. If she wasn’t inthe house, she was at the blood drive or the elementary schoolor outside crying because she had just put another dent in thecar. Our car had lots of dents.She was a woman who wore lots of different faces. I called them“looks,†and I knew all of them. Being the kind of kid that Iwas, this was a handy thing to know—especially if her …
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The wrong kind of waiting: what the film Clockwatchers can teach us
Clockwatchers is about living your life on someone else’s time.Four temporary office workers meet in a featureless building. Wemeet the heroine, Iris, as she spends much of her first daysitting in a chair where she was told to “wait till someonecomes for you.” The building, with its square corners andcubicles, becomes a metaphor for the box that containseveryone’s dreams. The temps feel ghettoized and eventually arephysically segregated into a separate office. Their isolation isreal: temps rarely cross the border to permanent jobs in thecompany. To escape they will have to think outside the box,, yetas the film begins, each temp focuses on her immediate fourwalls. Iris seems overqualified yet she lacks confidence. Shetells her father she feels comfortable and accepted in this joband doesn’t want to move on. Margaret deals with frustration byrebelling and acting out. She steals time from the company andcosmetics from the stores. Jane is engaged to …
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Ten Ways To Get A Life You Can Live With
When is the last time you stopped and asked yourself if you’rereally living the life you want? We live in busy times.Overwhelm and exhaustion is becoming the norm. Why? Because wespend our time accomplishing the tasks of the day,not mindful ofthe life we are building. So what can you do? Take action! These ten steps will put you onthe path to taking control of and building the life you desire. Top Ten Ways to Get a Life You Can Live With 1. Say NO! Don’t let ‘YES’ come flying out of your mouth at the first signof a request. Notice how often you do things you’d rather not,and start making decisions based on what you want to do.Remember that you always have a choice. 2. Eliminate The ‘Energy Drainers’ From Your Life Make a list of all the things you put up with about situations,other people or yourself. Ask yourself …
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Stress Management for the Rest of Us
Keeping everything together as a parent or as a teacher is timeconsuming & many times stress inducing job. We all know what weSHOULD do to manage stress & be healthy. . . . =>Eat lots offruits & vegetables. =>Follow a regular, vigorous exerciseprogram. =>Sleep 8 hours a night. =>Manage our anger throughclear communication. That’s what we SHOULD do. But for those of us who have spareminutes not hours — here are a few more practical suggestions! 1. Start with the facts. — Take a self-assessment & findout what your current stress level really is. You can take a free stressassessment here. 2. Set aside a few minutes each day just for you. — Even10 minutes of solitude, guided imagery, or soothing music can be extremelytherapeutic when you’re feeling overwhelmed. If you’re not surehow to fit even 10 minutes into your hectic schedule you maywant to learn The Art …
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Women in Transition From Post Feminism to Past Femininity – Part I
“[In]… the brothels off Wenceslas Square, in central Prague,[where] sexual intercourse can be bought for USD 25 – about halfthe price charged at a German brothel… Slav women havesupplanted Filipinos and Thais as the most common foreignoffering in [Europe].” (The Economist, August 2000, p.18)”I’m also wary of the revolutionary ambition of some feministtexts, with their ideas about changing present conditions,having seen enough attempted utopia’s for one lifetime” (PetrPrÃhoda, The New Presence, 2000, p. 35).”As probably every country has its Amazons, if we go far back inCzech mythology, to a collection of Old Czech Legends, we comeacross a very interesting legend about the DévÃn castle (whichliterally means ‘The Girls’ Castle’). It describes a bloodystory about a rebellion of women, who started a vengeful waragainst men. As the story goes, they were not only capablewarriors, they had no mercy and would not hesitate to kill theirfathers and brothers. Under the leadership of …
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