The Clinging Woman

Tell the women we’re going 1. Summary « Tell the woman we’re going » is the ninth short story in short cuts. It tells the story of two very good old friends, Jerry and Bill. They do things together and share everything ( even the girls) all along their school years. Then Jerry gets married to a woman named Carol and Bill does the same with Linda. The two couples get on well, they regurarlly see each others at jerry’s house. Once, during a barbecue at jerry’s, the two men decide to go for a run

The place of women in the society has evolved a lot during the last century. From a traditional perspective, the social role of a woman was to be a housewife, devoting herself to domestic activities, reproduction, and children's education. Nowadays, in developed countries, women are becoming more prominent in the workplace, and have more access to managerial roles. In 1967, the « Loi Neuwirth » autorised contraception and the « Loi Veil » in 1975 autorised the abortion in France. Since, the

bound up in the woods and hills and meadows around it,if I had not been jerked away from all these and thrown out into a country as bare as a piece of sheet iron. » Jim,looking out of the wagon on his first journey cannot pray because of the emptiness : »There was nothing but land : not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are mde. » Willa Cather returning as she describes Jim returning,when the land had been formed and the roads built,met again Annie Pavelka, the woman who was the

Most of the time, tabloids have a very negative impact on people; especially people who are overweight. If we consider an American woman buying a tabloid magazine, she will find a variety of pictures of her favorite model in the magazine. The woman in the tabloid has a perfect body, is stunningly beautiful, all thanks to the latest diet she has undertaken. The caption of the article reads in bold letters: “She lost 12 lbs in two weeks”. The woman reading the article may think “Wow, this is great”

it met a woman who fell under his spell, he asked his number, which came easily to obtain. So he took an appointment with her, who a few months after this meeting, they went together. One evening, while they watched a horror movie, the man made his wife believe he went for popcorn. But he went into the kitchen, where, in reality, it took a vase. Suddenly, turning the room, he gave his wife a blow on the head and dragged into his cellar, then attach to a chair. The atmosphere was gloomy, the basement

cartoon about the lifestyle of the Australian Aborigines nowadays. In the foreground, we can see a few Aborigines wearing Western clothes who are standing up or sitting on cans. The woman is cooking a meal in a sort of barbecue style. It does not look like a traditional way of cooking but like a copy of the Western way of cooking. Indeed, there are a saucepan and chunks of meat cooking on a rudimentary installation made of red bricks piled up and burning branches below them. We can notice the two dogs

father is American. His father taught at the American University of Lebanon and was also a dentist. His family was a Lebanese family Greek orthodox that’s why he had a catholic education. He grown up with the French culture and resorted the Pères Jésuites School. At the age of 20 years old, he got his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Lyon in France. Thought, he did an internship, in 1949, in the sector of the actuarial with the professor Jecklin at Zurich in a reinsurance

FAVELAS Memories from the flight start rushing back, memories of when I pictured Rio de Janeiro as a fun, full-of-life, exciting city, where each person lives in a constant good mood thanks to the never-dying sun and the dreamy beaches. But here I am, approximately 20km from the city’s center, standing in front of a steep, endless hill where shacks, which I can hardly distinguish from stables, overlap one another, actually hiding what is considered to be the ‘main road’ crossing the village. I manage

Summary 1923 part 7 When Olivia tells Douglas about a visit at the palace because of sick Harry she decides that from that point on Douglas knows about her visits at the palace. So the two do not meet often: Douglas comes home late and goes straight to bed and gets up early. One day Olivia is awake and sits with him in the breakfast room. She notices that his face became heavier and says that she wants to ask Dr. Saunders to have a look at Harry. After a short quarrel she also mentions that

effects whereas Beer Lane shows the goods of beer. But if we have a closer look to them we can see that in fact they have a common message, they depict the bad aspects of alcohol. Gin lane looks like chaos, people are sick, like the woman on the stairs who has syphilis, they are all dying or already dead. If it's not because of sickness it's because of alcohol or starvation. There is no food a an is eating a bone, people are thin or even skinny like the guy down the stairs. It doesn't seem to disturb