Wonder 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

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 direct original of My Antonia :like Jim,she formed friendships with her old friend’s many children,and the relationship survived the novel. Willa Cather wrote of the origins of the novel : »One of the people who interested me most as a

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” at first, but is it really? The article may well evoke two reactions among the woman that reads it: Firstly

Hello, my name is James Morrison, I'm 43 years old, I live in London and I have a terrifying story to tell. He was a single, childless, working in a supermarket. One day 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

This picture is a 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

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 company. During this internship, he met the woman who will become his wife and whose father owned a little company which was a foundry specialized in the manufacture of piece for the Swiss train. This company employed 20 employees based in Kallnach. A day, his step father had a cerebral attack, that’s

polystyrene, rotted wood and a few wires here and there. However the most traumatizing image I have to face is the one of a crying woman kneeling in front of her torn-down shack, desperate for having lost the only thing in her possession. For a second, I think to myself how can someone be this crippled by something completely valueless. The reality is that the ‘valueless’ hut the woman lives, or lived, in, is probably the only source of serenity she has. Without thinking twice about it, I turn around and

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 them because they feed of gin. It's every man for himself we can see people fighting, probably to have some gin. Even children are are drinking, a woman gives some gin to her baby. Their only

often abandoned, left alone (either on purpose or by accident). 8. Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male. One or more male characters has the power to demand that one or more of the female characters do something intolerable. The woman may be commanded to marry someone she does not love (it may even be the powerful male himself), or commit a crime. 9. The metonymy of gloom and horror. Metonymy is a subtype of metaphor, in which something (like rain) is used to stand for something