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A homemaker.
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A homemaker.
I like the term because it can apply to both men and women.A homemaker.
A homemaker.
I think men and women are differentand I hate women who emasculate their male partners.
[I'm a woman and I'm not talking about women having to stay at home or anything like that, but I like men to at least have the appearance of being "a man"]
I think men and women are differentand I hate women who emasculate their male partners.
[I'm a woman and I'm not talking about women having to stay at home or anything like that, but I like men to at least have the appearance of being "a man"]
I don't like most musicals either. I like some of the off color ones like Book of Mormon, but I hate the standard fare musicals.Hate musicals
Think the end of Al Pacino's career is horrendous
I will occasionally read a super crazy popular book that I have no interest in because my customers ask me questions about them. So, I have begrudgingly read:I'm one of those people who will only very rarely ditch a book partway through, or a tv series. I have been able to ditch a tv series at the end of a season but i just. Have. To. Know. What. Happens. I read the twighlight books because I wanted to know what happened and I never tire of telling people how much i hated them too![]()
As in "My wife - I think I'll keep her"?![]()
My father made that commercial. Ms. Magazine (I think, some feminist group) gave him a lemon award, which he displayed proudly at home. I was in middle school at the time.
I think men and women are differentand I hate women who emasculate their male partners.
[I'm a woman and I'm not talking about women having to stay at home or anything like that, but I like men to at least have the appearance of being "a man"]
I like the term because it can apply to both men and women.
Being a "Husband's Wife" most certainly is a job some days.Where I live/work, the registered owner of a piece of real estate has to list their occupation for ID purposes. "Homemaker" is used for those who stay at home. In the olden days, you would have the husband with his job, and the wife's job was "Husband's Wife".
I couldn't agree more; and your post made me laugh.I will occasionally read a super crazy popular book that I have no interest in because my customers ask me questions about them. So, I have begrudgingly read:
Twilight - threw it at the wall;
50 Shades of Grey - threw it at the wall;
DaVinci Code - liked the story, HATED his "writing";
Gone Girl - was hoping both main characters would just kill each other;
Eat Pray Love - liked the eating, meh and meh on the praying and loving;
and absolutely cannot get through even one page of Danielle Steel, Nora Roberts or Nicholas Sparks - ugh, ugh, and ugh.
Most of the time I will just read a synopsis and a few reviews on the more popular books so I can claim to know what's going on.![]()
Community volunteer - at least that describes me.Just curious, what do you call women who stay-at-home if they aren't mothers? I do have a lot of respect for women and men who stay-at-home and do a good job of it. I don't think I can do it. I'm seriously bad at house work, and it is a whole lot of labor and being in charge of basically everything. I get it from my mom, and she loves it when I tell people that.![]()
I'm an English teacher, and I have to argue with this opinion. I hate the way most teachers teach Shakespeare, because as an actor who has acted in Shakespearean plays many times myself, I believe that Shakespeare is a living work and is best enjoyed and understood when seen on stage. One of my pet peeves in life is teachers who make students memorize Shakespeare and then give them marks for having the words perfect, without giving any thought to meaning, phrasing, emotional interpretation, etc.Although I acknowledge the brilliance of Shakespeare, I think more current and relevant works should be taught in high school literature classes.
Also, I question the idea of current = relevant
Most kids these days are automatically inclined to hate anything they're "forced" to read for school and read SparkNotes or other online sources rather than actually reading the book.
I think men and women are differentand I hate women who emasculate their male partners.
[I'm a woman and I'm not talking about women having to stay at home or anything like that, but I like men to at least have the appearance of being "a man"]
I don't know why Skakespeare is always used as an example of non-relevant literature, either (addressing the point, not accusing dramagrrl of making it). Is Chaucer relevant? How about Milton? Spenser? I think Swift is about as relevant as today's headlines; is he out because he wrote in the 18th century?
Literature is mostly old works with a few new works in the mix. Yet the same human behaviors show up again and again. How is that not relevant?
Have students ever liked reading something because it was required reading? I never did.
From that perspective, you can always find relevance.
When I say relevant/current, I mean that students can more easily relate to Catcher in the Rye than Dante's Inferno. And that modern language is more accessible than Shakespearean English and other old forms of English.
Have students ever liked reading something because it was required reading? I never did.
I absolutely loathed Catcher in the Rye and hope I never have to read it again. And there is a very popular class on Dante's Inferno where I teach. But for what it's worth, I am not, frankly, all that interested in what students relate to when I teach literature. That's not the point. Literature is an academic discipline; it's not about helping the students find themselves in a text.
I'm probably a really bad example because of the way my mom chose to homeschool me, but I loved doing required reading because I could usually use it to get out of math, I was good at math, but I found it boring and I preferred to read so when I could use having to read stuff for school as an excuse to skip math, I would. I spent most of my time reading anyway so it wasn't much of a stretch.Have students ever liked reading something because it was required reading? I never did.
Um, Shakespeare wrote in modern English.
But for what it's worth, I am not, frankly, all that interested in what students relate to when I teach literature. That's not the point. Literature is an academic discipline; it's not about helping the students find themselves in a text.
I will occasionally read a super crazy popular book that I have no interest in because my customers ask me questions about them. So, I have begrudgingly read:
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DaVinci Code - liked the story, HATED his "writing";
Gone Girl - was hoping both main characters would just kill each other;
The iambic pentameter may be modern, but it is certainly not accessible to many of us. I sure as heck have no interest in reading it.
That's the term my mother used when she filed our family's Form 1040 every year, even though there were 3 of us hooligans running around.