Blume, Judy. Forever. Pocket Books. New York, 1975 Genre: Love Romance Recommended age/grade level: late teens 14-18 roughly. It is sexually explicit so maybe not entirely appropriate for younger children, not ... also it has a very nostalgic feel to it, maybe for those older readers. Judy Blume is a great writer and the reading level is fairly straightforward. It was a quick read not only because the writing was easy to understand but also the suspense and the story kept me wanting to continue to ... that this book might be more appropriate for girls as it is written from a female perspect...

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... was able to convey her message across to women all over the world, regardless of their social class. She wrote several magazine articles and books, created pamphlets, and gave speeches educating women and confronting topics that were seen as taboo. Using her research and extensive education, Margaret ... than in New York, where the Comstock Law had made the circulation of information impossible." After gathering a variety of contraceptive devices, pamphlets and books, she returned to New York with a vast amount of information to pass onto the American society. Working with friends who v...

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... birth control (Birth Control and Catholic Doctrine), to Braille (Studies in Hand-Reading), to art (The Complete Etchings of Goya). Aldous Leonard Huxley is responsible for a vast amount of great books. He is responsible for novels such as, Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, Point Counter Point and his most famous Brave New World. Huxley wrote Brave New World in ... four months in 1931, but it did not appear until 3 years later, after the publication of his best-seller, Point Counter Point. During those 3 years he produced 6 books of stories, essays, poems, and plays, but noth...

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... its full title above implies, it was meant to stop trade in "obscene literature" and "immoral articles." This law, while now un-enforced, remains for the most part on the books today; the Telecommunications Reform Bill of 1996 even specifically applied some of them to computer networks. This law also forbade distribution of birth control information. Comstock campaigned tirelessly for censorship ... ) Over the next forty years Comstock prosecuted 3,500 individuals (although no more than 10% were found guilty) and had destroyed 120 tons of literature. "..The Comstock Law remains on the bo...

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... receive shock therapy everytime they try to touch a book and/or flowers. "They"ll grow up with what psychologists used to call instinctive hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They will be safe from books and botany all their lives." (22). The use of hypnopaedia, teaching during sleep, strengthens the conditioning process, and underscores the insidious nature of the state ... ...

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... have had, you will benefit from this book. Anyone interested in learning anything about sex, their bodies, or any other insight about sex should read this book. This book is certainly the best self help book I have ever read. Anyone that wants to improve their sex life should go to the bookstore and purchase The Guide to Getting It On. I really liked ... not any room for any enhancement what so ever. I think that the book is perfect. The Guide to Getting It On is the best book I have ever read. I do not even like to read, but this book was hard to put down. This book is totally appropri...

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... "Lust" was created by American Novelist and Short Story writer Susan Minot and published as a part of her book Lust & Other Stories in 1989 (Feed Your Need To Read. 1; Wikipedia. 1). "Lust" is a literary work which is written in a first person narration. It is about the un-named woman's brief sexual encounters with fifteen plus men while she ... grew up in Manchester, Massachusetts and was the second of seven children. Her parents sent her to boarding school at the Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts (Feed Your Need To Read. 1; Wikipedia. 1). In possible relation to Susan's own li...

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... whether or not a fetus is a human. There is a passage in the Bible which deals specifically with the act of causing a woman to abort a pregnancy. In Exodus 21:22-25 we read: " And if men struggle and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is no further injury, he shall be fined as the woman's husband may demand ... are fighting. Rather than it being a capital offense, however it is looked as a civil matter, with the father - to - be taking the participants to court for a settlement. But, as we read on, if the woman is killed, a "life for a life," then the men...

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I felt especially strongly about the topics we read about and discussed dealing with female health and reproductive rights. My health and reproductive rights are extremely important to me and I feel like this topic was the most controversial in ... that a women will die of breast cancer is decreasing steadily (Shaw, 262). There are many breast cancer activist groups that support people with this disease. This was very comforting to read about and changed my attitude about this killer cancer I have heard so much about. Then my gender is taken into consideration, with males as being the norm, ...

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I felt especially strongly about the topics we read about and discussed dealing with female health and reproductive rights. My health and reproductive rights are extremely important to me and I feel like this topic was the most controversial in ... that a women will die of breast cancer is decreasing steadily (Shaw, 262). There are many breast cancer activist groups that support people with this disease. This was very comforting to read about and changed my attitude about this killer cancer I have heard so much about. Then my gender is taken into consideration, with males as being the norm, ...

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... are complex and hover in a grey area of morality, tradition, and history. Sex and love are obviously two things that interests humans, and animals to an extent. People write songs, books, and poetry about both topics. Humans have also studied both since the beginning of time. They are incorporated into art as both an emotion and an image. Humans are encapsulated ... ...

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... A, Sinclair Lewis who was a journalist, and Nobel Prize winning novelist known by writing the book called Babbitt and Main Street[CITATION ADo l 1033 ]. He had anger with America's mediocrity. His books were widely about the 1920's and what was going on. Many Americans in the 1920's saw the world grow and open up opportunities and foundations for stability and some saw ... ...

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... Feminist groups who laughed at the idea of bringing such things to the public. She was not able to find any influential supporters for her cause. She began to research books and other areas for information on contraception available to the public. But, even after searching in the library of the New York Academy of Medicine, she was unable to find ... ...

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... Romania at one point did, but agreed to perform this procedure when completely necessary). Those who are pro-life have done a really wonderful job with providing information online, in pamphlets, books, and most everywhere else possible. While researching I came across many accounts of women who have had abortions and now realize what a horrible mistake it indeed was. One after another describe ... ...

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... control in America was not legally allowed until after Margaret Sanger's birth control movement. She began in 1912 publishing and distributing materials about women's reproductive concerns through articles, pamphlets, and books to women across the United States. In 1914 she was arrested for doing it because it was a violation of the Comstock Law, which didn't allow the mailing of obscene information ... ...

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... conception the embryo is just a mass of cells. But if you think about it that's all that humans basically are anyway, masses of cells. According to a Human Life Magazine article I read, it only takes about 45 cell generation splits to produce the 30 million cells that form an adult human being. Of these 45 generations, 8 have occurred by the time the ... that, being a married, mature adult with a college degree, she should have known better and used some sort of protection if she didn't want to have anymore children. In another article I read, the first sentence shocked me, "Those rare ...

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... will pay more attention to. They suggested if you find yourself uncomfortable when it came to the subject of sexual education to perhaps try reading some of the hundreds of books written on the subject to help aide in being more comfortable discussing the topics and be more aware when their children might ask them questions. It boils down to preparedness ... ...

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... almost a 100 years. Intellectuals began pouring out of the cities. Coming up with new standars and ideas that changed the way America thought. Today many novelists come out with fantastic books. The newspaper was also a means of getting information around. ...

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... available such as Norplant, Depo-Provera, The Diaphragm, spermicidal and the IUD. Today sex is not a conservational subject It is loosely talked about on TV, in music, in magazines, in books and in daily conversion. But when is too much, too much? A schoolteacher, Tina Mariello, is quoted saying Everything in the culture, in advertising, in the media- everything tells people to ... ...

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... have no real relationship (Meier, 1994, p. 10). Couples who have sex 12 times run a 50 percent chance of starting a pregnancy (Meier, 1994, p. 12). Teenagers should think of the consequences and read over the statistics before jumping into anything. Alcohol or drugs also play a major role in the sexual activity of teenagers. Sometimes, alcohol and drugs play a part in the teenager's decision ... ...

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... government.) I will learn both debates on pro-choice and pro-life. By learning both sides people might be influenced to do the same. I will need to watch the news and read about both as much as I can. I will then form a petition to send Congress, and not only have those who are pro-life sign it, but try and get those who ... ...

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... for abortion in the Roe vs. Wade trial. Abortion, though not supported by the American Birth Control League, is still another form of birth control today. Headlines all over America read, just last year, about the legalization of the "abortion pill". Whether people agree or disagree birth control is a part of American culture. The right of a woman to plan her family ... ...

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... have no real relationship (Meier, 1994, p. 10). Couples who have sex 12 times run a 50 percent chance of starting a pregnancy (Meier, 1994, p. 12). Teenagers should think of the consequences and read over the statistics before jumping into anything. Alcohol or drugs also play a major role in the sexual activity of teenagers. Sometimes, alcohol and drugs play a part in the teenager's decision ... ...

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... . A woman is only permitted to receive the operation in the first trimester. In some states, minors can't cant go through the procedure without a consenting parent. Some state require that women read information about abortion first. Pro-life supporters believe that abortion is the intention murdering of a human life. From the moment of conception, a new human life has been created. All the ... ...

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... rules, adopting one of the many sexual euphemisms and metaphors that thrive in popular culture and falling flat in the face of an educated middle class that has imbibed western (read American) phobias about such talk. Amid such overwhelming power of structures and institutions, we need to recognize there is space to go around the rules. This could not be better ... ...

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