like women like all of the sexual and “rockstar” type treatment, which turns out to be the exact way to mistreat a woman. While this shouldn’t be our scapegoat, it surely doesn’t help the cause. I guess the prisoner found out now that you can’t treat women like objects as they do on TV after probably being out of a relationship for some time now. How and/or why he realized this is hard to tell, and is probably even a hard question for him to answer, but now at least he can try to use this letter and try to get teachers and professors like Sam to educate with it to try to put some good morals back in this world. While it is hard to rectify past relationships with women while you are in jail, I think that this prisoner did just that the best that he could, following up his powerful letter with a sincere apology that will unfortunately probably never be heard, seen, or maybe even believed by the women who he had abused in his life.
This post was a beautiful piece of writing. I feel like the prisoner pretty much nailed everything girls want in guys on the head. The way this post was written just added to the seriousness of the post. It was written so sincerely and with a lot of thoughtfulness, which just bleeds through every single word that this prisoner wrote. I honestly don’t think many women would be able to write a better paper on how men should be treating women. This post is even more powerful and moving because he doesn’t realize this until he is in prison and not really in a relationship anymore due to his life sentence.
The main lesson I see in this paper is when he mentions about how long it took him to realize this. And the reason he gives is the way the television, movies, and music portray the treatment of women to the general public. This statement is 100% true. The media today has manipulated the thoughts of men. They have made it seem
Another good point is the enormous impact of social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. This allows people to see what is going on with the people pretty much around the whole world, and as people see more people doing one thing, they are automatically inclined to follow suit, which is where the invisible strings come into play.
The numbers really are shifting and they are predicted to only grow in the countries that are discussed in this article. The kicker for me is that Ireland went up to over 4% unaffiliated because Ireland is probably the most catholic country in the whole world. While that number still isn’t high, it went up from .04% in the 1960s and sociologist actually do predict that the majority of the Irish in Ireland will become unaffiliated rather that stay with their historic deeply rooted Catholic roots.
While the numbers are there I believe organized religion will never die out. It will survive just as any other of the smaller beliefs, including atheism and agnosticism, have stuck around for all these years.
Organized religion is something that has been around since almost the beginning of man. We have records of it in the Bible. It was obviously popular in some way because in the early 1500s, a man by the name of Martin Luther started the Protestant faith because he did not agree with some of the beliefs that the Christians and the Jews believed in. These faiths have grown and flourished since then along with Christianity and other religions.
It is interesting and surprising initially to hear that organized religion is becoming extinct. But after putting some thought into it, I could see where the organized religions would be dying out. Why more people are claiming to not be a part of an organized religion is beyond me, but I know it has something to do with the invisible strings. As the article states, it is more appealing to join the majority that it is to be part of the minority, and right now in some countries, the majority is leaning towards not being a part of a religion.
But, in other cases, some of the winners don’t know how to control themselves and they end up losing all of their winnings just as fast as they won it, and that would be a huge disappointment to anybody. This is one example of a possible transition from one social system to another. Another example of a tough transition would be that once your name gets out that you won, you could possibly have a target on your back. That target is in the sights for all the jealous people, those people could steal from you or harass you, or, unfortunately, end up killing you, which is what happened to one Florida winner.
In conclusion, the negative effects of actually winning the lottery can be pretty big. Just like any transition into different social systems, winning the lottery is one that could be tough to get used to. Being a lottery player, these stories made me think if it was actually worth it to put the money into the lottery and actually being lucky enough to win. Some of these stories and the realization of how the change of being wealthy sort of deter me from trying to win that big jackpot.
Whenever I go and buy a lottery ticket, of course I think of what it would be like to win that big jackpot. I think about what I will do with all the money and all the wealth that comes with the luck of winning. One thing that I don’t think about is if the transition to a wealthier lifestyle would be easy or not, because you would think that it wouldn’t be hard to get used to since it is most Americans’ dreams. But the introduction that Sam posts makes me think otherwise.
Whenever you think of any major transition in your life, it is usually a pretty long process that takes a pretty big toll on your social and psychological life. When becoming a millionaire in a matter of a day by wining the lottery, you would think that all that could come out of the process would be nothing but good and happiness. In many cases, this is what happens and the winner does what he or she would like to do with the money to make themselves and those close to them very happy for a very long time.
This is the point that Tim Minchin is attempting to humorously make. He says that his wife is special and he loves her a lot, but if it didn’t work out or she all of a sudden “fell from something high or contracted something bad”, he would be very sad, but statistically be able to find another soul mate to spend the rest of his life with and be happy. He jokingly says that his wife is special, but that she falls within a bell curve, which is somewhat true. The bell curve might not be very big, but other people can fall within the same bell curve as well.
In conclusion, it all depends on the invisible strings that factor into everyone’s lives. These strings act as sort of a lottery. The soul mate that you will meet in your life seemingly depends on luck. That is what Minchin is proclaiming when he says that his wife is one in a million, but he thinks there is another girl out there in the 9.999 hundred thousand people that he will be compatible with.
Tim Minchin brings up an interesting point in this very humorous song that he sings. He addresses an issue that many people may not want to believe, but in reality it will be true 99.9% of the time. The fact that we, as humans, only have one “true love” is something that might exist, but most likely there is someone out there who you will love enough to take the plunge with. This might not be the most romantic way to look at the situation, but it will probably be true, according to the law of averages. This is mainly due to the invisible strings that nudge us along throughout our whole life.
The invisible strings are “controlling” us our whole life. The strings force us to do this and that, they make us meet certain people who can have a major impact on our life. The strings influence us to start relationships with the people who we make connections with, and possibly, spend forever with. The strings also influence us to break up with these people, and if we didn’t break up with our first mate, persay, we would never have met the next person that we started a relationship with.
A good point is brought up whenever you think of China. Seeing as how the country has been trying to regulate the population by having the “one child rule”, and killing off any child who wasn’t the firstborn, this would be a great practice in order to control the population and helping save the resources so that everyone can use them. So maybe in a couple of years, China will adopt this thought of polyandry, but I can’t see it happening here in the U.S. due to all of the sociological factors that go into it.
While the thought of the way the people have to live in the Himalayas, this concept of polyandry seems to be a common sense way to live. All of the resources are scarce and it is a good way to start controlling the population of a country. One nice aspect of polyandry is that the brothers have the choice to participate or not. This may not be a “free” choice, per say, but the choice is there. I could see many of the families kind of pressuring the younger brothers into marrying the young girl that the family picked for the boys. But the installment of better education and satellite dishes for televisions might have an impact on the future of polyandry within the young people of the country.
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