Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with my ribs. If I get hurt on my left side I can't breathe." Prodded to think it out more carefully by his teacher, University of New Hampshire Education Professor Donald Graves, Brian realized he was trying to describe a past event, not a current pain. On his second attempt he wrote: "Once when I was in second grade, I was on a seesaw and fell off! I can't breathe!" Better, but Brian still had mixed up a past and a present tense. After another chat with Graves, he decided to carry his readers directly...
Wife-battering is another example of violence which is legitimized by the prevalence of media violence. Pornography perpetuates the attitude that women enjoy their victimization. Images of women inflicting injuries on themselves reinforce the false idea that women adore pain. And this false idea is often used to justify battering...
...Ford Test Engineer Bob Mogridge, 35, who was let go last week, the pain of unemployment is multiplied by the aggravation of homeownership. With engineers already flooding the local market, Mogridge would eagerly move to another city if he could afford it. In Detroit's depressed real estate market, however, his four-bedroom house is all but impossible to sell at a price that could provide him with equivalent housing elsewhere. "The house is like a ball and chain around my foot," complains Mogridge...
Living with the baby is the lesson, and it is one not only mothers can learn: "I can certainly sympathize with a father who doesn't want to be a witness to the pain of labor, or who is frightened by hospitals and wary of birth: all that blood and gore. I absolutely understand why he would want to avoid dirty diapers. And I believe him when he says he doesn't know the first thing about caring for a baby. That's exactly how most mothers feel. The difference is, most mothers don't have...
...head upon a plate-fetches far back to a shrouded moment when the spontaneous animal reflex of self-protection turned to a savage brooding. The human mind, newly intelligent, began to dream of the barbarously fitting ways in which it would get even. Emanating from hurt and the pain of failure and unfairness, the fantasy of revenge became, it may be, even stronger than the imperative...