Two hours before Scully shows up, Mulder shaves and coats himself in off-brand deodorant, the self-defeating kind that stains shirts. Two weeks worth of sweat equals a lot of deodorant. He wonders why he’s so nervous waiting for someone he doesn’t even want to talk to. His desk looks like the desk of someone who spends a lot time at his desk and only cleans under threat of death or visit from Scully, which, nowadays, means a very messy desk indeed. That’s not to say Mulder hasn’t tried to tidy things up. The problem is that, as far as housekeeping goes, he peaked at whatever stage involves taking a feather duster and flicking your wrist limply once or twice for good measure. It's’s been a downhill battle ever since. Where he sleeps is where his eyes close shut, and they don’t, not without sleeping pills and the drowning chatter of TV for company and exhaustion so overwhelming it swallows up …show more content…
Rates of masturbation have reached an all time low, which he blames equally on the decorations and the new pills he’s on. As grotesque as the little stuffed Santa is, the idea of putting away said ornaments in a month is so loathsome he can feel his knees buckle beneath him. Maybe Santa can stay year round. Over there is Scully’s room, the inside of which he thinks he still remembers but doesn’t really, because he refuses to walk within ten feet of the door, much less open it. For once the toilet seat goes up and stays up, but any feeling of victory is short-lived and soon replaced by swathing emptiness. Nothing cuts into loneliness like heated arguments with loved ones over things that don’t matter. His return to bachelorhood was not laced with triumph, only shame, the tail-between-your-legs kind of shame that burns your cheeks and sends you running toward the porch to gasp for
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A new marriage has ended, while an old marriage is finding its way back together. As a result, a confused husband must prove to his reunited wife that his love for her still burns like a freshly lit fire. A lost, frustrated, and confused women must now discover how to become a wife and mother once again. A broken family is finding what was once lost. While Garson Kanin’s My Favorite Wife (1940) and Michael Gordon’s Move Over, Darling (1963) have similar conclusions, Kanin’s scene of falling back in love portrays more passion and determination than Gordon’s story with no real growth or passion.
...ch out only for themselves, we lose sight of what Christmas is truly about. Forgetting the being of Santa Claus only makes us slight the kindness on which this holiday is based. Not believe in Santa! You may as well not believe in the very gifts laid under the tree on Christmas morn. Without your faith, Santa Claus would be nonexistent. There would be no yearning in your soul to give of yourself to others, no example to follow. Thank God, Santa Claus exists and exists forever, lightening the heavy heart as the sight of the snow blankets the soul and defines the heart of childhood.
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. . .” implies the narrator can only see through so much of the door, his sight is restricted to only his father. This allows for a very strong description of his father in the moment. The narrators’ father was walking towards his bedroom with his back to his wife. He had clearly dismissed his wife’s’ argument until she cruelly remarked “Well, I hope you 'll be satisfied when they come home knocked up and you 'll have had your way.” (Alistair Macleod 229). Without stopping, revealing how shocked he was to hear this, he turns around. He is mid stride, but so taken back that he spins to face her. The offence that he feels is a result of his opinion that it would be best for his children to find a better way of life than his own. His children have an opportunity for a much more fulfilling life and he wants nothing more than for them to pursue it. This would seemingly be a goodtime for him to explain to his wife the way he feels; instead he holds it in, knowing that she would not understand. By turning back around without saying a word the only statement he makes is that he is mad. In this moment he is described as looking old and hard worked, though very
Many people who suffer from psychological problems are often troubles with insomnia as a side effect because sleep requires an untroubled mind. Former United States Marshal, Teddy Daniels, believes he was assigned to find a missing person from a mysterious mental institution, Aschecliffe. Unfortunately, he suffers from a delusional disorder and is really a patient of the institution, known as Andrew Laeddis. He is considered a violent but intelligent patient who re-enacts a fake life that he has created for himself in which he believes that he is a detective trying to locate Andrew Laeddis, who supposedly murdered his wife. One night, as Teddy lies in the room with the other men he believes to be working with, he thinks to himself that “he couldn’t sleep. He listened to the men snore and huff and inhale and exhale, some with faint whistles and heard some talk in their sleep…Dolores. Everything he’d ever needed, and now it had a name” (Lehane 199&204). Although Teddy is not diagnosed with insomnia, he has some symptoms to suggest he struggles with a sleeping problem. The difficulty with insomnia is it cannot be cured with medication and requires effort from the patie...
...the story concludes with the woman "crouched," still naked, "in the underbrush" below her house and marveling how strange it is to be seeing her husband at last after "having wanted so desperately to get home," and yet now feeling "no emotion" at what she saw. (138)
Christmas is a special time of year that deserves to be remembered for its true meaning. Every year, Christmas becomes more and more commercialized and society forgets the origin of Christmas. It was not started with cookies, toys, and a fat man that delivers them, but instead it started with a humble inn where our Savior was born. The definition of Christmas is “a holiday on December 25 celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.” Nowhere in that definition does it say anything about the outrageous pressure society has set on consumers to buy, buy, buy during the Christmas season. Christmas is about presence not presents.
One might ask, where did the tradition Santa Claus come from? The answer to this question unfortunately is not quite as straight forward. Somehow this tradition wove itself into the holiday season during the 4th century from Turkey, where a wealthy bishop, by the name of Nicholas habitually gave gifts to children. Following the death of Nicholas, he was honored as a saint, Sinter Nikolass, and a holiday was established in honor of him on December 6th. Dutch people in the Netherlands later shortened the saint's name to Sinter Klaas, which eventually evolved into Santa Claus in the US following Dutch i...
Although Santa has become the main staple of the Christmas season it is important to remember the true reason for the season. Jesus’ birth is what December 25 began as until Saint Nicholas day merged with it. Even though the character that has developed and encountered extremely drastic changes, he has almost always been a giving generous figure in society. “Santa is ‘an invention of the advertising industry’ and ‘a representative of consumer society,’ according to Bonifatiuswerk der deutschen Katholiken [Boniface of German Catholics], which seeks to restore St. Nicholas to his proper place in the Christmas season” (Sweas).
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... (Demet Leblebici, 2012). “The indoor environment has the biggest effect on productivity in relation to job stress and job dissatisfaction”, says Leblebici, and “that the more satisfied workers are with their jobs the better the company is likely to perform in terms of subsequent profitability and particularly productivity”(Demet Leblebici, 2012). Lastly, Leblebici showed findings that “interaction was perceived to be the component to have the most positive effect on productivity, and distraction was perceived to have the most negative” (Demet Leblebici, 2012). The opposite of clean is dirty and dirt is a distraction in the workplace. According to Jennifer Benton, Sophie Harvey, and Simone Schnall, the authors of With a Clean Conscious, “cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments and can be driven by intuitive processes, rather than deliberate reasoning”.
Some men have memories of only their wife while others have multiple sexual experiences or sexual trauma. “Whatever the history, many have sexual memories that bring tremendous shame when recalled.” (p. 58) Sexual history may include shame during their adolescence, masturbation habits, cheating on a girlfriend or vice versa, sexual experimentation that backfired, the solicitation of a prostitute, a girlfriend getting an abortion, contracting an STD, having an affair (adultery), or a past homosexual behavior. Men can feel the deep unbearable shame remembering their past. The author says, “Remember that such shame grows from two roots: the immoral behavior and the belief that they themselves are bad.” (p. 60) The form that shame takes is uniquely dependent on your personality and beliefs. This shame if not healed is taken into the bedroom and limits the joyful expression of our
If I were to start in my kids’ room, which is upstairs, I would gather all my supplies so I wouldn’t have to make numerous trips up and down the staircase. My list of supplies consists of these items: a vacuum, pledge, a dust cloth, window cleaner, paper towels, a hamper or clothes basket, and some extra energy. I start by picking up all the dirty laundry and placing it in the basket or hamper. I also make sure all toys, trash, clothes or whatever else that has been hidden, is out from under the beds and dressers. If there are any clean clothes on the beds or dressers, I take the time to put them in their place, either in the drawers or neatly hung in the closet. I spray the tops of the wooden surfaces with pledge and polish it in a circular motion into the wood with a dust cloth. I like to use a micro fiber cloth because it attracts the dust particles better than a regular cloth. This makes the surfaces shiny, smooth and clean. After the dressers are done, I polish the television and all the electronics that surround it. The windows are next on the check list. Using the window cleaner, I evenly spray one pane of glass at a time. With a paper towel or two, I scrub the glass, making sure to get into the corners and any spots that may be smudged on the surface. I continue this process on each pane that remains. My windows tilt in, making it super easy for me to clean the outsides of them too. I am a perfe...