Hosea Ballou
June 3 2010:
only insofar as she achieves in the workplace. F. Carolyn Graglia
– Mark Twain
Definition of “Submissive”
Filed Under (Dominance and Submission) by theodora on 03-08-2007
Tagged Under : d/s
July 26 2010:
Helen Keller
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Fantasy novelist Anne McCaffrey has passed away. She was 85 years old. GalleyCat confirmed the sad news with Random House this afternoon.
McCaffrey’s career began with Restoree in 1967. She went on to earn a dedicated following for her beloved series, Dragonriders of Pern. At her website, McCaffrey answered letters from dedicated fans through November. This GalleyCat editor will never forget reading her books as a middle-school kid. Share your memories in the comments section…
You can read her complete biography at her site. An excerpt: “Her first novel, Restoree, was written as a protest against the absurd and unrealistic portrayals of women in s-f novels in the 50s and early 60s. It is, however, in the handling of broader themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly the two series The Ship Who Sang and the fourteen novels about the Dragonriders of Pern that Ms. McCaffrey’s talents as a story-teller are best displayed.”
On her blog, she offered this advice for aspiring writers: “First — keep reading. Writers are readers. Writers are also people who can’t not write. Second, follow Heinlein’s rules for getting published: 1. Write it. 2. Finish it. 3. Send it out. 4. Keep sending it out until someone sends you a check. There are variations on that, but that’s basically what works.”
>Well it wasnt exactly what she wanted, but she passed. nageena recieved a Credit:
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When I saw the topic to this essay I had to write, that there was no way that I could not write about this, as it is my worldview. Samovar and Porter (2004, p85-86) tell us that our worldview influences our beliefs and values. While Marshall and Rowland (2006, p11) say that what I believe and value directly affects my learning. It can affect my choice of courses, my work in the unit, my open mindedness and how I relate to other students and teachers.
My belief is that I was created to be a slave, not just a slave in general and to anyone, but a slave for one particular person, and ever since I woke up to that knowledge of who I really was I have never been more content or happy. I value myself more because I am seen as having value by my partner, if he didn’t value me I would not be with him. I value the deadlines that he gives me for my study because it makes it so I work hard and well and I am not late on assignments. He invoked the 24 hour rule where all my assignments must be complete 24 hours before they are due, so that I would never be late.
Julia Hobson uses three key words to help her in her learning process, one of those key words is contextualise (Hobson, 1996). I would contextualise myself as slave to my partner, but I am also a parent of a six year old son, and now a student of university. As a slave I serve and obey my partner, and part of that service is completing and doing well in my studies. As a parent, study time is slightly hard to come by unless he is at school or asleep, but it helps to keep my mind active. By me going to school and doing homework it helps him also, because he sometimes sits with me working on his own reading and writing for school.
As for why I chose to study, it has always been something that I wanted to do. The choices about the classes that I made were different however. At that time I was choosing Business Admin courses, ones that would enhance my skills for a potential partner. That was my focus at the time, enhancement to increase my skills as a slave. When I enrolled in my degree, not only was I actually doing it for me and because it was something that I was interested in, but at the time I was using it as a distraction as I was unable to find the man that I could give myself to. By doing so it attracted the man that I am with now, who helps me to stay focused and proof reads my work before I send it in. Before I met him, I was not so good at punctuation, grammar and sentence structure. So now instead of a distraction, study for me is yet another way to serve him, and in doing so bettering myself.
Early on when I was in high school, I found myself as most teenagers, confused about who they are and what they were meant to do in their life. Once I discovered that I had submissive tendencies towards men I was better able to control it, but at the same time I fought with it which took away focus from my work. I found that the classes with male teachers I excelled at the class work, with the female teachers I did well but I didn’t push myself to do better. There were however a few male teachers that I did not respond in that manner and so did poorly in their class, these were the ones that were domineering towards the females in their class.
The change in myself as I have matured both as a person and slave is that I am more composed now than when I was last in study. I no longer fight with myself, I have accepted myself which saves a lot of energy. Over the years I have been in many different relationships, not all of them good or healthy, but because I persevered and I believed in myself I have come out a better person. Studying this time around while busy, my life feels more rewarding than it did in high school, in high school I studied because I had to, now I study because I enjoy it. I enjoy the pride and rewards from my partner when I do well which causes me to put 110% effort into my work.
My education has been affected positively because I am a slave, having someone there supporting me, and pushing me to do well is exactly what I needed. My mind is calmer because I accepted myself, I am a happy and well balanced person who happens to want and need to serve the man in her life in a slave like manner, and thankfully I am not the only one.
References:
Baldwin, Guy. 2002. SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude – Principles, Skills and Tools. Daedelus Publishing Co, Los Angeles, CA, pp57-62.
Hobson, Julia. 1996. Concepts of the self: Different ways of knowing about the self. SSK12 lecture transcript. ed. Lorraine Marshall. Perth: Murdoch University.
Marshall, Lorraine and Rowland, Frances. 2006. A guide to learning independently. 4th edn, Pearson Education, Sydney.
Samovar, Larry A., and Richard E. Porter. 2004. Communication Between Cultures. 5th ed. Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Worldviews, 85-86.
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That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!
O! let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison’d absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check,
Without accusing you of injury.
Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you yourself may privilege your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
Not blame your pleasure be it ill or well.
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>To save on multiple postings she will post all the quotes that she has collected in here.
June 1 2010:
Definition of “Submissive”
Filed Under (Dominance and Submission) by theodora on 03-08-2007
Tagged Under : d/s
July 26 2010:
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