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Dear students these are two versions of the format for your reading, one is for windows 97-2003 and the other one for Vista. Choose the best one for you and remember you have to deliver the first one next tuesday. PS. Please those who haven´t answered the questionnaire about reading habits please I still need you to do it. Thanks Itzel

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=READING 1 - RELATED TO THE TOPIC SUTIED IN CLASS "EXPRESSING OUR FEELINGS".= Why Women Should Paint

Seven reasons why every woman should express herself through art.
From Judi Morales Gibson of Artista Creative Safaris, for About.com ====Even if you haven't painted since grade school, your artistic expression longs to be released, says Judi Morales Gibson, who is the Guest Services Manager for Artista Creative Safaris for Women ([|view website]) as well as being a painter, surfer, Mehndi Body Artist, event planner, jewelry designer, seamstress, dancer, and Dexter's Mom. Here Judi gives seven reasons; reasons she passionately believes.==== Women are aesthetic by nature. A woman will notice the subtle colors of an Anjou pear, and use it as inspiration to redecorate a room. She will buy a bolt of fabric just because the color moves her, and worry about how to use it later. A woman will tear a picture of a garden from a magazine, just to post it on her refrigerator. Women instinctively recognize and capture beauty, and when given the chance, will express her own intuitive energy. Women recognize and embrace the emotion that beauty ignites, and are drawn to colors based on their emotional needs. It's why they buy yellow flowers to cheer themselves up, or add a bright scarf to an outfit. Women can communicate and express themselves without words. A mother expresses love with bedtime lullaby, a grandmother expresses her confidence by wearing a feathered purple hat, and a toddler expresses her fearlessness by coloring on the living-room wall. Even though no words are spoken, her message is clear. Women naturally have a great sense of color and light, which is why they get to choose the new house color. Not only that, they are fearless about personal expression. Just give them some time, mental space and tools to create, then stand back. Women are more willing to break the rules set by the standard of the day. They have a natural instinct for doing things differently, which is why they can make a Halloween costume out of a pillow case or turn a farmhouse door into a coffee table. Women understand the Japanese aesthetic of //wabi-sabi//, the ability to see beauty in things that are imperfect. They stop to admire an intricate rusty gate, the complexity of a darkened pre-storm sky or old chair with paint chipped away, exposing it's history of previous colors. Beauty is everywhere, and women notice it. As they get older, women become less afraid to act on impulse. A 65-year-old women explains: "At my age, I can be as crazy as I want to be". Amazingly, we are born with that freedom and openly express it in early childhood. Eventually things like peer pressure and the "status quo" stifle it in adolescence. If only we could maintain that freedom throughout our adulthood, just imagine our potential over a lifetime. Women should not have to wait until their sixties to rediscover themselves. It's time to let their creativity run free. In the end, women use creative expression to make the world more beautiful. Even simple things like a bowl of green apples on a table or flower pot with sprouting daffodils emotes beauty, which in turn makes the world a happier place. That's perhaps the best reason for women to paint. So with all this natural instinct, what keeps women from painting? Typically, it's intimidation, fear of failure, and the lack of trust in her own aesthetic. Rigid art styles like figure drawing or still-life painting, force students reproduce an image, which can be difficult and limiting. Thankfully, there are abstract painting styles, which allow artists to freely express themselves, discover their own natural style and essentially 'color outside the lines' =READING 2= = Men & Emotional Expression =
 * Why Women Should Paint: Reason 1**
 * Why Women Should Paint: Reason 2**
 * Why Women Should Paint: Reason 3**
 * Why Women Should Paint: Reason 4**
 * Why Women Should Paint: Reason 5**
 * Why Women Should Paint: Reason 6**
 * Why Women Should Paint: Reason 7**
 * What Stops Women from Painting?**

Are men really less emotional than women?
by Jerry Kennardfor About.com Updated August 30, 2006 About.com Health's Disease and Condition content is reviewed by the [|Medical Review Board]

====Over the past decade or so the effects of emotional expression on health, and the differences between men and women in this regard, have become more widely understood. An increasing body of research shows the importance of emotional expression on emotional well-being and, while the exact mechanism between emotional expression and health is not entirely clear, the link appears to exist. Men are traditionally thought of as being less emotional than women but the evidence points more towards a situation where men tend to show emotions that are bad for them and the people around them. Here is a quick overview of some of the research findings about men, their emotional expressions and their health. **Compared to Women:**==== > Most theorists agree that biological differences between men and women cannot explain differences in emotional expression. In terms of the supposed lack of emotion in men a more plausible explanation is the number and extent of social experiences men encounter from childhood that inhibit emotional expression. It has been pointed out that men and women live in different worlds when it comes to emotional expression. From early childhood most boys are exposed to fewer emotion-oriented conversations and are not encouraged to express emotions verbally. Yet, for example, the expression of rage if personal possessions or status is threatened, is seen not only as typically male, but in some situations encouraged and admired. The point is that men appear to experience exactly the same emotions as women but their expression is often and typically very different. > A well known psychologist, James Pennebaker, has demonstrated that emotional expressions can benefit health by the simple device of keeping a diary. The diary provides a outlet for emotional expression and not only appears to have a positive emotional effect but improves immune function as well. In fact written emotional expression has been researched in terms of benefits to physical health, physiological functioning and daily living activities; in each case with positive findings. Could the simple act of keeping a diary be a useful compromise for men and bridge the gap between their inability to transmit, receive and manage emotional messages? Source: adapted from Lee, C & Glynn Owens, R (2002) The Psychology of Men's Health. Open University Press.
 * there is substantial evidence to show that men have more difficulty in expressing their emotions and exert greater controls over the expression of emotions.
 * men spend more time ruminating over negative emotions.
 * men share their emotions with far fewer.
 * men express emotions with less intensity.
 * men use less emotional language and fewer 'emotion' words.
 * behavior seems less affected by expressions of emotion.
 * men are more likely to under-report negative feelings.
 * men are more willing to express emotions likely to be viewed as demonstrating power or control. For example, pride, anger and jealousy.
 * The Differences Explained**
 * Men's Health & Emotional Expression**

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