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SEX, INTIMACY AND THE ART OF RELATIONSHIPS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF CONNECTION IN LITERATURE

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What is your favorite novel, movie, painting, music album, or piece of literature that you have ever read/seen/listened to? Please explain why it is your favorite in 150 words or less.

(No specific order)

1. "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

2. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

4. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

5. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

6. "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

7. "Lord of the Rings" trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

8. "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

9. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey

10. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce

11. "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams

12. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

13. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

14. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

15. "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf

16. "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

17. "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens

18. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

19. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

20. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

21. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell

22. "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie

23. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

24. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell

25. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

26. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

27. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

28. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

29. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

30. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

31. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

32. "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster

33. "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

34. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

35. "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak

36. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy

37. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway

38. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

39. "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

40. "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

41. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

42. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

43. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

44. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

45. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

46. "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

47. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

48. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

49. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

50. "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

51. "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

52. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

53. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey

54. "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

55. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

56. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

57. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

58. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell

59. "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie

60. "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak

61. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy

62. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway

63. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell

64. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

65. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce

66. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

67. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

68. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

69. "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

70. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

71. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

72. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

73. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

74. "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

75. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

76. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

77. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

78. "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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How do individuals reconcile desires for closeness with obligations to preserve professional integrity?

It is not uncommon for people to experience tension between their desire for close relationships at work and their need to uphold professional integrity. This conflict can be challenging because it forces individuals to prioritize one aspect of themselves over another, which may lead to feelings of guilt or self-doubt.

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