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William Shakespeare's Comic Take on Marriage

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

Customs of Chinese Marriage Since 1949 Introduction of Communism

from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...

Should There be Legalization of Same Sex Marriages?

also in case law. Case law has given many good and worthwhile definition of marriage, one f the first is in the of Hyde v. Hyde an...

US Same Sex Marriage History

was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...

Gay Marriage Debate

manner inconsistent with the intentions of the people in enacting that provision. Yet that is precisely what has happened in the S...

Argument Against Sanctioning Gay Marriage

homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...

Same Sex Marriages Should Not Be Allowed

decision to allow gay marriages, a new Pew Center poll shows 59 percent of Americans oppose such marriages, thats up from 55 perce...

Rogerian Argument in Support of Gay Marriages

of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...

Supporting Gay Marriage

family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...

Footwear's Evolution

highest possible degree of comfort and hygiene. It has to allow for environmental requirements and for the climate in which it is ...

Religious Rituals of Judaism and Christianity

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Roman Catholic Church and Gay Marriage

said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...

Relationships, Female Dominance, and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

Marriage and Personal Goals

without having been asked to do so, providing a reward of some type for this, or simply recognizing the effort and the initiative ...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

Overview of the Debate on 'Gay' Marriage

legal definitions of marriage exclude same-sex marriage but reveal little about what constitutes "marriage" other than as an insti...

Different Points of View on the Gay Marriage Debate

by many as having originated in Greenwich Village New York in 1969 with the Stonewall Inn riots (Ahearn, 1996), is of course not a...

Amend the Constitution to Ban Gay Marriage

It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...

Marriage and Sociology

The primary reason for dating, though it is strictly on a subconscious and biological level, is to find and obtain a mate for the ...

United States and Thailand Laws Regarding Marriage

statutes that address marriage, such as the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that the word "marriage means only ...

Comparative Analysis of Married Heterosexuals and Married Homosexuals

divorce rates should make a statement about the fate of the traditional family structures. Most statistics state that one in two m...

Questions About Gay Marriage Answered

many questions which arise. II. Questions and Answers As requested by a student writing on this subject, this part of the pape...

Legal Memorandum on Polygamy

and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...

Ethics and a Medical Malpractice Case Study

However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...

U.S. and Gay Rights

in case state law would attempt to implement it. While that never came to fruition, some states already have laws on the books ban...

Anthropological Perspectives on Marriage

a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...