YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Essays 1 - 30
as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...
When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...
dies and leaves her a widow and it is while mourning him and getting ready for a ceremony that she realizes that although she is s...
want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...
both came to Ghoshpara Lane as young brides, cannot be fobbed off with descriptions of Fishermans Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge...
all whistle as she seductively moves her hips. The lover-hero of the film dances in, lip syncing to a song, which is "a little off...
her time between home and school. But when her parents decide to marry her to Hussein, her only a choice is to submit to their wis...
the father. Fieldings opposition to arranged marriages is largely dramatized through Sophias behavior in categorically refusing ...
is the mother who stays at home and cares for the children and the father who works outside the home in order to provide financial...
have a voice in the ultimate selection of their marriage partner nor the time or circumstances that surround the marriage. It is ...
they still keep to the tradition of arranged marriages. Marriages formed out of love AKA "love marriages" do happen in India but i...
In a paper that contains ten pages the changes in attitudes regarding Indians that relocate to the United States are examined in t...
In five pages this paper discusses how arranged marriages oppressed women in this analysis of these two literary works. Two sourc...
long for Nandas friend to marry her son. Nandas article points out mating customs and attitudes are culturally based. While Nanda...
define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The same debate in mostly-liberal Vermont several years ago resulted in ...
This 5 page paper discusses the portrayal of marriage in three plays: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; The Marriage of Olype by Aug...
the woman reaps any benefit at all from her matrimonial vows. "If marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, th...
is linked to moral, religious and political views about the legalities involved in gay marriage and the sanctioning of gay and les...
right of same-sex couples to marry and New Jersey has granted these couples the "legal equivalent of marriage" (Hull, 2007, p. 748...
care without losing her job, as the spouse "cannot miss classes at school" (Brady 361). I know a young couple where it is the husb...
often precluding what others believe to be more valuable and essential characteristics. The American culture panders to popular c...
since the beginning of time. In fact, one could likely argue that in many cultures it has been, and is, far more prevalent than it...
is what distinguishes us and allows us to distinguish ourselves from other animals and, in the future, from intelligent machines" ...
In truth, this is an argument that really does not have much of a foundation. It is vague and does not do anything but essentially...
that the basic needs and desires of a society to maintain stability and social order are often very influential in where a society...
important. One could well argue that in all cultures the institution of marriage has generally been an institution that encouraged...
work, does not eliminate the need for men and this has not provided an excuse for them to essentially run away. In all honesty men...
of grandparents, aunts or uncles, brothers or sisters, adoptive parents, single parents and almost any sort of family one could im...
and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...
In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...