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Nella Larsen's 'Passing'

one is doing so in the early part of the twentieth century. Back during the time Larsen wrote her groundbreaking story Passing, t...

Gay Marriages and the Church

on the sanctity of traditional matrimony, traditional values, where a man and a woman join lives to create a family. Sex may be a...

Amish and Samoan Marriage Customs

forms of relationships that occur between unmarried lovers, which involved clandestine encounters. This aspect of Samoan courtship...

'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

Comparing Female 'Business' in Eliza Haywood and Jane Austen

In twelve pages this research paper compares and contrasts Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Haywood's Fantomina in their presentat...

BC's Gay Marriages

being primarily procreative, there is also a distinction made between marriages which cannot be consummated or which are sterile, ...

Far From the Maddening Crowd, Madame Bovary, and Marriage

to a place where she thinks that such fantasies can be obtained. Now, while such romance can be found, it is often tempered with a...

Hispanic and Caucasian Interracial Marriage

of psychology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and who has studied interracial relationships extensively, said: "We no longe...

Opposing Same Sex Marriages Within a United Methodist Church Context

measure of repetition. According to information from the United Methodist News Service (05-09-00), the issue has come up at every ...

Comparision of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

modest eyes" (Hardy, 2002). As this suggests, Sue was highly conflicted over gender roles from the time she was first aware them. ...

Marriage from a Colonial Perspective

writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...

Comparing Marriage in Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' with Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'

with that described in her "Vindication". Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Dolls House" in 1879 during a time when womens rights were ...

Latin America and Marriage Ceremonial Changes Before and After the Catholic Church Introduction

the wives would remain with their own family. After the Church organized the marriage, couples were encouraged to set up their own...

Women's Aspects Concerning Marriage and Equality in Excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Ibsen, Mill, Chopin, and de Pizan

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

Same Sex Marriages Arguments Both For and Against

to allow same sex marriages, the savings to the court system would be enormous and the separation of the assets and arrangements f...

Love and Marriage Disappointments

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants,' Raymond Carver's 'Are These Actual Miles?' and Marriage

He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...

Post 1970 U.S. Interracial Marriages

as a land of immigrants, the much-heralded cultural melting pot, blending people of all races, has existed only in myth. Prejudic...

Bonds of Matrimony and Why They Unravel So Easily Today

marriages to lose many of the foundations that essentially keep a marriage together. The Unraveling of Marriages People who lo...

'The Tiger's Bride' by Angela Carter

Carter's 1979 short story is the focus of this report consisting of five pages in which marriage as a social institutuion is criti...

Dysfunctional Marriage in American Beauty

joy in my life" (Mendes, 1999, p. PG). II. CONSIDERING SYSTEMS APPROACH What would it take to put Lester and Carolyns marriage b...

Literature Review on the Effects of Illness on Marital Happiness

In ten pages this essay presents a review of literature discussing how satisfaction in marriage is affected by chronic illness. T...

Gender Attitudes About Sex, Chastity, and Marriage in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Daniel Defoe's Roxana

In nine pages the ways in which these novels reflected gender attitudes of the 18th century regarding chastity, sex, and marriage ...

Chinese Marriage Pattersn Represented in Literature

In eleven pages this paper analyzes ten anthropological articles featuring research focusing upon marriage patterns in China. Ten...

Same Sex Unions Defended

involved to some degree because of the tax status that is given to married people. A married person may be given certain entitlem...

The Character of Louisa in Hard Times

This Dickens tale is looked at as it relates to this single character but other characters are discussed as well. Gender is someth...

Role of Marriage as Represented in 2 Literary Works

In five pages this paper compares North and South by Gaspell and Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray in terms of how marriage and its ro...

Ancient Rome and Divorce

In ten pages the various types of marriages and divorces that existed during the time of Ancient Rome are examined in terms of cha...

Christian Marriage Sacraments

In seven pages this research paper discusses the Christian marriage sacraments the spiritual journey of growth it represents. Thr...