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George Eliot's Middlemarch

In 6 pages this paper examines how the author's perceptions of marriage are reflected in 4 couples depicted in Middlemarch. One s...

Society and Marriage According to Various Literary Interpretations

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the marriage perspectives of Mary Astell and Margery Kempe and discusses how society ...

Failed Marriages in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

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...

Opposition to Same Sex Marriage

the fact that historically, men have had sex with men and women with women. Sexuality is really a separate issue. Sex can occur be...

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...

The Magic Barrel of Bernard Malamud

The tension that exists between the student of religion and the marriage broker and the ways in which it moves the country forward...

Concepts of Restraint and Freedom in Utopia by Thomas More

the society of sixteenth-century England. For example, the Utopian cities are all built on similar lines, at least as far as possi...

Family System Analysis

for the Jones Family The Jones family, unlike so...

Family, Marriage, and Kinship

men began to want a great many children, as this was considered the best and easiest way to immortality. Ancestral mothers had bee...

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Elizabethan Women

beautiful and good-tempered woman and Baptista is aware that will have no difficulty in finding her a husband; however, Katherine ...

Marital Disintegration in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

In five pages this essay examines what tensions led to the disintegration of the Macbeth marriage within the context of William Sh...

Bernard Malamud's Contemporary Fable The Magic Barrel

In a combination essay and research paper consisting of five pages the writer considers how the relationship tensions between the ...

Lesbian and Gay Social Movement, Marriage, and Parenthood

In six pages this paper emphasizes social tolerance in an examination of marriages and parenting of same sex couples. Six sources...

A Comparative Analysis of the Anonymous 'The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell(e)' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

a temporary reprieve. She gave him one year and one day to determine what a woman desires. If he was able to successfully answer...

Three Articles on Couples Counseling Reviewed

et al, 1998, p. 883); and marital problems: establishing whether specific traits of each individual is the motivating factor behin...

Heloise and Peter Abelard Letters

quarters and castrate him (Chronicles...Gans). Abelard removed himself from society, to a certain extent, by becoming a monk, and ...

Family and Marriage Counseling

In ten pages this paper discusses counseling regarding marriages, families, and the importance of prayer. Six sources are cited i...

Marriage in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

In five pages this paper examines the importance of marriage to the female characters in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Th...

Patriotism by Yukio Mishima

a review of this text and how Japanese marriage traditions are reflected in the double suicide ritual are analyzed in five pages. ...

A Review of the Poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

A 5 page examination of the Adrienne Rich poem. The experience of marriage as it is affected by constriction, theme, tone, narrat...

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...

Protagonist Analysis of Edna Pontellier in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

Iin five pages this paper examines Edna before and after marriage, considers her 'awakening' and conflict and also incorporates fe...

The New Indian Generation Moves Away from the Practice of Arranged Marriages

In a paper that contains ten pages the changes in attitudes regarding Indians that relocate to the United States are examined in t...

Case Law and Issues Involving Gay Marriage

In five pages this paper examines the various issues and case law pertaining gay marriages with Stan Baker et al. vs. State of Ver...

Articles on Counseling Examined

Six articles related to various types of counseling are discussed in seventeen pages and include among others such methods as viol...

The Many Female Influences in the Life of Carl Jung

couples in America today -- it is nonetheless indisputably beneficial, if only in the short-term. For example: White House power...