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and vows that her life will be different. Due to her assimilation of the American ethos, she rejects the Judaic tenet that she is ...

long for Nandas friend to marry her son. Nandas article points out mating customs and attitudes are culturally based. While Nanda...

showing Jenn and Brad as the parents. Through the following years, Jenn and Brad passed themselves off as a married couple, with t...

be relatively conservative in terms of ideals. "Many of my fellow conservatives have an almost knee-jerk hostility toward gay marr...

never have children, and how many couples never have children nor intend to have children. They are not asked if they plan to have...

opposite sex. There is, in fact, a federal law (the Defense of Marriage Act) that prohibits such marriages (Hotakainen, 2009). ...

this paper, however, is to explore the thesis that sexual attraction has nothing to do with marriage. The thesis can be presented...

strictly forbidden. Supported by the assertion that "the life of a person is not his - rather, it belongs to the One Who granted ...

literary works of early America, is awash with allegory and symbolic meaning. Ostensibly, the story tells the tale of a somewhat l...

and rules governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from...

House shocked audiences when it first appeared with its depiction of a woman who refused to live by societys "rules." This paper d...

In a paper of eight pages, the writer uses an example of a Utah state bygamy case, in which a woman and couple seek a polygamist m...

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

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

in a same-sex marriage. The definition of marriage states that it is a union of two people of the opposite sex. Given...

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

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

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

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

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...

and one could well envision how Chekhovs character, Gurov, may well have married for something other than love. "He had been talke...

This four-page paper compares and contrasts women in the Book of Genesis in the Bible and the Qu'ran. Common topics regarding wome...

outside of this reality. Prior to focusing on these elements within the story it is imperative that a person understand the Vict...

out of necessity for many and Allworthy and Bridget seem content to go without marriage, although Bridget was once married. They r...

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

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

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

responsibility for child-rearing or housekeeping duties traditionally assigned to women (Luker, 2003). To complicate things still ...

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

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