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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 ...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and the Themes of Love, Marriage, and Money

of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...

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...

Sung Period Women of China

writer, for this, relied primarily on both pictorial representations of the period (through highly stylized paintings) and writing...

Galileo and Why He Should Have Been Excommunicated

all involvement with Copernicanism and to stop teaching and talking about this approach (ChristianAnswers.net). The fact that he d...

Theology and Gospel Preaching in the African American Church

by everyone.5 The all-important link that connects all rituals and practices, individuals to society/community, and believers to ...

Issues Through Liberal and Conservative Lenses

liberal origins, the conservative had developed their own distinctive view of Social Security, which can be summed up in a single ...

Christianity Models

the universal models there are ideas of the way that good will reveal the good news, before death or after death at either immedia...

Marriage

social and political institution that essentially serves as a national foundation in many ways. It is seen as the backbone of soci...

The Eventual Decline of Latin as a Spoken Language

hardly "empty"; in the classical sense it is extremely structured. "Inventio," which can be translated as "invention" or discover...

Exegesis of 2 Corinthians 3:12-18

as this passage shows. Examination of the passage 3:12 : Therefore, since we have such hope, we are very bold (NIV). Because of ...

Catholic Social Instruction and the Value of Family and Marriage

social structure. His prediction of severely negative consequences directly related to artificial contraception shed light upon t...

History and Introduction of the Early Catholic Church

Pauline Christianity, which was developing at that time. Eusebius of Caesarea--Eusebius (263-339) studied under Pamphilius, a Ch...

Intermarriage Between Christians and Jews

fifty years (Sander 27). However, other sources indicate that the rate of intermarriage is on the rise. The 2000 National Jewish P...

Sexuality in Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

paths of their hair and the red dot or bindi that is displayed on the forehead" indicate they are sexually active in many ways (La...

In Favor of Gay Marriage

and cultures claim that marriage is about creating a committed union for the sake of creating children, many people today get marr...

Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century Church and State Relationship

that the secular governments. Priests were often criticized as being greedy and extortionate. As a result of this unrest conflict...

Church Images in the Gospel of John

uses his own words, saying, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Fathers house into a market!" (John 2:16). Jesus authorit...

Early Church and Baptism Sacrament

only legitimate when it was performed by water immersion (Simmons 38). It is believed that baptism in the early Church was perfor...

Early Church Eucharist

carry its full symbolic meaning, which was formulated over time.5 At the time of the historical Last Supper, the Holy Spirit had n...

Primary Prevention Strategy Against Divorce

todays marriages. Those factors are money and gender expectations. The literature has recognized the fact that gender roles in s...

Marital Expectations and Fallacies

toward a common goal. This is true whether the marital unit is attempting to raise children, to work out a budget, or to decide w...

1800 to 1910 Church Organs of England

to the nineteenth century, the pipe organ was predominant, but it soon found a formidable rival in the reed organs that were being...

Church Impact of Saint Boniface

personally believe on our own" (Duncan, 2003). So the concepts are clear: in a "vertical" religion adherents see God as a distant...

Raising Moral Youth

to believe in God and as such does not work for all youth. But, for those who are religious or want to be religious it is invaluab...

Views on the Social Practice of Gay Marriage

Bush Oppose Gay Marriage 14). The statement went on to pronounce heterosexual marriage as "holy, while homosexual acts go against...

Morality and Personal Choice of Abortion

should be considered before deciding or not deciding on having an abortion. For this particular discussion, let us consider...

Life of Kate Chopin and 'Story of an Hour'

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

Women and Love According to Kahlil Gibran

talents to the relationship. They "fill each others cup but drink not from one cup/Give one another of your break but eat not from...

Refuting Danielle Crittenden

with "both partners or spouses [occupying] the same roles within and outside the home" (Crittenden). She says this relationship wi...