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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, ...

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...

Essay Questions on Family and Marriage

because women are more honorable or faithful than are men, but because women are more economically insecure and "consequently fear...

English Romantic Poetry and the Role of Nature

Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...

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...

Heaven and Hell According to William Blake

view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around. Good and evil are both active ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

Social Problem of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines the contemporary world and the social problem of marriage. Four sources are cited in the biblio...

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...

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 ...

Hispanic and Caucasian Interracial Marriage

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

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...

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...

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...

Marriage and Changing its Legal Definition

marrying. This would indicate that they are either not capable of making the same commitments, or that there is an inherent wrongn...

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...

Folklore and Traditions of the Amish

Anabaptists were, in their early history, very prosecuted and many were even put to death by the Catholics and Protestants (The Am...

Tutorial on Learning Decisions and Life Experiences

this case, the spouse can also learn about why men cheat (either by talking with other people who have gone through similar situat...

Ancient Greek Woman's Life

Greece, 2004). Eleni supposed her husband would do the same, but given that she had never met him she couldnt be sure. She was d...

3 Religious Issues

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

William Shakespeare's Comic Take on Marriage

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

Premarital Counseling Effects Upon Marriage Length

do arise in marriages that are not foreseen by the partners at the time that they marry. Problems with in-laws, money and sex are...