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Ancient Aztec Courtship and Marriage Ceremonies

said that because someone can invent it, that it does not necessarily mean that it should be invented. From all accounts the Aztec...

Traditional Marriages Defended

Lesbians have few sexual partners, tend to be faithful, and value affection and intimacy. By contrast, homosexual males are highly...

Research Methodologies on Marriage and Cohabitation

at research that indicates data pertaining to the manner in which cohabitation affects subsequent marriage rates. As the student r...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Footwear's Evolution

highest possible degree of comfort and hygiene. It has to allow for environmental requirements and for the climate in which it is ...

Religious Rituals of Judaism and Christianity

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

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

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

Marriages Between People of the Same Sex

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

Rogerian Argument in Support of Gay Marriages

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

Supporting Gay Marriage

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

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. ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Utilitarian Views on Homosexuality

Mills view of homosexuality and same sex marriage be? How would one construct an argument against the morality of homosexual sex ...

Choice and Society in The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

playing at work is also a reasonable contention: there is, as he says, enough productive physical work available within a communit...

Linda J. White and Maggie Gallagher's The Case for Marriage Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially

the contrary, Waite and Gallaghers text actually highlights most areas in regards to the "myth" that marriage is bad for women and...

Scheherazade Suite, Opus 35 by Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov

that most closely resembles the human voice. This similarity is emphasized by the use of staccato notes, which resemble a storytel...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee and the Marriage of George and Martha

and features the couple engaged in a frantic game of movie trivia. Martha acts out a scene from the film, the title of which she ...

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...