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Essays 481 - 510
a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...
love one another. They give each other things, and try to understand one another as best they can. The audience feels that they do...
from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...
In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...
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...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
acknowledge Muhammad as Allahs Prophet and offered encouragement and support for her husband throughout her life. Like his first...
of a European spinster. Rama calls this an "aspect of the New Africa" (24), a reference to modern, global politics affecting the l...
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...
of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...
in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...
is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...
highest possible degree of comfort and hygiene. It has to allow for environmental requirements and for the climate in which it is ...
offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...
him to be when she first met him at the ball: a rude egocentric boor. And yet, one of the Bingley sisters illuminates what society...
setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...
in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...
and Don Giovanni. In 1786 with his opera The Marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reached the peak of his success durin...
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
at research that indicates data pertaining to the manner in which cohabitation affects subsequent marriage rates. As the student r...
said that because someone can invent it, that it does not necessarily mean that it should be invented. From all accounts the Aztec...
spouses, battered and emotionally wasted by the trauma of their loss of their children. While Sue, perhaps, takes on too much of t...
and their domestic responsibilities before themselves (Varma and Agrawal, 1992). In order to initiate sociological advancement, m...
latter instances until the former had been decided. The facts were seen and read with the couple moving around Europe and giving b...
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...
forms of relationships that occur between unmarried lovers, which involved clandestine encounters. This aspect of Samoan courtship...
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...
as a land of immigrants, the much-heralded cultural melting pot, blending people of all races, has existed only in myth. Prejudic...