In the case of Monge v Maya Magazine, Inc. the plaintiffs are Latin American celebrities Noelia Lorenzo Monge and Jorge Reynoso, with Maya Magazine, Inc., as the defendant. Monge, a pop singer and model, had gone to great lengths in order to keep her marriage to Reynoso a secret from the public with the objective of preserving her public image as a ‘young, single, pop singer,’ as mentioned in the Monge v Maya Magazine Inc.…
The brisk trek through rough wilderness had taken its toll on the portly fog of a man. Now wheezing, he bowed low to prop up his arching frame on a knee high boulder on the side of the path. He watched with passive intrigue as giant sweat droplets fell to earth. Each one making a crater in the previously undisturbed soil carpeting the seldom used trail leading up to the Burbank overlook. He wanted nothing more than to feel the wind blow across his puffy face when he got to the top.…
Part One Book Response The Polygamist’s Daughter begins with seven year old Anna being abandoned by her mother and being sent to live with a strange man in Mexico. Main character Anna Keturah Lebaron was raised in a radical polygamous off shoot of Mormonism called The Church of the Lamb of God. Anna’s father and leader of the church, murderous Ervil Lebaron had thirteen wives and more than fifty children as he led his followers as the one true prophet of God. Throughout the book the author tells readers about her 1970’s and 1980’s childhood in Mexico, Colorado, and Texas dealing with the hardships of living in the cult.…
The book A Thousand Splendid Suns presents an alternative view of the American approach of marriage. In the American culture, people meet, fall in love, and then proceed to get married. In the book, love has no value in the act of getting married. Women are treated like property and are given to the man that the family believes is suitable. The American approach gives the couple time to learn each other's interests, thoughts, and feelings on the matters of life.…
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” The opening sentence in Pride and Prejudice has a fine, undeclared message. The obvious message being that a well-off man must be looking for a wife, but it also hides the truth that a single woman is in want of a husband. This novel relates to the play A Doll’s house. In these two readings a women’s idea of marriage is having a husband that can help guide, protect, and provide for them within their means. A man embraces the idea that his role in marriage is to protect and guide his wife.…
Author Ingrid Rojas Contreas was born and grew up in Bogota, Colombia, and has since moved to San Francisco, California. She finds that Spanish is the language that is inside her mind, while English is the language that is alive and available at her fingertips. Her short stories and essays have appeared in quite a few publications, like Electric Literature, Huffington Post, and Guernica, as well as others. For her non-fiction work, she has gotten the Mary Tanenbaum, and the Missouri Review's Audio Miller Prize. She was a fellow at the San Francisco Writer's Grotto as well as Bread Loaf Writer's Conference.…
Each individual person has their own dungeon, a compartment in the mind where an individual’s perspective, morals, attitude and character is stored. In order to keep one’s dungeon unmarked and unchanged, negativity must be blocked. However such a thing is impossible and the only thing a person can do is reduce the amount of change and negativity they let in. In “My Dungeon Shook” by James Baldwin, Baldwin warns his nephew and black youth in general to not let poisonous words or ideas seep into their dungeons and destroy who they are and the potential they have. Young minds are the most malleable and vulnerable to the world around them.…
We all have occasions where we don’t see “vis-a-vis” with our parents and get resentful, but at what point is this argument justified to allow us to overreact? Unlike the majority of people who eventually come to a compromise, when Curley's wife and her mother did not agree, she ran away and plummeted into a marriage without a second thought. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, it is shown that Curley's wife needs to be noticed and needs to have a sense of validation, by the way her troubled childhood is told, her unhappy marriage, and how she dresses. One way that Curley's wife’s need to be noticed and needs to have a sense of validation is shown by the way her troubled childhood is told. She talks about how her mother didn’t let her…
Lilith Rein pulled out her notebook and pencil and started to think about the death of her friend, Melissa O’neil. There are many suspects, one of them is her own dad, who liked to do science experiments. Every time Lilith tried to question her dad he would go silent, then bring up another topic, Lilith asked my dad where he was at the time of the murder, he said he was in his lab on Monday, April sixteenth. Lilith, after all the struggle, sat her father down to talk. “What experiment were you doing the night that Melissa died?…
The protagonist and narrator of the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is not written to be definitively static or dynamic. Carver seems to leave his character’s intentions and true emotions to the interpretation of the reader, especially in relation to Robert. His actions and syntax indicate to the reader early on that one of his defining characteristics is an overwhelming sense of self-centeredness. However, what is less obvious is the narrator’s underlying insecurity that accompanies this quality. Like many other first person narrators, Carver’s protagonist is not entirely reliable and the reader must question his honesty, both with himself and with the reader.…
The book, April Raintree, by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, is a very touching story. It is based on two Métis girls who grew up in the foster system. One sister, April, had always struggled with finding her identity and meaning to her life, while her younger sister, Cheryl, never went through that struggle. She was proud of whom she was, and wanted other Métis people to be the same way. Cheryl was a very happy, positive person, filled with love and compassion for others.…
“Forbid us something, and that thing we desire” (Chaucer). The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of tales that were told on a voyage to Canterbury, as they voyaged and told their tales the Host judged, each one giving each pilgrims the impression that he is going to choose a winner amongst the tales. Given the choice between the “Man of Law’s Tale” and the "Wife of Bath’s Tale" the "Man of Law’s Tale" is going to win the competition because it leads in being highly entertaining, a clean story, and it teaches a valuable moral. "The Wife's Tale" plus the prologue can be seen a just one extensive monologue, which leads it to being boring. It is so lengthy that the Friar and Summoner have a conversation in the middle, and the…
It stresses a society where marriage is a very important and…
In “The Making of a Divorce Culture” written by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, author describes the condition that divorce rate has been increased rapidly since 1960s. Nowadays, the obligation to keep a family stable is gone. What replaces it is the pursuit to self-gratification and selfish thought of experiencing new things. From another aspect, Whitehead proves the feasibility of divorce. When divorce makes both parents happier, it becomes a positive move which may make the children’s lives better.…
This essay will argue why Jane Austen`s Pride and Prejudice does not support the idea of a companionate marriage. The novel does not support a companionate marriage because it involves characters marrying for the economic realities of marriage and for the benefit of their social class rather than for love and equality. Marriage in the novel can be seen as more than the act of falling in love and making the most serious commitment in one`s life. It requires characters to enter a legal contract, not just for the economic realities that come with a marriage but because society requires them to make this commitment. Firstly, this essay will argue that finance becomes a crucial issue in the arrangement of the marriage of Charlotte and Mr. Collins…