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    When one thinks about marriage, it is pretty common to think about love as well, but in reality, marriage and love don’t always correlate. In some point in history, father 's would give their daughters to men who promised to give something in exchange for them and to take them in and care for them. With or without her approval, this benefited the girl’s family because now they had one less mouth to feed. Love and romance was once considered to be a threat to noblemen and women, it was believed…

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    One day a girl have asked her grandmother how their marriage had last so long? Grandma answered that in her days they used to fix what was broken but not running to buy a new one. The aspect of marriage that we have nowadays it is greatly different from past. It’s importance and opinions toward marriage had been changed as well. Generally speaking marriage is that point of life when a couple realize that their romantic relationship had turned into something greater than just love. By definition…

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    Identity In The Namesake

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    Every analyzed version of The Namesake seems to be confined within the boundaries of identity crisis and cross-cultural differences, The Namesake as novel always tend to find the namesake in the character of Gogol. But the thread of namesake also connects other characters in the novel that truly stand out as what the meaning of their name stands for. Talking of the namesakes of the names in the story I would specifically like to draw the attention to the character of Ashima - the wife of Prof.…

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    There are a multitude of reasons that the American family is different from the “traditional family” of yesterday. The ways that these changes are influencing people are extremely positive but there will always be a negative person to point out that a few of them have the capacity to be harmful and unwanted. These changes in family are seen most noticeably in the West but are also making their way to the East as well, though at much slower rates. While reading the article “Global Revolution…

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    How Lady Capulet and Lord Capulet Killed Everybody in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Lady Capulet and Lord Capulet are responsible for the majority of the deaths and here’s why. Although the feuds of the Capulet/Montague families are a huge reason of the deaths, Juliet’s parents are mostly to blame. Juliet was thirteen years old and was treated horribly. Mr. and Mrs. Capulet set Juliet up with Paris who they knew she didn’t love. They thought she could learn to love him and were very gentle…

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    The Selection Out of thirty five people, one will remain. They all are fighting for your attention, love, but most importantly you. One after another they start to go. Leading you closer to your mate. This is how Prince Maxon Schreave and Princess Eadlyn Schreave felt. They both had to go through the pageant. There are thirty five contestants chosen from the factions. The Selection series relates to the Divergent series due to the factions. This pageant helps them to find their mate. But there…

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    Attack on marriage is one of William Wycherley 's main focuses in the comedy 'The Country Wife It can be argued Wycherley wants to show us that the attitudes towards marriage was wrong, in restoration England is was considered essential to be married, however, Wycherley may be exposing what marriage really is, a business transaction. Wycherley does offer some points which would lead us to believe that women and men do want to get married for love. Wycherley attacks marriage through most of the…

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    Marriage, a religious sacrament among Roman Catholics. This sacrament is when a man and a woman are legally bonded together in one union for what is supposed to be and everlasting love, or as they would say during their vows to one another ‘til death do us part. Divorce is the seven letter word that ends the legal bond between the two parties. When two people mutually decide to end their marriage it is through divorce, the divorce plays a very important role in every member involved in the…

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    Within Al-Mannai’s (82) article, it is stated that there clearly are large “status gaps” between men and women. The cause of this is culture, which in turn can be considered as tradition. Women are after marriage to become mothers, who are supposed to care for the home and nurture the children(Hilal 86). Fatin in this short story, is a mother of more than one child. She is living the life laid out before her based off of tradition. The power is either carried…

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    The Namesake Culture

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    as a ghost is the way Ashima and her husband lived their lives. Their marriage is arranged by their parents but they didn’t have any fights which is very uncommon among American couples as they fight even when they marry the person they love. But in this novel Ashima was pretty much a stay at home mother who let her husband do all the manly things, bring home the income, pay the bills, make all the major decisions in the marriage. This shows that regardless that they were living in a very…

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