A Couple More Years

There are a couple of obstacles that have played a major role in me becoming who I am today. I've had naysayers trying to negatively influence my thoughts, and crush my dreams by saying that said I will never amount to anything, or that I should give up on my dreams and get realistic with my goals. A couple years ago I was a completely different person. I was out of shape physically, my academic performance was very poor, and I had a terrible attitude. I improved greatly in athletics and my…

The story Deaf Like Me begins with a young married couple, Louise and Thomas Spradley, waking up in the middle of the night and panicking about the child they are expecting. Louise is five months pregnant with the couple 's second child. They already have a three and a half year old one named Bruce who became ill last summer. When taking him to the doctors, Louise finds out that Bruce has German measles, or rubella. The doctor notifies Louise that if she is pregnant there can be possible…

is just a piece of paper and a ring that couples spend way too much money on. Also how love really doesn’t even exist and wasn’t even a vocabulary word until the seventeenth…

hundreds of thousands of children in adoption centers in the world that need a good and loving home and family. Each year many of them are adopted into their "ideal" home and their lives are forever changed. Throughout the years, adoption was only granted to a couple, which was ideally portrayed as marriage between a man and woman; however, there has been a recent increase of homosexual couple who have expressed the desire to adopt and raise a child in the same manner that their heterosexual…

marriage license to a same-sex couple (Lahey & Anderson, 2004). It is a well-known and accepted fact that marriage for centuries have been defined as being between a man and a woman; however, over the years same-sex couples have fought diligently to receive the same legal recognition through marriage. It has been most unfortunate that legislation has been introduced to prevent this from happening. Most state introduced constitutional legislation that precluded same-sex couples from being able…

financial or children cases, it is mandatory that you attend a mediation appointment first. However, our current divorce structure, where couples are forced to apportion blame for their marriage breakdown, rather contradicts this notion of encouraging people to collaborate and mediate with each other. Introducing a no-fault system would mean that most couples would be more willing to sort out financial affairs and child arrangement etc. between themselves supporting the Government’s intentions.…

Divorce There is more to divorce than what people may think. A lot of factors like your age, how long people have been married, and even your educational level can determine if you are susceptible for a divorce. Many people do not know that there are in fact, many different types of divorces. Each having their own separate processes along with the steps that go with for everything that would go with getting a divorce. The same follows for each state and their laws for getting a divorce.…

Do not Get Trapped Into Marriage! Many couples decide to jump into their new lives together by taking the first major step in a long term committed relationship: moving in together. Moving in with a high school sweetheart after one month because they are so in love and their parents just do not understand their love may not be top of the list for good ideas. The man that a woman met off Tinder the night prior who bought beers and tequila shots all night may also not be the most promising future…

heart in a way like no other song. This song perfectly described my first love eight years ago. I was going through heartbreak, but listening to this song actually made me feel better and helped me move on. John Mayer is my favorite musician and artist. I love all of his…

Short Husband,” relate to this quote from Confucius though society and people’s virtues. In “Poor Fish,” a sad sap of an Italian man meets a maid named Ida, who falls in love with him. The man tries to look strong and brave, but he is put down by a couple at the circus in front of Ida. This, however, doesn 't affect their love for each other. In “The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband,” a tall woman marries a short and wealthy man, but the people in their neighborhood find the relationship…