Courtship

Amy Webb explained in this Ted Talk how she was able to find the right guy through online dating, using her own database and using reverse engineering. Online dating sites use algorithms to match people together, however the matches are not always accurate. Webb explains her journey before using her data spreadsheets, and how many of the dates she went were complete failures. Before getting signed up to an online dating website she calculated the probability of finding a guy in her city that met…

Dating in the 1950s-1960s is definately different then now. Back then the boy asked the girl out and he also went into the girl's house and spoke with the father before she could go on a date. many of the quaint rituals of dating in the1950s-1960's show common courtesy that is lacking today. here are the ways girls had to do things in the 1960's. The girl couldn't pay for the date. At a restaraunt, its ladylike to tell a date what you wnat for dinner so he can order for you. Here is the…

The movie “Masquerades” gives a different, more comical perspective to the notion of Arab love and marriage. The main character of the movie, Mounir, struggles to find a suitable husband for his sister who suffers from Narcolepsy. Mounir gets himself and his family into a jam when the town begins to think Rym, his sister, has found a fiance in a rich,famous foreign man. The story follows Mounir and his family as they struggle to keep the secret of the fake suitor and the movie ends with Rym…

Americans accept dating someone within that same group. Asian married other Asian from the same group and black married other black from the same race. Some people said do not mind marrying someone from another race. Researchers found out the online dating website Match.com demonstrated that whites are more likely to date Hispanic. Younger people are more likely to date outside of their race than older people. There are many differences between intermarriage. According to researchers, 11…

Born and raise in the world of technology, I sure can say a lot has changed. We went from big screen computers, which were so heavy I couldn’t move it when I was 7, to our tablets which is a 7 year old modern toy. Technology has it’s ups and downs and us as humans have to know which to approve and which to ignore. In his recent book, Modern Romance, standup comedian Aziz Ansari talks about how the culture of finding love has change dramatically. He interviews thousands of people, old and…

In the Renaissance Era men were proud to be vigorous in their pursuit of women. Like in many of Shakespeare’s plays, men were supposed to be in search of love even if it led to sacrificing everything, even their own lives. Juxtaposing this one with many of Shakespeare’s other plays, like Romeo and Juliet, instead of the main character gracefully falling in love and thus he gives his full loyalty to his lover, Much Ado About Nothing flips the script by making Benedick an already fully loyal man…

Anyone who has ever spent time on Match.com or Tinder might at times be tempted to say that they wish Western society would embrace the concept of arranged marriage as described by Gitangeli Sapra in her essay, “I'm Happy with an Arranged Marriage.” Who would not want to avoid years of bad dates and broken hearts and just have the matter of whom they married settled in consultation with their families? It would be just like Match.com if people’s mothers picked their dates. Arranged marriages…

Kailey Fischbeck English 1301 Different Men You Date As you step into the dating world, you are bound to meet various types of people, especially those that you are interested in. Though you may not know why you learn your type: what you like and what you don’t like in a companion. These traits will lead you toward the person you who makes you most happy. The challenge is to figure out the kind of man you want to spend the rest of your life with. Some of the men you’ll meet will most…

masculine. Gender roles has been around for centuries, which involves with courtship…

Can the tradition of arranged marriages survive through the 21st century? The article “Love and Arranged Marriage in India Today: Negotiating Adulthood” by Nancy S. Netting discusses the current state of arranged marriage in an increasingly westernized society. The author uses two sociological theories to address this topic, Modernization theory and Neo-traditionalism. The article produces valid points to prove the estimates of both theories . The modern view on arranged marriage is that…