Groom

At 5 am, my father woke me up from my deep, sound dream. Albeit reluctant, I had to leave my bed and dress myself up quickly. February 18, 2016, it was the wedding day of my stepmother’s only son, Ying Lin. Given that Ying was the oldest male heir in his Lin clan—a traditional mercantile family in a coastal town of Fujian province, China, it was not surprising that everything about him was under spotlight. His wedding had become the top story in the area. For me, things were less complicated.…

It took some convincing to let her know she wasn’t a client, but a regular child helping me develop my skills for teaching. However, how could I blame her? With an intellectual disability, I’m sure my child I am shadowing is analyzed and assessed by many adult professionals. So, in her opinion, I was another adult trying to figure her out. Thankfully, my effort to engage Brittany in an arts & crafts activity eased her perspective of who I am and how I “found” her. Brittany answered all of my…

The Anti-Rape Movement in the United States The anti-rape movement started in late 1960`s and early 1970`s. According to Gornick and Meyer (1998,p. 375), it emerged from the women`s movement. The anti-rape movement began due to the increasing concern of rape and violence against women in late 1960`s when there was an upsurge in the number of women entering the workforce. The rise of rape cases was first seen as a social problem that pulled the attention of major feminist activist, which…

In weddings in Ancient China, the groom and bride would wear the colour red. The colour red symbolises luck, happy and success. Another reason why clothing became important towards the Chinese in Ancient China was because it represents their differences in social status based on the hierarchy…

dowry is explained as follows. During both medieval and Renaissance Italy, the expected social norm was that a bride’s household provides a dowry. The bride’s husband or his father managed the dowry. Unless the groom passed away, in which the dowry would be returned to the bride, the groom retained control over the dowry and could use it or invest it however he wanted. Although the bride did not possess the ability to manage the dowry, she still held legal ownership over it (Botticini, 105).…

Many start planning months or even years ahead. There is so much that goes into planning a wedding and not very many people realize it until it’s their time to walk down the aisle. Planning ahead is crucial when planning a wedding. Some would disagree with this and think a wedding could be planned the month before. If someone is planning on going all out with a huge wedding, they need to give themselves plenty of time to figure things out. Planning a wedding is already stressful and running out…

as scenes of domesticity. Wealthy families used these pieces to display their material bounty, fine artistic taste, and humanist learning. The wedding chests were used to transport the wedding goods—dowry and groom gifts—during the wedding procession and to store them once the bride and groom had settled into their new home. The wooden birth tray played a utilitarian as well as celebratory role in commemorating a child’s birth. It was covered with a special cloth to function as a service tray…

What you do and how you choose to live your life shines a bright light on who you are as a person, an individual. It is your identity. A lot of the time growing up can be stressful, especially when you are in high school and you are caught up in the commotion of every day teenage life. Figuring out your aspirations and setting priorities is all part of this ginormous world we live in where society plays a key factor in the decisions we make for ourselves. In high school I had friends, hobbies; I…

Though in recent decades, the movie industry has made a shift to seem more gender neutral. However, underneath the façade of equality, movies like Monster-in-Law have anti-feminist undertones. It has anti-feminist undertones such as women's lesser job status, the need to have a man in a woman's life, the over-focus on a woman's body, and the lack of relationships between women. Monster-in-Law perpetuates the gender stereotype that women are lesser than men. Monster-in-Law, the 2005 rom-com from…

Emily Dickinson is unquestionably one of the most significant, innovative, and renowned American poets. She did not always receive such high praise, however, as most of her fame and honor was obtained long after she died. While she was alive, she lived most of her life isolated from society as a recluse. During this reclusion, however, she wrote almost eighteen hundred poems, and one of these included “Because I could not stop for Death” (Mays 1187). This particular poem is one of her most…