Monogamy

marriage is seen as. Some cultures have stronger marriage standards than others. In America, we have had a pretty standard view of marriage. This standard view is a person meeting someone, having feelings grow towards them, reaching the point of monogamy, marrying them, and starting a family. Unfortunately, the value of this sacred act has dropped significantly. The lessening number of people getting married, rising divorce rates, and faulty reasons for getting married are all valid reasons and…

own way through religion and remains herself as she does. A good example of her maintaining her personal identity is one of the key parts of her character; she has married and been with many men. This directly violates these two Christian morals: monogamy and chastity. The Wife of Bath justifies the many husbands and lovers that she’s had by simply saying that God commanded humans to reproduce. Why, then, is it negative for her to have sex with many men and potentially reproduce more as a result…

Throughout our history, homo sapiens grown and developed into the dominate species of today. From hominids such as Australopithecus afarensis, our species has migrated and cultivated the Earth. Though modern society superficially resembles nothing of our ancestors, archeologists, anthropologists, and sumerologists such as Samuel Kramer have noted striking similarities between the past and present. Kramer, specifically, has stated in regards to the ancient Sumerian society and modern society,…

Within the book Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota written by Jon D. Holtzman, he follows a group of people called the Nuer. Within the book Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives written by Jon D. Holtzman, he follows a group of people called the Nuer. Holtzman describes the Nuer in more detail as being agro-pastoralists and relying on a mixed economy of animal farming and cultivation in order to survive. They have been classified as members of both the Nilotic cultural and linguistic…

type of cultural rules to follow based off of their sexual impurity. When dealing with the same issue concerning men, it’s treated in a different way due to the fact that men had more power and received anything they would demand. When discussing monogamy, we see that it is okay for men to be promiscuous however for women, they live a life catered to men and are expected to be sexually loyal to the same man for their entire life. Both stories give examples of how this is portrayed and also how…

Introduction Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are among the most commonly reported infectious diseases and affect all population groups in the United States (Paschal, Oler-Manske & Hsiao, 2011). Approximately nineteen million new STD cases occur annually, resulting in a spectrum of potential health consequences ranging from mild acute illness to serious long-term complications such as cervical, liver and other cancers (Paschal et al, 2011). The situation may be even more serious in rural…

In Eileen J. Suarez Findlay’s work, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920, Findlay offers a nuanced and compassionate discussion of the relationships between people of Puerto Rico and the meanings inscribed upon those relationships. Findlay is able to achieve this through her use of a wide range of types of sources, her careful insistence on breaking apart binaries, and her use of “discourse” in her methodology and analysis, which allows for a rich look…

Black women have been oversexualized throughout their existence. Since black women were taken from their homeland of African and brought to this country of America, there has been a constant oppression of black women through the stereotypes that have been created. Stereotypes with different meanings and connotations have been designed to explain and justify the behavior of black women. This ideology of oversexulization falls under the stereotype of the “Jezebel complex” which is the modern-day…

In the following essay I will compare and contrast two of the low-income sub-Saharan African cases that have been most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire, in illustrating how socio-economical, political, and cultural challenges affect the countries’ capability of controlling the spread of HIV/AIDs. It is important to examine the spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, as it is the region most affected, accounting for 69% of all people living with HIV in Africa (UNAIDS, 2012).…

When children are intrigued by the concept of time travel, others often warn them of the danger of killing a butterfly when visiting the past. A child’s favorite animal could become vastly genetically different or even extinct, catalyzed by the untimely killing of that one particular butterfly. This is a common science-fiction motif, aptly named the “butterfly effect.” The butterfly effect can be generally stated as “small changes can have large consequences,” but has been applied to many…