Monogamy

Language is a very complex phenomenon that shapes one’s thoughts and opinions. Humans tend to categorize and link theories and ideas to what they perceive is correct and moral by the language and propaganda they are exposed to throughout their lives. In the literary work Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, language and propaganda are used as the main factors of the structural basis of their society. Civilians in the World State are delusional with the fact that they are living in an utopian world.…

Polygyny is practiced in 50% of the societies and monogamy in 38% of the societies. High status men have many concubines and mistresses but are allowed to have only one wife. Predominant manner of long term mating was arranged marriage, with parents choosing spouses for their children. Majority of the societies…

Mr. Martinez reports, “pornography was really not my thing, I would look at it when it was available, when I was in the Army with the other guys, but I didn’t go out of my way to seek it out. Taking videos of having sex was something I liked when I got married”. Mr. Martinez states that he began videotaping his sexual activity with women when he was thirty-seven years old with his second wife Julie. Mr. Martinez reports that he suggested it to Julie and “it stuck”. He reports that the two…

Aleksandra Tyzkiewicz Social Psychology 9.08.2015 INTRODUCTION Many people have been strongly attracted to someone, maybe even in love. The main problem is that these two are separated by a very thin line, as a matter of fact many people confuse attraction with love. These people believe that the feelings they have for the other person are so strong that they passed the attraction phase and walked into what is so called “love”. These feelings usually lead to relationships and this is what…

Epics in India and elsewhere have always been a rich reservoir of tales. Time and again, different perspectives emerge from the re-readings of these ancient tales, inspired by the challenges thrown up by the vicissitude of contemporary life. As Workman has observed “…the literary attractiveness of mythology is due to its enduring depiction of significant and sometime very uncomfortable relationships, some admittedly between man and his environment, but others of at least equal importance between…

Historically, literary themes regarding the LGBTQ community have been omitted from comic books mainly because of censorship regulations and the presumption that storylines that include sexual orientation are not appropriate for children. The social mores of the past caused the exclusion of LGBTQ issues and characters from children’s comic books because the LGBTQ lifestyle was considered immoral. However, in recent years, comic book creators have started to take on the task of representing the…

B.Ananda Rao M.A,M.Phil,(Ph.D) Asst.Prof, of English Sri Vasavi Engg College, Tadepalligudem. “A study of tradition and culture in the selected plays of Wole Soyinka and Girish karnad”. INTRODUCTION Wole Soyinka is the first African writer to win the Nobel…

PARENTAL CARE IN FISHES Caring of young ones by the parent is known as the parental care. Infact, parental care is very important for survival. Parental care has evolved across the animal kingdom to increase the probability of offspring surviving in an environment fraught with danger. Parental care is common among mammals and birds.…

Social Behavior Among Monkeys May Be More Nature Than Nurture ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2003) — An unusual experiment with monkeys who were switched between mothers shortly after birth has demonstrated the importance of nature over nurture in behavior. Rearing Young monkeys reared by a mother other than their own are more likely to exhibit the aggressive or friendly behavior of their birth mothers rather than the behavior of their foster mothers, a University of Chicago researcher has shown for…

2 The term ‘life course’ means the developments and changes in people’s lives over a period of time. 3 One reason why there is a high rate of lone parent families among Black Caribbean and Black African families in Britain might be that because of high rates of unemployment or other reasons, males from these ethnic groups find it difficult to carry out the traditional breadwinner role. A second reason that has been suggested is that they follow a different family type, which has been…