Polygamy

If two homosexuals are granted the legal rights of marriage, what is to stop another person from seeking to obtain the constitutional right to marry an animal? Bigamy, polyandry, polygamy, and other deviant forms of “marriage” will no longer be taboo, but may become possibilities for those who seek to gratify the flesh. Undeniably, regardless of the debate over whether gay marriage should be legalized or not, we must treat the people…

In the lecture “When humans were scarce” (2009) presented at University of Yale by Robert Wyman, he explains human demographics divided in three eras: hunter-gathering period, surge of agriculture and after the industrial revolution. He also illustrates how fertility can be incentivized and limited by culture, and the consequences of human behavior in the world’s population. According to Wyman, humans were hunter-gatherers until almost ten thousand years ago. There were approximately two million…

Each man represents something different, making his glory or failure not just about him, but also different cultures as a whole. Oroonoko’s grandfather’s participation in polygamy marks him as un-Christian and non-European, an excuse for the negative portrayal of a member of the royal family. Likewise, it is Oroonoko’s affinity for things European that elevates him above his grandfather, making him the more “ideal” African…

festivals in accordance with the solar calendar, whereas all others follow the lunar calendar.” Giving the reason why they do not partake in the sacrificial cult; however, they are still sending gifts to the temple. Lastly, they do not accept any form of polygamy or divorce, which is why they “criticize the family life of our Herodian rulers” (44). Andreas decides to leave out the part how much the Essenes hated the Romans and their belief of a future religious war when the last days were upon…

These novels are Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi (1940) and Ocean of Night (1964), Iqbalunnisa Hussain’s Purdah and Polygamy: Life in an Indian Muslim Household (1944), Humayun Kabir’s Men and River (1945), a novel based on a folk tale, Amir Ali’s Conflict (1947), Via Geneva (1967) and Assignment in Kashmir (1973), K. A. Abbas’s Tomorrow is Ours: A Novel of the India of…

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi began his rule in 1941, following in his father’s footsteps. The first several years in power were very turbulent and unstable. He was rejected and removed from his Monarch position for a temporary period of time in 1953. He resumed power with the help of a US CIA and British backed coup. Many Iranians were not happy with the outside involvement by the United States and the hypocrisy of self-determination and democracy. Anti-western resentment was building. During this…

women had, did not keep them from participating in society, they could still go to market, they had the bathes and they participated in an interesting at home life. Men were allowed four wives, and if they were discreet they also had mistresses. The polygamy was shocking to Mary, she shares that this kind of behavior was sin and would keep them from…

for (in a handful of Western countries, nationality law only liberalized in the recent past,e.g., Canada (1997), Germany (1979), Italy (1983), and Spain (1983) and Sweden (2001)” ( 1146). The abolition of slavery and the marginalization of polygamy are two examples of significant normative transformations in Muslim countries. “Further, nineteenth-century Ottoman history is characterized of Islamic with civil law in almost all areas (Moors 1999)”…

particularly at odds with the values of many Iranians, particularly the clergy. The minimum marriage age was increased, divorce was no longer a unilateral decision on the part of the husband, custody of children was possible for both parents, and polygamy was now only allowed with the consent of both wife and court, and two wives became the maximum. These new laws, coupled with the 1963 extension of the right to vote to women, and a move away from wearing the hijab for many urban women, created…

On 7th, April, 2004, the world observed a moment of silence to remember the victims in the Rwanda genocide. As the world remember the 10 year anniversary of the genocide, the country continued to live with the devastating affects of the brutal event. Some of the most significant aftermaths were the the lasting children suffrage, disproportion of men and women population, and the extreme slow recovery of the economic and education system. Rwanda, even now, is never fully healed from the massacre,…