Polygamy

discriminated against. As stated in Role and Status of Women in Ancient India by Arnab Basu, “…women started being discriminated against since the Later-Vedic period in education and other rights and facilities. Child marriage, widow burning, the purdah and polygamy further worsened the women’s position.” This illustrates how the women in India were deprived of equality, dignity, and freedom from discrimination. The issues women were facing in Ancient China also occurred in Ancient Greece and…

The women in Umuofia are always judged, denounced, and seen as weak. They can't make decisions in the society without being overruled by the men. The women are afraid to voice their own opinions because they know the men won't take them into consideration. To the men it’s all about gender and size of the family. Women are only seen as valuable to the men because of their ability to bare children. You would think they could control what they have to prepare for the meals, but that’s not always…

Cleopatra, an Egyptian queen. She was married to her brother Ptolemy XIII, an Egyptian King. An Egyptian rule a queen always has to be lead by a king. There are many records of how beautiful of a woman Cleopatra's was and how her beauty drew in Julius Caesar. Before Julius Caesar met Cleopatra, he already had been married twice, Pompeia whom he divorced because of scandal with other men, and Calpurnia whom he was still married to when he met Cleopatra. Julius Caesar and Cleopatra met when Julius…

Have you ever been at a wedding, and the bride is repeating after the officiant and says that she promises to obey her husband? It is a common expectation of women all over the world to be obedient to their husbands, however there is a sub - sect of the Islamic faith that takes submission to a whole new level. This sect is more commonly known as the Obedient Wives Club. The Obedient Wives Club was founded on May 1, 2001 by employees of Global Iklwan Café in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Obedient…

bad marriage for their fear to lose their children because typically, fathers win custody of boys over the age of six and girls after the onset of puberty. Based on Islamic laws, the woman must have only one spouse, while the man is permitted four; Polygamy is legal for men only. As well as, the Muslim man can marry a non-Muslim woman, but a Muslim woman doesn 't have the same right. Above all, the legal age for marrying a girl tends to be very young. The law has occasionally been exploited by…

My core intuition is compassion, which literally means “co-suffering”. The inner morality of human beings is based on the compassion. A compassionate person knows about the human condition, associates his or her experiences with others’ and identifies with another person. Without compassion balancing with human intelligence, human beings could be destructive. The compassion is a virtue which is about how we can be the best person. According to Aristotle, a virtue is a character that human being…

majority of society was educated assuming heterogeneous monogamy-opposite sex marriage and allows only one spouse- was the only type of marriage accepted. In this society, people conclude contrasting types of marriages are acceptable, such as monogamy, polygamy, public and private families. Even though most people would disagree, but a family does not have to be a wife and husband with children. The two sitcoms My Two Dads and The Middle both are examples of a unmodern and modern family by…

1. Ancient China Traditional Chinese society has been male-centered, far fewer women were educated than men, and many of their readings are relevant to Advice for Women or Biographies of Notable Women which instructed them to be subjects of men. Therefore, there was not much protection of girl's rights and lots of conventional cultures were opposite to today's view of respecting equities. (1)Marriage Age The changes in age of marriage in ancient China can be classified into 3 periods. Around…

1. The two distinct HIV epidemic patterns in the world are located in sub-Saharan Africa and outside sub-Saharan Africa, namely the western world and majority of developing world (Pisani, 2011). The HIV epidemic pattern found outside sub-Saharan Africa tends to be more concentrated among drug injectors, gay men, and prostitutes, where the latter groups are especially affected due to practicing unsafe sex with multiple partners (Pisani, 2011). The HIV epidemic pattern found in sub-Saharan Africa…

It has been said by Mignon McLaughlin, “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” Although, in male dominated societies, such as those displayed in the novels, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen and A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, this is usually not the case. The 19th century novel, Pride and Prejudice, is about Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters navigating English society. A Thousand Splendid Suns is about Afghans, Mariam and…