Spouse

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard started the day like any other: Mrs. Mallard started brewing some coffee while Mr. Mallard opened up the paper that was delivered to the door earlier that morning. “There had been a large plane crash in California yesterday night” commented Mr. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard couldn’t help but whisper “Sometimes I wish that would happen to you” under her breath, but thankfully Mr. Mallard hadn’t heard. There has always been some obstacles in the couples relationship since the…

Dec 16, 2014 , Normal day in Fairmont West Virginia. In an ordinary home in a rule part of West Virginia lives a man named PJ Flemings and his wife Tyra Flemings. A newly couple so intriguing and electrified in their new and seem to be everlasting love for each other. Pj had also had his love with boxing, a sport he wished he could compete in and have desires to be the best pound for pound heavyweight in the world, but due to them living in a rule part of the state there wasn't really a chance…

collected from both partners. Participants are asked how much they make a year, how many hours they work per week, and how much emotional support or advice their spouse give them. 95 survey packets were given out, only 65 were useable. The study finds that the partners who tend to work more and make more receive less emotional support from their spouse, thus causing their quality of life to decrease and more conflicts within their marriage. This supports the students’ thesis.…

Director D.W. Griffith employs a variety of innovative filmmaking techniques, under the categories of mise-en-scene, cinematography and editing, to tell his narrative in Death’s Marathon. I will focus on a few techniques that stood out to me as essential stylistic decisions that progressed the narrative. Firstly, the costumes and how they distinguished between characters, and events; secondly, the blocking and character movements and how they expressed emotion; thirdly, the lighting and how it…

A marriage is a beautiful thing, but sometimes the marriage can be complicated. It is not always a marriage between two people can keep the love, and keep their marriage, as they promise when they get married. Some people are getting a divorce, and moving on and falling in love with another person. Reconciliation is a short story written in 2006 by Polly Clark. The story is about the main character Laura who is alternate between marriage and divorce. Laura is a first-person narrator because in…

In both novels, the main protagonists experience suffering as they are aware of the duties which stop them from pursuing their love. In Jane Eyre, Jane is heartbroken after learning that Mr Rochester is already married. She struggles with her decision as to what is more important, her duty to uphold her Christian values or her love for Mr Rochester. She chooses her Christian values as she tells Rochester that she “will keep the law given by god” (c.27). This is reflective of Christian values on…

Almost everyone assumes that marriage is a sign of love and commitment, but marriage doesn’t always mean that the couple loves each other. In the play Othello, the relationship between Emilia and Iago is hardly considered love. Emilia is a strong and independent woman, but she still wants to satisfy her husband. Iago, on the other hand, is just using Emilia to get what he wants. Emilia and Iago might be married, but they do not truly love each other. True love means that a person would never…

This content of this paper is a brief summary of the concepts and principles stated by Gottman from his book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (citation) when they are explained with examples of two couples from the movie Knocked Up(CITATION). Allison and Ben as well as Debbie and Pete are two couples in the movie who both have many positive and negative ways of handling their marriage. Both have many positive and negative ways they influence each other. They both have many problems…

Wives are set too high expectations and standards to their husbands which has been created by society, media, traditions, and culture. These expectations are seen as unrealistic because, in fact there is no such woman as the perfect wife which can lead to her feeling stressed and pressured. This fear of not meeting the bar of being the ideal wife can lead into multiple psychological disorders. Kate Chopin previews the women’s feelings of marriage in her short story “The Story of An Hour”,…

For as long as humans have inhabited the Earth, mankind has dreamt of out-of-reach aspirations and have developed theories for which cannot be proven. Yet these dreams, however unattainable as they may appear, have yielded the greatest discoveries in history. While it is essential for human advancement to continue furthering ideas and comprehension, there is a necessary balance of theories and reality that a man must achieve if he wishes to be not only understood by his peers, but to be socially…