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Polygamy, Monogamy, and the Status of Marriage

In ten pages this paper examines global cultures in this overview of 2 types of marriage and which regions each flourishes. Nine ...

Practices of Polygamy and Monogamy

In ten pages both of these practices are compared with the conclusion reached that monogamy is a superior choice to polygamy. Nin...

United States' System of Monogamy and the Kikuyu Polygamy System

this study there were 229 respondents who were married and 207 of them "said that bridewealth had been or was being paid. Items in...

Legal Memorandum on Polygamy

and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...

Marriages: Their Eyes Were Watching God

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

In Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - With Qualifications

define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The same debate in mostly-liberal Vermont several years ago resulted in ...

The Idea of Marriage Expressed in Three Plays.

This 5 page paper discusses the portrayal of marriage in three plays: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; The Marriage of Olype by Aug...

Thoughts on Marriage

the woman reaps any benefit at all from her matrimonial vows. "If marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, th...

Women in Three Hardy Novels

This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...

Marriage and Women in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In three pages this paper discusses how Nora and Torwald represent women's status in society and in marriage. There is no bibliog...

Agunot, Marriage, Jewish Women, and England's Shtetls

In six pages this paper discusses Jewish marriage concepts in a comparative analysis of English Shtetls and Jewish women with the ...

Victorian Age and Changing Women's Roles

The underclass practically disappeared (1995). While this is the case, one has to understand how gender played a part in comprehe...

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Elizabethan Women

beautiful and good-tempered woman and Baptista is aware that will have no difficulty in finding her a husband; however, Katherine ...

Same-Sex Marriage

right of same-sex couples to marry and New Jersey has granted these couples the "legal equivalent of marriage" (Hull, 2007, p. 748...

Ancient Greek Woman's Life

Greece, 2004). Eleni supposed her husband would do the same, but given that she had never met him she couldnt be sure. She was d...

In Opposition to Gay Marriage

is linked to moral, religious and political views about the legalities involved in gay marriage and the sanctioning of gay and les...

"I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady

care without losing her job, as the spouse "cannot miss classes at school" (Brady 361). I know a young couple where it is the husb...

Refutation: About Marriage

work, does not eliminate the need for men and this has not provided an excuse for them to essentially run away. In all honesty men...

Marriage

important. One could well argue that in all cultures the institution of marriage has generally been an institution that encouraged...

Same Sex Marriages

of grandparents, aunts or uncles, brothers or sisters, adoptive parents, single parents and almost any sort of family one could im...

The Battle Over Same Sex Marriages

that the basic needs and desires of a society to maintain stability and social order are often very influential in where a society...

Opposing Laws Against Gay Marriage

marriage is accused of being unlike heterosexual unions apart from the gender. All the moral hypocrites who fuel the controversy ...

Against Same Sex Marriages

is what distinguishes us and allows us to distinguish ourselves from other animals and, in the future, from intelligent machines" ...

In Favor of Same Sex Marriage

In truth, this is an argument that really does not have much of a foundation. It is vague and does not do anything but essentially...

Gay Marriage

since the beginning of time. In fact, one could likely argue that in many cultures it has been, and is, far more prevalent than it...

Marriage During the Victorian Era and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...

Australia and Euthansia

In five pages euthanasia is examined regarding its Australian legal status with a discussion of a nonprosecuted 'assisted death' c...

Gawain and Lancelot Heroic Comparison

of Lancelot and Gawain. The hero The publisher of Malorys work, William Caxton (1485), wrote in the preface: I...enprynte....

Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

British Political System and Cabinet Status

In seven pages this paper examines the British system of politics in this consideration of the cabinet status and how decisions ar...