Emily's father held her to such high standards that he never let her date anyone in the town. ... The Grierson's was looked upon by the society as a family that demand respect and held themselves to high standards. ... The town still looked down on Emily with pity, but Emily never give them a reason to look upon her with pity instead, she held her head high. ... It was hard for miss Emily when Homer did not want to marry her. ... Miss Emily decided to poison Homer using arsenic. ...

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After the proposal has been accepted, the groom's family goes to the bride's home and has a small ceremony of acceptance. ... One week before the start of the ceremonies, a separate ceremony is held at the bride's house called the Ubton. ... The second day is similar to the first with the difference being that the bride's family goes to the groom's home. ... The ceremony is held by the parents of the bride at a location of their choice. ... At the end of the night the bride is given away by walking her to the vehicle with a Quran held over her head by her brother. ...

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The people of Jefferson, "believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. ... What she soon figures out is that Homer isn't going to marry her. William Faulkner points out, "Homer himself had remarked-he liked men". ... She plans a way to keep Homer under her control and is witnessed purchasing arsenic. ... However, Homer isn't seen again. ...

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At a very young age boys were taken from the home to train together. ... Women in Sparta were given more freedom and held more responsible than women in Athens. ... To come home on a shield means the soldier is dead. Spartan mothers would send their sons with these words: " Come home with a shield or on one." This meant if you lost your shield don't bother coming home. ...

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He gets involved with this family he met at a workshop that was held The University of Memphis. ... The incident occurred because he went with her to her home to collect her things and her husband came home to find them. ...

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They moved to their new base home a few days later and got settled in. ... About a year later, she had taken a home pregnancy test and to her disbelief it had come out positive. ... As soon as she got home, she was having "contractions" so her family rushed her to the emergency room. ... She held her daughter for as long as she could before they took her away. ... As the anesthesia began to work, the doctor held her hand in both of hers and looked at her. ...

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It was essential that the wife create a home, care for the children and generally run the household... The work of the upper and middle class woman was limited to the home and family. ... As far as other as other occupations go, upper class women are said to have held office. ... The title most frequently held by women was "mistress of the house." ... Becoming a widow held similar stipulations. ...

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At night, they go out only to visit homes sanctioned by their husbands and must always be accompanied. ... Some women even held political posts of importance. However, women still held secondary positions to men "if woman had power, men had more power. ... SEPARATION BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES • LIVING QUARTERS: A husband and his wives have different living quarters in their home. ... • Learned women teach privately in the homes of their male relatives; they are an important source of Islamic learning and are treated with respect. ...

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Women were excluded from public life and were left to be in charge of home and children. ... For example, in certain societies Muslim men have prevented women from leaving the house or from earning a legitimate income, and have held that this is in accordance with Islam, which is not true. ... Forcing women to cover their faces and preventing them from going outside the home are practices that are not in accordance with the Koran, either, but have been perpetrated as such. ... It was also held that the perfect wife was one without a voice or opinion, so for a devout wife, her main purpose for...

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Traditional wedding vows are held sacred not only to the ones who pronounce them but vows are also kept sacred in many religions. ... Alec D"Urberville, who in the beginning took advantage of the pure Tess, ended up offering a home and family to her when she had no one else to turn to. ... The naive Tess, with child, sets off for home. ... Alec later insinuates that Tess's home setting was not good enough for his child and that it was the cause of the little one's illness. ... (Bornstein 51) Upon his return home, Angel receives the letter and onto receive Tess but at first i...

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Between gays/lesbians wanting love-children and single parent families people are forgetting that stability in the home is important to children while they feel all else is changing so rapidly about them. Without this firm foundation by which they can stand on they might find themselves looking to the wrong places for the stability and love they aren"t getting at home. ... Love is the emotional desire to be with someone unconditionally, and one must indeed work hard to preserve this it is not something that you can naturally keep, but must be held onto throughout trial and tribulation. .....

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Maggie "thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her" (p 840). ... In "Everyday Use," the conflict begins when Dee returns home from college wanting some handmade quilts that were given to Maggie. ... Usually, when someone returns home after having been gone for a couple of years, the person brings gifts. ... Not long after Dee comes home, she is demanding, things she used to look at with disdain. ... She brings home a child that is too old to have been conceived within wedlock. ...

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"This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed." ... "She sit at home because she is afraid to go outside with out his permission."... She is very homesick and wants to go back home, but can't. She doesn't leave her apartment very much because of the fact she just wants to go home. ... Esperanza saw something similar within her own home. ...

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Like bridal showers held before a traditional Catholic wedding, a show of presents is held for the bride to be. ... Harmless practical jokes are traditionally pulled on the groom, including being stripped (partially or totally) of his clothes and dropped outside his home. ... Upon being carried into her new home, a "bannocks" oatcake is broken over the brides" head and passed around to everyone. Completion of this traditional wedding includes the priest blessing the newlyweds, their home and the marriage bed. ...

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Some teen mothers are forced to have to move out of their home where they have had somewhat of a childhood, because their parent or parents have no sympathy for their situation. ... With the accounts some money would go directly to the children to meet their pressing needs, and the rest would be held in a trust for the children to draw on once the family leaves welfare. ...

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Afterward, family and friends may head to a restaurant, church hall or private home for what is customarily called a "mercy meal"". A memorial service for the deceased is always held on the Sunday closest to the 40-day mark after death. ... Thus, if the deceased is a young adult the body cannot be brought home, so in this case is left in a funeral parlor. ... The coffin is placed on its own stand either in the house, if the person has died at home, or in the courtyard outside the house, if the person died away from home. ...

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A women position in the family has typically (in the past) been at home. ... This change made a need for factory workers .Women started to join the workforce out side of home. ... They may have a family and not be forced or required to be a stay at home mother . ... I feel the values held by citizens of the United States have gone through negative changes. ... Children are not created out of wedlock and are raised in a torn household or a broken home. ...

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Marriage is a constitution that is highly held in culture because it protects the familial linage. ... Women are more domestic with working at home to take care of household things but men hold power in the community through face. ... According to the Encyclopedia, a Noble is held with hit regard. ...

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Mallard could not help but whisper, "Free, free, free." " She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. ... The social context of "The Story of an Hour" which held Mrs. ... She is not bound by rules of a society which keeps her at home and walking three steps behind her husband. ...

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On the other hand, assumes the power to feel, nurture, serve and manage domestic and interpersonal life of the home. ... The deprecatory phrase "I"m just a housewife" typifies the low esteem in which this position is held in our society. ... Similarly, the ability to care for themselves and their homes has not been developed in most men, in such tasks, which they none the less regard as necessary for their own well being are disdained as "woman's work" - the chores of the inferior sex. ... They are not interested in vital interpersonal communication when they return home after a day&#x...

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These people are more often than not those who come from wealth and prosperity, who are never held accountable for their own money and actions. ... There's always something unpleasant, about a home built on credit and borrowed money." ... At home, Daddy used to tell me when he thought, then I thought the same. ... I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was Daddy's doll child. ...

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The character is composed of two radicals, from the left "女", which means "female", and to the right "家", which means "home", combining together it means a girl leaves the home of her parents when getting married. ...

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They have 6 children, all of whom, while loving their father, are simultaneously torn between his rigidly held Islamic virtues and cultural beliefs and the seductive call of the disco nightlife and women of Manchester. ... It is really ironic how George didn't go back to his home country for nearly 30 years and how he himself had a love and mixed-race marriage yet he forbids his children to choose their own spouse. ...

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King Arthur had a knight who, when riding home one day found a maiden walking along and robbed her of her virtue. This crime usually held the penalty of death, but the queen intervened and begged the king to spare the knight. ...

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Perhaps this was hurt far to great for John Foster to forgive, and he held even the children of his transgressor responsible. ... The bankers and town officials worked within the law to settle Deake's accounts: they bound out her children, sent her "home" to her father, and sold all the belongings of the family. ...

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