The act of adultery will catch up with them and tear their marriages apart; adultery is a sin. ... Chopin decided to portray women committing adultery, which is sin, and make it seem ok to commit sin. In her story, The Storm, Chopin portrays Calixta committing sin when her husband and son are away with a past love, Alcee. ... Doesn't she realize that within a marriage, adultery is a sin? Or Chopin realizes that adultery is a sin and wants the readers to know that adultery is happening? ...

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In his state of rebellion, John increasingly desires the pleasures of the world, mostly sex, and the comforts of life like any other teen at that age but is afraid of sinning. ... While on the floor he remembers the sins he had committed and believes God would punish him for them. Even though his sins are simple but he is afraid that they are unforgivable due to his "father's" constant nagging of the consequences of sin. ... Meanwhile, Florence shows Gabriel Debora's letter and reveals to him that she knows about his secret past. ...

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On the other hand, Pearl was considered to be born evil because she was the product of her mother's sin. ... The townspeople idolized him and did not suspect him at all for committing the same sin as Hester. ... Love is the act of caring for someone and continuously supporting them while looking past all their flaws. ... Dimmesdale never forgot her after her ignominy, even when he had a chance to move on and distance himself from his sin. ... Pearl is the living embodiment of Hester's sin and why her life is terribl...

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The type of shunning that is done by the townspeople against Hester in centuries past by communities is based off of what were considered immoral to society during this particular time period. In the past several decades, we've expanded this type of rejection to the fine, negative science of avoidance; one that can be upsetting and hurtful to the recipient. ... This was Hester's punishment for committing her "crime." it was described as humiliating to Hester and was considered immorall to the citizens and shunned upon as a "sin". ... As you can see, both victims of such crimes are se...

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People against the legalization of gay marriages argue that most religions consider homosexuality a sin. ... The city sanctioned 2,800 marriages, this past week and sued the state of California in order to challenge its prohibitions on same-sex marriages. ...

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Though the elder brother employed Moll as a prostitute, he helped to sway her decision towards marrying the younger brother, but he did make sure that Moll's past would not be discovered: his elder Brother took care to make him very much Fuddled before he went to Bed, so that I had the Satisfaction of a drunken Bedfellow the first Night: How he did it I know not, but I concluded that he certainly contriv"d it, that his Brother might be able to make no Judgement off the difference between a Maid and a married Woman; nor did he ever Entertain and Notions of it, or disturb his Thoughts abo...

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Johnson stated " We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." ... Rosa who I have known for almost three years now, represented my link to the past. ... Dating dose not necessarily mean sex but I do not think premarital sex signifies the ultimate sin either. ... We now spend hours talking about the past and the further. ...

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In the past, people were expected to find a mate, join together and create a productive family unit. ... While decades ago a couple "living in sin" might have been looked on askance by others, today it is very common for two people to choose to live together before marriage. ...

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There always seems to be some new major argument in the news from abortion to war. Now people are fighting over whether or not same sex marriage should be allowed. An article "Gay Marriage Will Be Accepted - Eventually" by Philip Gaily, recently appeared in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on August 1, 2...

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When Nora is blackmailed by Krogstad, a bank employee with a shady past, she is forced to reexamine her husband, her marriage, and herself. ... She declares it a "sin against myself", but decides not to leave them after all. ...

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In an another instance she tries to use the pistol on Lovborg who shared a close relationship with Hedda at one point in past. ... Hedda commits many sins that are unforgiving. ... She had intense relationships with Loveborg as well as with Brack in the past. ...

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The Church has dealt with this issue before, even with new movements such as the current Sex Positive movement going on today and past sexual revolutions, like the one in 1960, it holds firm on its stance on contraceptives. ... Contraceptives have always been a sin to other Christian sects. ...

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The old arguments of "Homosexuality being an abomination against God" and "Homosexuality is a sin" are still believed by many "so called" devout Christians, but can not be effectively backed up with any proof. ... That's what the Bible is, an interpretation of what someone else has saw full of stories thru someone else's eyes and several other translation that have come about over the past hundreds of years. ...

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Even in America today, women fight many social issues traceable to the biblical idea of the "evil woman" who introuduced original sin to the world. ... Although recent years have seen marked advancements in Hindu women's rights, the past bears revisiting. ...

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The Shuar are an indigenous tribe living deep in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. They're renowned for being the last tribe in the Americas that has yet to be conquered. They are bred and raised to be fierce warriors and defend their title of being the last conquered. Because of development and ...

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This process causes them to think about who they are and what they are, as they no longer can relate to their past identities or former selves. ... The protagonist, a man who threw up at the first signs of violence, now experiences the urge to avenge his family's pride by washing their perpetrators sins with blood. ... The narrators self-conscious no longer agreed with the past chapter of his life either, as his inner voice kept on repeating, "Don't turn around, an interior voice admonished me. ...

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However, another fieldworker Farnham Rehfisch says that most of his informants said that "the name Mambila was given them by the Fulani in the past and perhaps the origin of the term, was Fulani, but it might have been given them by some other tribe. ... Rehfisch believes that such marriages took place in the village in the past, but he has no concrete information on the matter [2]. ... By so doing they may be able to help to effect a cure, as indicated above, by reminding the patient of a sin, which he may then confess. ...

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In today's post-September 11th society that is filled with "weapons of mass destruction,"" the hottest topic in the news is that of same sex marriage. Headlines opposing and supporting are covering all newspapers, news stations and even talk shows. The recent uproar in Massachusetts and San Franci...

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Life in Traditional India Imagine a place where a caste system rules the life of its people, where no matter how hard one works the caste one is in decides their life and where cow dung is considered a magical healer. That place is India. Within a country so far from the modern world, people live ...

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