So you ask then how would they meet someone that they would love and get married to. ... Mostly older men take advantage of this tradition by marrying girls as young as 12 and most of them get away with it. ... Basima was married when she was 16 years old; she got married in Jordan. ... Basima was never in favor of an arranged marriage but her parents had an arranged marriage and thought that would be the best way for their children to get married. When you are in an arranged marriage it takes time to really get to know someone to the point of loving him or her. ...

• Word Count: 1214
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Additionally there is a lot of pressure to get married, so a couple can start to have kids. ... " (Ishika) Dowry is when the bride's family has to give money, estates and good for getting married to the groom. ... Dowry was a type of barter system; some parents would sell their daughter's off for money and also to get rid of them. ... However one man named Ashoke chose Ashima, they got married. ... Meena was not into the idea of getting married at that age, however she was blackmailed into the marriage. ...

• Word Count: 2139
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Most young people tend to believe that the only way to choose a mate is to date until you fall in love plan a wedding and get married. ... These kinds of pressures would just increase as society gets more modern and technology advances. Then, would women who refuse to conform get left behind? ... Families come together to help in any financial crisis a married couple may encounter. The extended family is there to help the married couple weather life's storm together (Singer 120). ...

• Word Count: 1679
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The national survey by an NGO states that out of the 100 rape that take place in India about 75 get reported and out of these only about 30 go on trial while only 5 or 6 assaulters get the sentence. ... The parents of a unmarried girl and also the husband and members of the family of a married woman, would also mire often than not, want to avoid publicity on account of the fear of social stigma on the family and honor. 10. ... The national survey by an NGO states that out of the 100 rape that take place in India about 75 get reported and out of these only about 30 go on trial while only 5 or ...

• Word Count: 1107
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the early part of the novel, she mostly speaks of life within the family: births, deaths, marriages, love to each other and the family bondage gets predominant in the early description of the novel. With the passage of time she gets married and enters into life of marriage. She is married to an educated man though the lady lacks ABC of education. But with the willingness of her husband the young lady gets a little education and her husband becomes her home tutor. ... " The narrator has become a woman of middle age giving birth to three boys and a girl established and married off respec...

• Word Count: 2420
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I still get looked at in a weird way because of my accent. ... Sid met and later married a Mexican woman during this job; even with the cultural and religious disparities. ... "Thanks to our families' support, we were able get married. ... I wanted to know if he would consider going back to India to his homeland and his response was, "Sometimes I get overwhelmed and I miss my family in India. ... I wanted to get there insight of how it felt leaving family members as I can relate to that experience since I came from a different country as well. ...

• Word Count: 1758
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Women playing the same sport do not get the same kind of fame or popularity which usually a man gets. This discourages other women to play sport as they don't get what they deserve for their hard work. In the backward areas of the country, women are denied to get any education and in many cases it is limited to the elementary level. They are married at an early age which puts end to any possibilities of growth and development. ...

• Word Count: 650
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

When a woman is married it is custom for the man's family to take the woman into their home. ... Children are to live at home until they are married, at that point the woman will move in with the man's family. ... Her father came to the United States to get his doctorate and he later flew back to India to be married. ...

• Word Count: 2503
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1757 England began a conquest to rule India. Their dream was not totally complete, but they had ruled much of the country. There were many attempts to regain India's independence but none were successful. But everything changed when Gandhi began his campaign. Mahatma Gandhi was born in India...

• Word Count: 778
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

My father has owned the shop ever since I could remember and since I am not yet married I help my parents in running the store. Our shop is right off the Ganga and I am fortunate enough to be able to go and visit it every day when I get off work, it gives me the opportunity to clear my head and continue in meditating on how I can continue to lead a good life, and sacrifice to ensure a respectful rebirth. ...

• Word Count: 1239
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Injustice happens in every system, all around the world. Some injustices are more severe than others. In India, there is a huge discrimination problem against the social class Dalits. The way their society is run, by the caste system, these people have no way out and no way to help themselves. They ...

• Word Count: 974
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On that note, India women does not even get to chose the "love of her life", her parents do. ... Surrogacy is one of the ways India gets put on the map for their medical technology. ... All of the women in this facility are married and have had at least one child previous to being a surrogate mother. ... The downfall of only leaving the building for doctor's appointments is that the surrogate mothers might not get the proper exercise that they need to keep the baby healthy. ... They make sure they are healthy, get food, and have a safe place to stay while carrying the child. ...

• Word Count: 2236
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During the festival of otii bharan, married women are presented with a handful of rice, a coconut and a length of fabric, to wish them a long, prosperous life. ... With soda water you can get excellent, and safe, lemon squash sodas. ...

• Word Count: 1845
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When she finished the book, which took almost five years to write, she hoped to get it published by a small publisher in her native land of India. ... Their mother, Ammu, has been ostracized by her family and society in the small town of Ayemenem where they live, because she had the audacity to divorce the drunken, abusive man she married. ... Looking at life from the outside and not being part of this safe world where you grow up and then are married and sent off. ...

• Word Count: 2800
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

In other words, everybody should be able to get sufficient work to enable him to make the two ends meet. ... Let's get serious, while people are starving around the world all you hear about is how the overweight rate in America is increasing. ...

• Word Count: 2611
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Marriage He was married to Emi bhai daughter of gokal khemji of a khoja family of kathiawar in 1892, before he left for London. ... He expressed his desire that India would get self-rule very soon and would become a member of British Commonwealth. ...

• Word Count: 7455
• Approx Pages: 30
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School