Why do then men propose and women don't? Whether arranged or done by choice, marriage has been around since the beginning of time. Coming with marriage, the proposal has always been done by the man in the relationship, except for a few rare circumstances. The man asking, especially in first world co...
"The Storm": The setting The setting of this interesting short story sets the stage and produce the atmosphere that helps the reader feel the story. There are several elements in the setting of the storm, that will lay the groundwork for the rest of the short story. It was interesting ho...
I am female, white, and straight. Five years from now, I will be living the American dream, marrying an average working-class hero type of man. I will be happy and in love. However, millions of United States citizens are being denied this same right which will someday legally merge me and my futu...
All it took was a rainy night and a lack of attention to fence the atmosphere in the Americans couple's room. Did the American wife actually want a cat or was she really just longing for affection? Apparently, the gloomy weather was enough to put a damper on their trip; but there is more to the unbr...
Divorce: Why it Happens and Ways to Prevent it Some think that in order for a marriage to stay alive it is necessary for the couple to achieve a balance of separateness and closeness. I feel that this can be achieved but it does take a great deal of effort and patience to keep a relationship aliv...
Jane Austen's Emma and Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love are two stories whose settings seem to take place during the ever day lives of every day people. Emma is a novel written in comical tone about a young snobbish woman named Emma who develops into someone who is capable...
Love is necessary in a relationship. However, materialism is essential in a relationships presented in the novel, "The Great Gatsby". These relationships are failures because they are built upon material things rather than built on spiritual feelings. Fitzgerald displays that relationships based on...
Communication is one of the most important factors in a relationship and the main theme in this story. Communication has the ability to make a relationship more stable. In most of her work Jhumpa Lahiri shows the length people go to in order to maintain a relationship. Lahiri focusses on relationshi...
I was originally going to write about the families, or familias, of the ancient Romans. I had planned on talking about the different roles between the boys and the girls. I was going to note the differences and similarities to today's families in society compared to theirs. How the oldest male wa...
My opinion on the movie, Much Ado About Nothing was very good. It had all the elements of the time period drama, romance, action, and comedy. The drama in this movie was very thick and plentiful. Especially when the Prince's brother, Don John, was trying to stop Claudio from marrying his love Hero. ...
You know how some people say that they never realized how much they loved their childhood until after they grew up? Well, Sarah always knew that she was having a great childhood while it was happening. It wasn't until later on, when things weren't going on so well, that she clung to the memories ...
Boy meets girl, girl meets boy. boy kisses girl, girl kisses back they fall in love, get married and have 2.8 kids and a summer house on the jersey shore. I know that's not how it always is, but that is what people want to believe. boys are supposed to like girls and girls are supposed to like boys ...
"Don't take the people you love for granted," was a quote I heard quite often from my father growing up. As a child, I always wondered, "why would anyone want to be with only one person for the rest of their lives?" If you would've asked me, what is love? I probably would have said, "love is my mom ...
Happiness is Made of Gold Hello Again is a play that shows how lust can take over two different people in the heat of passion, striving only for pleasure, and how quickly this feeling can fade away. In this story couples demonstrate how spontaneous sex supplies sort term pleasure as well as long ...
The House of Mirth takes place in New York during the early 20th century. At this time in New York the prosperous and wealthy members of society lived in luxury in extravagant houses with various additional assets such as yachts and motorcars. The poor, underprivileged members of society lived in ...
Taking into consideration most of the plays written by William Shakespeare one can notice an individual lineage of strong females, which induce the attention and sympathy of the audience. It is interesting to notice that most of those female characters catch the attention not by their social rank, b...
Awakenings Exploited people in the world have always had struggles in finding their voice. People must know what they are fighting for in order to make it known to others. This battle is delicately illustrated in Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening. The main character, Edna Ponellier, fights th...
The debate on contraceptives is filled with moral and theological sand pits. There are so many strongly held beliefs for, and against, for reasons unclear to most. None of the answers are simple to these hot button topics; for the most part they are complex and hover in a grey area of morality, trad...
