In today's society, couples are getting married for many reasons, but when they hear the word marriage for many it can't even be pronounced. A lot people feel that getting married is for older people and not for the young ones, although we still see young couples compromising more than before and taking that next step of living together without any compromise. Marriage is out of date in today's society because people are scared to compromise, it is based on beliefs and they see getting marriage and some couples although they are together for years they still feel they are not re...

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An arranged marriage is "a contract between two individuals, brought about by the parents or family of the (individual) getting married, not the involved parties, yet based on mutual consent,"" according to the Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. ... Only on occasion has love been seen as the main reason for getting married. ... Married love gained acceptance during the protestant reformation of the 16th century, but couples were warned by religious officials not to put their feelings for one another above commitments to family, community or God. ...

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Its one thing to get married and divorce someone as you find that you"ve rushed things too quickly and don"t truly love a person, even though it might be wrong. ... Children in most cases, as there are always exceptions to every rule, need two parents of total normalcy to develop unharmed by instability, lack of trust, and with good rolemodels for love and the necessity to stay with a partner rather than cycle through them once one gets boring. ... 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...

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The narrator then goes on to say when Pranab followed them in the park he knew she was a Bengali because she was wearing the traditional red and white bangles married Bengai women normally wore and because she has a "thick stem of vermillion powder"(622) in the center parting of her hair. ... Modernity, on the other hand, is represented by Pranab who is trying to get out of his Indian traditions and Usha who has grown up in America and hasn't experienced much of the Indian culture. ... He cuts off the Indian culture by not really speaking to his parents and farther goes on to ma...

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Unfortunately one introduction had a less-than desired effect; the eldest son Cody, also scarred by his parents' broken down marriage, saw his opportunity to get even' with his brother. ... She moved on to the notion that love/marriage was a mighty leap into space with someone [you] hardly knew' (pg 91) and married Harley Baines only to discover that this too, was not the love she was desperately searching for. A fortune-teller had advised her to go on and get married or [she'd] be destroyed by love' (pg 99) but ironically she divorced Harley out of fear that he wou...

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Ted was showcasing a study of married couples over time to try and be able to predict if a marriage will work. ... Ted Huston's example of Peter and Suzie and how they were intrigued by each other's looks and rushing into a long -term relationship without really getting to know each other and develop a true connection and Huston's example is nearly synonymous with the author Aviva Patz's first marriage. ...

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Trying to shove each other off the road, we were racing for about a couple of minutes, when all of a sudden their car started banging me on the side of my new car that I just got for my birthday I hardly went down town and I didn"t know there was a gas station around the next turn the other car kept banging me on the side so I took a sharp turn and slammed right in to the gas pump, the gas station when up in flames, the next day I went to court and the judge told me " you have 3 weeks community service" , I was upset with the judges penalty because the judge let the other driver of the car g...

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It is where a family would consider arranging their child to be married with another household that would eventually give benefits towards the families. ... Another benefits that a family could get by arranging their child into a marriage is by upgrading the class of their family. ... Having no thoughts about divorcing, the engaged pair would get a better relationship between each other, which would results to a permanent relationship. ...

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On one end lust constitutes love and leads to sex and maybe marriage depending on whether or not they"re already currently married or not. ... The men upon seeing the beauty of Alatiel are overtaken by lust, which the text labels "falling in love", and then are determined to have sex and possibly get married. ...

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Moreover, Wide Sargasso Sea is a magnificent novel where two strangers who get married become alienated when they familiarize with each other. ... Antoinette, a Caribbean girl who grew up surrounded by hatred meets Rochester, a cold-hearted, greedy British boy who tries hard to get his father's approval. ... He is a reserved, quiet man who is in the process of getting divorced, and she is an intelligent computer operating system with a female voice designed to adapt and evolve. ...

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I will concentrate on the relationships between Willie and Winnie in Happy Days using their minimal dialogue as well as their 'scorchedand simple'4 surroundings to evaluate whether or not there is a clear or discrete demonstration of hopefulness amongst the hopelessness Beckett creates within his married characters. ... In Embers and Happy Days we can see that although they are married they are both still in solitude, potentially with the view that Ada and Willie are contributing to this, with Ada only appearing when Henry calls upon her, and leaving when she pleases leaving him alo...

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Despite the seemingly impossible task of living up to traditional standards of masculinity "ideals such as honor, duty, and heterosexuality' "Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results from being corrupted by society. ... In "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" James Carson constantly reinforces to Minnie, his wife, the "disgrace to be a woman and a mother- in order to uplift his own failed masculinity( Far 70 ). ... Miss Moran symboli...

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With three texts spanning over four centuries, not only does the style of writing change, but the presentation of relationships becomes arguably more realistic. In terms of love, it is arguable that all three texts; "Hamlet," "Sons and Lovers," and "A Streetcar Named Desire," present it as a destruc...

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