General Marriage Trends in America Studies show that there has been a significant drop in the marriage rate over the past three decades. ... Muslims are supposed to marry early so protect themselves from having sexual relations outside of marriage, which is a major sin. ... Marriage provides a guard against sin, "They [wives] are like garments for you, and you are like garments for them."" ...

• Word Count: 2151
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Today, behaviors of the past have been recognized as discriminatory and unconstitutional. ... In the long run, the sins of our fathers has left us all with a burden to bear, one that cannot be erased, and refuses to be ignored. ...

• Word Count: 884
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Simply put, it was a country that formed individualistic ideals from a controversial religious and political past - one with boundless opportunities. ... Some have even said sin was institutionalized as its impact was softened by its very exposure. ... Slavery has been simplified to a part of our gruesome past that everyone - including African-Americans - wants to forget. ...

• Word Count: 1128
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most adults, especially Reverend Williams, saw captivity as a spiritual journey; a punishment for sins and the destiny assigned them by God. ... By portraying the petite history, Demos provides greater understanding of the motives and reasoning behind the tensions between the New England settlers and the French and Native Americans, which in turn increases understanding of the period as a whole and helps us to relate the past to issues pressing the United States today. ...

• Word Count: 1326
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstinence only programs are not helping that 47% and the I'm sure that percentage of teens has grown within the past 7 years as well. ... Catholicism states that it is a sin to have pre-marital sex. ...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This paper focuses on the oppression of American Indians in the U.S. during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. From the arrival of European explorers into the, "New World," Native American tribes were brutally killed and forced out of their own land. White settlers considered the...

• Word Count: 2993
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate