In his address to the nation on creating an amendment that would ban homosexual marriages, Bush was quoted as saying, "In San Francisco, city officials have issued thousands of marriage licenses to people of the same gender, contrary to the California Family Code. ... This is supported by the AAA (American Anthropological Association) and I quote, ""The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depe...

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As the narrator walks home, he observes that he looks "not to bright for a nigger, and not to dark-; this quote illustrates the inferiority of "niggers- and clarifies that discrimination concentrates on the race and appearance of people, and disregards their personality. ...

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In a sense, "Pride and Prejudice" is the story of two courtships - those between Darcy and Elizabeth and Bingley and Jane. Within this broad structure appear other, smaller courtships: Mr. Collins's aborted wooing of Elizabeth, followed by his successful wooing of Charlotte Lucas; Miss Bingley's un...

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In the book, "Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives," Lillian Rubin (1985) looks at friendships as they develop during adulthood. Rubin interviewed 300 people from a variety of backgrounds, between the ages of 25 and 55. One of her main findings was that women base their friendships on ...

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Sex in the Decameron I do not think it would be too far off the mark if someone said that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron could be summed up in one word - sex. Sex is found in nearly every one of the seven hundred odd pages it seems, and its depiction varies from humorous to serious. If I were ...

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