Each time that Tevye has a daughter to marry off his Jewish traditions are conflicted with modern views and he comes to into situations where he must choose between the two. Tevye is directly confronted with modern ways and views as against the Jewish traditions when marrying his daughters. Tevye goes to Efrayim the Matchmaker to traditionally multiple times to arrange marriages for his daughters. ... Tevye is tempted to reunite with his daughter, but cant since Chava has married outside of the religion. Since all marriages were though religion at the time, a priest must marry Chava thus she...

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She felt that her son should marry a woman of royalty, unlike Assouoite who was the daughter of a goldsmith and was poor as a child. Once the time was right she present young Nabou to him stating that if he did not wed her it would bring great disgrace to her and the family. ... Lastly, what really tested her views on the lowering of traditional standards was her daughter Rama becoming pregnant. ... Instead of disowning her daughter, she accepts that her daughter is pregnant and decides to help her devise a plan to hide the pregnancy. She learns from the mistake of her young daughter Assatou a...

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Unfortunately in that time period the slave owner was usually in control what happened in a slave marriage. ... With their children, especially their daughters, they had their most enduring and cherished relationships. ... It was the duty of the mother to make sure their daughters don't get caught up with any of that. According to White, "A slave mother's uneasiness during her daughter's adolescence also grew out of her desire to protect her daughter from the responsibilities of adulthood. Mothers seemed to want girls to grow up slowly, and so they tried to limit their daugh...

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This period was especially a bright time for women who maintained respected roles in marriage and work, as well as protection from sexual abuse and rape (Fell 5). Although they did not have the degree of freedom and autonomy that women have today, and they relied on the class or rank of their husband, Anglo-Saxon women thrived during this time. ... The Normans took control over inheritance of property and widows and daughters were compelled to marry Normans to maintain their property and status. ... Women were treated well and were protected by many laws and regulations of the time (Fell 12). ...

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The first good example of a character testing the boundaries of normalcy in this time period would be Rosa or La Cabra. ... As a teenager, Rosa gave birth to her only daughter, an illegitimate child of a married man with five other children, as she tired of waiting for the man to join her in New York, she decided to take a job in a factory, and became very close to yet another man. This man, her boss Jackson, found an apartment for her and her daughter and paid the expenses, including medical for the illegitimate child. This relationship lasted for a period of time, until Jackson tired of the ...

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The daughter Rosa, complains about her early curfew, but the moment the Herr is used as a threat, all protests cease - which tends to indicate that the violence is not limited to the Frau alone. ... There is a strong binary opposition of the masculine large and feminine small threading throughout the story, demonstrated in this scene, by Herr Brechenmacher not having enough room to dress in the kitchen with his wife, where previously she had been working in there with her daughter and no sense of it being too small. ... The Herr is portrayed as being brutish, coarse and animalistic; the "bre...

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Their sons and daughters will be more likely to repeat this health pattern and continue it in the future when is their time to find a partner and build a family, changing a new generation to be more just. ...

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At the time she felt reckless and dashing' (pg 5) but a few years down the track and 3 children later, Pearl was a single mother with a part-time job and a depleting self-esteem. ... By the time of her death, she seemed to have accomplished this, with all of her children having successful careers and even managing to convince their father of the happy family' illusion. ... Though love's destruction spread throughout the whole Tull family, Jenny, the youngest and only daughter grew strong enough to challenge its force. ... Ambrose's (all 7 of them) embraced Jenny ...

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She also examines the views of women during that time. ... The laws of the time gave the husband rights to the wife's services and to any property she owned at the time of marriage. ... Women also granted their daughters separate estates more frequently than men; thus placing female economic security above the prevalent male control. ...

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It has become an endless cycle: parents marry off their child, usually a female, by the time she is "of age" which in rural areas is around ten, maximum twelve years. ... They are not gifts, they are not peace offerings, they are not to be married off to remove financial burdens, and sons are in no way better than daughters. ...

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Abigail didn't have formal education-like most women of her time, but her intelligence was fostered by the many books she read and was reflected in the two thousand letters she wrote throughout her life. ... (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. ... In her marriage to Lincoln, "individual expression of power" was part of their union, which was very uncommon to the values of submissiveness and dependency of both her and Abigail Adams" time. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself about educating daugh...

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Treatment of Women in Islamic and Hindu Culture From the beginning of time, women have been looked down upon as inferior to men. ... Many customs practiced in certain areas are not in accordance with the Koran, but are simply rituals handed down over time within that region. ... Islam does say that a man must present his wife with a dowry at the time her marries her, in order to acknowledge her status as an independent owner of property, and to make financial arrangements for her in the event of a divorce. ... For example, a Hindu girl's most valuable possession is her chastity, so to ...

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Or maybe during this period of time an epidemic swept through the town, rendering several of his children sick. ... This being his thought, he may have made many of his loans at this time to allow him to nurse his children, intending to pay it off when they got better. ... Was he so chauvinistic that he despised his daughter and her children? ...

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In my grandmothers family in Pakistan her family consist of her husband, her son, her daughter-in-law, and her grandkids. ... Seeing polygamy as a common and preferred form of marriage left me at a surprise where I have mostly seen monogamy where a man has one spouse at a time. ...

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At one point in time, it was frowned upon by society for women to work outside of the home. ... Compared with their married counterparts, single people, even the older ones, are much more likely to spend time with friends and neighbors, volunteer, attend art classes, and do other social activities. ... One such tradition is the concept of the father who "gives away" his daughter at her wedding ceremony. According to Ryan Evans of BrideandGroom.com, this tradition evolved from a custom that dates back to a time when a daughter was considered property, and the groom had to pay a pric...

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Another negative result of the dowry system was that women were expected to give birth to sons, not daughters since sons would not only carry on the family line, but also bring in a dowry, thereby increasing the family wealth, and daughters would have the opposite effect. ... Social services for military veterans have improved vastly since the time of my parents and grandparents as well. ... I myself was very fortunate since by the time I served in the military, treatment for PTSD was mandatory for all soldiers in the country I served for before coming home as a result of social services becom...

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Another negative result of the dowry system was that women were expected to give birth to sons, not daughters since sons would not only carry on the family line, but also bring in a dowry, thereby increasing the family wealth, and daughters would have the opposite effect. ... Social services for military veterans have improved vastly since the time of my parents and grandparents as well. ... I myself was very fortunate since by the time I served in the military, treatment for PTSD was mandatory for all soldiers in the country I served for before coming home as a result of social services becom...

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For the time being, marriage is defined by "84% of the population as the union of two people of the opposite sex" (Johnson p.49). ... While race is irrelevant to any possible state goal related to marriage, sexual orientation, by contrast, goes to the very heart of marriage--as evidenced by laws prohibiting the marriage of brothers and sisters of fathers and daughters. ...

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Factors like the upbringing of a character, the time and place, and the environments a character is exposed to, are usually seen as being the most important ones. ... Dona Gloria and Bayardo San Roman are two individuals who accessorize themselves during a time of their life when they have self-assurance. ... Dona Gloria answers her future daughter-in-law by saying that she only wore those "widowed jewels- to attend a special event, the Coronation. It seems that Dona Gloria's joyful days only last during a certain time period while she accompanies her husband just as her ornaments only br...

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The purpose of this paper is to identify how the concept of family has changed over time. ... This illustrates that women have "...redefined their identity as women, daughters, wives/partners and mothers" (Bessant & Watts 1999, p. 137). ... Consequently, there has been a significant increase in the age in which women marry and have children and if they marry at all, giving women more time outside the home and the opportunity to pursue higher education and qualifications (Sargent, Nilan & Winter 1997, p. 108). ... The acknowledgment of homosexual families in the Australian community was rec...

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In the first instance, maybe you didn't want to see someone you know because you didn't have the time to deal with them. ... The type of shunning that is done by the townspeople against Hester in centuries past by communities is based off of what were considered immoral to society during this particular time period. ... It was known at the time that the two had gotten into a fight at the Revel Casino though details of the altercation were not clear. ... In comparison to Ray rice, a football player who was well liked by many people before the incident with his wife, Hester was describ...

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Throughout the story different themes are displayed, the plot of the story changes as time passes, the tone of the narrator is clearly conveyed, the different settings are unique to what makes the story, and the characters are important in the plot of the story. ... The tone of the story, which is told through the perspective of the daughter, is the very positive and happy when telling the story of how her family met Pranab and how eventually her mother fell in love with Pranab. ...

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Charlotte Lucas states a factor of her society at the time in that "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.... Nina Auerbach comments on the society's expectations at the time reducing women to simply wait for men to do something. ... If a female of that time were lucky, like Jane, she entered a marriage of love and fortune, and if unlucky, like Charlotte, a marriage without love and happiness. ... This happiness Mr Bennet once had diminishes over time, and the marriage becomes one of bitterness and sarcastic comments towards his wife. ... Mrs Bennet, as every woman of ...

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Because pastors are considered "helping professions," they are the last to seek help from counselors or friends, however, 70% of pastors feel they do not have someone they consider a close friend because of the time and effort it takes (Pastor 1). ... Because the bulk of pastors" time is dealing with other peoples" problems, their spouses emotionally feel neglected, leading to a dysfunctional marriage. According to the 1992 survey by Leadership (a popular ministry magazine), 81% of the marriage problems in clergy families are insufficient time together (Pastor 2). ... Over and over, I would...

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Changes that Affect the Function and Structure of the Traditional Family It is obvious that variations in the family structure will increase in number and forms as time goes on. ... By the time they reach the age of sixteen, close to half of the children of married parents will have witnessed their parents divorce. ... In addition, women today have a choice between being full-time homemakers and full-time professionals. ...

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