The Family and Divorce The family is one of the foundational social institutions in all societies. Through out time the definition of family has varied. ... Families have less connection in the new age, as opposed to when farm land, money issues, and businesses held a family together. ... Dual income in the family was highly uncommon and unrealistic. ... People frequently recognize the widespread changes that have reshaped family. ...

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This chapter is very significant because it is where Tess's family horse, Prince, dies. ... She now feels solely responsible for the economic welfare of her family, and this leads her to decide that she must find a way to provide for them. ... Because of Prince's death and the following guilt, Tess leaves to find work at the d"Urberville farm where she meets Alec. ... Tess leaves the farm and later has a child that would soon die. ... She went to work on Alec's farm because she felt guilty for killing the horse and wanted to get money for the family. ...

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There is Nancy Lameter-Cass, who concentrates on her role as a dutiful wife and on her husband's happiness, her sister Priscilla, unmarried and managing her father's farm she has the unconventional role and is an outcast in Ravloe, and Dolly Winthrop, who plays a good mother figure not only in her own family and to Eppie but in the community as well. ... Priscilla Lameter remains unmarried and runs her fathers farm, being as independent as a woman could be in the time period. ... Dolly Winthrop is not only a mother figure in her own family but throughou...

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Sarty wanted to run away and leave his family and his pain behind. ... He also established the fact that he plans to move himself and his family out of town. The inciting force takes place after Sarty and his family move to a house owned by a man named De Spain, under the assumption that they will cultivate De Spain's farm and give him a portion of the crop. ... And it is also when Sarty realizes that he can never go back home to his family again. ... Abner's wife cry out loud try to stop Abner from going to burn De Spain's farm, but Abner is not listening to her. ...

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Fifty years ago family's consisted of a mother, a father, and some children. ... The father was the income of the family and there was no problem with that. If you lived on a farm the father would also come home from work and then go out to work on the farm. The normal rate of children in a family was about 3-5 kids. Today family is a word that is taken in many different ways. ...

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Sarah grew up on a farm with a huge family. ... She just listened to the sounds of chirping crickets and dreamed of another day on the farm. ... However, when Sarah was settled, her mother decided to go back to the rest of the family. The little girl from the farm was disappearing and being replaced by the grown-up woman in the big city. ... A place that could be the family home where everyone could visit. ...

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He can either fulfill his dreams of moving out West, and leave with Mattie, or he could stay home and care for his wife and his farm. ... I mean, my entire family lived and died here, I guess I should too. ... I will leave the farm to Zeena, and she can sell it! ... I worked so hard on that farm, and it is so unproductive she will be lucky to get much money for it. ...

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When a Seneca woman's pregnancy ended well and the child was lucky enough to live, the Seneca tribe was often traveling from place to place in search of new, fertile land to farm. ... Things such as gathering enough food to last the winter and making sure their families survived were more important than being able to read the fine print in a standard legal document. ...

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This school was on a corner of a farm that belonged to the Grieves family. ... She lived with the Grieves family. The family is consisted of Ellie, Flora, their father and Flora's fiancé Robert. ... During Ellie's sickness, she would come at night and read her bedtime stories, and she did all the cleaning, the cooking and some of the farm work. ...

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And until she knows Robert on Grand Isle where she enjoys vacation with her family, her passion is completely awakened. Tome, when she was young in Japan, had an affair with the son of a well-to-do family and became pregnant as a result. ... When she makes efforts to write haiku or talks about haiku with other people, she can lays the housework aside and even forget the existence of her family members. ... She leaves her family, moves to a small house and earns money by herself. ... For seventeen years, she is a good issei wife, raising a daughter and helping her husband in the farm fields. ...

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At the sane time a Bohemian family moves near his grandparents place on the out skirts of Black Hawk, Nebraska. Antonia was the oldest daughter of the Shimerada family, the bohemians. ... (Chapter VII, PG 31-32, Book I) The Bohemian family had made friend with the Russians, Pavel and Peter. ... Cuzak and work on their farm and had many kids. ...

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In the poems "Home Burial"" and "Death of a Hired Man"," Robert Frost wrote of family, friends, betrayal and death. ... Moreover, he has return to the farm in hopes of correcting all of his wrongdoings. ...

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He risks his life by facing the harsh, cold storm in order to do chores around the farm, and care for his father. ... Luckily enough, Steven, a close friend of the family has kept his word to come by and keep Anne company until John returns. ... Just because John may not be the most physically attractive person in the world, doesn't mean that he is useless; John and the work he does on the farm is the sole reason why the two are living under a roof with clothes on their backs. ...

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Her desire to the leave farm in its desolate condition is over powered by Paul's own ambition to make the land into a viable and fruitful income. Both of the men in these stories, Paul and John, have the same pragmatic desire to work their land and provide their families with everything they could possibly want. ... The characters in Ross" The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories seem to be blinded by the traditional roles they assume on their farms. ...

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For example if one does not, want the family farm to be divided up he might marry his brother wife to keep it in the family. ... For when he leaves he gets nothing or very little from the family. ... In a marriage of the Hindus, it is required that the family of the bride transfers of property to the family of the groom this known as dowry. . ... These dowries put family in certain class in the cast system. ... But as long as the there is selfish families there will be people getting marry not for love but for economic again for the family. ...

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Likewise, Martha Smith endured strenuous work from raising, and feeding farm animals, taking care of eight children, milking cows, harvesting a garden and canning all of the goods, to making the clothing for herself, husband, and children, carpets, coats, and doing the laundry. ... Knowing that your family depends on you to make things run smoothly, or that a helpless victim or animal is depending on you to save their life, home, or establishment is a lot of responsibility to be placed on any man or woman's shoulders. ...

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The ideal image of the harmonious marriage was the idea of husband and wife living as co-workers in a special God-appointed community of the family, sharing equal authority within the household. ... The female role remained principally one of looking after the smaller animals and vegetable gardens attached to the farm, and helping out at harvest and other busy times. ...

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Just as Brooke Shields attended Columbia and Cindy Crawford graduated second in her class, just as half the LA Laker girls are putting themselves through law school and last year's Miss America is studying to be a nuclear physicist, Scarlett single-handedly farmed her family's plantation and saved them all from starving, started more than one successful business, married three times without effort for money, and made her own fortune. ...

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Laurence was diagnosed with lung cancer, and rather than becoming what she believed would be a burden to her family, she committed suicide. The novel itself deals with the protagonist Morag Gunn, a successful forty-seven-year-old novelist who has bought a farm in rural Ontario, where she is trying to write a novel. ...

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The characterisation of "handsome, clever, and rich" describing Emma in the opening sentence immediately places her in the higher classes of Highbury, due to her inherited wealth and family name. ... Marriage into wealthier families was the only method to migrate up Regency's inflexible social ladder in Mr Knightley's comment "marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage to be secure of a comfortable provision.... The hyperbole of Harriet's eternal imprisonment in "banished to Abbey-Mill Farm! ... " indicating Tai is not suitable for Elton as his family i...

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After Rosa dies, Esteban throws himself into restoring his family farm, Tres Marias. ... Their lifestyles were very similar; their culture, their family, etc They had a very sleazy kind of lifestyle. ...

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Minnie herself stayed on the shelf, alone and unbefriended on the farm, until the coldness of her marriage, her life in general, broke her apart. ... The name puts a pun on the surname emphasizing her lack of "rights,"" and implying her "right- to free herself against the societal sanctioned "right- of her husband to control the family. ...

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The Rosewater Foundation is a huge company, corporation that owns and runs all sorts of buisnesses from motels,breweries, banks, farms, coalmines, and bowling allies. ... As this happens Eliot is basically throwing his life away, and the destiny of the foundation while his family and wife watch. ...

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Tita, according to family tradition, being the youngest daughter was not allowed to marry and is forced to take care of her mother. ... Pedro goes to the farm twice to ask Mama Elena for Tita's hand in marriage but both times he is denied. ...

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