When an individual becomes an adult, he/she has the right to vote, fight in war, be married, and even serve in state legislature, still they are simply thought to be too irresponsible to drink a beer. ... I have seen people fall out of trees, climb up poles, jump into lakes and even wreck cars into trees and get out laughing, and drink more afterwards. ... The laws, however, are either so outrageous that they are not enforced or they contain loopholes to get around them. ... Europe's legal driving age is eighteen; I think America needs to get some advice from our ancestors to make ou...

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Stoddard points out, in his essay, a case of two homosexual women married in almost every aspect except the legal one. ... Married couples have certain rights that unmarried couples do not. ... When someone gets married it is because they are in love and having their choices of people to love restricted, is unconstitutional. ... More married couples, same-sex or opposite sex, could help the state by paying higher tax rates and not to mention the marriage licensing fees. ... Some people may smoke, or drink and get belligerent, or have different opinions in music and clothing that other peo...

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They would believe that people should be able to get married if they are the same sex, because they know what is best for them and can take care of themselves. A traditional conservative feels that it is just not right for same sex couples to get married or to be together for that matter. ... A modern liberal would allow for same sex couples to get married. ...

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Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease that was spread to the Philippines and he was very depressed. Still, he managed to stay strong and get through is troubles. ... Tatay met my Grandma Josie and they fell in love and soon after got married. ... As she grew older she met Tatay and they got married. ... Because Tatay was already a U.S citizen for his military service, it was not hard for my grandma to also get granted citizenship. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease that was spread to the Philippines and he was very depressed. Still, he managed to stay strong and get through is troubles. ... Tatay met my Grandma Josie and they fell in love and soon after got married. ... As she grew older she met Tatay and they got married. ... Because Tatay was already a U.S citizen for his military service, it was not hard for my grandma to also get granted citizenship. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease that was spread to the Philippines and he was very depressed. Still, he managed to stay strong and get through is troubles. ... Tatay met my Grandma Josie and they fell in love and soon after got married. ... As she grew older she met Tatay and they got married. ... Because Tatay was already a U.S citizen for his military service, it was not hard for my grandma to also get granted citizenship. ...

• Word Count: 999
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• Grade Level: High School

Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease that was spread to the Philippines and he was very depressed. Still, he managed to stay strong and get through is troubles. ... Tatay met my Grandma Josie and they fell in love and soon after got married. ... As she grew older she met Tatay and they got married. ... Because Tatay was already a U.S citizen for his military service, it was not hard for my grandma to also get granted citizenship. ...

• Word Count: 999
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• Grade Level: High School

Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease that was spread to the Philippines and he was very depressed. Still, he managed to stay strong and get through is troubles. ... Tatay met my Grandma Josie and they fell in love and soon after got married. ... As she grew older she met Tatay and they got married. ... Because Tatay was already a U.S citizen for his military service, it was not hard for my grandma to also get granted citizenship. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first obstacle that women had to overcome was to get their right to vote. It was an obstacle because women without vote married women did not have a legal voice in the face of the government. ... "Working women often faced discrimination on the mistaken belief that, they were married or would most likely get married; they would not be permanent workers?...

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It is also a fact that about twenty-one million married working couples pay on average an extra fourteen hundred dollars in federal income taxes for being married, compared to couples who have the same income, but cohabit rather than get married. ... Cohabitation always leads to fornication, which is defined as sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other. ... When it comes to being faithful, married couples who don't live together before marriage have higher rates of loyalty. ... Only 90% of married men stayed true to their brides, while only 43% of cohabiting...

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• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps the most painful part on the process of divorce is when the children get involved and when they all get trapped in the situation. ... Couples who are planning to get married should somehow take a step in advance to learn about the process of marriage and the circumstances that surround it. ... Divorce is a chaotic event in a married couple's life. ...

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He married Alice Hathaway Lee in 1880. ... Two years later he married Edith Kermit Carow on December 2nd, 1886. ... Roosevelt had known Edith since his childhood and everyone thought they would eventually get married. When he went to Harvard he and Edith split apart and he then fell in love with Alice and then married her. When she died, Roosevelt moved back to his hometown and feel in love with Edith and they married in 1886. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many couples grow angry towards President Bush and decided to get married. ... Most respectable ministers would refuse to marry two people of the same sex, limiting the couple to being married in commercial areas by materialistic preachers or the court rooms. ... As a society, therefore, marriage exceeds the simple pleasure-seeking of the married couple. ... In other words, our lawmakers have the right to make all homosexual marriages void, in that they are not legally married. ... Society has made this issue a major one by making it illegal to get married to and making laws. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bush isn't helping anything by proposing a 674 Billion dollar 10-year tax cut which will help married couples with children, but Bush can not seem to propose any way for more jobs to come available for the married couple with children that can not find a half-respectable job position. ... Delta, SEALs, Green Beret A Teams, Rangers, Night Stalker helo crews, Air Force comamandos) seem to be a get in neutralize weapons of mass destruction, save the economy, remove Saddam from power anyway possible, and help the citizens of Iraq adopt a new centralized government and get out. ...

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Both married and single women have problems with achieving the equivalence they have wanted for years. ... Approximately sixty percent of married women are now a part of the United States work force. ... That meant 70% of married women were not working, but at home and taking care of household duties. ... The increasing amount of women in the work force does not stop at only those married women. ... However, the fact of how much the women are getting paid must also be looked at. ...

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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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From an early age, most American girls aspire to get married and begin a family. ... During this time period, counseling should be mandated by the state in order for the couples to resolve any differences before the damage is done, and they have married. ... Therefore, if after this reflection they begin to feel a little unsure if their partner is the one they wish to share lifetime experiences with; they will be able to go over their decision before getting married and being legally bond to one another. ... There are some groups of people that the proposal will not affect, couples who nev...

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The current matter at hand is whether gays should be allowed to be married and have the same rights and privileges as a heterosexual married couple. ... It seems when you are being discriminated against, everywhere you turn, and one thing just lead to another and you really can't get anywhere. ... There will always be something new and different that people don't like and will have a hard time getting used to. ...

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According to the Bay Windows Online Newspaper, "Americans can in fact travel to Canada and get married", so we are now effecting the population growth for nations around us. ... Also, this is not a common type of behaviour used in today's society, therefore those who get married and possibly decide to adopt a child may cause a major corruption on the child's youth as well as have a permanent impact on the rest of their lives. ...

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I need to drive in order to get to the 7-Elven; this really surprised me. ... Before I bought a car, I had to walk 25minutes to get to the nearest bus stop. It took me almost 90minutes to get to school, even though the school is just four to five miles away. ... My host family is a young married couple. ... In Chinese culture, when a couple gets married, they basically share everything together: money, food, responsibility etc. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The greatest legal advantage to gay marriages are primarily in the states of Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey and California, where couples can specifically define the most critical decisions in any married couples' life. ... There is no residency requirement in California to gain a license for marriage and this is one of the main reasons gay couples from around the U.S. travel to San Francisco to get married (Black, Sanders, Taylor, 2007). ... Second, there are the many limitations to the married couples' rights and their ability to gain shared ownership of priority in 46 o...

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Instead, women are beginning to focus on their own education and career before getting married, and therefore getting married at a later age after completing two to four years of college. In 1960 the median age for women to get married was 20.3 years old, in 2010 that median age rose to 26.5 years old (Cohn, Passel, Wang, Livingston). ...

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Tom was seen driving Gatsby's car the day before so, Tom had to make sure that he did not get into any trouble. ... Tom saw this as a perfect opportunity to get back at Gatsby for taking both of the women in his life away from him. ... Gatsby was the one who pursued a relationship with Daisy, a married woman. "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. ... "after she was free, they would go back to Louisville and be married from her house- just as if it were five years ago" (Fitzgerald 116). ...

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President Jackson believed in a powerful national government, but the government could not reach this state without first being able to get along with eachother. ... Eaton married a friend of Jackson's. ... Biddle, Concentrated on getting Jackson's opposers to his side, Jackson believed the bank was a monopoly, and was basically run by stockholders, not the government. SO Jackson vetoed any chance of the bank getting modifications. ...

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Later after the McCourts were married and had children, they eventually had to leave New York. ... The McCourts also did not get any help from the government, nor barely any help from their family that lived there. ...

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