It was obvious that every woman's dream was to get married and have children. ... When asked what she wanted to do after college her response was getting married. ... At the end, however, Joan cannot do both because her boyfriend swept her they could secretly get married. ... She is traditional a virgin getting married to the man of her dreams. ... In a conversation with one of her friends Giselle says, "Women like Katherine don't get married because they choose not too." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the case of King Oedipus, Oedipus married his mother without knowing before hand. ... She finally married a man for love and not his wealth. ... They plot to get rid of her husband so they can be happy together. ... She gets her children and her husband back in the end. ... It appears as time goes on women get a little more freedom and rights. ...

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To get around the illegality, the servitude was stipulated for a limited number of years, usually 99. ... It was considered a duty to get married. ... There was no age limit as to when people could be married, but generally a girl did not get married until she had begun to menstruate, about the age of fourteen. Some documents state that girls may have been married at the age of eight or nine, and the mummy of an eleven-year-old wife has also been found. (4) Marriages required no religious or legal ceremony. ... The more intimate parts of married life were very important to the Egyptians. ...

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As a teenager, her main goal than became, in her words, " I had to get the hell out of my mother's house. " I found it to be very note worthy and interesting that Johnson was one of the first black students to integrate Garrison Junior High; which at the time had only white students. ... Johnson married when she was eighteen, and admits that she married for the wrong reasons; pregnant, but not in love. ... Her response was, "I will get two jobs"." ... Like a true love story, Johnson was able to find love and married her childhood sweetheart with her second marriage. ... When Johnson was...

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To her food was the only way she could be with Pedro and not get caught, a form of rebellion against her mother. ... First was the role of Tita, Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Francisco I Madero, and along with other labor workers, mirrored each other for the simple fact all she wanted was to get married and break tradition and all they wanted according to the module, on the Mexican Revolution, was freedom and their land back. Once they both were unable to get what they felt was entitled to them they rebelled. ... Mama Elena and Mexico's president Diaz, both used manipulation to get wha...

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• Grade Level: High School

English audiences in the Renaissance period would have been concerned with ideals of married life. ... Like his other romantic comedies, The Taming of the Shrew focuses on courtship and marriage and the various roles that the man and woman play, but, unlike most of them, it devotes a great deal of attention to married life after the wedding. ... The more the men talk about Kate, the worse the report gets. ... (IV.iii.73-80) Unfortunately, not even this is enough to get her as much as the cap in the end. ... However, when Bianca, who has married Lucenio and the widow, who has married Hortensio...

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Cause and Effect of Divorce Most people believe that the main reason people get divorced is because of deterioration of the family structure. ... People think since the woman is getting money because of child custody, she would be well off and on top of receiving money she is working so therefore there should not be any financial problems. ... The decline is especially severe for women who have children, women who were married to upper middle-class men, and long-married women. ... After divorce, women who are married to upper-middle class men have hard times finding a job because, dur...

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She strikes fear into the town and its parish to the point where she gets and does whatever she wants. ... The Wife of Bath has married five times, all rich men, and then when her husbands died she inherited their wealth and fortune. ... Following her fourth husband's death, the Wife of Bath married a man half her age within a month. ... However the Wife still desires to be married. ... For example speaking of her fifth husband: "God grant his soul may never get to Hell! ...

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She loves her father and stays with his family to be near him, but she is forcibly married off to a shoemaker. ... He eventually married an educated girl name Laila. ... Because of her status in the household, she tell, Marium"The children of strangers get ice cream. What do you get, Mariam? ... When Mariam's mother dies she is married off to a shoemaker who is thirty years older than her and initially seems to care about her. ...

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Women were to get married, have children, and live a traditional life. ... She wanted to live freely, as she did even when married. ... Being that her mother and grandmother were both married and never re-married, she did not see a need for female dependency on a man. ... She married Oscar Chopin in the 1870's after graduating from the Academy of the Sacred Heart. ... Her mother and grandmother, both widows, never re-married. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In today's world women are now given lead roles in movies and in some cases (though very rare) they get to be the ones who restore a sense of security or belonging to men. An example of this is "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", a series in which a woman gets to be the superhero and fight of vampires. ... When women watch music videos or any other form of media that inaccurately portrays women they get the sense that it is okay to dress scantily to get the attention of a man. ... A popular myth that is perpetuated through out the media is that a woman cannot be successful if she is not married a...

• Word Count: 1911
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main goal was to find a man and get married. If they were happy or not, their major concern in life was to get married. ... Not being the real you was the way to get a man. ... I was playing hard to get. ... Get real by getting THE REAL RULES. ...

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Could Pepsi be targeting my mother, a married woman in her early 50's, to purchase this soft drink? ... But who are they really getting to purchase their drinks? ... Advertisers are also looking for the best way to get your attention. ... So when a married man sees sexual advertisement he will more than likely fantasize about the presentation, sometimes replacing the female's body for that of his wife's. ... Do whatever it takes to get the message out. ...

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It is normal in Islam for one man to be married to one woman. ... Child marriages were also commonplace among the Hindu in an effort to rid the family of their "burden," and girls were sometimes married off as young as eight years old, always to men more than twice their age. ... After becoming married, the wife also became required to observe an ancient custom called "Purdah," meaning that she had to cover her face from all men except her husband. ... Even if the wife were to have run away from her husband, she could never get remarried as long as she was in the confines of Hindu tradition, ...

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During this time period, it wasn't easy being a woman, or a married woman at that, let alone being a married woman with children. Societal norms forced upon Edna the decision to get married and have children before first realizing what kind of woman she could have been. ...

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You might get hurt because of that, Dear Why don't you try to be a teacher instead?" ... Since they know that they will get a baby boy, they start to paint the baby room with blue color and, later, buy "masculine" type of toys such as robots, car toys, gun toys, etc. ... Parents also read classic fairy tales to their children which imply the idea that all a princess has to do to be saved and get away from her problems is just waits for her Prince Charming. ... If a married woman goes out and comes back at midnight, the public would think that she is a bad woman who does illicit things. N...

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Where once there was love, now lays resentment and an unwillingness to get along. ... Because he assumed everyone to be playing their prescribed roles: Edna as a loving faithful wife/mother and Robert as a young Creole man patronizing an older married woman. ... Since Edna is already married with children of her own, she is assumed to have a "role-model" in Madame Ratignolle. However, she also gets along with Mademoiselle Reisz, and she finds herself having things in common with her as well. ... A common role of the young Creole man is to "fall in love with" an older married woman, only c...

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At the age of 19 she married Oscar Chopin and moved to Louisiana where she spent the remainder of her life. ... Married with two sons and a part of the New Orleans elite social class, as a proper Victorian woman she is expected to be morally pure in thought and conduct, decent and honest. ... Léonce, Edna's husband, becomes worried about his wife's behavior but his doctor tells him to leave her as she is, and she will get over whatever she is going through. ... She starts a new life in her "pigeon house- and is spending more and more time with Alca©e, a man who is known to...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Rose Terry Cooke's "How Celia Changed Her Mind," it is suggested that a married woman is nothing more than someone who is obligated to fulfill domestic responsibilities and duties. ... Nora has the same money issues of other married women. In Act I of the play, Torvald tells Nora that just because he is getting a bigger salary, there still will be no depts and no borrowing. ... --Oh, well you ain't married! ... Although skeptical at first of the thought of actually leaving her husband, feeling that "...none of us can get away, and if I don't do as he says I must, he takes it ...

• Word Count: 1949
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She believed that by becoming a wife she'd be degrading herself because she knew that despite her educational background she'd cook and clean and wash all day just like everyone else that seemed to be married. ... This made Esther think: "And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. ... Consequently, the weirdness of being a wife pushes the idea of ever getting married very far away from Esther&...

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Thus, the text reveals the paradox: sexual chastity was not a measure of how truly virtuous a woman is, but rather was an important negotiation tool in securing a husband, getting paid off in a sense by said husband's wealth, and cementing a woman's societal status as a "proper" woman. ... To add to her troubles, her husband and lawful master, growing increasingly weary of his wife and easily influenced by the insidious rumors running rampant, "forgot he had married her; and hearing so many people talk of her as a mistress he kept, he imagined it was so"(153) an...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Regardless, numerous people get married each day. ... Consequently, they dedicate their lives to "getting a man,"" and will do practically anything in order to achieve this goal. ... Often times these women opt not to get married, for they find that "true- romantic love is nowhere to be found in a society which inequalizes the sexes from birth. ... As Firestone states, the life of a non-married woman is "a living hell."" ...

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Failing to get married, the girl had to turn to prostitution and "Entertain(s) a sordid guest", (verse 6), whilst the man could carry on with his wealthy existence without losing his good name. ... The girl in the song lost her dignity in what is to be considered as a period of strict ethics, she had no choice but to commit suicide, as it is the "poor" girl "that gets the blame", whilst the man got all "the pleasure", it is "a blooming shame", (verse 10). The song concludes with the woman implying that the rich can get away with anything, and poor people are not considered to be honest. ...

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Harry is sixty-three never married but "if he were a woman it would be considered a curse.... " But "instead of pitying him they write articles celebrating that he's never been married. He's elusive, un-gettable, a real catch. ... Take a shower, when I get out it is already 9:30. ... Usually, women have a little more tradition to deal with than men, like remaining a virgin or remaining a virgin until you get married. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Peters seems to be uneasy with being "married to the law." ... It is clear that over the years she had been forced into a solitary life by the man she married. ... Hale said, "We come along this road . . . to see if I can't get John Wright to take a telephone . . . ... When John Wright killed the bird, it was as if he symbolically "murdered" the last trace of his wife's innocence and youth, which was the only thing getting her through her bleak existence, and she finally snapped. ... Women are full of mysteries that even today, men "just don't get", and women will always keep...

• Word Count: 1498
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• Grade Level: High School