After the proposal has been accepted, the groom's family goes to the bride's home and has a small ceremony of acceptance. ... This is where all the girls from the bride's family get together and performs a ritual event in which creme or paste type substance is applied to the bride's arms and legs. ... The second day is similar to the first with the difference being that the bride's family goes to the groom's home. ... The priest goes to the bride with a third party as a witness and asks the bride's acceptance and to sign the papers. Then the priest goes to t...

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• Grade Level: High School

William Shakespeare's Hamlet goes both hand in hand and contrasts with this trend. ... Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell. ... monsters you make of them, to a nunnery, go; and quickly too" (III.i.146-152), Hamlet scorns her and says she is not fit for him or for anyone else, she would be an awful wife, she is merely scum and she can't change a thing. ... That's a fair thought to lie between an maid's legs"(III.ii.112-11), Hamlet continues to mock Ophelia and imply that she is worthless and dumb, and that it is acceptable for him to be rude to her. ... After Ophelia dies, H...

• Word Count: 1273
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

William Shakespeare's Hamlet goes both hand in hand and contrasts with this trend. ... Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell. ... monsters you make of them, to a nunnery, go; and quickly too" (III.i.146-152), Hamlet scorns her and says she is not fit for him or for anyone else, she would be an awful wife, she is merely scum and she can't change a thing. ... That's a fair thought to lie between an maid's legs"(III.ii.112-11), Hamlet continues to mock Ophelia and imply that she is worthless and dumb, and that it is acceptable for him to be rude to her. ... After Ophelia dies, H...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I had very limited access to education as women were regarded as inferior human beings, a famous saying goes ˜a girl is virtuous if She has no talent'. ... I remember my legs were broken which was quite painful for keeping myself in the name of beauty in men's eyes. ... No member of the family can dare go against the will of the ancestors due to the long time tradition of respecting the elder and the fear of the unpleasant consequences. ... The large number of children in my family is also a barrier for me to staying domestically instead of going outside. A lot of time is requ...

• Word Count: 1804
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Powther goes on to talk of Mamie and how she spends money carelessly, only thinking of her in terms of dollars and materialistic qualities. ... The book states, "He watched her walk down the hall toward the kitchen, watched the rhythmic motion of her legs, her arms, and thought, yes if I'd married Mrs. ... I can spend money, I've saved it all my lie but I'm going to spend it now, spend and spend and spend, until I can buy Mamie Smith."" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Marriage, now, is defined as the formal recognition of the union between a man and a woman (or, in some jurisdictions, two people of the same sex) as partners in a relationship. Yet in the 1800s marriage was just seen as an investment. The Awakening by Kate Chopin illustrates how marriage is used to...

• Word Count: 1838
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One side of the opposition feels that our tax dollars should not go to something they do not support, ("Should Gay Marriage be Legal?... Anyone who uses that as a leg to stand on as a reason why gay marriage should be kept illegal needs to ask everyone how they feel about our tax dollars being used to fund two wars they did not believe in. ... But if we are going to do that then we need to ask those same people whoever they are that feel we shouldn't be spending tax dollars on gay marriage benefits how they feel about tax dollars being spent on every other issue they basically have o...

• Word Count: 1796
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School