The two texts that we read, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Charles Dicken's Great Expectations, both represent different courtship and marriage rituals taken from their perspective time periods. ... The marriages in Great Expectations, on the other hand were primarily from the middle class. ... This is a quote from Charlotte Lucas, one of the female characters in Pride and Prejudice. It is a quote that I feel exemplifies the general feelings against marriage for this time period and the people in upper class England. In Great Expectations, our first look at marriage is th...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A quote from a lesbian clearly showed the struggle they have to endure, "we've come a long way since then. ... Even the American Academy of Pediatrics also confirms "parents who are homosexual have the same advantages and the same expectations for health, adjustment and development as children whose parents are heterosexual" (American Academy of Pediatrics). ... Yes, it was great news when President Clinton signed the Executive Order 11478 in 2000, which the act has laid out the foundation to protect the rights for gay people in the job place, but, that's just not enough, more has...

• Word Count: 1959
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hemingway quotes, "Living in the muddy, rainy town in the winter, the major of the battalion made love to Luz, and she had never known Italians before, and finally wrote back to the States that theirs had been only a boy and girl affair" (359). ... Hemingway shows, "She hoped he would have a great career and believed in him absolutely. ... The reader learns that Luz's expectations of becoming the major's wife in the spring have been only fantasies. ...

• Word Count: 1057
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. ... WB quotes scriptures to support her remarriages. ... She quotes the Christian principles to be fruitful and multiply. ...

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This quote is from Lester in a conversation with his friends, summing up the people of Linden Hills, of which he begrudgingly is one of. ... While discussing a possible housing project near Linden Hills, the unfavorable comments coming from everyone seem to represent a great deal of discrimination towards their own race. ... The story is built around the great great grandson of the original Luther and his wife Willa. ...

• Word Count: 2802
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This 'value' is demonstrated in the following quote, " [..]I saw, while my family's honor lay stricken on the floor, I saw what was forbidden to see [...] my father's penis [...]. ... As soon as the protagonist reads this letter, he is shocked that all the accusations against his wife are true, resulting in his identity deteriorating as his expectations for his wife continue to break. ...

• Word Count: 2550
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