The Concept of the Household-Family in Eighteenth-Century England In Naomi Tadmor's article, The Concept of the Household-Family in Eighteenth Century England, she discussed what a household family consisted of though the analization of five different books written in the eighteen century. ... Tadmor notes that the author of the Dictionary published in 1755, Samuel Johnson, defined the term family as, "those who live in the same house." ... Tadmor notes that many people experienced orphan-hood, early widowhood and remarriage. She also notes that there were prevailing rates of mo...

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However, the articles of clothing that are mentioned in the books do play a vital role in illustrating the symbolical meanings that help explain the personalities of the characters introduced in the books. ... Starched clothing is known for making clothing look more formal, which is interesting to note because Santiago is the one who wears unstarched white linen clothing and José Dias, a dependant, is the one who wears starched white trousers. ...

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Abigail didn't have formal education-like most women of her time, but her intelligence was fostered by the many books she read and was reflected in the two thousand letters she wrote throughout her life. ... (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. ... (Baker 128) Akers" paraphrase that "only in the mind of God did the discordant notes of life blend into a harmonious melancholy."...

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Oxford University Press: New York, 1991. ] I really did not know what topic to choose for the project, so I went to the library and looked under the Cultural Anthropology section, and discovered a few different books of interest. ... One must note the different kinds of relationships that exist in different cultures: monogamy, and polygamy describe forms of marriage; "gamy" in Greek means marriage, not mating. ...

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Books are written about doing your own divorce. ... Retired Edmonton Police Service Superintendent Chris Braiden, notes that in the thirty year period in which violent youth crime rose by 300% in the U.S., the number of single parent families rose by 300% and the divorce rate doubled, the same as it did in Canada. ...

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Books are written about doing your own divorce. ... Retired Edmonton Police Service Superintendent Chris Braiden notes that in the thirty-year period in which violent youth crime rose by 300% in the U.S., the number of single parent families rose by 300% and the divorce rate doubled, the same as it did in Canada (McGovern 1). ...

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"Are you hot? Are you cold?" "Are you wearing that?" "Where are your books and your lunch and your homework at? Grab your coat and your gloves and your scarf and hat. Don't forget; you got to feed the cat!" Anita Renfroe wrote these catchy words for the song "Momisms"," sung to the familiar tune of...

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Her uses of sticky notes in the kitchen represent her attempt to hold onto the memories that lie between the two in their most intimate spot. ... He slowly tries to gain her friendship back by bringing her books, and reading them to her and taking her on a trip back to their home. ...

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Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the era known as the Middle Ages, an era resembling kings, castles, and knights. Behind the famous kings, magnificence castles, and shining armor were the women. In the shadows, a step behind, and not as enchanting, one can find the tale of the medieval woman. C...

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For a long time, the woman has assumed a secondary role in the first generation of Indian English male writing such as R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand. Indeed, R.K.Narayan's heroine, Rosie, in his novel 'The Guide' is viewed only in relation to the main protagonist, Raju and Raju's mother is ...

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People write songs, books, and poetry about both topics. ... Note that abortions and contraception are not grouped together, this is because contraceptives and abortion are on completely separate sides of the spectrum of extremes; they are just generally grouped together. ...

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Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story be...

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