This is not only a large source of essential calories for the Ju but also serves a greater social value. ... Features of the Ju society restricting certain marriages are incest taboos preventing marriage of immediate family and most cousins as well as an intricate set of avoidance relationships, set up primarily as a way for girl's parents to justify turning down a suitor for any reason (Lee, pg.80). ... The extended family of the Ju is based on a strict set of complex rules built on name relation...

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Historical Insights on Dating Dating is a relatively new concept. It has been ingrained into our society that we think it is something that has existed forever. However, dating is an invention of the 20th century. In the past the term courtship was used. The word courtship is almost unknown...

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Tonni Morrison's novel Sula is about two young black girls who become very close friends but soon depart after taking different paths through life. The two young girls grew up in a town in the hills of Ohio called the Bottom. The town received its name from a slave owner who disliked the land and ...

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This repartee sets the comic tone of the play and Algernon comments at the end of this that Lane's views on marriage are "lax", and implies that the "lower orders" should set a better example to the upper classes. ...

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The Ideal of Womanhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer rights than men. The Women's Rights Movement began in cities of the northeast in the early to mid-1800's and soon emerged in cities of the Midwest and western states. It was not ...

• Word Count: 3206
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A Cross Cultural Perspective of polygyny As an institution, polygyny, the social arrangement that permits a man to have more than one wife at the same time, exists in all parts of the world. From our present knowledge, there are very few primitive tribes in which a man is not allowed to enter into more than one union. In fact, ethnologists now believe that only one to two percent of all species may be monogamous (Tucker 1985). None of the simian species are strictly monogamous; our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, practice a form of group marriage. Among the 849 human societies examined b...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the ritual conducted when the couple decides to establish a marital relationship and through which they can win over the approval, recognition and protection of the community. The procedure of the wedding ceremony actually reflects the various social and cultural notions. The wedding customs in anci...

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• Grade Level: High School

A professional wedding consultant has many jobs in planning the bride's big party, from finding the right venue, talking with the bride and groom on what colors they want and what food to serve. ...

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The Hours and Mrs Dalloway both display and illustrate many examples of gender and power struggles or conflicts. These struggles often occur between characters, but predominantly they occur between the characters and their emotions or other structures of power. In The Hours (film) and the novel, something that Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan have in common is their feeling of failure, depression and inadequacy. Each woman feels trapped within her own life. The reasons for each woman's feeling of entrapment are often fairly similar and this is what links them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School