Purifying yourself is the first part of this ritual that's more important than any other time. ... Ritual Begins: I am the Sherika daughter of Joann daughter of Bernice. ... From the East, we call to our sister Sarah, daughter of Mesopotamia, and princess and honored one. ... Mother of beginnings, join us now as we come together to celebrate the cycles of time and change. From the West, we call to our sister Rebecca, daughter of the well. ...

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INTRODUCTION Hera is the Greek goddess of marriage & family, women, and in some legends, the goddess of childbirth (in others it is her daughter, Eileithyia). ... BACKGROUND Hera is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. ... Another example is Semele, the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and a mortal. ... Zeus took the child she carried and put him inside his thigh until the time came for Dionysus to be born. ... Even so, Hera kidnapped her daughter Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, and forced her to prolong Leto's labour for nine months until her son Hephaestus could be born before Leto&#x...

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At the time, she thought she wanted a large family so she wanted to start when she was young. ... The thought of waiting to push out her dead daughter, killed her. ... She held her daughter for as long as she could before they took her away. ... Aaliyah, she named her and "no matter what happened you"ll always be my little girl" she whispered to her daughter. ... She knew she wasn't ready, and neither was her husband- but she also didn't understand why at the time something this heartbreaking had to happen. ...

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In Gabriel Garcí Márquez's novel Love in a Time of Cholera, Florentino Ariza is a passionate man who's love for Fermina Daza has him wait for over fifty years before he can pursue her properly. ... After his wife's death, he decides to make enough money to set his daughter, Fermina, up as a great lady. ...

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You were able to imagine the time and place and the emotions of the characters. ... A very tragic time in her life when her brother Bing drowns at age 1 while she was in charge of watching him. ... The movie did an excellent job of showing us the culture during that time in China and how the matchmaker arranged the marriages at an early age. ... Mothers protecting their children, wanting their daughters to know their worth. ... The cultural rules these women were raised with for so many years in China had a life time effect on their lives. ...

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Each time that Tevye has a daughter to marry off his Jewish traditions are conflicted with modern views and he comes to into situations where he must choose between the two. Tevye is directly confronted with modern ways and views as against the Jewish traditions when marrying his daughters. Tevye goes to Efrayim the Matchmaker to traditionally multiple times to arrange marriages for his daughters. ... Tevye is tempted to reunite with his daughter, but cant since Chava has married outside of the religion. Since all marriages were though religion at the time, a priest must marry Chava thus she...

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As a housewife, the narrator dedicates her time towards her family and husband, who she fell in love with for his affection. However, as her husband spends more time in the city, he quickly becomes attached and invested in the city movement than his wife and family. ... The narrator notices they "used to whisper a long time" but they no longer have late night conversations. ... However, once his daughter finally meets and sees him for the first time on his return, she hides from him and would not speak to him, as if her were a stranger. His daughter even told him,"that's n...

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The daughter in the story does have many rivers to cross. ... He said the money is mine and not yours until I die, to his own daughter. ... I really don't think that the daughter was thinking about money at the time of her mother's death. ... She may have seen her daughter and grandson struggling to have any money. ... He shouldn't have acted like that around his own daughter. ...

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The daughter in the story does have many rivers to cross. ... He said the money is mine and not yours until I die, to his own daughter. ... I really don't think that the daughter was thinking about money at the time of her mother's death. ... She may have seen her daughter and grandson struggling to have any money. ... He shouldn't have acted like that around his own daughter. ...

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After his daughters got married their husbands were ashamed of him and he was sent away from their lives. He finally realizes that his daughters are ungrateful and that he has caused his own untimely demise by giving all that he ever had to his daughters. ... Even at the end of his life the ultimate father tries to understand why his daughters are not there for him in his time of need. ... At the end of the book Eugéne returns to have dinner with Goriot's daughter Madame de Nucingen, but he returns with his eyes open to the brutality that exists in a society that he once wanted ...

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This overview of marriage shows in the attitudes of women during this time period. ... Primarily, the mother is the sole person that is responsible for the marrying off of her daughters. ... Last, the importance of proper social gatherings that were so common during this time period. ... Bennett tells her daughters. ... Bennett is just enforcing the values she has already taught her daughters. ...

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Way of life was quite different in England around the time of 1775. ... Property was a very important aspect of living during the time period of Pride and Prejudice. ... A dowry is the money, goods, or property that a father gives to his daughter to bring into a marriage. ... Bennet did not give any of his daughters a dowry. This is one reason why his daughters wanted to get married so fast. ...

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The story is about a man who had two wives, and they each had a daughter. ... Her daughter moved into the home of the favored wife and became a maidservant. ... In a village, there was a widower and his three daughters. The cruel, older sister tortured the youngest, ill daughter. ... Both tales resemble each other in some ways; while at the same time contrast each other. ...

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I was now a father of a beautiful daughter, Alexis. ... My greatest joy out of my experience thus far was the birth of my daughter. ... I used that time to reflect and become wise. ... I didn't rush into it this time I knew what I wanted. ... All I had was time on my hands to think about my journey, the good and the bad decisions that were made. ...

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I was now a father of a beautiful daughter, Alexis. ... My greatest joy out of my experience thus far was the birth of my daughter. ... I used that time to reflect and become wise. ... I didn't rush into it this time I knew what I wanted. ... All I had was time on my hands to think about my journey, the good and the bad decisions that were made. ...

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With her hands resting in her empty lap (because her child has grown up and started his own life) she hears a daughter being welcomed into the family, as she will be her son's bride. ... Soap was one able to free the wedding ring from her daughter-in-law's finger but now it lies bedded forever in her clapping hand. ... It is significant to the work as a whole because it clarifies the statements about the wedding ring and the daughter being welcomed into the family. ... The boots are a part of the son's childhood but the ring used to describe the arrangement of the boots connec...

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I chose to leave my husband and divorce him and raise my daughters on my own, as a single parent. ... My husband and I were both working full time jobs and we had to travel to get to the hospital that my daughter was in, which was about an hour and a half away and we were doing this daily. ... I found out that I was pregnant again on top of us having a premature daughter in the hospital. ... I was heartbroken because I knew in my heart I was leaving this time. ... I spend much more quality time with my children and I actually enjoy it. ...

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Menander, an ancient Greek playwright, was an influential playwright of his time, focusing his plays on what critics call "New Comedy." ... He is afraid to ask Knemon for his daughters hand in marriage. ... Sostratos represents the moral ambiguity of the upper class during this time period. ... In an article by University Press Inc about Culture and Society in ancient Greece it said that women in this time period were not involved "public life or in politics.... In this scene Sostratos spends as much time in his asides speaking to the audience as he does speaking to the girl. ...

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Parents, realized or not, differentiate the methods of upbringing and raising their son to their daughter. ... On the other hand, their daughter is disallowed to play with gun toys for it is so-not-a-girl-type-of-toy. ... Parents tend to overprotect their daughter than their son. For example, I am not allowed to leave the house after 9 pm and must go back safely to the house at 12 pm, at most, whilst my brother, younger than me, has a free and unlimited curfew time. ... When a father cannot spare his time for his children, society still thinks that it is okay because the father is already tire...

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He even allows him to name the time of meetings, and in many ways treats him as an equal, rather than a relatively low-born vassal. ... Although the date of the poem's recording is open to speculation, it is certain that the time was a politically dangerous one. ... Because of the dishonoring of his daughters? ... The final stinger comes with word that the daughters are to marry the kings of Aragon and Navarre. Alfonso had clearly dishonored the Cid's daughters by marrying them so far beneath their worth. ...

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Mooney is very strict and overprotective of Polly, her daughter. ... Doran and her daughter. ... Doran and her daughter would ultimately result in the act of intercourse. ... The relationship between mother and daughter is worrying and upsetting. ... Unfortunately, the conduct depicted was somewhat normal during that period of time. ...

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Her parents were both killed in a plane crash that both Allie and her daughter Betsy witnessed. ... Allie struggled as a barrel racer to make ends meet for her and her daughter. ... Rick spent a lot of time with Betsy, who seemed to have a very special connection with the horses on the ranch, one of which was a new rescue. ... By the time Rick got this information, Charlie had kidnapped Allie and Betsy and had them in a cave. ... However, Rick and Allie wanted to have a formal ceremony because through the time they had spent together they fell in love. ...

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They loved her as if she were their own daughter. ... At her time in Vancouver Morag met Jules, her former lover, and became pregnant. ... At that time it was very hard to be a single mother and an unmarried woman. ... In 1952, Laurence's daughter Jocelynn was born. ... Laurence died in Ontario, where her protagonist Morag Gunn lived with her daughter. ...

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Women have fought and even boycotted but still men continue to control our society and most of the time they tend to have the final say so especially in the household. ... In the earlier days women spent most of their time in the household. ... In some cases even daughters were treated like this also. If a man wanted to marry another man's daughter he would have to get her father's permission and in some cases pay the father to marry his daughter. ... In the story A Doll's House Torvald, the husband, treated Nora, his wife, more like his daughter. ...

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She felt that her son should marry a woman of royalty, unlike Assouoite who was the daughter of a goldsmith and was poor as a child. Once the time was right she present young Nabou to him stating that if he did not wed her it would bring great disgrace to her and the family. ... Lastly, what really tested her views on the lowering of traditional standards was her daughter Rama becoming pregnant. ... Instead of disowning her daughter, she accepts that her daughter is pregnant and decides to help her devise a plan to hide the pregnancy. She learns from the mistake of her young daughter Assatou a...

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