Families and What They Make Up Today After reading Betty Carter's and Joan. ... Lack of communication has a great deal to play in these problems along with lack of sharing responsibilities, and lack of trying hard to work things out. ... These days, women carry on that responsibility along with a full-time job. ... "Without an understanding of the impact of family and cultural beliefs, couples are left with the crazy idea that they are inventing themselves and their lives, or that they could, only if their spouses would change." (526). ... They have to come to agreements in...

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The God of Small Things received England's 1997 Booker Prize making Arundhathi Roy the first Indian citizen to ever win the honour. ... Though Estha and Rahel are the central characters of the story Ammu also play a very important role in The God of Small Things. ... When she smiled, her dimples looked as though they hurt. ... Chacko carried her dead body in a dirty bed sheet, laid out on a stretcher and hired a van to transport it to the electric crematorium. ... She is the most unforgettable character in The God of Small Things. ...

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Despite the social acceptable roles, views and positions of women in different parts of Greece, women persevered and carried themselves with a certain level of strength. ... But despite the different roles, views, and positions of the women in both societies, they all contained one strength that only a woman could possess and that is their biological capabilities to carry and birth the lives of children. ... They were also very well educated in reading, writing, fine arts, and many other things. ... The women of Athens often carried out the roles pertaining to what class they were divided in...

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These bonds can range from all types of things. ... In the Chinese culture the marriage and engagement customs are carried out differently. ... If mourners choose to visit the grieving family before the service, tradition requires that they say, "May you have an abundant life"", or "May their memory be eternal"". ... I guess its fair to say that everyone is born in a certain culture because from the moment they are born, they are taught how to carry out the traditions and customs of that specific culture. ... I was taught how to carry out the traditional Greek culture and that may be a reason ...

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They were not necessarily religious, but found They could improve their home China. ... June Woo learns of the real secret her mother carried to her grave from her mother's friends. ... Due to sickness, Suyuan can no longer carry her babies, and is forced to leave them on the side of the road. She lives her whole life not knowing if they are alive or dead. ... They wanted things different for their daughters in America, but they still compared life as it should be in China. ...

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However in the 1950s things were different and it seems to have been a big deal. ... It is very typical for unmarried people to live with their parents no matter how old they are. ... - This seems to be one of the important reasons why people get married; to have someone carry on the family. ... This is probably why so many people have plastic surgery, so that they can appeal to other people and feel better about themselves. ... I only hope that things will have changed by the time it is time for me to get married. ...

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This gives us a chance to catch up on things that are new in our lives. ... Most Greeks live with their parents until they are married. ... Even in modern Greece you will see more men sitting in traditional cafes enjoying a leisurely coffee and more women carrying shopping bags and buying things at the market. These roles are not as strong as a generation ago, but they still exist. ...

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The situation of women in India Women are the most disadvantaged members of the Indian population. Almost twice as many girls die before the age of five than boys. 40% of India's women are literate compared to 64 percent males. Only 43 percent of Indian girls attend primary school compared to 62 ...

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Even though things started to look up for her there was one thing keeping her away from full happiness. ... "She carried her head high enough-even when we believed that she was fallen" (35). The death of her father was the start of Emily having to learn to take control of the things in her life. She had to learn how to do things for herself. ... The events in her life have led her to struggle with moving on and accepting things for the way they are....

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There are close similarities, yet they are still very different. ... The bride to be carries a baby doll, "plastic potty" filled with salt and other small items. All these things are believed to bring good luck for the bride including prosperity and fertility. ... There, they may find a bar and partake in excessive drinking. ... In some cultures wedding ceremonies are carried out for more than one day of celebration. ...

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When she visits Nanny, she says, "Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think... All of Janie's marriages are very much alike as they carry unique challenges for her and signify the three major periods of her life that are separate yet similar. ... You'se always off talkin" and fixin" things, and Ah feels lak Ah"m jus" markin" time. ... In each marriage she has had to overcome different things and they have tested her character. ...

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The town wants to be up to date with the world around them, but they also do not want to give up what they truly believe in, and that is their history, or tradition. ... In the days when Tevye and his family lived, they didn't have that luxury. ... They fell in love and they wanted to be married. This carried on with the next two oldest daughters as well, they fell in love, and married when, and who, they wanted. ... A lot of times people get upset by change, and new things, they prefer to have some things the same old ways, "just like Grandma and Grandpa's ways". ...

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The beginning of "Death by Scrabble" is particularly funny and carries a great deal of meaning to the proceedings of the story. ... " all they do is sit around the house. ... They intend this to be an ordinary game. ... During the story, the husband keeps say horrible things about his wife, "I really, really hate her.... While he was saying horrible things about her was she thinking the same thing about him? ...

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She had worked with him all that summer, they became close friends. ... The man was late 40s, a heavy-set, balding man with stooped shoulders, as if he carried a great weight there. ... The main focal point to this story starts when everyone is sitting in the living room after they all just ate dinner. ... The narrator tries to describe what they look like to him. Robert is blind, he has determination to try to understand what things look like. ...

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He shows how the Puritans honored God above any and all things, and that the Puritans" main goal was to survive a truthful life with overflowing blessings which would secure a place in heaven for their kind. ... Equally husbands and wives were assigned jobs by God, and it was vital for the Puritans to carry out their lives based on these jobs. "When husband and wife neglect their duties they not only wrong each other, but they provoke God by breaking his law" (pg. 30). ... In chapter three the Puritan parents commonly attempted to arrange the marriages of their children with those who they fel...

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When they meet for the first time in the play, immediately they try to outdo one another, with put-downs, each trying to have the last word. ... They are both afraid of rejection from the other, preferring to scorn one another, rather than admit their true feelings. ... Making him believe that Beatrice is beside herself, totally in love with him, but cannot bring herself to say anything after all of the horrible things she has said. ... By doing this, she achieves two things. Firstly, getting Benedict to prove his love and also carry out the task that she herself as a woman cannot. ...

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Living withougt these things could make anyone feel the way she did. ... "Brently Millard who entered, a little travel stained, composedly carrying his gripsack and umbrella." ... This can mean many things. They believe that she died because she was so happy to see him that she couldn't take it. ...

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By the end of the play we see that their plots are going to hinge on his course of action and that they are both doting on him. ... Edmund knows who they are and it is doubtful they could be physically attractive to him, yet they choose to believe the sincerity of his overtures. ... Edmund had no reason to trust things would work out right if left to themselves and he had anger as an additional motivating factor. ... The other instance of misplaced trust that is a factor in the downfall of Edmund is when the message carried by Oswald from Goneril, detailing the intention to slay Albany, i...

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Only two things separate the modern castes from the originals, and the things that separate them are only words. ... The folks that decided to not flaunt their high position they lived normal lives doing things such as being tax collectors or actors pretty much anything they wanted. ... The third leading station did not have time for things as tournaments for brides they were to busy working and managing fields. ... Hated so much and considered so impure, members of the caste would carry "clappers- as to warn off any high caste group of their whereabouts so they may not be polluted. ... They a...

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The way in which the family functions can be discerned from the implications of the way the characters act towards each other, and in the things that they say. ... This is effective as it highlights the discontent that is carried by the female members of the household, but also provides valuable insight in to why, if the characters dislike father so much, they remain with him. Furthermore, with Sammy we are given a glimpse into the conflict that surrounds the men's lives - the conflict between what they want to do and what they are bound to doing. ... The effect of the characters c...

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She said give it chance to women to empower that they can successes. ... Other than this I found that there were a lot of things which really oppressed women, such as, If a woman was widowed, she would always have to wear a white sari (costume), eat vegetarian meals, cut her hair short, and never re-marry. ... Even if they are engineer or doctor they have some resposebility over to there family. Back in old days women are attends to be a house wife, men to be a bread winner, and son has to suppose to carry out there family. support his mother and father, after he grown up. ... They are: a...

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One opinion Bronski makes clear is that he supports marriage between lesbians and gay men, but also states that he does not understand why they want to get married. ... However, Bronski also states that for gay marriage activists, "marriage carries the gold seal of approval," and that no matter how fruitful or loving a relationship is between a lesbian or gay couple, "they are, by definition, not as good as marriage" in their eyes (Bronski, 688). ... Aside from his opinions, Michael Bronski also proposes a suitable alternative to same- sex marriage that can provide the acti...

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To try to fix their problems they have a few kids thinking kids will draw them closer together, but they are only torn apart. When they finally divorce, the kids are put through a tough decision of whom to live with. ... If I try to carry on a normal conversation with her we don't talk for more than five minutes and we are out of things to say. ...

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"They eat, sleep, and breathe for one thing - making it."" ... They are not comfortable with him calling them out on their materialistic ways and pointing out that none of those things matter when you leave this world. The parish sits in the pews with their rose colored glasses on, unwilling to see things as they really are. ... The reader sees that Willie has figured out how terribly wrong things are in Linden Hills. ... He eventually brought back a young wife, whose name is not even mentioned, who gave him a son to carry on his father's work in the morgue and the building up of the ...

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At the end, Janie discovers that one must do two things for themselves; they have to go to God, and they have to find out about living for themselves. ... Black women, being the lowest, must carry on the work that the black man doesn't want to do. ...

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