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…on their own and not have it planned for them. They can’t be told how to live there lives in order to succeed. To succeed, we need to learn from our own mistakes, and live with the weight of our decisions. This is exactly what Janie did in her marriage to Logan. She…

…decisions. This is exactly what Janie did in her marriage to Logan. She did as she was told, or rather, expected to do. Janie didn't want to marry Logan, but if it made her grandmother happy, then by all means, why not give it a shot. If it meant that she'd…

…of China especially face this “ideology” or culture in, what seems the crudest sense. Only as of lately, have women in China been able to hold positions higher then that of the domestic duties and slowly gaining equality, if not respect among the opposite sex…

…' and the Changing Functions of the Imaginary." New Literary History. 27.3 (1996) : 415-457 Nevid, J.S., Rathus, S.A., Greene, B. Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World. Prentice Hall: New Jersey, 2000. 355. Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England…

…of individualism and capitalism. Emma exists as a text enmeshed in this debate and presents a tenuous equilibrium upholding social stability. Correspondingly, Clueless creates a guideline for proper sexual relations in a society both obsessed with sex and terrified…

…followed with a gesture of eye opening and head nodding by both sexes. This made me take a mental picture of my surrounding and ponder what I saw. Surprisingly, the “punks” at Hot Topic were right: they all looked and acted exactly the same, but, why? Well…

…explains his views about Vermont court’s rulings concerning the rights and marriage of gay men and women. He stands up for his ideas that the same rights should apply to everyone. Talley says that many arguing against the Vermont court make it sound like being…

…. The novel Eat a bowl of Tea by Louis Chu, distinctively describes a young Chinese couple living in New York’s Chinatown during the 1960’s, whose marriage involves numerous conflicts of unfaithfulness, deception, and extreme dishonor reflected upon not only…

…Arabia. The type of marriage that Islam legitimized was, like its monotheism, deeply consonant with the sociocultural systems already in place throughout the Middle East. Within Arabia, patriarchal, patrilinial, polygynous systems were by no means starkly…

…Prologue. In the Wife's opening lines, and throughout her Prologue, she presents herself as a representative of experience, 'attempting to do away with authority all together, setting up a heterodox doctrine of marriage based on female supremacy to replace…