Essays on Marriage Page 17

Of the five recognized signifiers of matrimony in Kenyan jurisprudence, three are monogamous – Christian, civil, and Hindu matrimonies. Islamic matrimonies are potentially polygynous, and African customary matrimonies are polygynous. Although the precise word for matrimonies of individual husband/multiple married womans is “ polygyny, ” Africans use the broader term “ polygamy, ” and it…

Growing up as a kid you tend to wonder what love is, and so you ask your parents, what is love? Your parents tell you that love is having a deep affection for someone. When you look it up, the definition of love means, “an intense feeling of deep affection.” As you tend to get…

Imagine an athlete doing his best to improve abilities, training at his maximum and doing even extra sessions to improve his skills and at the end not being able to make the team. Or picture yourself studying four hours a day during the whole semester for English class and getting a C, or even worst…

“And then it occurred to me: What I was staring at was the dark heart of the divide between men and women” (Bartels192). Since the beginning, men and women have been proclaimed as two totally different people because of how they approach certain situations and because their thinking processes are hardly alike. As a result,…

Evaluating Adultery Bonnie Steinbock in her essay “What’s Wrong with Adultery?” starts by quoting the data from studies to show that the number of women who have committed adultery has significantly increased. Despite this increase in female adultery, it is in some degree due to the attitudes changing toward sex and sexuality, but Steinbock thinks…

Views on the Role of a Traditional Housewife Over the years women have tossed away the dust pans and baby monitoring, exchanging both for a career and a paycheck. Nowadays if you’re not economically contributing to the household you’re a waste of space and people begin to question what exactly you are doing to keep…

Some people believe that money, family or any other importances are necessary to them. Others believe that dreams are necessary to them. In the play A Raisin in the Sun, both characters Walter and Beneatha have dreams that felt were important/necessary to them as food and shelter. Walter Lee Younger, one of the main characters…

It had been about five years since we were last here. As we drove the two miles down on North Main Street towards an Osterville restaurant, I observed a distressing sign (or actually MANY signs). The high-end houses and estates-NOT beach houses or bungalows- were up for sale. The number of FOR SALE signs (16…

The complexity of this case makes it difficult, if not impossible, to address this case without appearing to favour one side, at the expense of another. Wang Meilin’s descent paints a bad image of her while Hou Shifei’s decorated military career paints the image of a hero. Her father collaborated with Japanese invaders and betrayed…

According to a study on arranged marriages conducted by Statistic Brain, roughly 53.25% of marriages worldwide are arranged, while 90% of this percentage pertains to the method of marriage in India. What are arranged marriages? An arranged marriage is a type of marriage in which two people, the bride and groom, are selected to be…