Summary of “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” In the essay “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love”‚ Stephanie Coontz surveys the history of marriage throughout the world‚ revealing its historical purposes and the philosophies surrounding it. Coontz gives examples of how once people married for utility‚ necessity‚ and social advantages. She explains how over time and through the changing ideas about love and the sexes that people now marry for love‚ companionship‚ and personal happiness.
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08/30/2008 Summary of “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” In the essay “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love‚” Stephanie Coontz examines the history of marriage around the world and details its transformation from a necessity for the survival of society to becoming a tool for personal fulfillment and happiness. For most of history marriage has been a tool of survival. Romantic love played little or no part in a marriage and was even discourages at times. Even today in some cultures
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chapter “They Aren’t Jellyfish at All”‚ Boylan says that most gender problems are encompassed in the term transgender and that a transexual is a person who does not feel their soul (“spirit”) connects with their body. I also learned that questioning gender starts at childhood and it is not something you just decide; it takes over your entire life. Boylan struggled with gender identity the majority of her life until she took ahold of it. I found that even with all the explanations Boylan gave‚ it is
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"All the Years of Her Life" is a short story about the love a mother has for her son. The son does not appreciate his mother until the night his actions cause her emotional collapse‚ as he realizes the depth of her affection. As the story begins‚ Sam Carr‚ the owner of a drugstore‚ asks his young employee‚ Alfred Higgins‚ if there might be some items in his coat pockets that he wants to leave on the counter before he goes home for the evening. Alfred immediately senses that something is wrong
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Imagine being in love with someone so deeply that you want to spend the rest of your life with that person‚ and ask for his or her hand in marriage. But you aren’t able to because you and your lover are of same sex‚ and live in a state like Texas where gay marriage is prohibited. There is a loophole though‚ you do have the option of traveling one thousand miles to the closest state that allows you to wed. Initially‚ some people may think that’s okay‚ it’s just another adventure in your life right
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traumatic events that stated place in WWI. Erich Remarque brilliantly brings the tragedy into focus for the new generations in his historical novel All Quiet on the Western Front a book about physical and mental battles fought along the trenches of WWI. The story revolves around the early nineteen hundreds a group of young German men who will all join the war after being urged by one of their high school teachers to pursue in being patriotic to their country. The story starts out with nineteen
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Summary Chapter 1: In the first chapter of “the village by the sea”‚ the author introduces the characters and their lives. The eldest sister of this family is Lila‚ the protagonist with her two younger sisters Bela and Kamal and also their brother Hari. Unfortunately‚ their mother is very sick and weak and their father is a drunkard. The family is very poor‚ so to pay their debts‚ their father was obliged to sold his fishing boat and the cow. That means that they couldn’t afford money to the books
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Barber’s decision to spare Torres’ life impacted him discovering that Torres had a secret of his own. ‘Just Lather That’s All’ displays Everywhere we look we see people suffering‚ kids with cancer‚ brain damage‚ or even something as little as a sore throat. Each of these situations are different yet they are all similar. In each of these circumstances the community is there to love‚ help and support. Over that last bit of time this is what I have been focusing on.(over the last couple weeks‚ I have
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Kabra April 14‚ 2009 Jensen Clark B1 Is Love Really Worth All The Effort? There are plenty of fish in the deep blue sea‚ but there is only one which is right for you. “A relationship takes work‚ understanding‚ compromises‚ flexibility‚ forgiveness‚ good communication and much more” (Ariala) for it to really work. Time is endlessly spent doing just the right things to guide it in‚ but in the end‚ is it really worth all the trouble? Studies show that love is one main cause of mental stress‚ so
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Summary of ‘Self Love’ by Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes opens with the idea that all animals live within two sets of perpetual motion. The first being the inborn nature of animals to breath‚ the pulse and course of blood‚ the acquiring of nutrition and the exertion that follows‚ his vital motions. The second animal motions are voluntary‚ to speak‚ move and go. These voluntary motions are fueled by ones thought and imagination and are not always apparent to us. Essentially‚ Hobbes is saying that our
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