... able to provide a marriage partner with immigration to the United States. The U.S. Government today however grants visas yet does not recognize same-sex marriages as legal for immigration into the country. The advantages of gay marriage are several and becoming more prevalent as the states of Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey and California continue to ratify their own series of gay marriage rights for their citizens. It ... is unlikely than gay marriages will have the full rights of heterosexual marriages in every state of ... the union for at least a generation or more however. The disadvant...

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... whom she looks at differently and has different emotions for. Throughout her life Edna feels the need for attention from all men. This explains why she marries Leonce Pontellier, her deep feelings for Robert Leburn, and her sexual affairs with Alcee Arobin. Because her husband spends most of his time away from home on business trips ... , Edna is left with a great deal of time for herself. Leonce spends little time worrying about family matters. He constantly criticizes Edna and only cares about money and his own ... has a history of being very close to married women. With Edna his feelin...

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Gertrude's character in the first half of the play seems to be aweak character.though it has itys importance, as her actions play an important part in the life of her son, hamlet. gertrude, in the first half on the play, is a woman who seems to have no opinion of her own and is less intelligent than a queen is expected to be.for example her hasty marriage after her husband, king hamlet ... 's death, and that also with her husband's brother, turns her own son against her and she loses her respect as a mother in the eyes of hamlet ... .if she would have been intelligent, she would not have showe...

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... current marriage and how I would have reacted if I were to have been put into the same situation as Mrs. Mallard. In my perspective, I believe Kate Chopin wanted each of her readers to compare her story to his or her own relationships as he or she read "The Story of an Hour." The story seems to have been written back in a time when divorce was not an answer ... awkward situation. She was a woman portraying to be in mourning on the outside, but deep inside she felt as though the cage she had been living in had been opened and she could now roam "free" (11). Her marriage felt very constri...

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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan The novel, The Kitchen God's Wife is a true-life story told in flashbacks, by a mother (Winnie) to her daughter (Pearl). She relates the incidents that had occurred in her life when she was in China. The story begins with the memories of a six-year old, about her mother who she loves intensely. At such a tender age she experiences the pangs of separation when her mother suddenly disappears from her life. Till her marriage to Wen Fu, Winnie lives in Tsungming Island where her treatment is no better than that of an orphan. Despite all the sufferings that Winnie ...

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... can be loyal to his wife. This made Abbie jealous that John wanted Elizabeth more than her and soon her hatred grew and grew. But Elizabeth was still angry with John and had the same feelings for Abbie. Soon after all the accuzations began, Abbie had Elizabeth accused of witchcraft. This was an action taken out of a ... suffer for his doings. This also caused him to hate Abbie for what she has done. John then takes his own actions for the situation by threatening Abbie to tell the truth. She never gives in due to her desire to have John alone to herself. He now hates Abbie with a passion....

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... ", Maya is an Indian woman who immigrates to the United States at the age of nineteen. She only remembers a little of her childhood, but what happens to her grandmother and her great-aunt still has impact on her. She recalls "her grandmother had been married off at the age of five in a village now in Bangladesh. Her great-aunt had been burned to death over a dowry problem" (102). These ... "all Indian men are wife beaters" (101), we can see that Maya does not like Indian men and does not get along with them well. Her strong resistance to Indian men also influences the way she chooses her...

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... by risking himself. In Act I John sees Abigail as a child but later in Act III he does not see her as a child because he wants her persecuted. The reason why John sees her as a child at one point and a woman at another point is he doesn't want to remember that he committed ... adultery. When he sees her as a woman he wants to acknowledge it to hurt Abigail to protect his wife even if it involves taking himself down with her. Therefore, John saves his wife for his own ... sin but still pays the consequences for his sin. In conclusion, John ... Proctor tries to see the good in adultery ...

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... on An-mei, who lives with her grandmother because her mother has been disowned. When An-mei is nine, her grandmother dies; and An-mei leaves with her mother to live in the home of a wealthy man and his other wives. An-mei learns how her mother was forced into a dishonorable second marriage and why she has no control over her own life. Her mother's subsequent suicide provides An ... -mei a better life. As an adult An-mei comes to San Francisco. She and her husband have seven children, including ... Rose. Rose marries Ted, a dermatologist, who has an affair and divorces her. Rose is overw...

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... in pursuit of love. First the mother marries for love, and the love fades. She gains children from her marriage, but she can not love them. Nowhere in her life can she find love. She rejects the closest thing to love, her young son Paul. Her feelings toward her children, especially Paul, are exemplified when her children are around. She feels the centre of her heart go hard. Everyone thought of ... her as a great mother who loved her children, but only she knew that ... her heart was a hard little place that could ... ...

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... on reading it I found what seemed to be an inconsistent character. Nora, arguably the protagonist of the play, is an unrebeling and an extremely submissive wife of a bank manager. She is someone who apparently has no mind of her own and for eight years has done only what her husband has asked her to do. In one day this shy wife turns into a clear-minded un ... - emotional person who unbelievably leaves her husband and her children - a change / transformation too big in too short a period to swallow. Nora's qualities until the end of the play are similar to women of ... how nice it was ...

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... be repelling as is possible. However, Dolores has a thoroughly resilient nature; and although it takes her quite some time, she drags herself from the pit of despair (not to mention overindulgence). While most kids her age were dealing with the magnetic personality of Paul McCartney, Dolores was fighting with the effects of divorce, rape, and mental illness. "Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account ... mother, or that they once weighed 236 lbs. It would be more difficult still to keep from them the fact that you searched them out, and got to know them by stealing your roommate...

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... superior to the people around her. She strives not only to be better than her sons, but also to the general society. An example of this is whenever she neglects everyone's true feelings about the wedding as long as everything goes through with what she has planned. She never once asked him if he really wanted to marry Alizon. She just took the matter into her own hands ... and hoped for the best. Make sure to ... make it evident that Margaret would do anything for her way. Margaret's character should be very calm. In this scene, she never gets excited about any of ... ...

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... distrust of the man who claimed to be her husband. She feels led into sin by him and the fact that he genuinely loves her is a matter for further despair. Through his love he has betrayed her and led her even more deeply into sin. And so her love turns to hatred of the betrayer. Love has little chance of surviving against the intensity of her concern for her own purity and ... clarity of conscience. For her there can be none of the excuses that we might make: that she did not intend wrong-doing, that ... she was led into it, that it was not really her fault. If Bertrande wants ... ...

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... bad wife who was worthy of being crucified. First Elizabeth revealed her dishonesty by immorally lying in a courtroom. Then she attempted to sway her own husband into lying to the entire community. Finally, when her husband gallantly passed away, Elizabeth selfishly remarried. All together Elizabeth Proctor was dishonest, conniving, and selfish. The first bout of dishonesty which Elizabeth displayed was when she lied ... to the court. When asked about the affair that her husband had with Abigail Williams, she completely ... showed she was a bad wife who was dishonest. She began by bein...

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... that she was making solely to meet my demands. My mother was unfortunate in love. She had failed her first marriage, and her subsequent boyfriends never brought luck in her life. She devoted her whole life for me and the others but never had a life of her own. At present, I look back at those times, and grasp how difficult it must have been for my mother to ... live the way she has lived and raise me the way she has raised me. But instead of getting caught up in her emotions, she had defeated her obstacles and put me as her aspiration, and I was ... her priority. I am still at the age ...

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... . Ann has prior feelings for Steven from when she was still single. It appears that Ann secretly thinks of Steven as her prince charming and her savior. Forgetting the fact that she is married to his friend, Steven takes advantage of her weakness and insecurity in order to satisfy his manly needs. She actually brought it upon herself when she showed Steven signs of ... for a shoulder to cry on, figuratively speaking. She is feeling insecure, unsatisfied and not being treated the way she wants to. Steven is tries to fill all of these gaps by reassuring her all the time, or in better words...

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... he has power over important situations in his and his wife's life. I believe John Proctor became a better person and had some power throughout the play. At first I didn't believe that Proctor loved his wife. He cheated on her with Abigail. You don't do that to someone you love. Elizabeth wasn't stupid though, she knew that he had an affair with Abigail. She ... going to jail and being hung if guilty. He had no power to get her out of this. He showed that he wanted to protect her and that he really did love her. He would do anything to save her."I will fall like the ocean on that court! ...

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... offensive as well as defensive depending on the circumstances she finds herself in. One has to be careful about her stubbornness and yielding softness, complementing not contradicting each other. As a wife she has the capacity to love her husband passionately without ever letting it to interfere with her efficiency in her work outdoors. In the kitchen she has her role, big or small, that does ... not make inroad on her profession, arduous or simple. She is a many-faceted personality- a loving mother, an affectionate sister, a sincere friend ... , a good neighbour, a responsive citizen, a...

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... , but she did not seem to truly love any of them. Rather, she seems to take a condescending view of them. Her fourth husband had a bit more of a mind of his own. He was a reveler and kept a mistress. This seems to have made the Wife of Bath quite angry and jealous, although she does not seem to have loved this man, either. (She certainly ... ones. He was young, not rich, strong-willed and disdainful in his love. Yet, this is the only man she married for love, and she continued to love him best - seemingly, because of his strong will, heavy-handedness, and disdain. He was an equal player ...

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Jane in "The Yellow Wallpaper" narrates her own life experiences. Being accused of being mad with the influence of society's expectations of a woman. Locked away in what is a mental prison of her husband and society's expectations on women. Charlotte Perkins narration is an embodiment of the struggles that women faced while seeking mental and/or physical freedom. As this for some would ... be portrayed as a thriller, it is clearly a standpoint on the ... , lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!" (10). The paper, not literally physically restraining her like the gates, repr...

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... roots. Canada's society of today consists of these immigrants, including the Indians. The multi-culture of Canadian society is therefore a topic of "The Diviners". But class and sexuality are also mentioned themes in The Diviners. At her time in Vancouver Morag met Jules, her former lover, and became pregnant. She decided to raise her child on her own and she rent a tiny flat while she was still studying. Jules ... , the father of her unborn, left Vancouver, and he did not know that he ... an Indian musician and got pregnant, but was not married to him and she visited the University in ...

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... black. His children are embarrassed of him and his wife even though she was tolerant and patient at first, no longer wants to be involved in inter-racial marriage. Toward the end of the movie she takes the kids and moves in with her mother to Indiana. George comes to grips with his blackness so he moves into black neighborhood and opens up his ... own insurance agency. Overall this movie paints a good picture of society and the way people deal with race. Even his wife, who at first appeared understanding and stood by her man, was eventually unhappy about her husband being black. His chi...

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... . There is Nancy Lameter-Cass, who concentrates on her role as a dutiful wife and on her husband's happiness, her sister Priscilla, unmarried and managing her father's farm she has the unconventional role and is an outcast in Ravloe, and Dolly Winthrop, who plays a good mother figure not only in her own family and to Eppie but in the community as well. Nancy Lameter concentrated on Godfrey Cass ... being as independent as a woman could be in the time period. Priscilla "likes to see the men mastered"(98), and is often referred to as an Old Maid. Priscilla's being unmarried makes her the o...

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... bit of love or kindness, but I cannot live so: and you have no pity." (33). Here Jane makes her first declaration of independence. She will no longer be considered a secondary member of the Reed household. Jane wants more than anything at this time to be loved and she feels she will not have ... it because of al the things Mrs. Reed told Mr. Brocklehurst, and she displays her temper again, "I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you but I declare I do not love you . . ." (32). ... by Mr. Brocklehurst and his "two-faced" character. Even so, Jane fines her first true friend. H...

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