... supported and extended Lull's (1980) social uses typology. Parallel vs. Interactive Coviewing All couples tended to watch television together rather than alone and even when watching in silence, couples still saw the viewing as an interactive experience. These viewing were deemed to be relationship builders from all participants. Lull's Relational Uses Finucane and Horvath (2000), found that affiliation, communication facilitation, and ... of relaxation together as mentioned by many of the participants. Televisions uses for relationship maintenance and solidarity seemed to be the most p...

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... and reserved and stay out of public/male sphere and thus, out of politics as well. She accepted the view of her time but this view nevertheless became a challenge. She saw the female role as a "supporter of virtue and conscious of her supposed limitations, but also insistent that sex roles be fully reciprocal, that men be as accountable to their obligations ... remained within her sphere, careful not to cross the nature-imposed line between two sexes. (Akers 37) Mary Lincoln, however, with her firm formal education background and her ambitious character, saw these notions in a slightly ...

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... age of the child. The harder the step the more help they gave and the younger the child the more help they gave. When frequency of guidance was observed they saw drastic individual differences, but they concluded that mothers provided less overall guidance but more direct help to their children during the cooking task and all the children seemed to enjoy ... cooking, but parent engagement was not significantly related to parental guidance or frequency of cooking together. After viewing the questionnaires on how frequently the mothers cooked with their children they saw that most mothers...

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... to. She argued this was surfaced in the culture of femininity, which was an important steppingstone towards the culture of marriage regardless of this thought of excluding men. The girls saw a pair being an appropriate. The culture of femininity that had developed between girls emphasised on having boyfriends and means of attracting them. Thirdly, she ... saw that the majority of the girls were bought together as there was a mainstream admiration of media idols, which was ultimately the preparation for having a real boyfriend. The younger girls hung ... ...

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... the story. It is the indication by how they spoke to one another and acted towards one another, however that thought was disrupted by the reality that everyone in town saw Idgie as a man. Nonetheless, whether or not they were lesbians is a choice that the reader can conclude for his or her self. The author does not illustrate any sexual occurrences ... ...

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... these changing demographics, Social Security's protection for woman has shifted since inception. Therefore, without special enactments Social Security has different effects on men and women. After World War II, the U.S. saw the first large increase of women re-entering the workforce. The average amount of time women spent in the workforce was steadily increasing, and by 1984 female workers between the ... ...

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... to sodomize the child, and ultimately being shot by a panicked Clerici. Throughout "The Conformist," Clerici repeatedly tried to repress this obscure incident by denouncing homosexuality, including when he saw Lino at the film's conclusion and called him out publically for both attempted molestation and the murders of Clerici's anti-Fascist target, Professor Luca Quadri, and Quadri's wife, Anna. The ... ...

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... family even more than it already was. In ways you can see how the children are broken still from their parents' divorce, the children's eyes light up when they first saw their parents getting along and it is almost heartbreaking because there is a small part of them that want their parents to be together. In a way you can think of Jane ... ...

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... just to forget about his past and start a new present. As he was introduced to a little girl, named Eppie, his fear of his past memories was gone, as if he saw himself reborn. Eppie, commonly known to him as "people", was his source of the nutrients of sociability. Through growing up with her, he slowly accommodated to the publicity and he ... ...

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... . Not only did he hear from Donny, a close friend and co-worker of Sugiyama who had practiced the art of dancing for 5 years, that dancing is a "Dirty lecher", he also saw the banter reactions of his co-workers when they found out that Donny was dancing. To top it off, there was even a phrase said in the video suggesting that although ... ...

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... father's high status in society. His father's fame and extended absences from home by preaching missions all over the world tore the father-son relationship apart. As a teenager, his parents saw a growing rebellious side of Franklin and sent him to a Christian boarding school to help discipline him. Instead, he broke the rules by sneaking out, getting caught with drugs and alcohol ... ...

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... a literal reading of Christian scriptures. Naturally, the people of Geneva believed that they had thrown away one church only to see it replaced by an identical twin; in particular, they saw Calvin's reforms as imposing a new form of papacy on the people, only with different names and different people. Adultery and divorce was an extreme issue in the new Geneva under ... ...

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... when necessary. I was living in a pseudo-divorced home for as long as I can remember. My sister remembers a time when my parents were in love, but I never had that opportunity. All I saw was an industrious, self-employed architect, lacking the ability to express his emotions while demonstrating his love indirectly through money, food, and other material objects, and an overly-involved mother ... ...

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... firm stand on the permanence of marriage. On one hand Augustine considered marriage as a beneficial social institution, for the continuation of the human kind, but on the other hand he saw sexual desires as a dangerous and destructive human energy. According to Augustine, those who remained unmarried could successfully that was associated with sex. Augustine was understood Paul's word "mysterion" to be ... ...

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... "the wife of Martin Guerre". On the first night Bertrande` found her self in the Guerre household, the day of their marriage. Her spouse Martin physically abused her when they saw each other in the hallway, this was the first time they were both alone, Martin, and I quote "he cuffed Bertrande` soundly upon the ears, scratched her face and pulled her ... ...

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... most important thing in all the world? If I loved them how could I let them go to hell? This world is sick and corrupt, I would spend my life making sure they saw that so they would not be blinded by it." * Some see is as an "ordinary" sin, in the same leagues as all other incorrect behavior like, lying, cheating, or stealing ... ...

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... to even address these constitutional issues, holding that a marriage license did not need to be issued for what they proposed was not a marriage. In 1970 to 1975 the United States saw the passage of the first statewide and local "gay rights" legislation. This legislation granted "sexual orientation" status and protections, equivalent to those enjoyed by disadvantaged racial and handicapped minorities, based ... ...

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... changing pity, worry, and curiousness about Emily, as well as interjecting subtle opinions that influence how Emily is characterized. The narrator assumes that "after her sweetheart went away people hardly saw her at all,"" not realizing, and thus not revealing until the end that her sweetheart, who is described as "not a marrying man-, never left in the first place, but had ... ...

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... American slave families due to the facts that: the husband couldn't support or take care of his spouse thru goods and services, the husband was hardly around and if lucky saw his spouse twice a week, and the mother took almost all control and care for the children. In the era of slaves, the marriage between a slave husband and wife were completely ... ...

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... the intelligent guy choose to stop and marry another girl, making Bill cease because of his actions, but when a riot between mob and the police comes to a place neraby, he saw Mary in the riot and there is when he realizes to become Bill forever, because she was his true love and that action showed who he really was. Then in ... ...

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... Nora had to resort to deception to borrow the money she so desperately needed. The rule over Norway, by Sweden, made freedom a popular topic of the 19th century. Ibsen, though, saw political freedom and personal freedom as two very different things; "I shall never agree to identify Freedom with political freedom. What you call Freedom, I call freedoms, and what I call the battle ... ...

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... for their families. Women were considered to be virtuous, and sexually passionless, and thus were held to a different moral standard than men. Because of this presumption, most middle-class Americans saw women as the moral guardians of the home, charged with controlling the lustful natures of male family members. In general, sexual passion was seen as a potentially destabilizing force that needed ... ...

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... , they became engaged and Ruth was introduced to the family. Unfortunately one introduction had a less-than desired effect; the eldest son Cody, also scarred by his parents' broken down marriage, saw his opportunity to get even' with his brother. Cody had a ridiculous mindset that Ezra was responsible for most of the things that had gone wrong in his life and consequently ... ...

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... dignified, yet Chaucer says on page 9, line 142: But to speak of her tender feelings: she was so charitable and so full of pity that she would weep if she saw a mouse caught in a trap and dead or bleeding. Here Chaucer criticizes her foolish sentimentality over the sight of a dead mouse. This behavior contradicts the sophisticated and polished way the Prioress ... ...

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... that he was exposed to European culture for the greater part of his life where this type of practice would be unacceptable. A European influence would explain why he may have saw this as a more negative practice whereas it would be considered a sign of wealth and prosperity in African culture. Another point of comparison that was found was the religion of the ... ...

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