Marriage Book Reviews Samples For Students

We think of the Renaissance of a time of humanism, creativity and change. Women are depicted more often in the arts of this time, dressed beautifully and looking happy. Unfortunately, this was not the case for women of this era. In spite of radical changes in philosophy and religion, women remained at the bottom of the social latter. In Florence, women had no legal rights and was at the mercy of her family and later her husband. Laws were specifically written to control women, how they dressed, defining what was their personal property and enforced by notaries of the government.
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Book Review: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Rating: 4.0/5
‘The Happiness Project’ discusses a systematic approach to make your life happy. The author presented the book in different stages. Preparation stage includes your identification of things that brings joy and satisfaction to you, and also why and how you develop anger and onus. The second stage, making the resolutions, is the important one which lets you to recognize certain elements that boost your happiness. Finally, ‘keeping your resolution’ depicts a very interesting part.
Gretchen Rubin presented this book as her own experience in changing her life. It is happiness project that reflects the understanding of the ...

Book review – Men are from Mars, women are from Venus

Introduction
“Men are from mars, women are from Venus” is a user’s guide for married couples to understand each other better, and transform their differences to complement each other to enjoy their long journey together as man and wife. John Gray, renowned relationship counselor and the author of the book, views men and women as having inherently dissimilar values and views about life. In marriage people often expect the opposite sex to be more like themselves. Each desires the other to want the same thing and feel the same way. For example, the husband takes for granted that ...

The writer of the book “The Prophet” is Khalil Gibran. Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese national. After spending his early years at Lebanon, he along with his family moved to United States. Khalil Gibran from very early age knew different languages like Arabic, English and few more. The credit goes to her mother who was very helpful and supportive in learning. Khalil Gibran was not only a poet and writer but a very good painter as well. He learned painting form France and his thoughts were transferred on paper by him in the form of short stories. Mainly his work is in ...

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The story starts with stage directions that commence the five main characters of the play. It was in a depressing setting of the scruffy kitchen in an abandoned farmhouse. The setting institutes the melancholy, sympathetic disposition of the play. Additionally, the play situate in the kitchen instead of at the scene of the crime like the bedroom. The play subsists in a confidential, familial, and feminine domain relatively than the primarily male communal realm, revealing the focal point of the effort on the women. The main characters originally emerge in a disconnected faction that traces the gentleman into the kitchen. It directly ...

Summary

Ron Deal in his book dating and the single parent (2012) identifies dating as a complex matter for single parents when children are involved. Dating requires consideration of its effects on children. A single parent or the dating partner must be ready to meet the challenges both emotionally and relationally. Deal (2012) provides single parents with solutions from a view of an expert that can help them prepare for dating. His book encourages single parents to consider different perspectives before starting to date. These considerations include whether the dating is beneficial for both children and the single parent at the time ...

Book Report

Gone Girl is a modern book written by American writer Gillian Flynn. The book was published in June 2012 by Crown Publishing Group. Gone Girl became one of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling books and soon hit the best seller list in New York Times. The book is a thrilling novel about a marriage gone terribly wrong which is filled with psychological suspense and raw intensity, with the principal suspense coming from the uncertainty about the major character, Nick, and whether he murdered his wife, Amy. In this book, Flynn tried to explore the psychology and dynamics of a lasting relationship. She admits to ...

- Bathsheba Everdane’s relationships with Farmer Boldwood and Sergeant Troy do not succeed.
- There is no true love between Bathsheba and the two men.
- Although she takes long to realise it, Bathsheba’s true love is Gabriel Oak.
- A good marriage is founded on mutual love between the partners.
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- A marriage should be based on honesty, patience, forgiveness and the willingness to help each other.
- People who plan to marry to ensure that they are both truly in love with each other.
- Relationships ...

This composition presents the relationship issues that arise from Bathsheba Everdane’s relationships with three men Gabriel Oak, Farmer Boldwood and Sergeant Francis Troy. This composition contrasts and compares the three relationships, and the Issues about marriage that people can learn from the novel. The relationships between Bathsheba and Boldwood and Bathsheba and Troy do not work, Bathsheba’s relationship ends in marriage. The love the two have for each other is genuine and they are bound to make it work since each of them is mature and has faced challenges to harden them. The relationship between Bathsheba and ...

Literature:

Memoirs of a Proud Father
“Is he really my son?” I sometimes wonder at the ways of my son, Amir. I had been so different as a child. The best kite flyer, tall and athletic and loved as a football hero! While my son seems to be hiding behind his mother’s books all the time. He doesn’t even enjoy watching football, let alone play it. I observe with a sinking heart that he is easily bullied, and Hassan, who is only living as a servant’s son, defends him and protects him. The most disgusting habit of his is to cry, ...

Our Mutual Friend is a fiction book written by Charles Dickens. It is one of the most known challenging and fictitious works by Charles Dickens. The main character in the book is John Harmon the son of a tycoon who is to marry a certain lady named Bella Wilfer in order to get his inheritance from the father. He refuses his family’s conditions and leaves. When John Harmon comes back, he comes back with a different identity, John Rokesmith and works in a company close to his fathers. When he was away, he drowned and was supposedly reported dead and so no one ...

Book review on the book "Living in Sin?" by John Shelby Spong

Spong, S. J. (1990). Living in sin? A bishop rethinks human sexuality. New York City: HarperCollins

Book Review

Introduction
Noted for his liberal stand on sexuality, Newark Episcopal Bishop, by John Shelby Spong argues with “passion and provocation” that the traditional Christian views on sexes patriarchal prejudice rather than the will of God. He invites readers to “enter the uncertainty of not knowing” and to free the bible form “literalistic imprisonment” as they entertain possibilities like “brothel” ceremonies, services blessing divorce, and rituals specifying lesbian and gay partnerships. In his view, Spong sees that all this is supplementing traditional marriage, ...

The historical context of the trial and eventual execution of Mary, queen of Scots is of quite significant for those who take interest in English history and particularly for them who want to know about what happened in the discourse of history when the Holy Roman Catholic Church split into two divergent branches i.e., Catholic and Protestant. At that time, i.e. in 1543, Henry VIII of England decided to set up the Anglican Church and to break the religious ties with the Catholic Church. Rather than to call the English Church as both Catholic and Protestant, it was defined ...

Book Review: Gerson, K. (2011). The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family in America.

ABSTRACT

In The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family in America, Kathleen Gerson conducted life-history interviews with 120 young adults age 18 to 32 from a variety of regional, ethnic, social class and racial backgrounds. She wanted detailed information about their experiences growing up in families in recent decades, during a time when a unprecedented revolution in gender roles, sexuality and family and work life was occurring. During this time, more mothers with young children ...

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Intercultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls
Intercultural Marriage : Promises and Pitfalls, Dugan Romano. Intercultural Press. 2008, 3rd ed., rev. ed. 233p.
Marriage is a union of two people, and also intercultural. It can be called intercultural because two people with diverse backgrounds and experience bond together with their experiences, values, and personal eccentricity. Dugan Romano, the author of Intercultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls has been in intercultural marriage for more than 17 years and her experience includes working as a counselor and a trainer. In this book she provides a logical explanation by her extensive work in the field of intercultural ...

Throughout chapters 23-28 of “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte, we are introduced to Jane’s thoughts on the concept of marriage. In chapter 23, Rochester and Jane confess their love to one another. Jane becomes rather nervous about their impending marriage, despite loving Rochester she fears that something will cause the wedding to be called off. She is unwilling to accept her happiness as reality. Jane’s dreams greatly contribute to her fears. She finds it difficult to distinguish reality from her dreams.
In chapter 26, Jane and Rochester are set to be wed when the wedding is ...

A Christian View of Sexuality Within Marriage

Abstract
The Gift of Sex, by Clifford and Joyce Penner, is a comprehensive, Christian educational guide for married couples about sexuality. Divided into a preface and five sections, the book uses Scripture and the authors’ expertise in marriage therapy to offer important information to couples concerning sexuality so that readers may overcome problems or enhance a relationship that is already good. The book educates married couples on Bible-based considerations about sex, physical aspects of sex, and unifying the religions and physical aspects of sex in order to have a more fulfilling relationship with each other. It answers questions, offers exercises, uses anecdotes ...

Dalma Heyn's book Marriage Shock tries to explain why many women are not satisfied in their marriages and why most divorce cases are initiated by women. As the name suggests, the book tries to show the shock that people, women especially get when they get into the institution of marriage. According to Dalma, many women's frustrations in marriage result from the cultural view of what marriage is supposed to be like and what is expected of an ideal wife. After people get married there are unwritten rules in the society that govern marriage and dictate the way in which ...

“Good faith and truthful ignorance”: A case of transatlantic Bigamy

Good faith and truthful ignorance: a case of transatlantic bigamy is a biography of Francisco Noguerol, a Spanish conquistador who was little known during his time. In addition, the book resonates Spain’s attempt at protecting the rights of women in that Era. This is reflected by the Judiciary’s attempt at making sure that the women involved enjoyed their bequeathed rights. Each woman involved in the story had a right of retaining Francisco as their own spouse. This is derived from the fact that each had been legally married to Francesco; despite the incumbent circumstances. Generally, the book revolves around the Spanish ...

Introduction

Pamela’s character is devoid of any taste of sentiment as to be inevitably coarse. She has no sense of her own dignity or of that of any other being. She slowly confronts two challenges, which are social and the truth of Mr. B. depraved past. The author shows the strategy that Pamela uses to plot her scheme, as she behaves like a lady and makes lady Davers believe she is a tart and a mistress. She has sacrificed a lot in order to get married to Mr. B, as the society criticizes her, where she adorns her image with genteel femininity. Because ...

Introduction

Andrew Cherlin’s (2009) account of the ‘Evolution of Marriage’ within the American society in his work Marriage-Go- Round forces readers to stop and contemplate the value of this institution in twenty-first century America; how necessary it is in upholding family values and the effects changing elements has on the institution in determining the way younger America perceive marriage.
In the following pages of this document the writer will offer a book review which will encompass a summary of Cherlin’s work; show how it connects with the course being undertaken in sociology and finally give my personal opinion on ...

Abstract and questions

Consider the story in terms of the Hindu concept of dharma. Narayan does not use the Sanskrit word dharma, but the idea that each character has a duty or destiny which must be fulfilled pervades the book. What is Rama's dharma? What is Sita's dharma? Consider in particular how the marriage of Rama and Sita is restored at the end of the story by divine intervention. What is Hanuman's dharma? Since he is non-human, how does this alter his dharma? What is Ravana's dharma? Since he is a demon, he might fulfill his demon dharma, and yet commit evil as understood ...

The author, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, was an American writer that worked mainly as a playwright in the American theater. He also published novels, poetry, short stories, screenplays, essays, and a great volume of memoirs. He received most of the top theatrical awards for his works on the stage, with A Streetcar Named Desire receiving the great Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Up to date, he is considered among the best known classical writers in the American fields of theatre.
Most of the themes dominant his works (loneliness, desire, sickness, death, alcoholism, depression, etc) are mined from his ...

The book is written by well acclaimed novelist Kevin Brockmeier. The book is collection of total thirteen short stories. The story named “The View from the Seventh Layer” tells journey of a woman named Oliva, who lives in a small cottage on an island. She came to this island at the age of nineteen to pursue higher studies but never went back after realizing that her parents are divorced. She earned her livelihood by selling umbrellas, candies, map and prophylactics to tourist. Because of the daily rain umbrella was the most selling item from her shop.
The author described the ...

Lily Bart is a beautiful young woman and, as with so many who look like her, she makes a smashing first impression on New York society. Despite her extremely modest beginnings, she receives several offers of marriage from eligible bachelors who could have provided quite nicely for her, but she does not accept any of them, holding out for an even wealthier man. However, once she takes the offer to visit Laurence Selden in his private rooms, she blemishes her reputation, and after returning from a cruise with the Dorsets, the rumors about her morality have darkened to include adultery. These second ...

During the 1930s, the Great Depression affected many states leading to major changes in most sectors of their economy. One of the countries that became a victim of the Great Depression was Canada. Owing to this, the issue has attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of this review is to examine the work of one such researcher, Katrina Srigley, in her book, Breadwinning Daughters: Young Women working in a Depression- era City, 1929-1939 (2010). The Great Depression era affected the live patterns of young women in Canada. They experienced a great shift while trying to adapt to the economic changes ...

In reference to how David has been acting, it is clear that he has continuously neglected his role at home and as husband over the many years that he has been married. Based on his previous behavior, it would be absurd to think that he has suddenly has a change in heart just when he realizes that his marriage is falling apart. This is because his speech regarding his change in nature comes just after his wife requested for a divorce over the phone. It is clearly put that he has been selfish and unsuccessful in his career, which he has ...

Chapter 7: Stratification.

Dalton has brought up the issues of social stratification in chapter 7 of his book, ‘You May Ask Yourself’. Social stratification refers to an unintentional drive within the family that determines the future of the family members. It also places members of the society into some economic groups. The society can shape an individual to become what it wants. For example, people from poor families are often associated with poverty and unfortunately most of them end up poor in their life. It known that it is the family where our life starts. Therefore the stratification places each family within a ...

1. The Social Miracle
T. R. Reid moved to Tokyo, Japan, with his family – composed of his wife and their two daughters – where he lived for five years, as an expatriate employee for the Washington Post. He posits that some Asian nations (such as Japan, South Korea, and Singapore ) have built modern societies within the safest environment, providing the best education for the children, and with probably the most stable families on Earth. In Reid’s opinion, this accomplishment is due to the widespread acceptance by Far East countries of the ethical values of Chinese philosopher Confucius. He pointed ...

First published in 1813, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a comic novel of manners. The novel describes the trials and tribulations of the upper middle class English gentry of that time in finding love (Austen, 1813). Although not well known at the time of its publication, this novel and Sense and Sensibility, published earlier, have become highly popular during the 20th century and are now routinely seen on listings of the “100 best novels” or the “100 most read novels” (Donahue, 2013). Austen’s books are known for their feminine view of the world at a time when female ...

Review and Analysis of the book ‘Their Eyes were watching God’ – Presentation of the book’s main thematic plot and its meaning – Review of the book’s writing style and influence on its readers – Exploration of the connections between the book’s main thematic idea and the educational policies – Exploration and research of the book’s connection with the educational field – Exploration and research of the book’s contribution to the teaching methods and the learning outcomes of an educational environment
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Part 1 Information about the author and the book

The book ‘Their Eyes were watching God’ was published in 1937. The time ...

In the past few years, there have been shocking frequencies of sexual and physical aggression in marriages, dating, and cohabitation throughout the United States and other countries of the world. As a result of the high frequency of aggression in relationships, many scholars and researchers have carried out many studies with the intent of understanding the phenomenon. The “Dark side of courtship” is an instance of a book that documents one of the studied on the subject. The authors use qualitative interviews and other data collection methods to explore the negative interactions between males and females who are dating ...

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Review: The Prices of Motherhood
Today the shelves of bookstores appear to be littered with propaganda either glorifying or demoralizing the job of being a mother. It has become less of a true stance in the world, and more of a political debate, standing alongside people who disagree on smoking in public, or abortion. We no longer argue the real issues when it comes to motherhood, but simply pass off whether or not motherhood is “hard” or “worth it” in terms of our own lives. We generalize the rest of the population’s stance based on our own views in terms ...

Introduction

Aristotle, one of the eminent scholars of the times, has regarded humans as social animals. This is primarily because of the fact that humans are dependent on one another for the fulfillment of their needs and wants. Connecting with other people for the accomplishment of social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and physical needs, is indispensable for an individual. This connection and association forms the very basis of a society. Hence, penning it down in a different way, society is imperative for man. Since the evolution of human civilization, individuals have been living in groups with family being the smallest group and the ...

The play Anna in the tropics is written by Cuban – American writer Nilo Cruz. The action in the play revolves around an ageing cigar factory owned by Santiago a man in his late fifties of Cuban origin. The workers in the factory are majorly relatives of Santiago with Cheche, the supervisor being Santiago’s half brother. The lives of the characters in the play are intertwined with the action in the story Anna Karelina and most characters find their mirror in the story. The plot kicks off with the arrival of a new lector in the factory welcomed by Ofelia, Santiago’ ...

A number of writers have contributed a lot of contextual studies to the subject or literature of American family life and cold war era. One of the major contributors in this regard who has also been widely acclaimed is Elaine Tyler May. The aim of this paper is to critically assess the book entitled, “Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era” written by Elaine Tyler May. The aspects that would be focused in the paper include the assertions made by the author in order to illustrate the story of American life in the post-war period. The manner in ...

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The American children have a drastic difference in the quality of their lives and futures due to class differences. Annette Lareau has explored this fact in Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life by utilizing her comprehensive observations. She has presented a clear picture of the American children belonging to poor, working-class, and middle class families. She has highlighted the contrast between various families. She points towards the frantic families that manage the chaotic schedules of their children's leisure activities. She also draws attention to families that have lots of time but minute financial security.
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The remarkable story of The Prime of Miss. Jean Brodie illuminates two interlaced eras; the 1930s when most of the action takes place and the 1960s when it was published. . Most of the novel takes place during the 1930s at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, The book center on the schoolmistress, Miss Jean Brodie and her girls, a small group of students, known as "the Brodie set." The girls are six, junior level, ten year old girls when they became Miss Jean Brodie’s “crème de la crème” and started a two year tutelage with ...

Introduction

The book Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason by Christopher Hibbert take a closer look of the life of King Charles. The book is a biography of King Charles from the begging of his life a simple boy to what he came to be know globally and finally to his shame (treason). Christopher uses his creative mind in his book shed some light on how the kind grew from a simple boy who knew nothing and was very weak in character to a strong man who took the nations to a civil war. The books also take a look at the person who had ...

The book analyses the lives of white females with regard to the harsh conditions they encountered in the slave social order prior to the Civil War. The author focuses on the letters, diaries as well as memoirs of hundreds of planer women and daughters. The book provides dramatic details relating to the day to day life with reference to the mistress and the uncertainty of her liaison situation in the hierarchical setting between the master and slave. Further, the author brings to the fore the challenges stumbled upon by the plantation mistress and makes informing interpretations as regards the ...

While cults have been part of American culture throughout the country’s history, most have emerged during periods of social turmoil. In the early 19th century, America experienced an incredible increase in number of both religious and secular cults although most of them quickly faded away. In The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in the 19th Century America, historians Sean Wilentz and Paul Johnson look at the emergence and activities of a notorious cult that operated in and around New York City. Led by Robert Matthias, the cult briefly flourished during the early 1830s by ...

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Barbara de Angelis “Secrets about Men every Woman should know”
"There is nothing secret, which will not become known" - this old adage comes to mind when you become acquainted with the original and colorful book of famous American psychologist Barbara De Angelis. It is unlikely that the readers have ever held a manual on "How to handle a man”, such a mysterious and incomprehensible creature from another planet. At least, in such a way the author characterizes the stronger sex. Moreover, we must admit, not without reason. There is hardly a woman, even with the extensive experience of ...

SOCI 221 FINAL PAPER

1. List the main points the Pope discussed in the chapter revolving families.
2. Pick one aspect listed in the document and argue the churches position.

Do you agree with the pope/ or disagree?

Explain your opinion.
Abstract
Amoris Laetitia is in the first place a solidarity manifest to the people who feel lost in the family life. Being an admonishment as a matter of form, it yet bears resemblance to a heart-to-heart talk showing compassion, kindness and affinity for humanity. Referring to Gospel as to an unquestionable doctrine, it emphasizes the cordial closeness with every human including those who are far from being perfect. The document ...

The Haunting of the Hill House Shirley Jackson

“The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent (Jackson 1.49)”
The car journey to the haunted house means a lot more than just a road trip. She defies her sister’s rule about taking the family car and going to Hill House and gets out to be on her own after a long time. Eleanor lives a repressed life even after the death of her mother curtailed by her family who smother her and refuse to let her grow up. This act of defiance and the car ride gives Eleanor a sense of freedom. ...

Book Review: Guests of the Sheik

The book entitled Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village, written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, recount the experience the author acquired during a two-year stay in a small village in Iraq. The experience incorporated in the aforementioned book is imperative essentially because offers the reader insights regarding race and ethnicity, kinship and family, and finally religion and morality. This book is accredited subsequent to the fact that the author who had the first-hand experience of events is the one who narrates these events as it unfolds. Apparently, we are predisposed to understanding the way of life in the ...

Abstract

In a comprehensive, reachable way, Jerry Pipes and Victor Lee share their doctrines, faith, and ideas regarding the bedrock of the Church being situated in the strong pillar of family. Their image of family is both inspiring and pragmatic, concluding in an encouragement toward the building of the family church and the preservation of familial spiritual life. Their book Family to Family: Leaving a Lasting Legacy helps their readers understand that they have to go back to a bold and unyielding proclamation of the truthfulness of the Word of God. It clearly explains the nature of the Church's founding, ...

1. Introduction

In her book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, Arlie Hochschild sheds light on the various strategies used by men and women in two-career marriages to manage the pressure of work and the needs of their family all at the same time. Hochschild, who is a professor at the University of California in Berkeley, documents how household work is divided by husbands and wives who both have full-time careers after they are done with their official jobs. Her book basically revolves around the story of eleven couples out of the fifty she had her research associates ...

The famous and world widely recognized short story by well-known Chinese writer Lu Xun, the New Year Sacrifice conveys the distressing but touching story of a young woman with a heart-breaking life ultimately compels her to the outer reaches of the societal ethical standards. The story is neither a radical means nor an artistic inclined piece, but a way for encouraging social modification (eNotes.com). It has a special consideration to the dilemma of women in his time by incorporating in the story significant concepts regarding women’s liberty. The story transpired in the period earlier the Revolution of 1911, a poor Chinese woman is sold ...

What is the civilizational cycle?

Currently the history of Western civilization is coming through its worst times. It fades gradually for the last hundred years. There is a complete stagnation in the economy and culture. Faith in its future falls, idea of democracy no longer seems so attractive. Science has put forward its response on the matter - a new direction in science has established, which explains the process of cyclical development of civilizations. This science is called biohistory.
Each civilization passes a certain stages or lets call them cycles of development: generation, development, flourishing and fading. From the point of view of biohistory, civilizations tend ...

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

The Story Of An Hour is a short story that narrates the time that pass by between the moment protagonist, Louise Mallard, leans of the news that her husband died and later discovers that indeed her husband is still alive. Once she hears of her husband’s death, Mallard perceives herself as a liberated woman but her perceived joy is short-lived.

Symbolism

The troubled heart
The heart trouble that Mallard suffers from depicts a woman’s perceived physical weaknesses. It further represents Mallard’s hesitancy regarding her troubled marriage and her need for freedom. Mallard’s heart illness is the first thing ...

Islamic community treats women in an inferior way and a bad way. However, Muslims argue that they treat women in the best way possible. According to Fatima Mernissi, the author of Beyond the Veil, both notions and assumption are right up to a certain degree. The book covers religious, as well as political problems, faced by women in the Muslim community. Fatima gives the perspective of an insider and gives actual and theoretical accounts of what the women face in the Islamic community throughout the book.
Sexual inequality is the greatest focus of the author where he looks at the ...

Book review

David Copperfield
David Copperfield was born half orphaned - six months after his father's death. In the childhood David was surrounded by love and care of his mother and nurse Peggotty. But his mother married a second time. After the wedding his mother has changed: now she is afraid to caress him and always obeys her husband Mr. Murdstone. When they have settled the sister of Mr. Murdstone, the boy's life becomes completely unbearable. The boy is taught at home, under the angry look of his stepfather and his sister; he grows dull from fear and can not answer ...

Introduction

Research shows that the concerns of sexual stereotypes ends up associated with class and racial differentials in America. There is a need to consider the influences of race and the social status of families on the level of communication about sexuality between teenagers and their parents. The research by Elliot reported in the book entitled “Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of their Teenagers” cuts across different races under varying social status. Elliot reveals how different classes of individual from varying races perceive sexuality and works towards passing the underlying stereotypes to their children. Statistics shows ...

2. The difference between the “common need” and the “common good” is readily apparent in a capitalist, free market society, based on the hierarchy which we use to make decisions. When we work towards a need, matters become utilitarian in a hurry. When we force ourselves to consider a good, the entire calculus changes. The role of philosophy is to give us a mandate to stop serving our short-term interests and to consider the deeper, less visible ramifications of the decisions that we make. Consider, for example, the recent hullabaloo over the statements made by the founder of Chick-Fil-A regarding his own support for ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Introduction

Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger 's book , The Year 1000 : What Life was like at the Turn of the First Millennium , is a short and slightly trivial narrative attitude towards the life of the typical individual in the first millennium. It generally explores the manner in which individuals existed in the year 1000. In truth, Life in this period was very dissimilar from life nowadays. Both the authors employed the famous Julius Work Calendar in describing the Englishmen lives. The Calendar demonstrates the diverse measures of which that labour could perceive. The authors elucidate that the calendar was employed ...

Introduction

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas was written by Douglas, not only as a means to recount his story, but in order to raise awareness about the predicament of the people who suffered from slavery. It was his belief that through his works, people will have a better understanding of the slavery and the need for its complete abolition. Douglas thought that, being a former slave himself, he was in the best position to tell the truth about slavery. Accordingly, the author provided some arguments in his books, a) he argued that slaves must be allowed to ...

Islam in Saudi Arabia

Introduction.
In his book Islam in Saudi Arabia David Commins takes us through the journey of Islam as a religion in Saudi from the eighteenth century up to the twentieth century. Chapter three is titled Wahhabism and the modern state. Wahhabism rose when Wahhab and Ibn Saud signed a pact giving rise to the state of Saudi Arabia. Having been promised power and religious legitimacy by Wahhab, Ibn Saud then pledged to ensure that the teachings of Wahhabism were carried out in the entire Kingdom. In this chapter, we see how subsequent rulers handled crisis through initiating changes like ...

“The Orphan Master’s Son” is by Adam Johnson. It centers on the idea of identity, how it is defined, and who gets to define it for someone. The novel examines the Orwellian life in the Republic of Korea and the influence of media on the setting, especially the western media. Themes of loss and love, incarceration, and freedom, propaganda, lies and truth, North Korean State power and technological surveillance are also covered. It follows the life of Jun Do, an orphan, who surrenders to the oppression from the government of North Korea which is cruel and impetuous. Jun ...

35 Dumb Things Well-intended People Say: Surprising Things We Say that Widen the Diversity Gap by Maura Cullen (2008) provides valuable insight on the choice of words in communicating with people during the course of our daily life. Words have different meanings in different contexts and cultures. So we should know which words are acceptable and which words are offensive, and also the contexts and cultures where they are applicable. Those who want to maintain good personal relationships with people in their social and business circles should take special ...