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    twenty four, still are not able to fully think about the consequences of their actions. People need to learn to look forward into the future and decide if they see themselves living their entire lives with the individual whom they want to marry. A marriage is a commitment. In my opinion, once a person marries an individual, they need to understand that they have to devote themselves to making the relationship last until death. This leads me then to ask myself. What happens, after life on earth, when

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    Argumentative Essay Arranged Marriage Vs Love Marriage Marriage is a relationship that bind of a spouse in formal event and registered by law as to declare a husband and wife. Marriage is key to form a family into larger as a basic unit in social system. Marriage also bind of the emotional relationship where both spouse are sharing their life together as to form a family. It is the joining of two people in a bond that putatively lasts until death, but unfortunately in a real life is increasingly

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    What causes people to contemplate marriage? Many would like to believe the answer is love, but that is not always the case. People who think of an ideal marriage would think of two people loving each other and sharing a personal bond or goals together. Marriage is usually defined as the legally or formally recognized union of two lovers as partners in a personal relationship. This suggests there is an actual connection between two people in marriage, but do people actually consider this when committing

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    Marriage, the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a relationship, is not taken seriously by many individuals in the recent years which results in an increasing divorce rate. This is attributable to people rushing into marriage and not knowing all the obstacles they are going to face. This assignment exemplified all the marvellous and inadequate things marriage can bring to an individual. I learned in this assignment that deep love is not the only factor that contributes

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    has numerous types of marriages which also shows how the gender roles were at her time at her time and how people try to fit in society. Although the novel persuasion has its level of romance and gender roles it mostly shows how the characters try to adapt the society in class boundaries and find their happiness at the end. The type of marriages in the seventeenth century is seen through the novel persuasion and readers can see how it is like through it. Marriage plays a strong role in

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    Jane Austen ensures that marriage remains a central part to the main plotline throughout the novel. Through the character Elizabeth as a literary tool, Austen is able to use her in order to portray her own feelings on marriage. In the novel, the opinion that comes through is that she is of the opinion that marriage should only take place on the basis of love. This is obvious through the failings of those who marry for something other than love, and Darcy and Elizabeth’s success. The central plot

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    Together Before Marriage Should we consider moving in before getting married? In the New York Times Magazine, the article The Downside of Cohabiting before Marriage states that “In 1960, about 450,000 unmarried couples lived together. Now the number is more than 7.5 million. The majority of young adults in their 20s will live with a romantic partner at least once, and more than half of all marriages will be preceded by cohabitation”. (1) Considering moving in with your partner before marriage you will

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    I remember one time, my wife and I gotten into a big argument, that both of us did not want to speak to each and we gave each other the silent treatment. Worthington (2005) states the importance for communication in marriage, “People communicate to meet their needs. High on the list of needs is giving and receiving love. It is precisely that need in which troubled couples are deficient.” According to Gary Chapman (2008) one of the reason why married couples do not communicate is because resentment

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    (Child marriage)Tthat being said ,an ancient worldwide custom, usually a formal or informal union of a child <18 years of age with another individual is characterized most formally as a child marriage. This can also be characterized as “early marriage” and “child bride”; even though these two terms are vaguely used for the most part. An early marriage does not specifically imply that a child is being wed, in other words; what would be considered an early marriage for one person could be the opposite

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    Which such close knit families in India how is marriage conducted and how does that differ from American marriages? There are various differences between American and Indian marriage customs. For example: in America, the ceremony is one day, with corsages presented to the guests of honor, and the couple exchanges ring; afterwards, birdseed is thrown. In India, it is a multi-day ceremony with garlands presented to the guests of honor; instead of rings, a mangala sutra - cord with gold pendants - is

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