Physical Punishment Does Not WorkPhysical punishment is something that has been argued by parents, doctors, and teachers for years. Many parents feel that the child is theirs and they should be able to do what they want. Some parents think that a child is a blessing and should be treated with lovi...

Both a woman's desire for sovereignty in marriage, as well as the moral and logical correctness of female supremacy in matrimony are two themes that pervade and define Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The following essay will explore within "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and...

In a recent court decision, a mother making $6 an hour working less than 30 hours a week ($8,600/year), was granted physical custody of her son, yet the father, making $45,000 a year, was denied. Knowing the details of this case, how did the courts ever decide that this mother could provide a finan...

Adultery Adultery is one of the leading causes of divorce in the United States. A person's life is impacted on so many levels. Adultery can cause emotional, physical, and spiritual distress not only to the persons committing the act but to others around them. ...

Cyber Sex What is Cyber Sex? Cyber Sex is the act of having sex or making love, between two or more people, in a chat room or in e-mails, without ever hearing the voice of the other. For example, two people meet in a chat room. They find out they have similar interest and start to like ea...

Cyber Sex Cyber Sex is the act of having sex or making love, ... Cyber Sex Cyber Sex is the act of having sex or making love, between two or more people, in a chat room or in e-mails, without ever hearing the voice of the other. For example, two people meet in a chat room. They find out they ha...

From the past to the present people all over the world live together. Whether living as a couple that's in a relationship without marriage or a couple in a marriage. More couples today are getting a divorce compared to years earlier. There are many different reasons couples may get a divorce. ...

One indication of the protagonist's oppression is in the first sentence where she is named "Mrs. Mallard". Her husband is given a first name, but the protagonist's first name isn't revealed until much later in the story; she is only referred to as the wife of Brently Mallard. Later, as she is p...

No one can deny Andrew Marvell¡s ¡§To His Coy Mistress¡ and John Donne¡s ¡§The Flea¡ are two beautiful carpe diem poetries using many creative metaphors, personifications and vivid imagery. Despite both poems have the same underlying meaning of making merry while one can, their metho...

Patriotism Through Their Eyes An interpretive paper on Yukio Mishima's Patriotism Generally, the western culture's view of the relationship between a man and his wife in a Japanese culture is pretty narrow. Typically their view of the women is that they are very submissive and quiet ...

PRIDE AND PREJUDICEThe Five MarriagesIn the novel Pride and Prejudice, five couples decide to marry for various reasons. Elizabeth and Darcy unlike the other couples marry for love, while others marry for physical attraction, social status happiness and necessity. Various quotes through out the book...

Chillingworth's Desire Although Roger Chillingworth's zealous desire to seek out Hester's secret lover is justified, he crossed the boundary of human realm with his demonic sphere of soul possession. Hester, who is scared of him, asks, "Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the f...

In Cry, The Beloved Country, heroism is not found in one person but in two people, Absalom and the girl. Absalom has the desire to change his life after a horrible Experience, and the girl changes her life without the process Absalom is forced to go through. The different characterist...

How are the characters of John the carpenter, Alison and Nicholas established in the Miller's Tale? Within the Miller's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer, we are told the tale of a carpenter, John, and the affair between his wife, Alison, and his lodger, Nicholas - these three being the key cha...

In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour", Mrs. Mallard, is imprisoned by her marriage, society, and her conscience. Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour", depicts a social situation of the times, a woman, a prisoner to her husband. Chopin is known for her works that ...

"And God proceeded to create the man in his image, male and female he created them. Further God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful and become many, and fill the earth and subdue it (Genesis 1:27-28)." Now imagine that the passage read, God created man and man. The passage does not have ...

Unfeasible Beings With DistinctionAll people of this world are different in some way or another. This is a fact. No two people are alike, nor do any beings on this earth contain the same exact physical features, but in this, personality traits are shared. Many desire to succeed, to encounter love...

David M. Buss, Ph.D.His main area of study has been human desires, what people want when they are looking for a husband or wife. To research this, he surveyed over ten thousand people in thirty-seven cultures on six continents. What his findings show is that men tend to choose mates more on physic...

IVF is a technological development design to assist couples who are physically infertile and wanting a child. The IVF treatment was originally designed to assist or treat parents unable to conceive naturally. Why should it now be made available to those who chose not to become pregnant the natural w...

In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and "The Storm," the implied attitude for each short story is the corruption of marriage. In each story both wives share the same soiled qualities of being concerned only with themselves, deceiving their husbands and acting indecisively. Selfishness played a r...

In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel recounts the horror of witnessing his own father physically disintegrate after they together have endured so many months of suffering in Nazi death camps. During the last days of his father's life in a death camp, Elie desperately tries to comfort his father by tell...

The submissive role that many women assume in marriage is a familiar controversy among most societies; a role so common that it is often expected of a female to live "under the thumb" of her husband. Why, with all of the advances in equal rights and the recent progression of female partic...

Mrs. Minnie Wright was suggested as the murderer in the play Trifles although the action of the murder, nor Minnie and John were ever seen in the play. She was guilty in men¡s view while innocent in ladies¡. She did not live in a very cheerful place. From the beginning of the play, we understood ...

As you may have read in my history article, my school routinely made us listen to teachers and speakers tell us why sex was a bad thing. Now, if you're a Christian proponent of the "no premarital sex" stance, I've probably just triggered you to say, "We don't think that sex is bad! We think that it'...

William Shakespeare deals with the issues of love throughout "Sonnet 116" in the traditional English sonnet method. Shakespeare displays what love is and is not throughout the three quatrains. He makes his point in the ending couplet. Love is ever pure and strong when it is based on true l...