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    Arranged Marriage

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    Arranged Marriage A recent article describes some of the benefits and pitfalls to arranged unions. First‚ parents who favor arranged marriages believe that they are more experienced and objective than their children. They will be able to make better‚ less impulsive choices regarding a compatible‚ and often financially supportive mate than their child will. In many cultures‚ disobeying the arrangement can lead to disownment and exile from the family. But for the children‚ arranged marriages can cause

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    FAMILY

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    Concept of a Family Family is defined as a group of people related by blood‚ marriage‚ or adoption living together. Remember: We are not defining families by how many‚ and what kind of people they have. We define them by what they do. Definitions Spouse - someone who is married: a husband or wife Common-law partner - used to describe a relationship between a man and woman that is considered to be a marriage because the man and woman have lived together for a long period of time Functions of the

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    Gay Marriage

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    Gay Marriage (Research Paper) Andrés Diez 12°B #10 Should there be a constitutional amendment that allows gays and lesbians to legally marry? All around the world‚ gay people are struggling to be approved legally and by society; however‚ their fight is definitely working‚ because this union is becoming more and more accepted globally. That doesn’t mean they should stop now‚ the battle for these rights is just beginning. Homosexual activities and relationships exist since human origins

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    Interfaith Marriages

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    Interfaith marriages are rising fast‚ but they’re failing fast too: When Joseph Reyes and Rebecca Shapiro got married in 2004‚ they had a Jewish wedding ceremony. He was Catholic but converted to Judaism after they married‚ and they agreed to raise any children in the Jewish faith. However‚ after their daughter Ela was born‚ Reyes began to worry about the fact that she had not been baptized. "If‚ God forbid‚ something happened to her‚ she wouldn’t be in heaven‚" he told me. Today‚ two years after

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    Le Couple Chez Beckett

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    Le couple dans En attendant Godot et Oh les Beaux Jours Introduction Du latin copula‚ lien‚ le mot couple désigne autant l’union de deux personnes unies par amour que‚ par extension‚ la réunion de deux êtres. En rupture ou se constituant‚ fatal ou complice‚ le couple‚ étendu à sa seconde acception‚ est une figure propice à représenter la nature fondamentale des relations humaines et la condition humaine. C’est ainsi que ce thème occupe‚ depuis ses plus anciennes apparitions‚ la littérature

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    Marriage and Divorce

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    Marriage and Divorce Hmmm… a subject I happen know a little bit about first hand. I am happily newly-married my first marriage and hopefully my last‚ to my best friend‚ my high school sweetheart and the love of my life. What exactly is a marriage? I believe everyone has their own definition or idea of a marriage based on traditions and family and values and religion. A marriage usually happens when two people are very much in love and decide they want to spend the rest of their lives together. Wikipedia

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    Marriages in Nigeria

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    Two major types of marriage exist in Nigeria: monogamy‚ a marriage of one man to one woman‚ and polygyny‚ a marriage of one man to two or more wives. In most cultural groups in Nigeria‚ traditional marriage is usually an arrangement between two families as opposed to an arrangement between two individuals. Accordingly‚ there is pressure on the bride and bridegroom to make the marriage work as any problem will usually affect both families and strain the otherwise cordial relationship between them

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    traditional medicine

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    life. In fact‚ the number of patients who have used traditional medicine to cure their health is increasing. This essay will examine some of the arguments for and against alternative medicine. There are two main ideas in support of alternative medicine. The first important arguments is herbal medicine is from nature. Therefore‚ there are many advantages such as it has less side-effect than Western medicine. One other reason people use traditional medicine is that it has been used for a long time.

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    Contemporary Marketing

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    The role of price affect in behavioral pricing research: Essays on the antecedents and consequences of consumers’ emotional responses to price information DISSERTATION of the University of St. Gallen‚ Graduate School of Business Administration‚ Economics‚ Law and Social Sciences (HSG) to obtain the title of Doctor Oeconomiae submitted by Klaus Peine from Germany Approved on the application of Prof. Dr. Andreas Herrmann and Prof. Dr. Torsten Tomczak Dissertation no. 3431 Difo-Druck

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    In today’s Western Culture‚ marriage has come to mean many different things. “The ways in which we refer to marriage‚ and especially the terms we favor‚ reflect our views of it” (Grün‚ 2006‚ p. 163). Since the turn of the century‚ divorce rates have been higher than ever before and many individuals wonder why. It is estimated that roughly 50% of the marriages in the United States result in divorce. Society has created this do-over mentality that gives many people an “easy out” for their decisions

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