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    Gay Marriage

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    The issue of gay marriage remains controversial. Some people think that this trend has adverse effects on the society while others believe that it is seen as a natural trend and right for people to choose this type of marriage. My essay will discuss causes and effects of this problem. First‚ gay marriage is the result of psychological‚ legal‚ economic and biological effects. Medically speaking‚ if someone is born to be gay‚ the tendency is that he will not change his nature and want to live with

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    Hala Bchara Outline Essay 4 I. Introduction A. Thesis: The Gay marriage is wrong and we should be canceled B. Preview 1. Family 2. Religion 3. Culture 4. Social II. Gay marriage prevents family forming society‚ and consequently it leads to the extinction of human being on earth (argument) A. We can do LGBT adoption by law  (Opposing) B. If being gay is an option‚ more and more people will take it and it will end up hurting society (refute).

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    Teenage Marriage Teen marriage is typically defined as the union of two adolescents‚ joined in marriage from the age range of 14–19 years old. Until the late 20th century‚ teen marriage was very common and instrumental in securing a family‚ continuing a blood lineage and producing offspring for labor.[1] Many factors contribute to teen marriage such as love‚ teen pregnancy‚ religion‚ security‚ family and peer pressure‚ arranged marriage‚ economic and political reasons‚ social advancement‚ and cultural

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    Katha Pollitt counters arguments against marriage between homosexuals in her essay “What’s Wrong with Gay Marriage?”. I think the main purpose of this essay was to convince the reader that there is absolutely nothing wrong with gay marriages. The author starts her essay with a question because she disagrees that gay marriage threatens the so-called institution of marriage. Pollitt jumps from one argument to another and looks at the institution of marriage from various perspectives‚ such as history

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    What is child marriage? Child/Early marriage refers to any marriage of a child younger than 18 years old‚ in accordance to Article 1 of the Convention on the Right of the Child. While child marriage affects both sexes‚ girls are disproportionately affected as they are the majority of the victims. Their overall development is compromised‚ leaving them socially isolated with little education‚ skills and opportunities for employment and self-realisation. This leaves child brides more vulnerable to

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    Arrange marriages Very few people in Western cultures enforce or even endorse arranged marriages. The thought of having your life partner picked out by your parents can be repulsive to many young adults because you’re the one who has to live with the person you marry for your whole life not anyone else. It is a process that is born of free will‚ choice and many believe‚ should be the sole privilege and right of the individual seeking a partner. But for Eastern societies‚ arranged marriages are not

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    Sex and Marriage

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    Sex and Marriage The issue of premarital sex has been constantly debated over the course of time. Frankly‚ the reason that so many people have moral issues against premarital sex is resulted from religious or cultural bias. To Christians‚ premarital sex is sin. To Buddhists‚ if sex is consensual‚ condoned‚ and non harmful towards other‚ it does not matter whether it occurs within the borders of marriage. To me‚ a believer of no religion‚ it is a personal decision. Similar to becoming a follower

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    society for a very long time. In fact‚ one of the only other human conditions that outdates it is marriage. With both concepts being so old‚ it should come to no surprise that the two have crossed paths. In 1996‚ the Defense of Marriage Act was passed. This act revised the definition of marriage to “a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.” Later‚ in 2004 a surge of gay marriages brought national attention to the subject once again. This sparked an argument that has continued

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    “Arranging a Marriage in India” 2/1/2013 At first Nanda was against the whole arranged marriage idea she says “Had anyone tried to arrange my marriage I would have been defiant and rebellious”(pg128) and I don’t blame her for thinking that way because in this American society we’re taught to get to know a person then to “fall In Love” but once she got to India and talk to many young well educated women she figure out why arrange marriage wasn’t that bad one of the girls even said “My marriage is too

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    Arranged marriages were very common throughout the world until the 18th century. Typically‚ marriages everywhere were arranged by parents‚ grandparents or other relatives. Some historical exceptions are known‚ such as courtship and betrothal rituals during Renaissance period of Italy[16] and Gandharva marriages in Vedic period of India. In China‚ arranged marriages (baoban hunyin‚ 包辦婚姻) - sometimes called blind marriages (manghun‚ 盲婚) - were the norm before mid 20th century. A marriage was a negotiation

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