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    The Filipino people have strange marriage customs. Among the Mangyans in the southern end of Oriental Mindoro‚ courtship takes a romantic flavor. Under the magic splendor of the moonlight‚ young man takes his native guitar and blanket‚ goes to the girl’s hut‚ and sings to her. The girl comes out and goes with him to a forest. There‚ in some secluded spot‚ the man spread out a mat. The girl lies on it‚ while her suitor sits at her side pouring out his feelings in love songs the whole night through

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    Polyandry from Greek meaning “many men” (Bornouw 104) is a form of marriage in which one woman lives with two or more husbands (Ember 344)(Beals 391). This type is quite rare and is practiced under specific conditions. It is found sporadically throughout the world‚ but it is not common in South Asia (Baldimore 370). Polyandry‚ the custom of a woman having several husbands‚ is far less common. One reason is the man’s life expectancy is shorter and male infant mortality is high‚ so a surplus of

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    Marriage in Ancient Rome

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    The Roman institution of marriage has been lauded as being the first purely humanistic law of marriage‚ one that is based on the idea of marriage being a free and freely dissolvable union of two equal partners for life. (Schulz‚ 1951;103) This is quite a simplistic view‚ as there were many differing forms of marriage in Rome‚ from the arranged marriages of the elite to the unions of slaves and soldiers. As we shall see‚ the Romans’ actual expectations of married life and the gains they envisioned

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    Gay Marriage

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    Lejla Cusic Ms. Adams 8:30 AM Class Say Yes to Gay Marriage If all people were to understand that marriage is a sacred union before God‚ then half of the problem with gay marriage would be solved. Believers of the Christian faith are one of the largest groups against gay marriage. In the Christian religion‚ it is considered sinful to have an intimate relationship with a person of the same gender and would certainly be out of the

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    Effects of Early Marriage

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    CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE The review of the literature for this study focuses on the effects of early marriage to the young people. The main problem about early marriage focuses on financial ones. Young couple is just depressed by their low income. Lack of proper education‚ inexperience & youth do not help the young to receive a large payment for the jobs they do. Some young people decide to get married even without any sources to existing. Usually young couple with low income

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    Marriage Levels Increase

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    Therefore we have many single women in UAE and their number increased year after year and it is a big problem in our society. The government decided to make the marriage from emirate girls increased so they encourage them by sport them financially and prepare for them the celebration to be easy for them to married and the marriage levels increase. It helps the young people who have small salary to married and have less expensive wedding‚ it doesn’t fix the problem but make it smaller. The cultural

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    Marriage by Gregory Corso

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    Glue: The Sanctimonious Institution of Marriage Gregory Corso’s poem "Marriage" is a lucid example of how John Clellon Holmes described the Beat Generation: a display of "moral degeneration." The speaker of the poem is torn between submitting to the non-conformity of the Beats and conforming to society’s strict views about marriage and social structure. The presence of conflicting thoughts- whether or not to get married and looking at the prospects of marriage from two different viewpoints‚ gives

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    As a rule of nature‚ children grow up to be adults. What events make a person an adult? There are three experiences and ceremonies that mark a person an adult: eighteenth birthday‚ graduating from university and his marriage ceremony. One of the events making a person be an adult is his eighteenth birthday. At this time‚ he has all civil rights‚ such as getting married‚ having a driving license‚ doing military service etc. In some families‚ theycan discuss family issues. Take my brother an

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    My "ideal" Marriage Preparation Program will take place over a one month period before the wedding is to take place. It will be composed of four private sessions and three group sessions. Each session will be approximately two hours long and will be led by the Church Priest and the group sessions will have a speaker proficient on that weeks topic. Session I: This will be a private introductory session in which the Priest can learn about the couple and the couple can learn about each other.

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    Marriage in “Jude the Obscure” Thomas Hardy’s “Jude the Obscure” focuses on the life of a country stonemason named Jude Fawly‚ and his love for his cousin Sue Bridehead‚ a schoolteacher. From the beginning Jude knows that marriage is an ill-fated venture in his family and his great aunt Drusilla tells him so‚ and he believes that his love for Sue curses him doubly‚ because they are both members of a cursed clan. While love could be identified as a central theme in the novel‚ marriage is the novel’s

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