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    marry down while 35 percent men marry up. Citing this source shows how Jenna use evidence to back up her argument by providing facts and statistics and an expert opinion to support her argument. That shows over the course of time women have been marrying down while men start to marry up. In contrast to Chang Hwan Kim and Arthur Sakamoto research Jenna uses Rae Copper a professor at Sydney business school to counterargument the results of their research. By using the pathos appeal women who are single

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    Finally Lefty and Desdemona leave and end up moving to Detroit to live with Sourmelina and her husband Jimmy Zizmo. They asked Sourmelina to keep it a secret that they are brother and sister and just want to be known as a married couple. Lefty gets a job at the Ford Motor Company but eventually gets fired because Zizmo has a criminal record. Sourmelina and Desdemona both get “knocked up”. Lefty starts working with Jimmy bringing alcohol from Canada. One night Jimmy accuses Lefty of sleeping with

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    loved ones in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Juliet is pressured by her parents to marry Paris and by the Friar to carry out his plan to help Juliet escape marrying Paris. She is anxious and terrified by the possibility that everything could all go wrong. Juliet’s suffering caused by her parents is from the prospect of marrying Paris. Lord and Lady Capulet clearly want their one and only daughter‚ Juliet‚ to be married off to nobility‚ as they are one of the top two families in Verona‚ and

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    spend thousands of dollars in root canals or chemotherapy for your pet. Many spend $19 billion dollars a year for veterinary care. These are the many claims Burkhard Bilger who talks about the crazy love affair people have with their pets now. This is absurd‚ owners should stop the unnecessary spending‚ immortalizing their pet which is unethical‚ and save the money for government programs. “Americans spend 19 billion a year on veterinary care for their pets. It doesn’t include the food and other supplies

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    To be young and in love has proved fatal for many young girls and boys in parts of north India as an intolerant and bigoted society refuses to accept any violation of its rigid code of decorum‚ especially when it comes to women. The two teenage girls who were shot dead last week by a cousin in Noida for daring to run away to meet their boyfriends are the latest victims of honor killings‚ a euphemism for doing away with anyone seen as spoiling the family’s reputation. Many such killings are happening

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    not an act of despair‚ but a creative act in which Kirilov hopes‚ in a sense‚ to "become God." His suicide is essentially an attempt to sacrifice himself and to show the world the absurd freedom that we all have‚ so that those that follow him might be able to live more freely. Though Dostoevsky wrestled with absurd themes‚ he ultimately placed his faith in God. In this sense‚ Camus concludes‚ he is more of an existentialist than an absurdist. Camus was able to justify his thinking of suicide and

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    the marriage world and make it to where we can marry family members‚ etc. “Will Your Marriage Last?” by Aviva Patz * It doesn’t really point on what marriage is exactly‚ just why it is either successful or a failure. “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” by Stephanie Coontz * Marriage used to be strictly for the sake of reproducing and having good reputation in the social aspects of old communities‚ but maybe it should be more about love than that? “Sacred Rite or Civil Right?”

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    The Mysterious Banana Included in many literary works are objects‚ which may seem meaningless‚ contributing to the theme of the work. In Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape”‚ a dramatic work which falls into the category of Theatre of the Absurd‚ the banana is a discreet object which eludes to the meaning behind why Krapp chose that particular event to listen to while recording his last diary tape. Sigmund Freud’s theory of wish fulfillment suggests that a banana represents repressed sexuality which

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    Restoration comedies ‘often deal with the absurdity of a world with elaborate rules and codes of behaviour or manners.’ To what extent is this view also true in Educating Rita? There are a lot of rules and codes of behaviour that are presented to be absurd in Educating Rita‚ most are introduced by the character or what the character says. Frank sets up the first code of behaviour when he stereotypes his impending student‚ calling her ‘silly’ before he’s even met her‚ a word that can be considered

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    you to listen" tells us that she is a spoilt girl who is used to getting what she wants. Her orderly and conceited manner of speech is also quite off putting. It can be argued that perhaps Nelly is trying to get Catherine to change her mind about marrying Edgar as she knows that Catherine and Heathcliff are exceptionally close‚ so Catherine’s reluctant answer to why she wants to marry Edgar may provoke or irritate readers. However‚ whilst it is easy to dislike Catherine’s choice of marital partner

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