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    Monday‚ September 8th‚ 2014 — Around the Crimean Sea‚ there is good land to grow land — Greek has several dialects i.e.: (Attic Greek‚ Doric Greek [Spartans]‚ — Political units separated by Valleys — Athens- Attica‚ Sparta- Laconia are examples of city states/polis. — All the city-states are extremely competitive with one another; constantly at war — Spartans beat Mecinians during 700 BC and enslaves them (Helots)… for 300 years — Common themes in Greeks were religion — Pantheon of

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    countries which see women as possessions or less than worth compared to a man. In India‚ as well as Pakistan Dowry deaths which claim the lives of thousands of women are committed daily. These deaths are sanctioned as legal or usually overseen by law enforcement with payment. Dowry deaths are committed against a bride by either a husband or the husband’s family because the bride’s dowry was not paid as it was supposed to be. Wartime rape and batteries is also high in other countries and often overlooked

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    by the participating parties themselves. 1. Courtship Among Early Filipinos Courtship‚ mating and divorce among early Filipinos revolved around the dowry or bride price. The dowry was the gift from the groom or his family to be given to the bride’s family presumably to compensate for the care and the cost of the upbringing of the bride. Dowry had several function: a) It signified the good intentions of the young bridegroom in the same sense that earnest money is used in a business transaction

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    cannot be divided) are raising their two daughters and a son. Aruna is beautiful. Uma is clumsy and plain. But both must be married off. Aruna has her pick of suitors but finding a bridegroom for Uma is a desperate task and the squandering of two dowries is source of much entertaining farce. Flip the coin‚ however‚ and the farce becomes tragedy. A failure to marry means a life of humiliating servitude to parents and a life of spinsterly loneliness and suffocation. My heart aches for Uma but it

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    she lives in a family mansion with big columns that date “to 1972!” Emma’s father is wealthy and lives in a large house‚ setting her apart from others in Highbury. She inherits her father’s money because she is the landed gentry. Emma has a large dowry making Mr Elton interested in her. When Emma was written the industrial revolution was under way. Families started to earn their fortune through trade. Emma isn’t sure how to react to this. This is a case of inherited wealth versus ‘new’ wealth. In

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    These days gender imbalance is becoming a grave problem especially in India. Girls are either aborted from mother’s womb or killed after birth. This gives rise to crimes like rape and killing. Write an essay emphasizing importance of women in the society. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ In ancient time birth of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian proverb‚ “A home without a daughter is like a body without soul”. The birth of a daughter in the house was compared with the advent of Goddess Laxmi

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    punishable by death in some circumstances. Marriage followed a strict set of protocols that signify maturity and coming into one’s own. In this time‚ dowries often played a large part in the decision to marry. A dowry‚ is the custom in which involves an interchange of cash‚ jewels‚ foods‚ estates between the father of the bride and the groom. Her dowry depended on the financial status of her family. The very rich‚ the nobles and the royalty‚ generally married to make their families social standing

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    Marriage‚ Family‚ And Residence
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    territory‚ case of state‚ / Which of you shall we say doth love us most? / That we our largest bounty may extend/ Where nature doth with merit challenge.” (King Lear‚ 2) He wants them to tell him how much they love him with the reward of a massive dowry of land and right to rule it as they see fit. So he is saying he doesn’t want love for love‚ but under that hope of a reward. Shakespeare is challenging the daughters’ filial love against the love and pride of ruler ship. That is not true love for

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    Introduction:In the following essay the teacher said give your points of view about the story you have to read. We will read about arrange marriages in India. Nanda who is a teacher in the United States travels to India to research about arrange marriages. Before traveling she was against arrange marriages but after researching into the topic she change her point of view. I agree with Nanda that some of the points of view that will be discussed in the essay are interesting. Even thought this comments

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