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    expectations is something important to know before getting married. Different people have different expectations that could be satisfied by different people. They are such as some husbands expect their wives to dress in certain ways or the vice versa‚ or some wives expect their husbands to work while the wives want to take care of the kids. In order to learn if one is able to fulfill other’s expectations‚ once again they need to live together before getting married. On the other hand there are disadvantages

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    herself and accept love. Wives‚ submit to your husbands as to the Lord because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church. – He himself being the savior of the body (5.22-5.23). These are the exact words that Paul says in his Letter to the Ephesians. Katherine refers to Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians in her monologue when explaining to Bianca and the Widow that women must be obedient to their husbands. Paul also says Husbands love tour wives just as Christ loved the

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    (794 – 1185)‚ it was thought that a man should be at the head of the family to protect the house and land. Additionally‚ women had believed that men dominated them and felt that it should be kept that way for many centuries to come. Figure 1.1 Wives and their daughters in the family home. A woman of any class has had a role in their family household and in their marriage. As a daughter‚ obey your father; once married‚ obey your husband: when widowed‚ obey your son. Buddhist culture states: “Onna

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    the great value placed on masculinity‚ women are to a great extent inferior to men in the Ibo society. Wives’ main duty is to serve their husbands. Women’s value is directly tied to their ability to product children‚ as shown by the fact that the birth of children is "a woman’s crowning glory" (77). Wife beating and domestic violence are very common practices. Okonkwo constantly beats his wives for some very trivial matters such as forgetting to prepare meals for him. In one occasion "Okonkwo nearly

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    how low the divorce rate is in Japan compared to other countries. In Japan there are about 24 divorces for every 100 marriages‚ where as the United States has about 55 divorces. “It does not seem that Japanese families survive because husbands and wives love each other more than American couples‚ but rather because they perhaps love each other less” (Kristoff 96). Its kind of like a low risk‚ low reward relationship compared to a high risk‚ high reward relationship which is most commonly found in

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    There were many great kings throughout history‚ but one of the greatest kings in world’s history was King Henry‚ he was part of the Tudor family. King Henry was best known for having six wives‚ building the Anglican Church and his radical changes to the England Constitution. King Henry ruled England for 36 years. King Henry was born on June 1491 Greenwich‚ United Kingdom. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502‚ Henry became heir to the English throne. Henry was crowned at the age of

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    a lot of abuse throughout the story. The story starts off with a girl named Mariam who lives with her mom Nana. Mariam’s father is Jalil. He doesn’t live with Mariam and Nana but does visit Mariam for one or two hours on Thursday. Jalil has three wives apart from Nana and has other children as well. One day it’s Mariam’s birthday and she asked to go to her father’s movie theater that he owns and she wants to take her sisters along‚ but Jalil and Nana both think it’s a bad idea. When Jalil visits

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    generating activities. However‚ no work has been done in parallel with the men. So men of traditional societies suddenly found themselves less educated than their wives‚ and becoming reliant on their wives for income support. This loss in status without any opportunity to express themselves‚ have caused some men to turn violent towards their wives. More and more now‚ humanitarian agencies are making sure that all community members participate in the process of project to ensure that the men are not

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    have not been pharaoh but when his elder brother (crown prince Thutmose) died he had a claim for the thrown and became the Pharaoh of Egypt. Akhenaton had many wives and fathered many children. His wives (or consorts) include Nefertiti and Kiya; some Egyptologists suggest that (like his father) Akhenaton may have taken some daughters as wives or consorts. Akhenaton’s known children are: Tutankhaten (later known as Tuankhamun and King Tut)‚ Smenkhkare‚ Meritaten‚ Meketaten‚ Ankhesenpaaten (later wife

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    Symbolism Things Fall Apart is a story that depicts a tribal society; which generally are founded upon principles such as symbolism and objects having power‚ so naturally it would make sense for his novel to contain symbolism. One such example would be the yam. The novel expresses the view that yams are the crop of masculinity. The yam is meant to represent the means‚ wealth and power‚ women are not allowed to sew yams‚ for crops but are given different foods to grow. The yam is simple‚ but requires

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