Why I Support Gay Marriage Doug Mainwaring’s September 21 editorial for the Washington Post‚ entitled “Why I oppose Gay Marriage” is a gay marriage opinion piece unlike many others. Mainwaring opens his piece explaining how a past Maryland petition opposing gay marriage has recently been brought back into the spotlight. The names of the people who had signed said petition were released‚ much to the shock of the general public‚ who were in awe to see the names of friends‚ neighbors‚ and family members
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In this modern-day ‘survival of the fittest’ someone steps into the jungle to propose something crazy: he will start a coaching centre in Bihar where he will accept 30 talented students every year‚ strictly from a low-income background and prepare them for the IIT-JEE. Given the 2 per cent success rate of mostly privileged and well-coached aspirants‚ what can be expected from these 30 candidates? Bhai ( named changed) along with two colleagues‚ started just such a ‘Super 30’ in Patna‚ Bihar‚
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The first Monitor article I read was called “Does marriage make us happy?” According to Daniel Gilbert‚ PhD‚ married people are happier than unmarried people. It isn’t marriage that makes us happy‚ but a happy marriage that makes us happy. Gilbert also says that money can buy happiness. The happier people make between $40‚000 and $70‚000. The reason for this‚ according to Gilbert‚ is that people with money enjoy better nutrition‚ can go places with loved ones‚ worry less about their children and
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I have never been a fan of the phrase “You couldn’t understand”-especially when it was directed at me. As a young girl‚ I loved asking questions‚ as many kids do‚ until the dreaded words were said to me directly. “What makes someone gay?” I asked my Mom. I had heard the word tossed around before‚ but I wasn’t quite sure what it meant. “Where did you hear that! Don’t ask me that again. You couldn’t understand.” After that‚ I never asked many questions. I had this idea that I would figure most
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Abstract Same-sex marriage is a huge debate all over the United States. Many Americans fear and do not understand homosexuality. What everyone needs to know is that same-sex marriage is not a threat to the institution of marriage or society. Society should accept homosexuality and not fear it. Homosexuals are second class citizens by law and every American no matter their race‚ sexual orientation‚ religion‚ or gender should have equal rights under the law. Fear‚ ignorance‚ and religion are not reasons
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married or not. Yet twelve years and 3 months is the time that has passed since the first homosexual marriage was made official in a Canadian province. Since 1996‚because of the Defense of Marriage Act which prevented-and still does- homosexual couples from receiving benefits traditionally conferred by marriage ; states have scrambled to define their own stance on the issue. The restriction of marriage to heterosexual couples should be abolished because it is discriminatory to homosexual couples.
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new centre of order for the now chaotic world‚ as old aesthetics and beliefs simply did not seem to fit anymore. This sense of aloneness and being unstuck from reality is a quintessential trait of early 20th century texts. By examining the work of Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats (two contemporary poets of the time)‚ a real sense of the estrangement experienced comes across. Many social and political crises around the turn of the century aided the development of Modernism (approximately 1890
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sedentary lifestyle” (“Some People”). Not all people have the same ability to turn down food whenever they want. That causes people to be overeaters‚ thus‚ making them overweight. However‚ not only can some people be genetically predisposed to overeat‚ but most Americans have a different mindset in their eating choices. Most of them think that just because a yogurt has a little bit of calories‚ it is automatically a healthy snack. You can’t judge someone because they are overweight or obese
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Gay Marriage: How Jonathan Rauch Offers it as a Common Good The marriage-rights movement headed by gay rights activists has been a relevant issue on the American socio-political docket since 1970 following the Stonewall riots in New York City‚ New York in June of 1969. The riots sparked an initiative for gay people to join the movement of other marginalized groups in a quest to counteract widespread alienation to obtain the equal treatment and recognition they deserved. Today those activists
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we need to know how people live in the different corners of the world. The media‚ therefore‚ serves the purpose of letting us know‚ but is it really necessary to know even the most trivial of matters? What so-and-so person wore to what event? Why make even the tiniest things look fascinating? Going back to Jacintha’s case‚ the media has a definitive role here. She received a prank call all the way from Australia‚ where two radio jockeys posed as the Queen who enquired about the Duchess of Cambridge
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