"Wives as deputy husbands" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 12 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    I agree with King Arthur’s decree that women can own property in their own right. It was ludicrous that women should have to rely on husbands and family members to hold property in their name. Women need access to their own funds and land. “Also‚ I believe people should have the right to divorce‚ and women should be able to initiate that. What happens if a husband is cruel or turns out to be a terrible beast? Why should a woman be stuck with him until

    Premium Woman Gender Marriage

    • 364 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    blind man‚ and the husband are alike in a couple ways‚ including the fact that they both care about the wife‚ and they both like to drink. The husband and Robert also have many differences; the husband is more judgmental than Robert‚ who has more of an open mind. There is the obvious difference that the husband is not blind like Robert. Carver wrote this story from the husband’s point of view‚ so we heard everything from him‚ and saw things the way he did. One thing the husband and Robert have in

    Premium Family Marriage Love

    • 520 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    three women seeking justice after their husbands became successful and divorced them for younger women. Brenda‚ Elise‚ Cynthia and Annie were close friends in college‚ but after graduation from Middlebury‚ they lost touch with one another for 27 years. When Cynthia committed suicide after her ex-husband married a much younger mistress‚ the other three women met at her funeral for the first time since college. Seeing that their friend grew unhappy after her husband left her for a younger woman‚ they found

    Premium Taxation in the United States Tax

    • 1278 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Anne Bradstreet’s poem‚ "To My Dear and Loving Husband‚" is a short poem in which she shows her undying love and tenderness toward her husband. The poem has five stanzas‚ each stanza was ryhming couplets in the entire poem which are AABBCCDD and EEFF‚ the end of each word in each line are sharing the same rhythm and tone that gives the poem an arranged ‚organized ‚and musical structure. Also. it has twelve lines‚ the beginning word of the fifth line which is “I” we can infer that the poem is written

    Premium Poetry Love Marriage

    • 350 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Husband Today is the day. It is December 20 1776. Today I’m headed off to go join the war. I’m going Delaware to meet up with General washington and his troops. They are planning to attack the British while they are celebrating Christmas. Many people have died and they needed more soldiers so I volunteered. Wife Today is the day. My husband is going off to war. He kissed me goodbye and told me that he was going to go meet up with General Washington. It has been said that the General has lost many

    Premium

    • 658 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    To her master‚ nay father‚ to her husband‚ nay brother; his handmaid‚ nay daughter‚ his spouse‚ nay sister: to ABELARD‚ HELOISE. Your letter written to a friend for his comfort‚ beloved‚ was lately brought to me by chance. Seeing at once from the title that it was yours‚ I began the more ardently to read it in that the writer was so dear to me‚ that I might at least be refreshed by his words as by a picture of him whose presence I have lost. Almost every line of that letter‚ I remember‚ was filled

    Premium English-language films Debut albums Poetry

    • 3287 Words
    • 14 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Parents always say that they want their children to follow their dreams‚ but that’s considered hypocritical when they don’t let their kids decided for themselves. In many cultures‚ the choice of education‚ job‚ and spouse is the parents’ decision and the children in question are expected to be obedient and learn to accept those decisions without requesting any other alternatives. The question is: how can these children obey their parents when they don’t get to live their own lives? In some rare situations

    Premium Marriage Marriage Arranged marriage

    • 1087 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    father comes back to pay his respect for his father’s death. Duty is presented by when a friend must end a friendship in order to keep his marriage strong. The theme love is presented by a mother who is trying to keep her family together‚ while her husband Troy‚ presents the theme of betrayal and is tearing their family apart. While all of these over line themes are incorporated in the book‚ betrayal is the one that Wilson expresses the most. Rose was always nagging Troy to build the fence and he

    Free Love Friendship The Reader

    • 1920 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Taylor’s poem Huswifery and Bradstreet’s epistle To My Dear and Loving Husband both use metaphors and rhyme scheme to discuss the role of servitude of a wife. Taylor uses both metaphors and rhyme scheme to emphasize his point that just as a wife works to serve her husband‚ god will help those who desire to exalt him. Taylor throughout his poem uses the metaphor of a loom to compare himself to the spinning wheel to demand to God that Taylor be used‚ much like a man would demand his wife to do

    Premium Rhyme Marriage Husband

    • 454 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    and not in a movie’s ability to go on location or add cinematic frills. In opening up Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comic masterpiece‚ ’’The Importance of Being Earnest‚’’ the director Oliver Parker‚ whose more straightforward adaptation of Wilde’s ’’Ideal Husband’’ three years ago found an agreeable balance between period lushness and linguistic precision‚ has gone overboard. What would Wilde have made of the embellishments Mr. Parker has tacked onto the play like a reckless dressmaker tarting up a Chanel

    Premium The Importance of Being Earnest English-language films Victorian era

    • 694 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 50