...Lovings v. Virginia BackGround -- The Virginia marriage law recognized only two races of human beings: white and colored. The latter was based on the "one-drop" rule. A person was considered "colored" if they had as few as one non-white ancestor, no matter how many generations back that ancestor lived, we now understand that no one “pure”. Mildred and Richard loving (her maiden name being Jeter). Were married in 1959 then arrested for being a interracial couple, and for disobeying the state of Virginias anti-miscegenation laws. Ms. and Mr. Lovings had courted for many years before they became man and wife, the couple were also expecting a child, with all this Virginia Loving going on the couple wished to be married and so traveled to The...
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...you the most. When that happens the unbelievable can occur. Families can appear to be perfect on the outside, but be destroyed on the inside. This is the case of Mary, the wife in the short story, Lamb to the Slaughter. She wants to believe her marriage is perfect, even though the sad truth is that the love is gone. Mary is forced to become someone she is not all because of the shock from Patrick’s, her husband’s, twist of faith; therefore, making her become a wicked, diabolical women. In Roald Dahl’s short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter,” Mary is a loving person determined to do everything for her husband, despite th fact that he has stopped loving her. Mary goes from being a loving, devoted, and generous wife, to an overbearing, sneaky, and diabolical woman....
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...Ester1 James Ester Dr. Jordan Alexander Psyc 101 25 April 2011 There are five general perspectives on human behavior: biological, learned, social and cultural, cognitive and psychodynamic. These perspectives aid in revealing how relationships begin, develop, and are maintained through the course of a loving relationship. All five behaviors, when studied, play a role in how a healthy relationship works which can maintain itself and stand the course of time. Of course for every positive there is always a negative, thus if some of the five general perspectives are lacking this can also lead to a toxic or negative relationship. As I look back over the past thirteen years of marriage between my wife and myself I can see clearly how each perspective can help to maintain, or lack there of, destroy a relationship. I remember the first time I met my wife. It was in the sixth grade, english class, we shared our first words. As any typical sixth grade boy I poked and made fun of her to hide the awkwardness of situation. You see, I thought she was cute but at such a young age I was only able to express this feeling with four eye jokes. As the year went by the feelings subsided and my parents bought a new house which resided outside the school district. At the end of the year we moved away and I thought I would never see her again but life had other plans for us. “The biological perspective...
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..."Success to me is being a good person, treating people well," said philosopher, David LaChapelle. Georg Suchsland is a great example of an amazing and successful person. At the age of 76, he still comes across as a fun-loving person who enjoys all aspects of life. Living in Tustin, California, he cares for his loving wife who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's almost ten years ago. One thing that distinguishes Georg is his determination to uphold the happiness and well being of his loved ones. With a masculine build and steely eyes, Georg Suchsland demonstrates selflessness by always putting others before himself. Measuring up at five feet and ten inches, Georg possesses an optimistic demeanor, mirrored by his bright blue eyes that are always looking for his next adventure. Being an extrovert, he has an easy smile ready for everyone who meets him. One could compare him to the stereotypical "mountain man" or "lumberjack" who helps others along the way. Sturdily built...
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...if it can survive the challenges that come its way. In the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, the protagonist, Ethan Frome endures challenges in both his relationships with Zenobia Frome, his wife, and with Mattie Silver, Zenobia’s visiting cousin. In the novel, Ethan is unable to fight for his relationships, and therefore, they never last. (According to Shakespeare Ethan’s relationships with Zeena and Mattie were never ones of true love). Zenobia, or Zeena, becomes ill, which interferes with her relationship with...
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...True and False What exactly is the difference in love and lust? One would say love is a bond between two souls and lust is a connection of two people through a material object. In “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” written by Ernst Hemingway, Harry and his wife Helen have a very peculiar relationship. While trapped on the Mountain of Kilimanjaro, Harry has a severe case of gangrene in his leg and is practically immotile. He enters into a state of depression and bestows all negative feelings onto his wife. In the pit of Harry’s despair, he turns further away from Helen and shows the reader his true colors towards their relationship. He becomes undesirable, pessimistic and looks at nothing positive in his life. By doing this, he exemplifies the death-in-life aspects of his life and is negative in way that he has confronted his death earlier than anticipated in a most uncommon way. By doing so, he pushes Helen’s love aside and ignores her calls for sympathy. Helen stands by her husband, as any loving wife would do in an intense time, yet Harry denies the given love. Throughout Hemingway’s story Harry and Helen display two very different types of love for one another; love verses lust, these become apparent are shown through the progressive downward spiral of Harry's mental and physical digression. Harry gave up on his desire to live, long before his life was actually taken. At the beginning of the short story, Harry exemplifies a man in decline. Hemingway begins the story with Harry saying...
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...If your family was in a difficult situation, would you risk your life for them? Would you save them even if that meant putting your life in danger? Loving your family is important and being loyal to family can bring you closer to them. Love and loyalty can make you do crazy things for the people that you care about. Rikki-Tikki is a loyal and loving character in the story. For instance, Nag tries to kill Rikki-Tikki’s family and to save his family, Rikki-Tikki kills Nag. (par.58) This proves that he is loving and caring and will do anything to protect his family. Rikki-Tikki took a risk to save his family even if it meant putting his life in danger. In addition, an evil character named Nagaina tries to kill Rikki-Tikki’s family, but Rikki-Tikki saves them. (par.83-86) This proves that Rikki-Tikki is loyal. He saved the people that took care of him in the beginning of the story even though they weren’t his real family. He loves his family and is loyal to them. In...
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...Often times in literature, it is common for people to view different articles, novels, and short stories in a perspective that is common to us. What we sometimes fail to do in this analysis of literature is look at issues going on in the story, characters, or the major theme from a different perspective or angle in order to fully understand how many different groups would view the same literature being analyzed. By expanding our thought process and entertaining these different viewpoints, our own contentions, opinions, and ideals will be enhanced with a more worldly view and we can also begin to understand and tolerate the ideals of others who may think differently than our own viewpoints. One short story that has many different levels and can be viewed from many different perspectives is Ann Petry’s “Like A Winding Sheet” which tells the short tale of an unnamed African American man and his stressful life on a day that is particularly overwhelming. Many themes and perspectives can be overlooked and viewed through this story but if you can view this story from both an economist viewpoint and the viewpoint of a feminist it can further our understanding of what Johnson’s life could have been like, also it is important to note the effect of stress, frustration, and anger are all intertwined. From the very beginning of “Like a winding sheet” we can tell that the economy and finances will be a repetitive theme throughout the story. The short story takes place in is set in...
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...“To my Dear and loving Husband” Poetry Explication The poem “To my Dear and loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet is a heart felt expression of a wife’s marital unconditional love and commitment to her husband. Indirectly, it is also about a puritan woman, who is supposed to be reserved, conveying a message of ever-lasting love and devotion to her husband through vivid imagery and emotions. By reading the poem it seems to be directed to an audience consisting of people who are in love and a person who cherishes their partner’s love. “To my Dear and loving Husband” is classified as a lyrical poem written in couplet form which means in each of the two adjacent lines, it is poetry that rhymes. For example: in the beginning, “If ever two were one, then surely we, If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee;” (1-2) each line ends with a rhyme – we and thee. “To my Dear and loving Husband” is written in iambic pentameter that makes you read the poem with an obvious rhythm. The couplet form is AABBCCDD and so on making the lines come in rhyming pairs. The poem supports the rhythm with the masculine rhymes using the repetition in the final sounds in every last syllable. The poem consists of monosyllabic words such as we, thee, man, can, gold, hold, and pray. When reading the poem out loud the reader will notice there are many open vowel sounds and soft consonants, which adds to the sincere tone and gives the poem a sense of overall simple, unaffected speech. The beginning...
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...Marggiori Salas Professor Cordell Composition II 7/26/12 The Meaning Behind “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilmanʼs “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story of a woman who is not only trapped in a room but is trapped in her mind by her seemingly loving and patient, husband John. He is a physician and believes his wife’s nervous condition is curable by isolating her in a room without any mental stimulation including: exercise, work, reading, writing or any kind of excitement. This was called a “rest cure” at the time the story was written. Gilman herself was treated in this way and the story is a fictional version of her own experience. Gilman removed herself from the treatment when she realized it was not working. The wife in this story secretly writes in a journal like Gilman regardless of what her husband might say. Gradually, she starts to write more and more about the yellow wallpaper since this is the only stimulating thing in the room. The wallpaper increasingly fascinates her until it seems to her to have a life of it’s own and she ends up losing her sanity. This story is an example of how a wife and mother was perceived in the turn of the century as a fragile, helpless creature, without a voice beyond her husbands and how this woman ultimately proves how ineffective this treatment is in the worst possible way. The narrator starts out saying the house her husband has rented is haunted, leading...
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...This a sample biography written for John Doyle that creates an accurate representation of John's life. History: Born in a small Oklahoma farm on August 12, 1923, John Doyle began his journey through life. John was the youngest son of farmer Kenneth Doyle and his wife Mary Doyle. Kenneth, a hard working man, raised his four children in a very disciplined way. It was from here that John learned much of his punctuality. John, after leaving home at age 18, decided to move to a city. He went to Chicago and became a reporter for several years. He enjoyed his job, but yearned to get a college education. He enrolled at the University of Chicago. From there he quickly realized that he loved Health Care and Biology. Soon he made his decision that he was going to study to become a biologist. Years after he graduated, I, his wife Darlene, asked why he felt so akin to his biological work. He always responded "that this is something I enjoy doing and when I feel I am making progress, I realize how beneficial my work is." As you can see, John was a very hard working man. He ended up finishing his work and retiring at the age of 58. After a brief heart attack, John realized he could no longer work as hard a he had done in his younger years. On May 2, 1999 John passed away. Occupation: John at the age of 20 found his true calling in life. John wanted to be a biologist. His whole life he felt a strong connection with different attributes of animal nature. John...
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...losses, including death and other misfortunes. Just as people in real life, each character deals with their losses differently, which helps develop the characters’ personalities. Two characters who experienced very similar situations, Hindley and Edgar, represent this idea the strongest. Hindley resorted to addiction and abusiveness while Edgar was hopeful and focused on loving his daughter. Bronte unfolds the idea that a person’s character is developed from adversity faced throughout life by creating a unique and bleak plot and characters. Although there are many characters throughout the novel who experience adversity, Hindley and Edgar have the most similar situations; they both endured the death of their wives who they loved greatly. Before Hindley’s wife, Frances, died, Hindley was perceived as strong and powerful since he took on the master position of the household after the death of his father and asserted his dominance through...
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...old married couple who are wealthy and lives in New York. Mr. Foster is always tormenting his wife with a fear of being late. He does that by making sure that they are two or three minutes late to everything. One day Ms. Foster are going to Paris to visit her daughter and grandchildren. Her hunsband is following her to the airport, but he is making sure she gets late to her light. However, she manage to be at the airport at time, but her flight get cancelled to the next day. Mr. Foster convinces her to come home in the meantime. The next morning, she is ready to leave, but as always her husband has forgotten something inside. While he is inside, she hears a cry for help, but she closes her door, and take of to the airport. After six weeks in Paris and several letters to her husband, she returns home, only to find her husband dead. I think that she already knew that he was dead, but she cared more to visit her family in Paris, than to save her husband. I think that is because she was so tired of his torments. b) Mr. Foster is a rich seventy years old man, who is kind of rude. He likes to bother his wife, even though she gets mentally sick because of him. He is not very loving, which you can tell by the way he is treating his wife, and that he did not let his wife go to Paris to visit their daughter and grandchildren for a long time. Mrs. Foster on the other hand, is a very loving woman. She has stayed with her husband all these years even though he has been nothing but cruel...
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...wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. Being a teen that put you at risk of getting pregnant if having sex before you get married, which eventually allow teens to be put in a undesirable situation of raising a child in which they have no experience in doing so. Leaving the teen who’s a parent now to seek help from elsewhere because the spouse whose part of creating the offspring as well is also young and inexperienced so they can’t rely on one another for help in the upbringing of the child. The spouse feels trapped in a marriage they did not want in the first place, but is difficult to escape now. The married couple is force to turn to their parents for help. Having a child is hard enough when it is brought in loving family who is prepared for him or her, but when it is burden for the mother and father,...
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...In the story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber is about a man named Walter Mitty,who drifts into fantasies a lot because he is just ordinary in reality with a nagging wife who loves him very much. In the fantasies, he is the hero,fearless,brave,respected and extraordinary. I believe that Mrs.Mitty’s actions are motivated by the fact that she has to protect him from himself and has his best interests at heart. When Walter Mitty is daydreaming he does not pay attention what his are actions and surroundings around him are,but Mrs. Mitty does. In the story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is about a man that daydreams many times and his wife looks out for him. One day, Mrs.Mitty told Walter to get overshoes,so he could protect his shoes from harsh weather. This quote illustrates this...
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