...American Community Survey to see if a positive correlation exists between the three independent variables and mate selection at the time of marriage. The results from the regression models of income, education and age reveal that these preferences play a predominant part of choosing a soul mate, further indicating that people seek a marital partner with characteristics similar to their own. I. Introduction Over the past several decades, there has been an increased discussion and study in social issues among economists (Becker 1973). One of the most prominent topics that has been studied and continues to be researched is the issue of marriage. For many Americans, deciding to marry and who to marry to are often considered the most important choices an individual can make. Furthermore, social scientists are particularly interested in the mating process as it can provide a unique insight on the characteristics of household demographics. The primary purpose of this paper will be examining how marriages are formed and which individual preferences influence spousal selection. A theoretical framework will be shown using the work provided by some of the most prominent academics whom have written on the topic of marriage. The framework will...
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...Marriage is a necessity. In ancient times, getting married and having children are an inevitable job. At that time, there was not much love in the marriage, and the relationship was purely a constraint. Nowadays, a majority of people thinks marriage is a symbol of love. They look forward to living together for a long time, so they choose to form a family. But from where I stand, getting married is not a good choice. First of all, one of the most important aims of marriage is having children. But now with the rising divorce rate, more and more choose not to get married, they think marriage is a form of cohabitation, and without marriage they still can have children., If it is found that living together is unpleasant. It is also very easy to separate. In the second place, marriage will restrict a person’s freedom. You will find that your spouse is your first priority. Think about it: after you get married, you need to report where and what you are doing. What’s more, you may disconnect with your friends of you opposite sex because it will cause some misunderstanding. Last but not least, love is a mystery and getting married will ruin it. Marriage, by definition, contact two people as a family, You neither want nor need your love defined in business or legal terms. The beauty of love is that it’s undefined to begin with and always full of change and expectation. On the other hand, there’re still many people who look forward to entering into marriage. These kind of people always...
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...‘naked marriages’ this means that more women will only decide to tie the knot if their spouse owns a house. This just further proves (word choice - emphasizes) the importance of financial stability in marriages and that it plays a big role in ensuring happy marriages. So, what exactly is financial stability? In my opinion, being financially stable does not necessary mean that one needs to be rich and can afford a very extravagant lifestyle. Instead, it should simply be when one is debt-free, is able to afford and pay for the expenditure of their family and have the monetary means, savings, income to meet the needs for today and the future. (good definition of key terms) “Money can't buy you happiness.” (Dialogue) I believe most of us are very familiar with this quote and are now wondering, if money can’t buy us happiness, how or why does financial stability ensures a happy marriage? Couples get married not only to justify (word choice - as a testament of) their love for each other but also in view to start a family. (explanation) In today’s fast-paced and demanding society, the cost of living is extremely high. When married couples decide to start a family, they have additional financial burdens. (premise) An article entitled ‘The $900,000 Singapore child’ by The Straits Times explains the high cost of raising a child in Singapore. Married couples have to pay for their child’s education including private tuitions, daily expenses and...
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...The essay depicts the benefits and the drawbacks of life as a single male and a married male possibly with children. Bacon explains that marriage is good for the individual but also for society. He also states that wife and children are a liability and only take back from obtaining wealth. A single man believes that a man with wife and children, who are obstacles to both great courses and little trivial, is the slave of fortune. Bacon presents the merits and demerits of married life and single life in his essay, “Of Marriage and Single Life” According to the essay children are the bills of charges and will reduce their riches. And beyond that being single means that you are free, but having a wife and children are reasons you a man is shackled. However, a single life has some good aspects. “Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, and best servants. In this portion of the essay, Bacon boasts about the fact that a free man gives back to society in a sense. He states that when you don’t have children and a wife to look after you have more time to give back to your community. This is simple logic that expresses what kind of write Bacon was. He states that without the distraction of both wife and children a man can be who he wants to be also he can be a better man. Married men are busy supporting a family so therefore they are no longer free to do what they want, good or bad. Basically, married men are boring and can’t take risks. Unmarried or childless man is helpful to...
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...Jun. 2015 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers The poem was written in 1951 by Adrienne Rich. "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" theme paint a portrait of a married woman trapped within a timid and suppressed life. We are introduced to the sympathetic character of the poem, Aunt Jennifer. Instead of describing her, however, the author chooses to convey Aunt Jennifer's art, and the ownership of Tigers tied to her craft. The tigers are vivaciously portrayed. _______________________________________ Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. ________________________________________ These lines have been quoted from the poem. Here the poet expresses her unconscious desire for freedom through her needlework. Aunt Jennifer is a married woman who does a lot of needlework, like most traditional married women. Instead of flowers and leaves, she is making a pattern of prancing tigers. The poet calls them ‘bright topaz denizens’. Aunt Jennifer’s needlework is an expression of her fiery nature that is restrained in her because of the restrictions of society that she was living in. ‘A world of green’ represents freedom and youth that the married woman craves for. Therefore, the poet expresses the married woman’s unconscious desire to be free. However, the restrictions of the culture she is living in restricts her from being free ______________________________________ The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand. ______________________________________ ...
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... Where did Same Sex Marriage originate? 3. Do you think our country should legalize same sex marriage? 4. Do you think all country should also legalize same sex marriage? 5. Do you think same sex couples should get the same rights as opposite sex couples? 6. Why do religious people oppose LGBT especially same sex marriage ? 7. Why there are LGBT ? is that a choice ? 8. Can same sex couple raise a child ? 9. Do you support same sex marriage? 10. What are your views about same sex marriage? ANSWERS : 1. Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is marriage between two people of the same biological sex and/or gender identity. 2. A same-sex union was known in Ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Mesopotamia,in some regions of China, such as Fujian province, and at certain times in ancient European history.These same-sex unions continued until Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. A law in the Theodosian Code was issued in 342 AD by the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans, which prohibited same-sex marriage in ancient Rome and ordered that those who were so married were to be executed. Same-sex marital practices and rituals were more recognized in Mesopotamia than in ancient Egypt.In the ancient Assyrian society, there was nothing amiss with homosexual love between men. Some ancient religious Assyrian texts contain prayers for divine blessings on homosexual relationships.The Almanac of Incantations contained prayers favoring...
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...Unit 3: Probability and Counting Rules - Assignment Total points for Assignment: 35 points. Assignments must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document and uploaded to the Dropbox for Unit 3. All Assignments are due by Tuesday at 11:59 PM ET of the assigned Unit. NOTE: Assignment problems should not be posted to the Discussion threads. Questions on the Assignment problems should be addressed to the instructor by sending an email or by attending office hours. You must show your work on all problems. If a problem is worth 2 points and you only show the answer, then you will receive only 1 point credit. If you use a calculator or online website, give the source and tell me exactly what you provided as input. For example, if you used Excel to compute 16 * 16, tell me “I typed =16*16 into Excel and got 256. You may type your answer right into this document. Part I. Basic Computations 1. A restauraunt offers the following limited lunch menu: |Main Course |Vegetables |Beverages |Desserts | |Ham |Potatoes |Coffee |Cake | |Chicken |Peas |Tea |Pie | |Fish |Salad |Milk ...
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...considerations, such as what a person wants, or what a person believes, but free will means that such considerations never determine a person’s decision. Socrates: Do you agree that every event has an explanatory cause? Meno: Yes I do agree that every event has an explanatory cause. For example; why do couples get married, because they love each other, they want to have a family, and want to watch their kids grow up and get married and then watch their grandkids grow up. Also most every event in life has an explanatory cause for it to happen. For another example; why do couples have children? Because they want their family to keep on growing. They don’t want to see their family name to be lost in the future. Socrates: How do you define event? Meno: An event is something happening at a certain point in our life. Like when someone gets married, a baby being born, someone graduating high school, or college. Socrates: How do you define explanatory cause? Meno: If there is a cause for every event and there for every action. What could it mean to say that a truly free action in one that wholly undetermined by anything but the pure self. Socrates: Do you agree that every human choice or event has an explanatory cause? Meno: Yes I do...
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... Scientists, philosophers, and sociologists struggle to find the answers to the following questions, what is freedom? How free is the individual within a society? How much of human behavior is determined by environment and genetics? (M.U.S.E, 2010). In my perspective, freedom is the ability for a human being to act as desired, in other words having self-determination and no restrains. In society, individual’s rights are protected by the first amendment of the constitution, which gives freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and so on. However, there are laws that humans must abide by to prevent consequences. Human behavior has been influenced by the environment and genetics to a certain degree, however, every individual is a unique mind or as I call “a different world”, it all depends on an individual perspectives and reactions to certain circumstances. Socrates: What is the definition of determinism? Grislen: Determinism consist that every event has a cause; therefore if human actions are to be considered events, then, all choices made are determined by cause and not free will. Nothing in life is predetermined, the choices we make in life is the only one that can alter our future. Socrates: What is the definition of free will? Grislen: The philosophical term of “free will” consists of the capacity of humans to choose from a course of actions among various alternatives. Humans act as desired, therefore we have self-determination...
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...them peasants rather than wifes. Mariam and Laila have lots differences and similarities when it comes to their lives. They had to do many things to be able survive in a country when surviving is the main point. They had to come across each other to be able to survive. Although one of them at the end really didn’t. Laila and Mariam were just young girls when their live changes that makes them have so many similarities, but the choices they made made them different. But they ended up in the same house, with the same man and different places....
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...Dreams of Married People Janet Vint Ashford University English 125 Prof. Benzon Barbin August 19, 2013 The Hidden Thoughts of Married People Telling a short story involves many different things. Theme, tone, irony, and plot are just a few that really make a story come alive. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber (b. 1939) and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin (b. 1894) are two short stories that are written many years apart but still convey the same struggle that many people face with being married. Both stories display individuals that are having a hard time “finding themselves” or trying to go back and imagine their independence more or less by finding ways of escaping the “trapped” feeling of marriage. Both of the stories are portraits of the struggle that men and women face during a marriage. “The Story of an Hour” tells of a woman with a very weak heart condition that has been told that her husband has been killed in a railroad accident. While most people would have expressed great sadness (she did for a brief moment) in learning such horrible news, Mrs. Mallard felt more like she had received a whole new life, only later did she learn that she had been misinformed and that her husband was still very much alive. The same could be said in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. This story tells of the restrictiveness of some marriages by giving great details of the constant daydreaming of a married man, who feels like he is being held prisoner...
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...relationships before they consider marriage with just one person and often may choose to live together and never get married. Due to globalization and the increase in travel, individuals in Western cultures can interact with a larger pool of potential partners. Moghaddam suggests, in non-western and collectivist culture, males are chosen for the females who are often chaperoned in the presence of that male, otherwise they may be seen as un-marriage worthy. As for marriage; Western societies relationships are usually monogamous, a relationship with just one person, with the average marriage age being 27 and gradually rising. Couples are expected to be together for a length of time before deciding to marry. Hsu claims Individualist cultures value freedom and individuality so that a person can still live their own life once married. This explains why the divorce rate is far higher in Western societies, happiness is valued and more forgiveness is given to those who divorce. An anomaly of this is the Catholic religion, predominant in Ireland and South America, where divorce is religiously seen as shameful. In comparison around 1/2 of the world experiences arranged marriages to some degree predominately in Eastern or non-Western cultures with some couples not meeting until their wedding day. The average age for marriage is 15 and polygamous marriages are not uncommon. Once married, the female often becomes totally dependent and must seek permission from her husband. There is a very low divorce...
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...Growing up in a Catholic home, I always dreamt of a big church wedding with the beautiful white gown with the long train. The older I got, I realized that dream would never come true because I was not baptized and I did not have any sacraments. In order to get married through the Catholic Church, a person must have all their sacraments prior to getting the sacrament of marriage. I guess you could say, my dreams were shattered and I never thought about the big church wedding again. Many years later, when attending a class to have my son baptized when he was baby, the Deacon mentioned something that I thought I would never hear, “you can still be baptized.” At that moment, I realized I was about to want to know what I had to do in order to start the process of marrying my husband through church. Getting married through church was a big deal to my husband and I now that we knew it was possible. As a little girl, everyone wanted a fairy tale wedding and to live happily ever after. Being a Catholic, there are many rules to abide by in order to get married through church. A person must have all their sacraments. I did not know I could still be baptized and get my other sacraments even though I was older than most kids were. My daughters were taking their classes to get their sacrament of baptism and Holy Communion. I decided that it was time to get moving after I found out that I could still be baptized and marry my husband in a church. I had mixed emotions since I...
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...beliefs. What they fail to realize is that banning gay marriage will go against the United States Declaration of Independence well known phrase, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”. Homosexuals have nothing to do with heterosexuals. The homosexual community harms and destructs nobody and no one. That being said, people should not be so hostile against same sex marriage. Americans should have their own rights to enjoy life with their significant other, whether that being with the same sex or not. Society today should learn how to respect other peoples choice of style and preference. Marriage itself is between two people. Therefore, does it matter if it’s with the same sex? People should not be judged based off of their sexual orientation, but by the content of their character. Happiness should not be determined by others nor by the government. When viewed by others people should not see black or white, gay or straight. As a community, we...
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...rather than the nuclear family being the dominant type. However there are many different sociological explanations and two different conflicting views. The modernist view, and the postmodernist view. For example New Right sociologists believe that the nuclear family is the bedrock of society, and is the natural family, unlike lone-parent families which are consider unnatural and harmful as they believe that mothers cannot discipline children. This leads on to the theory that marriage is essential in the socialisation of children. They also believe that traditional roles have been undermined by divorce legislation and welfare benefits. New Right sociologist think that many social problems, such as high crime rates, are caused by the decline in nuclear families. However there are many criticisms of this, such as Oakley who believes that this view is a negative view against the feminist campaign for women's equality. New Right sociologists also fail to recognise unequal relationships in families. Another modernist view is that of Chester and his neo-conventional theory. Chester sees a shift from the conventional nuclear family to the neo-conventional family where both spouses play a bread winner role. A neo-conventional family is a dual-earner family. Chester also recognises that there has been an increase of family diversity in recent years, however he believes that people don't choose to live in alternatives and they would like to aspire to being in a nuclear family. Chester...
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