marriage

Marriage: According to Oxford Dictionary marriage is “the formal union of a man and a woman, typically recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife”. The nature of marriage is for two people, a man and a woman who love each other, to naturally be able to give life to another generation and nurture them. The United States should make a policy to keep marriage between a man and a woman because legalizing same sex marriage will change the nature and true meaning of marriage and will affect the development and reproduction of our next generations.

Recently I read an opinion piece titled "The End of Courtship?" By Alex Williams on the New York Times online website that caught my attention. The author describes how today's dates are started with meek text messages and Facebook posts and social media outlets rather than how it was several years ago when men actually had to make an effort to ask a girl out. He states that nowadays relationships have turned into casual hook ups and have lost their importance in today's young society. Williams uses pathos to support his claim in paragraph 4 when he says "Dinner at a romantic new bistro?

There are many factors that help Americans vote for who they believe is going to be the right President. What a candidate believes in will make or break them. Obama believes in the happiness and love of marriage between people of the same sex, and that is important to me. I am very strong about same sex marriage. I believe every person deserves to be happy, and that laws shouldn’t stop people from expressing their love through marriage. I care about this issue because I have many family friends who are of the same sex and are married.

It was one of those life moments that lets you know your not a kid any more. I was sitting in my living room with my sister, talking about life, school, friends, the usual, when suddenly she brought up her boyfriend. My sister, Megan, is a 22 year-old college student getting ready to graduate this spring. She was worried because her and her boyfriend are now pretty serious, and she knows they will be living different places after college. She was telling me that she felt if she wanted their relationship to continue, she would have to move in with them. Suddenly it hit me.

Project: Cohabitation Before Marriage

Citation: Brandon, Aprill. “Shacking Up Leads to Higher Divorce Rate.” Victoria Advocate. Opposing Viewpoints, March 2, 2009. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/NewsDetailsPage/NewsDetailsWindow?displa... . February 17, 2012.

What Strikes me Most:

Congratulations to Wilbur and Teresa Faiss, who are America's longest-married couple. This couple lives in Las Vegas, Nevada where they were married in April, 1933. Wilbur is now 100 years old and told KVVU TV, "I just had no idea of us ever winning the longest-married couple".

I believe that same sex marriage should be legalized because marriage should be open to anyone, regardless of what sex they are. It's not like a homosexual marriage is an aberration of what marriage is supposed to be, like some people say. Rather than marriage being required to be between two people of the opposite sex, it should be between two people who love each other, regardless of their sex. People should have the right to be happy, and if marrying someone of the same sex does that for them, so be it.

Chaz Bono has been in the news lately for a number of reasons. Despite being the first transsexual contestant on Dancing With the Stars, he has recently been in the news for another big step in his life. He recently gave an engagement ring to his girlfriend Jennifer Elia. Bono definitely made the moment special by bestowing the ring to Elia on top of the Space Needle in Seattle during filming of their show "Being Chaz".

Will I be a good father? I’m 17 years old. By the time I each 26, I want a kid and another on the way. So by then I need a house, a job, and a car. I want to be the best father I can be, and make a good living for my family.

If I get blessed with kids, I will teach them the ways of life, not how to get over. I’ll love them to the max. If things don’t work out with their mother, it is what it is, but I would like a full family for my children to grow up in. I can give them a good life, but I want a closed circle <3.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the characters, Janie and Joe are wife and husband, but the way they interact with one another seems to say otherwise. A married couple stands at a equal height, but in Janie‘s case, she seems to be put down to a lower level by Joe.

I’m still getting used to reading Their Eyes are Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. I find it kind of difficult because the language is a bit hard to understand. Janie made the right decision in Chapter 4 by running away, because she did not love that man. In my opinion I would never want to be forced to marry someone I have absolutely no interest in. I think I would have done the same thing Janie did, but then again I would stand up for myself and let my family and friends know that I don’t want to marry someone I have no interest in. That wouldn’t be fair.

Love. This is probably the most powerful word in the English language. So many wonder what it is like to feel love or when you have it what you do with it. These are questions that one can not answer for you...you have to search within your self.

The yellow mule in Chapter 6 of Their Eyes Were Watching God might represent workers and slaves during that time period.

"How he pushed open Linday's kitchen door and slept in the place one night and fought until they made coffee for his breakfast."

The workers worked very hard during that time and they were paid little money and barely ate. The mule is like a worker except it just wanders around. Slaves were also abused in the plantation as the mule was in the book.

"Anyhow a free mule in town was something new to talk about."