Tangier's Journey

Within the realm of history, a source of evidence is essential in order to differentiate the fact from fiction. This is why a primary source is so vital! Because, a primary source provides the reader with direct evidence of an event or a speech; giving them a better understanding of the material. The only problem is: these sources do not provide the full facts, leaving the readers with a plethora of questions. Don’t get me wrong though, the readers should be asking a lot of questions! Because, with all of those questions, the reader can be engaged with the content in order to find some concrete evidence.

The Wife of Bath had five husbands, and she believes that women should have all the power in the marriage. This is very important to her tale, and the Wife of Bath shows just how smart she was, manipulating her

From their origins to 1500, the attitudes of both Christian and Muslims toward trade shifted as conditions in the Christian and Islamic worlds changed. In the beginning, Christian attitudes were more negative, while Muslims tended to encourage and respect trade and merchants. Over time, Muslims became more like early Christians in that they were suspicious of traders whereas the Christians became more like the early Muslims, equating merchants (at least honest ones) with doing God’s work, reflecting the changed importance of trade in the high Middle Ages in Europe.

In the 1970’s the average family had a wife that would take care of all of the cooking, the cleaning, everything concerning their kids, and even caring for her husband too. They did all of this without complaining, while their husband was at work. In those times nothing less was expected from them. In the article “Why I Want a Wife” Brady uses ethos, logos, and pathos to illustrate her opinion of what a wife do in a marriage, in which she infers that wives do too much for their families.

When the wives are first shown on screen they appear to be scared and powerless. Their role in the escape plan was to stay on the war rig and let Furiosa do all the heavy lifting. However, during the course of the film, their true strengths are revealed as

Document two is written by an Arab geographer whose name is Ibn Khurdadhbih. It discusses the Jewish merchants who travel “From West to East and from East to West, sometimes by land, sometimes by sea.”(Document 2) They have many trade goods in including eunuchs, slaves, silk, fur and spices. On their journey they trade items

During the time that The Thousand and One Nights was written, polygamy, a man having multiple wives at the same time, was a very common practice for men. According to “Connor Prairie Interactive History Park,” despite this being such a common practice, women did not always agree with the practice of polygamy and often had horrible disputes with other wives. Because of these sometimes unruly disputes, women were thought of as sinful and promiscuous (Hartman). King Shahryar in The Thousand and One Nights upheld the standard role of men during that time, but Shahrazad rejected the cultural standard placed on her by practically forcing the king to live a monogamous lifestyle.

When thinking about the history of the world, one must always consider that merchants as well as trade have played an immerse role in shaping the world as it is today. They are responsible for many of the cross-cultural interactions that we have had in the past. Christianity and Islam, the two predominant religions of the world today, have both grown and spread through merchants and trade also. These two chief religions both have attitudes towards merchants and trade that have either developed or decreased overtime. According to these documents, from up to the year 1500, Christianity went from a negative view of merchants and trade to a positive view while Islam went from a positive view to a negative view, but both sides

The fourth one was “bad” because this husband cheated on her. Her last husband Johnny, "the one I took for love and not for wealth…"(339), was bad because Dame Alice handed her power to her husband along with all of her money and land. He last husband also became abusive towards her, leaving her deaf in one ear. The Wife of Bath’s prologue proves that that she is only happy when she maintains complete dominance over her partner.

In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, many characters are forced to overcome obstacles in their personal lives. Laila and Mariam, the two main characters, find themselves married to the same man, Rasheed. Both had a good relationship with Rasheed at the beginning of their marriages. Soon they found that they were both being abused by Rasheed. Mariam and Laila overcome the abuse by taking matters into their own hands. Khaled Hosseini introduces the reader to the ways many Muslim men and women believe that marriages should be private and that how the man treats his wife or wives is his business. Many relationships find themselves trying to overcome an abusive marriage.

Wealth and property feature heavily in the wife’s portrayal of marriage and along with the issue of her independence is responsible for many of her marital conflicts. The first three husbands "riche and olde" were married each for "hir land and hir tresoor" then discarded as the Wife looks for other prospects. When one of these husbands tries to restrict the Wife’s spending she refuses to let him be both "maister of my body and of my good" so refuses sexual favours in return for her freedom as she will not become a mere possession. She generalizes that women "love no man that taketh or keepth charge" suggesting an element of independence and individualism in 14th century marriage. The wife resents being controlled; she

The truth of the matter is, she is ironically protesting the endless work and every imaginable deed for her husband and kids. I believe the wife does indeed have many duties that the husband does not worry about. The way she uses repetition of the phrase, “I want a wife.” (Brady 108-110) is clever because it gives the reader a sense of a prolonging event similar to the endless amount of work a wife must do. Brady also includes many examples of what a wife does for her husband and by this listing and repetition, she does a good job at making the reader feel the feeling of drag when reading to make the duties seem endless. Wives are left with the other services that must be done while the husband is out working. If both of them, the husband and wife, work then an agreement must be created in order for them to work equally and not leave all of the

This eventually led to her committing suicide in an attempt to give her daughter the strength that she lacked. Secondly, these women, especially the latter wives and the concubines, lose a lack of identity. For example, when these women marry, they are referred to as which wife they are. Even the wives refer to each other as first wife, second wife, etc.

She picks her husbands for money and looks. In the relationship she had she only care about the money. She rules the house and the relationship for 3 men. “And God be blest that I have married five, of which I have picked out the very best, both for their hanging purse and for their chest.” The Wife of Bath rules her relationship.

Aunt Lydia, one of the women who trains the Handmaids, once mentioned that, “It's not the husbands you have to watch out for...it's the Wives. You should always try to imagine what they must be feeling. Of course, they will resent you. It is only natural. Try to feel for them” (Atwood, 46).