Charity Royall In Edith Wharton's 'Summer'

Due to the high success rate of Oxfam, they now have over 90 stores all over the world and over 100,000 employees and volunteers. However that doesn’t include the people which participate in fundraisers: such as fun runs, festivals, cycling and running events to support the charity. The Oxfam Headquarters is located in Cowley, Oxford. As a multinational charitable organisation, Oxfam has many supporters, nevertheless, they still want to better themselves and help more people. As they’re a charity based organisation, their aim isn’t to make a profit but to make a lot of money which they will then spend on helping people.

While the lustful lover of Marvell’s poem also bases his “love” on physical beauty, the speaker in Herrick’s poem neither condones nor condemns this societal standard, but simply acknowledges its existence. Because he realizes beauty plays a huge role in society’s standards for marriage, he urges the virgins he addresses to “go marry” (14). He explains that they “may for ever tarry” if they do not marry “when youth and blood are warmer” and they are in their “prime” (16,10,15). After all, who wants to marry some gnarly old woman?

This stands in stark contrast to what Miss Elizabeth Bennett wants. Mrs Bennett wants her daughters to marry because it’s thea only way for them to solidfy that they will have food on their plates and a roof over their head. Mr. Collins is Mr. Bennetts brother and is set to inherit his estate when he dies. He comes to visit in the middle of the book and his main intentions are to ask on of the daughters to marry him and to observe what he will in time own. Mrs. Bennett says in response to all this “Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousnd a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” (57, Austen) The single man she speaks of his Mr. Collins, the Bennett kids uncle. Austen describes Mr. Collins as a self retious kind of man who thinks he is above the Benntt’s just because he is set to inherrit their estate. This gives him a villeness quality. Austen is commenting on the blindness of Mrs. Bennett to the qualitys of Marraige. She only shes Mr. Collins as money but Elizabeth sees him as a bad person to spend the rest of her life with and theirfore turns down his marraige purposal. Which causes trouble between her and her mother. This is the best example of the contrast in what the two women see as the meaning of Marriage.

In the short story, “The Other Paris”, Mavis Gallant narrates a social commentary with the use of satire, irony, and characterization of the two characters Howard and Carol. The two young people, blinded by society’s expectations, decide to get married after three weeks of knowing each other. Carol, a twenty-two year old woman, is under several assumptions about how love and marriage because of a series of “helpful” college lectures. Harold, in an effort to not be a person without a partner, proposes to Carol as fast as possible. Throughout the passage, Mavis Gallant ridicules the awkwardness of Harold and Carol and how society pressures young people with the idea of a proper marriage.

In Ethan Frome, Ethan lives in an unhappy marriage with a cruel woman, but due to his responsibilities, he cannot live with his true love, Mattie. In the Age of Innocence movie, Newland and Ellen have feelings for each other, but neither can leave their unhappy marriages without being ridiculed by society. Wharton was also in an unpleasant marriage, but she was brave enough to leave her unhappiness, even though she knew it would bring on harsh criticism from her peers. In her time, marriages were not about love at all, but were about bringing important families together. Wharton shows through her novels that when people are not happy with these marriages, they are often too afraid of becoming an outcast of society to leave their marriage and pursue true love. However, she shows through her own life that if one is brave enough to stand up and accept criticism, one can still live a happy life of true

“Mother” starts her story rather ferociously telling her husband, “I ain’t goin’ into the house till you tell me what them men are doin’ over there in the field” (Freeman, 10). Unfortunately, Adoniram Penn is building a new barn on the site set aside for her new home 40 years earlier. “Father” tells her he wants her to “go into the house...an’tend to [her] own affairs” (Freeman, 10). Mary Wilkins Freeman purposefully writes Adoniram telling Sarah her place is in the house with the children and he wants her to stay there. Freeman wants her women readers to relate to this situation of male dominance. When Sarah does finally revolt the significance of that revolt will have a deeper meaning for Freeman’s readers, they want Sarah to outwit her husband. Adoniram does not quite recognize the woman he married for who she really is. Sarah Penn was more than willing to take on the role of wife and mother as long as he fulfilled his role as provider for the family and his promise of a new house was still an option. When he went back on his word of building her home Adoniram received a glimpse of the true woman he married. When the reader looks closely at her there is a strength of character Sarah Penn cannot hide forever. Freeman writes that Sarah “looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never the will of another” (Freeman, 10).

Ronald Mcdoland House Charities (RMHC) has been running Since 1974 they have created created many programs that strengthen families that are going through difficult times. RMHC provides important resources and compassionate care to children and their families who are being served by leading hospitals worldwide.

Edith Wharton uses the diction of a fantastical republic and an analogy to emphasize how Lily and Selden’s relationship is secretive and it is not possible for them to marry in her book The House of Mirth. At this point in the novel Lily has financial difficulties and must marry someone who can provide her with money

Though instead of being grateful, she listens to Emma and refuses his proposal which is seen as an enormous shock and appalling judgment by her. We are then presented with Miss Taylor, who was a governess for the Woodhouse household. Though Miss Taylor marries, and moves away, she is still considered as a very close relation to the Woodhouse’, which is again an odd case for this society. A

The Charity Organization Society was based in the scientific movement of organizations. Workers believed that charity work needed more definition and organization and that charity should be focused more on individual need rather than as a whole population. Focusing on individual need was intended to improve relief operations while making resources more efficient. They also intended to eliminate public outdoor relief. With the promotion of more organization and efficiency the new Charity Organization Societies were born. Trattner states that these new requirements for organization and efficiency spread so “rapidly that within 6 years 25 cities had such organizations and by the turn of the century there were some 138 of them in

This passage demonstrates how deeply rooted wealth and marriage are to Lily’s character. Lily cannot survive without money and she can never find a perfect marriage. At the time of this passage Lily is

“But Mrs Bennet’s obsession with marrying off her daughters at all costs stems from real practical parental concern—if they do not marry, they may starve, especially given that Mr Bennet himself has made no provision for his daughters' futures but seems instead to be in a form of denial—he retreats to his library” (Jones). Readers sympathize with Mrs. Bennet’s aggravating personality when they realize her actions stem from a place of worry for her daughetrs’ future. Since Mrs. Bennet is a woman, she can provide no other form of security but marriage for her daughters. Mrs. Bennet’s actions also originate from a deeply personal part of her life- her marriage. Compared to other men during this time period, Mr. Bennet has done little to give his daughters a financially sound future and sees the search for a husband as silly and dismisses it. Mrs. Bennet has no other way to support her daughters, causing her to obsess over the idea and constantly push her daughters to act proper in order to get a husband. “Mrs. Bennet makes herself ridiculous in her attempts to be overly feminine; she fancies herself a victim of others’ cruelty, constantly complaining that no one regards her ‘nerves’. She has little respect for decorum…her marriage, built on physical attraction, is now a loveless union” (Guggenheim). Mrs. Bennet’s desperation to find her daughters’ spouses can be attributed to the unaffectionate

Charlotte is a neighbour and friend of Elizabeth, who is older and unmarried at the beginning of the story. She is simple in her values and does not question a women's role in society. Charlotte's main achievement in the story occurred when she was able to secure a proposal of marriage from Mr. Collins after he had been rejected by Elizabeth, who asked why she accepted. Charlotte explained "I am not a romantic you know. I never was. I only ask for a comfortable home; considering Mr Collins's character, connections, situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is fair, as most people can boast on entering a marriage state" By this Charlotte is questioning Elizabeth's values, believing she is over her head in her ideas. She is simply happy with what she has been dealt

Charity: “An organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need”

Elizabeth’s snobbish pride hinders her from understanding her friend Charlotte Lucas’s best interests in regard to her desire to marry Mr. Collins. Elizabeth “prides herself on being a perceptive “studier of character,” as Mr. Bingley calls her, but how well does she really know her very good friend Charlotte…” when she “responds with amazement and horror” upon hearing that Charlotte wants to marry a man who is “dull”, “pompous” and “physically unattractive”. Elizabeth’s excessive pride blinds her from recognizing that Charlotte is “not much interested in men and very much interested in marriage” (Moler, 26). Elizabeth could have ruined the prospects of Charlotte’s marriage because of her self-importance in the way she