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    traditional view of marriage. He believes that Esther will abandon her poetic sense once she has a child. On the other hand, Esther does not contend with the idea of marrying him and having a child. While she did initially have a traditional viewpoint of marriage, her

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    Ryan Lewis Can you ever recall a time when you heard a song reaching out to you with lyrics that literally called out to you? Same Love by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis does exactly this. The song was written in 2013 during legalization of same sex marriage in the state of Washington. The song not only reached the lives of those in Washington but reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs in the United States and number 1 in New Zealand and Australia. Taking a closer look at the lyrcis, the audience

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    In eighteenth century France, the ambiguous terms of “public life” versus “private life” affected the everyday life of politicians, entertainers, and the private lives of many married couples. In Jeffery Merrick’s essay “Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: The Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secret” he endeavored to portray the public’s fixation with private dealings and affairs was partially due to the family being perceived as the model for relations between

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    Christian Churches and Marriage Equality

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    In America, marriage is generally regarded as a constant, never changing commitment that has stood firm throughout the ages. However, this image is perhaps more distorted than most realize. In reality, marriage has evolved through the years, mostly for the better, but occasionally it takes a turn for the worse. The first records we have of marriage are from the Bible. Sometime before 500 BC, Abraham was married his half-sister, Sarah. To gain riches and political power, he forced her to sleep with

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    Position Paper on Family Arais Farah 14194856 Family is comprised of a group of two or more individuals related by birth, marriage, and or adoption residing together in a household. Family is an social institution which functions in nurturing both emotionally and financially. This definition of family is the most definitive and sensible definition of family because it describes all aspects of family, and the emotional needs of everyone making up the family. Families that meet the description of

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    The Two Noble Kinsmen

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    the end of the play. Gender expression—and certainly sexual expression—in the play can be interpreted in many ways. If looking at it from a modern day point of view, the kinsmen were not gender specific and their words could be construed as a homosexual relationship. When this came up in the discussion, the biggest qualm was finding a reason for Arcite and Palamon to love a woman instead of each other. When I read the play, I read it as a very

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    lesbian but they can’t do anything because being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Trans is legal in the Democratic Republic of Congo, if they are not married it is okay, but if they got married, then they will be broken the law and they will be killed. Homosexuals regularly face prosecution under laws banning public indecency, in a central African state of 77 million people, a report by the US State Department in 2010 found that homosexuality was a “cultural taboo” The republic of Congo’s struggle, some small

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    transgender people and attempts to change God-given precepts of gender by teaching children that our gender can be chosen according to our will. Francis told Catholic News Service that as a priest, bishop and pope, he welcomed transgender people with homosexual tendencies, and "helped them draw closer to the Lord, although some couldn't. But [he] never abandoned them." However, the pope said that while on his foreign trips to Georgia and other countries including his native country Argentina, he noted

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    judged for such a large and contrasting family. There is no true predictions of how a polygamous family environment could affect children negatively or positively. However, having multiple fathers or mothers could altered the child’s position on marriages. The children could develop different vistas that could counteract on each other. It is a

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    recently. I will utilize three types of relationships, love ,marriage and homosexual relationship that T.S.Eliot mobilized in the poem The Waste land .It is through the sections of the poem each particular episode delineates one fact about the trivial and unsuccessful relationship .The representation of these relationships is unproductive and unfruitful. Keywords: The Meaningless Relationships, Love relationship, Marriage relationship, and homosexual relationship. 2 The Meaningless Relationship:

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