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    The first paragraph of Katharine Brush’s “Birthday Party” misleadingly creates an image of a couple that is in love and happy to be together. However, Brush’s use of various literary devices reveals the true nature of the couple’s relationship. Soon it becomes evident that while the husband is outwardly hostile towards his wife, she is very fixated on pleasing him and keeping up the appearance of a happy marriage. It is revealed to be the husband’s birthday when the wife’s “little surprise” is brought

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    are brought on by many different factors that include: for love, for money, for climbing social status, escapism, survival, etc. In Jane Austen’s novels, she focuses on the importance of marriage in her world because she wanted to emphasize how marriage is the most important life event of a woman as this would determine her place in society. Persuasion shows readers good and bad examples of marriage: the amiable Crofts and other couples such as Sir Walter & Lady Elliot and the Smiths. Jane Austen

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    Marriage is crucial to all adults. Couples need to value their marriage so that they can remain happy and enjoy life while they are married. For a family to be well established, the couples need to place more value in their marriages. The reason why most families break up is that most of the couples do not value or prioritize their family issues. Most of the couples take their personal interests as their first priority, which make them to neglect their families and this becomes the source of conflict

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    Magi People buy gifts for each other on Christmas as a sign of love. But when you are poor and do not have a lot, buying things for people may be difficult. Selling things to get money to buy other people things shows unselfish love. When a poor couple buys each other presents and they don’t have much to offer it shows the true meaning of love. Della and Jim are a young married couple without much to offer. They both have a strong love for a specific item they possess. “It is the day before Christmas

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    comedies focus on the beginning of a relationship, which sometimes happens at the end of a past relationship, and ends at the honeymoon stage. Movies rarely show a couple going through a rough patch in their relationship who find a way to work things out and still want to be together at the end. My favorite quote from the film is “a happy marriage is based on faith and if you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.” This what the

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    Eric Swanson asked individuals about their marriage and their responses were surprising. “Amazingly, and consistently nearly 97 percent of married couples answer, “very happy” or “pretty happy… A mere 3-4 percent today would say they are “not too happy” (Swanson). True love is supposed to last a lifetime, but for the three percent remaining of unhappy couples results in divorce. Divorce is a negative decision because children develop stress and unstable futures; nevertheless we can solve the issues of

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    Many people argue wether Romeo and Juliet is a true love story due to the fact that they got married in the matter of less than 24 hours from the time they met. The big question is if it is true love? Is it love at first sight or not? Some people believe in love at first sight but many do not. What does it take for two people to engage in true everlasting love? Different psychologists, marriage counselors, married couples might all have a different outlook on this. There is no way Romeo and

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    though, each contains at least 2 people. Displayed are friends, family and couples, out and about living their lives, all are young, and at the very heart of the image, two bottles of Coca Cola, dripping with condensation, reading its classic slogan “It’s the real thing”. There are a couple of groups that this type of ad seems to really connect with and sink in. The first being the young, the reckless and those longing for love. Then there are those who want to feel that way, again. An older person

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    "How Will We Love" is a documentary that takes place when Chris Brickler begins to interview his grandparents after their 63rd anniversary. He wanted to show the film to his family to continue their legacy. As he continues this interview, seeing the dynamics of their relationship pushes him to pursuit research of how other relationships exist and face pressure of failure. The film begins to explores the different dynamics involved in love, and interaction that occurs among/within heterosexual relationships

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    comedic element: Young Lovers working to overcome obstacles. Much Ado about Nothing predominately revolves around the endeavours of two couples, the younger of which in more distinction; Claudio and Hero. As many could say that another element of Shakespearean comedies could be love, it would seem a more defined term is the love between two younger people, this young couple in particular then faces hindrances that are thrown their way, eventually working through them. Whereas there is still Beatrice and

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