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- 151: The Awakening: Edna Pontel
- ... children away, she refuses to stay at home on Tuesdays (as was the social convention of the time), she frequents races and parties. Unfortunately, her independence proves to be her downfall. Edna stays married because divorce was unheard of in those days. She wants to marry Robert, but he will not because it will disgrace her to leave her husband. No matter how much Edna exceeds social boundaries, she is held down by the will of others, despite what she wants. In todays world divorce, sadly, is almost commonplace, but in her time she would have been an outcast of her society. By the end of The Awakening, Edna feels like a possession - of her husband, of her children, and ...
- 152: All Around The Town By Mary Hi
- ... that her husband was having an affair with his patient Laurie Kenyon because he was spending so much time with her. One night Dr. Donnelly called his wife and told her that he wanted a divorce. That same night Laurie Kenyon went into one of her altered personalities and decided to go over to Dr. Donnelly's house to just talk. Along with that same night Dr. Donnelly's wife came home to also talk to her husband about the divorce. When she saw a woman in the house she went nuts and stabbed her husband to death. Laurie was so scared that she just sat their and when she finally came back to the personality ...
- 153: More's Utopia and Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
- ... upon marriage simply because marriage, which is symbolic of love, is important to them. Utopians enforce a strict minimum age for marriage, so that love will be honored and respected amongst members in a marriage. Divorce is forbidden, but in certain cases, if there is no other choice, they may receive a royal pardon from the Prince. The reasons for forbidding divorce in a marriage is simply because love is of utmost importance to Utopians. Another difference in the two societies is religion. The people of Utopia are free to worship any God they chose. There are ...
- 154: Joy Luck Club
- ... to think that way, and they focus on the future, rather then on past mistakes. The children feel that their mothers nag constantly when moral issues are concerned, for example, in the case of a divorce. An-mei prefers that her daughter talks and works out her personal problems with her husband. If Rose's husband leaves her, then ultimately she must resort to a divorce. Regardless of what the circumstances are, mothers are diligently looking out for the well being of their daughters: "...she'd do anything to warn me, to help me avoid some unknown danger" (Tan 108). The ...
- 155: The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe By
- ... and refuses to engage in marital relations with him. After ten days, Miss Amelia ends the marriage because she finds that she is unable to generate any positive feelings for Marvin. Several months after the divorce, Marvin reverts back to his initial corrupt ways and is "sent to a state penitentiary for robbing filling stations and holding up A & P stores". Just as love had changed Marvin, so too did it change Miss Amelia. In the mid 1930's, several years after Miss Amelia's divorce, Lymon, a hunchback, comes to Miss Amelia claiming to be a distant cousin. She readily provides Cousin Lymon with food and board, and eventually any material object that he desires. The people of the town ...
- 156: David Korten's "When Corporations Rule The World"
- ... any level. This feeling is also bring on many other problems. These are in the family. With out security stress levels can become very high causing many problems in the family. Is this why the divorce rate in America has climbed to unbelievable heights? "High rates of deprivation, depression, divorce, teenage pregnancy, violence, alcoholism, drug abuse, crime and suicide are among the more evident consequences in both high and low income countries" (45). One of the other main problems falls to the poor societies of ...
- 157: Reform Judaism In The 19th Cen
- ... Posen. At a young age he studied at a yeshiva and received a Talmudic education. He began to study German and secular subjects after his marriage to a woman with a modern education. After their divorce several years later, he began studying at the University of Prague and Berlin and received a doctorate from the University of Leipzig. Following service in Frankfurt -Am-Oder he became a Landesrabbiner or chief Rabbi ... gave those laws , the laws themselves cease to be operative, that they shall be observed no longer because they no longer can be observed". Thus , Holdheim said that the biblical and Talmudic laws concerning marriage, divorce and personal status are no longer relevant and the Jews in these cases should be ruled by the state government (Sasson 835). He concluded that laws between man and man should be left to the ...
- 158: Marilyn Monroe
- ... 33 covers of national magazines. She then enrolled in a 3 month modeling course, and in 1946, aware of her considerable charm and the potential it had for a career in films, Norma obtained a divorce. "Howard Hughes saw some of her photographs and expressed an interest in giving her a screen test for RKO, but Ben Lyon of 20th Century-Fox beat Hughes to the punch." (MarilynMonroeBiography,wysiwg://main.13 ... in the early morning hours of September 15th to see and record her as she posed for over two hours for her adoring fans. In the fall of 1954 Marilyn and Joe separated... later to divorce. Two years later she married again to a newly divorced Arthur Miller. Soon after her marriage they departed for London so Marilyn could start production on "The Prince and the Showgirl." She did not return ...
- 159: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... later earn him a doctorate from the University of Rostock in Germany (Burg 73). Schliemann had returned to America earlier that year, and committed a fabulously untrue series of frauds in order to obtain a divorce from his wife there (Burg 74). Schliemann arrived in New York City on March 27, 1869. Within two days he had bribed a man to record that Schliemann had been in residence in the United ... set foot on its shore for only the fourth time in his life ("Heinrich Schliemann: An Objective View of a Flawed Man of Genius"). He quickly traveled to Indiana, knowing that the state had lax divorce laws. In June he bought a home in Indiana for $1 125 and invested $12 000 in a local factory as proof of his settlement in the country. But Schliemann had been planning to marry ...
- 160: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
- ... she went out for a breath of fresh air. Francis, however, knows that Margot went over to Wilson's tent and slept with him. Even with this knowledge, "Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot to leave him." Later that morning, Francis Macomber has extreme hatred towards Wilson, making his hostilities known in the tone of his voice. It is this ... too.'" Francis Macomber's short lived, happy life is ended tragically by an accidental shot to the head by a bullet from the rifle held by his wife. Perhaps Margot shot her husband, fearing a divorce, because of his new found bravery. Whatever the answer is, Francis Macomber had a short happy life before he died.
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