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- 161: The Awakening: Edna
- ... are not necessarily the right ways, but at least she tries to change it to make it better. The acceptable behaviors of the time in which she lived worked against her. 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. She exceeds the social boundaries of the day by going her ... she and Robert were to be together. The only solution she sees is to commit suicide. That would not happen in this day and time either, because she would have been able to get a divorce and marry Robert with no special stigma. Edna could not get what she thought she wanted and ended up with no responsibilities.
- 162: Tinker v. Des Moines, Kuhlmieir v. Hazelwood
- ... Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. In 1983 the principal of Hazelwood East High School removed two articles from the school newspaper. He objected to these articles because they described three students' experiences with pregnancy and divorce. He felt that topics such as these would be inappropriate for student readers. The school board voted in favor of the principal's action. Cathy Kuhlmeier and several other students sued the school district in ... with Cathy Kuhlmeier. I am not saying that certain subjects such as obscene and non-school related topics shouldn't be censored, because they should. However, in Kuhlmeier's case, I feel that pregnancy and divorce are issues that face students at school. Because of this, I believe that the principal's actions were wrong, and that the articles should have been published. In comparison, both of these cases shared some ...
- 163: Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
- ... Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. In 1983 the principal of Hazelwood East High School removed two articles from the school newspaper. He objected to these articles because they described three students' experiences with pregnancy and divorce. He felt that topics such as these would be inappropriate for student readers. The school board voted in favor of the principal's action. Cathy Kuhlmeier and several other students sued the school district in ... with Cathy Kuhlmeier. I am not saying that certain subjects such as obscene and non-school related topics shouldn't be censored, because they should. However, in Kuhlmeier's case, I feel that pregnancy and divorce are issues that face students at school. Because of this, I believe that the principal's actions were wrong, and that the articles should have been published. In comparison, both of these cases shared some ...
- 164: 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 ...
- 165: The Awakening
- ... 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 today's 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 ...
- 166: Rabbit, Run Happy Endings
- ... playing golf every Tuesday." (Updike, 128) Even Ruth saw that Rabbit was out for himself. That is why he had to run away from his wife, he needed to do things for himself first. "To divorce oneself from society, to exist without roots, to set out on that uncharted journey with the rebellious imperatives of the self The life where a man must go until he is beat where he must ... in the fifties. For Rabbit, his values were sex, being in control, having someone in his life that understood him, and finding himself and his true meaning in life. "What is consequent therefore is the divorce of man from his values, the liberation of the self from the Super-Ego of society. The only hip morality is to do what one feels wherever and whenever it is possible." (Mailer, 100). This ...
- 167: The Music School
- ... and fear of rejection by the occurrences around him. Such occurrences include the death of his friend, the computer expert, the music school where his child studies, the Catholic Eucharistic ceremony, the psychiatric visits and divorce to his wife. "I do not understand the connection but there seems to be one." Updike gives us all these details in single, detached paragraphs that does not quite possess logical connections. Every detail was ... to replace time by space. With a touch of his brush, Updike highlights certain brushstrokes which conveys the meaning of the story in a more clear and concise way. We are all pilgrims, faltering towards divorce. Some get no further than mutual confession, which becomes an addiction, and exhausts them. Some move on, into violent quarrels and physical blows; and succumb to sexual excitement. This statement briefly states how he has ...
- 168: Medea's Revenge
- ... all legal proceedings. In some ways, these Greek women were almost like slaves. There is a definite relationship between this subordination of women and what transpires in the play. Jason decides that he wants to divorce Medea and marry the princess of Corinth, casting Medea aside as if they had never been married. This sort of activity was acceptable by Greek standards, and shows the subordinate status of the woman, who ... carry out her plan, since she accomplished two different goals through their deaths. The murder of Medea's children is certainly caused in part by her barbarian origins. The main reason that Jason decides to divorce Medea to marry the princess is that he will have a higher status and more material wealth being married to the king's daughter. (553-554) In other words, Jason believes that Medea's barbarian ...
- 169: A Man for All Seasons: Conscience
- ... This trait differs in intensity throughout the play in each of the main characters. Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII show their unchangeable conscience, by their actions. More refuses to accept the King's divorce of Catherine, and marriage to Anne. The King appoints More to Lord Chancellor, hoping to persuade Sir Thomas to accept his marriage. King Henry wants everyone to accept his divorce. He believes he is right for going against Pope's ruling, and he wants all his royal subjects, and men of popularity to accept his decision. This is the King's "individual conscience" talking . He ...
- 170: Princess Diana 3
- ... Prince William, second in line to the throne, continued to be regarded as a member of the Royal family. The Queen, Prince, and Princess of Wales agreed that Diana was to be known after the divorce as "Diana, Princess of Wales", without the style of "Her Royal Highness". Diana continued to live at Kensington Palace with her office based there. After her marriage, Diana became involved in the official duties of ... so that she could 'combine a meaningful public role with a more private life'. After Diana and Charles were separated, the Princess continued to appear with the Royal family on major national occasions. Following her divorce, Diana resigned most of her charity and other patronages. The Princess remained patron of Centrepoint, English National Ballet, Leprosy Mission and National AIDS Trust, and as President of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond ...
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