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- 171: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Love and Attraction
- ... 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 ...
- 172: Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream: Imagery
- ... seems a scream." (p.3) Didions hellish descriptions of the geography reflect the culture of San Bernardino Valley. It is "where the hot wind blows and the old ways do not seem relevant, where the divorce rate is double the national average." (p.4) In this culture, the importance of the "old ways," such as a long-lasting marriage, are devalued. It is a society where the "dream [is] teaching the ... life the way I wanted to." Her life is governed by her "love" for sex and money. However, the self-indulgent culture is not without consequence. Every year it brings a "season of suicide and divorce." Everywhere there is "talk of unhappiness," (p.15) and trash cans "stuffed with the debris of family life." (p.27) There is no order due to the lack of morality. Yet, life in the valley ...
- 173: One Messy Situation (book Thei
- ... did not know what to do or say. Phoeby was kicked out of the house by her husband for the night. The next day Sam called a lawyer and got the legal papers for the divorce. He signed all of them and then gave them to Phoeby to sign. She was astonished that he would do such a thing, but she signed them. I still love you, you know that? said Phoeby to Sam. I don t care about you anymore you bitch. Just get out of my life was Sam s response. The divorce was official, and the two of them were separated. About that time the same day Janie was moving all of her things out of Teacake s house and back into hers. Please don t do ...
- 174: Madame Bovary: The Origin of Emma And Nora
- ... such a slap in the face to many Europeans that it was banned in some countries and revised in Germany so that it had a happy ending. Some people in Norway even attributed the rising divorce rate to this play! What is it that drove both of these authors to be such harsh social critics? What exactly were their views? And what drove these two authors to create two of their ... fell victim to excessive romantic ideals, such as those portrayed in Emma, and had a failed marriage with an older woman named Elisa Schlesinger. His personal attitudes about love are portrayed through Emma. After his divorce, he entered into a relationship with the poet Louise Colet that was mainly based on letter writing, just as Emma's affairs with Rodolphe and Leon rely heavily on letter writing. In fact, Flaubert and ...
- 175: King Henry VIII
- ... Boleyn. When the pope (Clement VII) would not annul his marriage, Henry turned against Wolsey, deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon announced that he had married Anne Boleyn. The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to Rome ... monks, but the Pilgrimage of Grace, as it was called, was put down. Although Henry reformed the government of the church, he refused to allow any changes to be made in its doctrines. Before his divorce he had opposed the teachings of Martin Luther in a book that had gained for him from the pope the title Defender of the Faith--a title the monarch of England still bears. After the ...
- 176: Lena Horne
- ... also the musical revue Blackbirds of 1939." When she finally got up the courage to leave Louis, he deiced to take her son away from her. Page 2 She lost custody of Teddy when the divorce was final and has always regretted not fighting harder for her son. After her divorce she began singing with Noble Sissies Society Orchestra. Through out their tour she had to endure harsh racism having to sleep in tenement boarding houses, the bus and even once in circus grounds. Soon ...
- 177: Adolescent Suicide
- ... between these, an important incident, can also trigger these thoughts or behavior. Students who have already had a lot of stress in their lives are going to be at a higher risk, also. Stressors include divorce, parent arguments, family difficulty, rejection, abuse, (physical and/or sexual), violence, (i.e. rape or incest), feared pregnancy, and alcohol or drug misuse. A loss of a meaningful person, whether it is through death, divorce, a break up, or suicide, chronic depression or metal illness in parents or self, and pressure for perfection are all tension causing issues that may be the reason behind the suicide. Related to school, the ...
- 178: Ireland or United Kingdom?
- ... all primary education is run by religious groups and is supported by state funds. The Irish people are deeply religious. Most of the inhabitants of the republic are Roman Catholic. As a result, laws on divorce and on censorship of films and literature are more restrictive than in most other countries. The Constitution of Ireland guarantees freedom of worship to all religions. There are small Protestant communities whose members are prominent ... demand, and a new leader rose to rally the people- Charles Stewart Parnell, a Protestant landowner and defender of the small farmers. His fame did not last for long, for he was involved in a divorce case, and Home Rule Action was delayed. Soon began their struggle for independence. When World War I broke out, Catholic and Protestant Irish joined together. But many others joined the Irish volunteers, formed in 1913 ...
- 179: Sex, Lies And Conversation Why
- ... talk more in public situations, while women tend to talk more at home. She follows up by talking about how most of the women that divorced gave lack of communication as the reason for the divorce while only a few men cited it as a reason. Most wives want their husbands to be, foremost, conversational partners; someone they can share their feelings and opinions with. Many men, however, do not share this expectation with their wives. Given this, the author suggested this is one of the main reasons for the escalating divorce rate in America. She goes on by comparing the difference in behavior between boys and girls and how they only interact with their own gender. Girls tend to talk much amongst each other, often trading ...
- 180: Godesses,whores,wives,and Slav
- ... to schools to learn rhetoric and also exercise, women were not formally taught. As far as political power, women had none. Only free citizen men had authority. Women were given some legal rights dealing with divorce. If a husband was found guilty of adultery, the wife could divorce him. If divorced because the man was at fault, he had to repay her dowry. Women rarely went to public functions or even to draw water from the city well.A wife was to send ...
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