|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 461 - 470 of 646 matching essays
- 461: Napoleon
- ... stopped a proposal for girls to marry at thirteen and for boys to marry at fifteen. Instead, he increased the marital age to eighteen for girls and twenty for boys. The civil code also permitted divorce. On the other hand, according to John Merriman, this was also an incomplete achievement and did not satisfy everyone. Napoleon went against one of the revolution beliefs equality for women. A woman s wage went ...
- 462: Julias Caesar
- ... Sulla, Marius's enemy and leader of the Optimates, was made dictator in 82 BC, he issued a list of enemies to be executed. Although Caesar was not harmed, he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia. Refusing that order, he found it prudent to leave Rome. He did not return to the city until 78BC, after Sulla's resignation. Caesar was now 22 years old. Unable to gain office, he ...
- 463: Isadora Duncan
- ... and her father, Joseph Duncan was a banker, journalist, and poet. Her parents were both well educated, charming, and an altogether happy couple. However, their marriage fell apart soon after Isadora's birth. After the divorce, Dora was left with little money to support her four children; Augastin, Raymond, Elizabeth, and Isadora. She gave her music lessons, but still was not bringing in enough money to keep living in the same ...
- 464: Isaac Asimov
- ... how to write, but not how to tell a story" (Erlanger 22). Isaac Asimov was first married in 1942 to Gertrude Blugerman on July 26. Because of difficulties in their marriage, they were forced to divorce in 1973. Finding another love, he married again in 1973 to Janet Opal Jeppsonm, a psychiatrist, on November 30 (Galenet). Isaac had two wonderful children named David and Robyn Joan. These children were birthed by ...
- 465: Hemingway
- ... be overheard raising funds at social gatherings in America to fight the fascists back in Spain. In 1940, after the end of the Spanish Civil war Hemingway published For Whom the Bell Tolls. His long divorce with Pauline came to an end, and he married Martha Gellhorn. This would turn out to be the shortest and least understandable of his four marriages. During the Second World War, he equipped the Pilar ...
- 466: Frank Sinatra
- ... years. Many believe that he married her in order to keep his youthfulness alive. He wanted to prove to America that, in its time of change, he could relate to any generation. After his expected divorce with Farrow, Frank settled down with Barbara Marx. They were married in 1976, and remained married until his death (Sloan 1). Sinatra also had many secret affairs with other women in between and during his ...
- 467: Feminism
- ... society. The Rights of women contained other unconventional beliefs on society's standards of which Marriage was a constant theme. Marriage gave the husband legal ownership of his wife, her property, and their children. To divorce meant to leave everything behind. By being against Marriage Wollstonecraft was far ahead of her time, for in 18th century England a good marriage was the goal of most women. However for Wollstonecraft independence was ...
- 468: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... 1923, he suffered the death of his mother, and in 1924, the death of his former employer and mentor, Louis Sullivan died, and Miriam left him. In the years between the separation and the final divorce, her behavior became increasingly erratic and disturbed; her accusations cause a lot of bad publicity for Wright, even leading to his brief arrest in 1926 on charges so violating the Mann Act. (The charges were ...
- 469: Ernest Hemingway 3
- ... The Sun Also Rises, a saying from the Bible. This book, as in his other books, shows Hemingway obsessed with death. In 1927, Ernest found himself unhappy with his wife and son. They decided to divorce and he married Pauline, a woman he had been involved with while he was married to Hadley. A year later, Ernest was able to complete his war novel which he called A Farewell to Arms ...
- 470: Australian People
- ... for the parents in the fields or around the dwelling. Families that live in urban areas usually have a higher income rate. They usually live in houses. Marriage is your choice, like in the US. Divorce is allowed by legal agreement and Polygamy is outlawed. Australians have less work hours than Americans do on average. They work from 9 o clock a.m. to 6 o clock p.m. They get ...
Search results 461 - 470 of 646 matching essays
|
