...Why did I get Married, the Tyler Perry film starring Tasha Smith, Janet Jackson, Sharon Leal, Jill Scott, and Tyler Perry himself is the story about the struggle married couples to remain faithful to one another, while focusing on achieving their goals. Each couple participates in a Mountain retreat that takes place in Colorado Mountains in order to focus on the nature of their marriage, reflect on their love for one another. This provided a break from career, daily routine, to reflect on the state of their marriage, while resolving existing issues, dealing with conflict, while maintaining their love for each other. This movie is a contemporary view of African American lifestyles, culture, and life’s issues. Contemporary viewing in African American media is the direct result of how African Americans have worked hard, to overcome past struggles thus changing culture, ideals, beliefs, creating a new way for future generations. This movie can be seen from a variety of areas, such as education level and socioeconomic class conflict. This can also be seen from the gender perspective, as a rival between female behaviour in a relationship, and male behaviour in a relationship. Class, and education can be further analyzed into the lifestyle that is influenced by it, creating new concerns; hence the marriage problems that differ within education and economic class levels. While numerous other theories; sociological, semiotics, Marxist and others can be employed to analyze this film; I...
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...Why Did I Get Married Essay Introduction According to (Brown, Emily: 2001) “Couples therapy is a form of psychological therapy used to treat relationship distress for both individuals and couples.” The purpose of couple’s therapy is to restore a better level of functioning in couples who experience relationship distress. The reasons for distress can include poor communication skills, incompatibility, or a broad spectrum of psychological disorders that include domestic violence, alcoholism, depression and anxiety. The focus of couple’s therapy is to identify the presence of dissatisfaction and distress in the relationship, and to devise and implement a treatment plan with objectives designed to improve or alleviate the presenting symptoms and restore the relationship to a better and healthier level of functioning. Couples therapy can assist persons who are having complaints of intimacy, sexual, and communication difficulties. Why Did I Get Married? Is about four couples who are old college and now best friends, who go away together for a week in the mountains to reconnect and sort out any marital problems in asking the question ‘Why did I get married.’ The film focuses on the trials of marriage. It is an intimate story about the difficulty of maintaining a solid love relationship in modern times. During a trip to the picturesque snow-capped mountains of Colorado, the eight married college friends have gathered for their annual seven-day reunion. However, the cosy mood is shattered...
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...Johanna Perez The Long March It began in 1838 a long line of Cherokee Indians Trudged through the Georgia countyside. These Native Americans were heading for the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. It was not the Cherokees that chose to make, this long, difficult and kaotic trip. The U.S government forced them out of their homes and set them on this long and disturbing journey. A few Indians traveled by water. Most traveled by land. Woman carried their babies and the sick and elderly traveled by wagons. In fact A gentleman by the name of George Hicks led one of the cherokee groups in fact before departing he sent a letter to the leader of the departing cherokees and stated that it was with great sorrow that they were being forced by the white man out of the state away from home were they were born and raised and sent him a farewell.The trip to the Indian territory took about six months. They were about sixteen thousand cherokees that marched through the rain, snow, and bitter cold. Traveling about one thousand {text:soft-page-break} miles away. Traveling without food, clothing,or shelter. How horrific it was for the four thousand people that died on this route and in doing so never had a proper burial they had to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Having to bury forteen and fifteen people at every stop. How? We ask the U.S could not be bothered to share America's riches with a different race which whom they viewed as inferior and ...
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...C Fern Lab Report July 15, 2009 The life cycle of land plants is characterized by an alteration between two phases or generation that is morphologically and functionally different. The gametophytes generation is the sexual phase of the life cycle. C-Ferns have independent haploid and diploid generations, distinct sexual types within the gametophyte generation, and they rapidly develop to full sexual maturity within two weeks. They also possess a variety of distinct visual phenotypes that can be used to perform genetic crosses (Hickok and Warne 1998). A C-Fern sporophyte is a regular diploid plant. This plant undergoes meiosis on special cells on the underside of leaves, resulting in 1N (haploid) spores. The spores undergo mitosis to produce gametophytes, of which there are two separate genders. One gender is the hermaphrodite, which is rather large and heart-shaped, and produces both eggs and a small amount of sperm. The other gametophyte gender is a very small, club-shaped male, which produces sperm only. There are no female-only gametophytes (Hickok and Warne 1998). Germination occurs three to four days and full sexual maturity is attained within six days after germination. At maturity, the gametophyte consists of a small, simple essentially flat thallus with rhizoids, vegetative cells and sexual organs (archegonia and antheridia). Archegonia are female organs that contain one egg each that lies at the base of a small neck that sticks out from the surface...
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...spectrum of psychological disorders that include domestic violence, alcoholism, depression and anxiety. The focus of couple’s therapy is to identify the presence of dissatisfaction and distress in the relationship, and to devise and implement a treatment plan with objectives designed to improve or alleviate the presenting symptoms and restore the relationship to a better and healthier level of functioning. Couples therapy can assist persons who are having complaints of intimacy, sexual, and communication difficulties. Why Did I Get Married? Is about four couples who are old college and now best friends, who go away together for a week in the mountains to reconnect and sort out any marital problems in asking the question ‘Why did I get married.’ The film focuses on the trials of marriage. It is an intimate story about the difficulty of maintaining a solid love relationship in modern times. During a trip to the picturesque snow-capped mountains of Colorado, the eight married college friends have gathered for their annual seven-day reunion. However, the cosy mood is shattered when the group comes face-to-face with one pair’s infidelity. As secrets begin to reveal, each couple begins questioning the validity of their own marriage. Over the course of the week, the couples battle with issues of commitment, betrayal and forgiveness and examine their lives as individuals and as committed couples. Tyler Perry's film explores the resultant emotional impact that fidelity and love have upon the...
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...Elizabeth Wurtzel: Why I Will Be Wed - NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/XBIyo5 SUNDAYREVIEW | OPINION Getting Married Is Easy By ELIZABETH WURTZEL SEPT. 20, 2014 I DID not expect to fall in love at 46, and I did not expect to plan a wedding at 47. Except that I always expect to be surprised. I would love to say that I don’t know why I never got around to this until now, but that would be a big fat lie. I never got married because who would want to? I was the worst girlfriend ever. And yes, I am the crazy exgirlfriend you hear about. I had no regard for time of day or time of year or time at all. Perhaps I just had no regard. It’s not like I called boyfriends at 2 a.m. because something was wrong: I did it because I liked to talk in the dark when there was nothing good to watch on TV anymore. I also called when something was wrong, and something was always wrong, because I could work my way into serious bother about something said in passing between the appetizer and the entree the night before, and that would turn into obsessive thoughts and long, intense conversations that would stretch across business hours and interrupt meetings all the next day. I needed — always absolutely needed — to get things resolved when it was not at all convenient. I called so repeatedly that I was impossible to ignore. When technology enabled me to be demanding in many formats, my long voice mail messages became longer text messages and the longest emails. I was often hysterically...
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...home, I always dreamt of a big church wedding with the beautiful white gown with the long train. The older I got, I realized that dream would never come true because I was not baptized and I did not have any sacraments. In order to get married through the Catholic Church, a person must have all their sacraments prior to getting the sacrament of marriage. I guess you could say, my dreams were shattered and I never thought about the big church wedding again. Many years later, when attending a class to have my son baptized when he was baby, the Deacon mentioned something that I thought I would never hear, “you can still be baptized.” At that moment, I realized I was about to want to know what I had to do in order to start the process of marrying my husband through church. Getting married through church was a big deal to my husband and I now that we knew it was possible. As a little girl, everyone wanted a fairy tale wedding and to live happily ever after. Being a Catholic, there are many rules to abide by in order to get married through church. A person must have all their sacraments. I did not know I could still be baptized and get my other sacraments even though I was older than most kids were. My daughters were taking their classes to get their sacrament of baptism and Holy Communion. I decided that it was time to get moving after I found out that I could still be baptized and marry my husband in a church. I had mixed emotions since I was a shy person, I did not...
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...Annulment is the process by which a Court states that a marriage never legally existed. An annulment must be based on mental illness, fraud, forced consent, physical incapacity to consummate the marriage, lack of consent to underage marriage or bigamy. Children of a marriage annulled for bigamy or mental illness are legitimate. In annulment cases, the court may award custody of children of the marriage and require payment of child support and support of a party. Annulment is different from divorce. Marriage is a sacrament that joins the couple together under the eyes of God and legally under the state. When a couple decides to get married it should be for life, however sometimes couples choose to get married in a haste than later realize that they do not want to stay in the marriage. If a couple has been married under the Roman Catholic Church and the marriage did not work out then they cannot remarry in the church unless they had an annulment, even if they have already had a legal divorce. Many couples decide to marry for the wrong reasons, for example most young couples have parents who do not approve of them having a relationship at a young age. If they believe that they are in love...
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...When you look at the titles Why I Like Country Music and Elbow Room you would not expect any likeness between the two stories other than the fact that they have come out of the same book by James A. McPherson, however, there are many similarities along with many dissimilarities. The characters in both stories are identified as having their own struggles and paths. The first similar feature between McPherson’s nameless main character from Why I Like Country Music and the character Virginia Valentine from Elbow Room is that both grew up in a different small southern town in the southern United States. In these southern states, they were sheltered and “imprisoned” by their small town societies. This is also where their first dissimilarly comes...
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...Marriage,” by Lind J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher and “Why I want a wife,” by Judy Brady, speaks about marriage. Though their narratives is about marriage they both speak differently of it. Of the two readings, I preferred "The Case for Marriage" because the essay echoes my beliefs on marriage also, getting married supports my Catholic beliefs. "The Case for Marriage" is a preferred reading than "Why I want a wife" for the reason that, firstly, Waite and Gallagher have effective examples and secondly, the essay is not bias. Every lawyer has to have evidence to prove cases. Just like lawyers Waite and Gallagher used evidence to prove their case. Effective examples enhance the reading and adding examples helps make ones point across. For example, Waite and Gallagher used statistics in their essay to show the readers that they are passionate on what they are speaking about; they did studies to assist their point to be more effective. "According to a study we did, of those men who ever married or are divorced only 60 percent will still be around...90 percent of the married men will survive...90 percent of married women will reach 65, compared to 80 percent of single and divorced men," they write (Waite and Gallagher, 105). I believe that statistics are helpful their essay because it helps convince people why one should get married, it did for me. Even though, “The Case of Marriage” has used effective examples to prove their case, "Why I want a Wife" does not. Brady has no proof that every...
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...differences. When we first heard the quote we all jumped to conclusions and thought it was about gay marriage because that is a problem we are facing today. There are laws against people who are gay and want to get married. Just like there were laws against interracial marriage in the 1930’s when the quote was said. In the 1930’s most people did not like when Blacks and Whites got married. They did not think it was normal because they thought everyone should marry within there own race, particularly with whites and black. Both interracial marriage and gay marriage are against social norms at one point or another. “The Norm” changes constantly and it is different everywhere you go. For a long time, gay people would not “come out” to their friend’s or families because it was not socially acceptable to be gay. It was the same for interracial couples back in the 1930’s. In New York they finally passed the law and gays can get married legally, where as in Arizona you cannot be gay and get married legally. New York passed this law recently, which shows you that the laws and norm change constantly. The same thing happened with interracial marriage after awhile there were not laws against interracial couples getting married. I think that these laws against gay people getting married will disappear eventually just like the interracial marriage laws. Now interracial marriages are legal, and...
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...1. If you could change one action by one character in the novel, what character and action would you choose? Why? How would your change alter the novel as a whole? If I could change on action by one character in the novel, I would choose when Moushimi cheated on Nikhil with Dimitri. This would not change the whole novel, only the end portion of the novel. Since she cheated on him very far in the novel, it would change when Nikhil encountered the book by Nikolai Gogol. If perhaps Moushimi did not cheat on Nikhil, They could have been together at Ashimas house and he maybe wouldn’t not stumble upon the book responsible for his name. Although Moushimi cheating on Nikhil was upsetting, I’m glad Nikhil was able to find the book and his fathers note inside. 2. What part of the novel did you have the strongest reaction to while reading? This response could be sadness, anger, excitement or another emotion. Why did you react strongly to that particular part of the novel?...
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...After we reviewed their chart we were to sit down and have a therapeutic conversation with them. I had a very pleasant lady who had Alzheimer’s. She was sitting on the piano bench by herself when I approached her and ask if she minded if I sit down for a while and talked with her. She was alert and orientated times four she was dressed appropriate to the weather. She can move around with a walker but is very unsteady. She was able to tell me about more recent events in her rather than about her past. I could clearly see that she had long-term memory problems. After reviewing her chart, I went over and introduced myself and asked if it was okay if we sat down together and talk for a while. Client | Nurse | Analysis | | Good morning. My name is Jennifer and I am a RN-student. How are you doing this morning? | I introduced myself because I thought it would make the patient more comfortable knowing who I was. I used open ended question. | My name is MS. Doing okay just sitting here. | Well that’s good. Is it okay if I sit down and talk to you for a little while before lunch? | The patient was sitting on the piano bench; she smiled and told me her name. She seemed to be relaxed. I then ask her if I could sit down and talk to her. I was offering myself to her to keep her company. | Okay that’s fine. | How was your morning? | She seemed very happy to have someone to talk to. I then asked her about her morning by using open ended question....
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...Why Get Married? By Abdulla As the human race has evolved through the ages, so has the institution of marriage. According to an article published on BBC news, titled the ten key “moments in history of marriage”, many Anglo-Saxons and early British tribes used marriage as a tool to build strategic alliance in the realms of diplomacy and trade. With the advent of the Roman Catholic Church, the notion of marriage evolved and theologian began to view it as a sacred ceremony that was done in the presence of the Almighty. This position was further strengthened by the council of Trent in 1593 when marriage was officially deemed as one the seven sacraments. Then as the role of the church in society began to evolve so did the definition of the marriage and the way it was viewed in society. Divorce started to become more common and with the gradual separation of the church and the state, the State assumed the role of becoming an institution that granted marriage right to couple. These civil or non-religious marriages were the founding blocks for a long debate about the sanctity of marriage and led to individuals and society debate on long established of the nature of marriage and whether it is meant to be a sacred institution that allows the bond between a man and woman only or its possible for people of the same gender to share the bliss of holy matrimony. Regardless, of how society defines marriage and who it deems worthy of getting married, a very pertinent question still lingers...
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...decided on when and where to get married. | | |Now I want to get married now and just go to the courthouse and have a| | |small group of friends and family which will save money. But my | | |girlfriend wants a big wedding with lots of people and spend a lot of | | |money and wants to wait four years after she gets out of college and | | |finds her a career job. So that’s where the problem lays I want us to | | |get married now and just have a small wedding which saves us plenty of| | |money and she wants a big wedding and wants to wait four years after | | |she has finished school and has a career job. | |Step 2: What are the alternatives? |The alternatives would be to get married now and have a big wedding | | |that way we can already married like I plan and she could get the big | |...
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