...No one knew I would awaken as a young eighteen year old and fall asleep as a married adult. My husband still believes I married him only for a day off of work and Bob Evans breakfast. The day I got married was a surprise to us all. We ourselves nor our families were expecting the day’s events. My morning started off quite typical as my fiancé and I were deciding on the breakfast he should cook as I was getting ready for work in our little one bedroom apartment. Dustin my fiancé, decided to make french toast while I showered. That is what started it all. After my shower we sat down to eat breakfast, but after the first bite we realized french toast that tasted like a cast iron skillet wasn’t going to work. We were full of jokes 10 years ago, just as we are today. After the epic fail of breakfast, we started talking about our life together, and I said, “Hey, let’s get married.” Of course he laughed at me while asking if I was serious. “Why not,” I said,” We have the rings, we can drive to Virginia and I’ll take the day off of work.” After a little talking and deciding we got ready and had our day planned out. We set off for directions and a quick tutorial from a coworker of my fiancés. Of course they thought we were crazy, but why not? We started our drive to Virginia with smiles on our faces, nervousness throughout our bodies and the growls of hungry stomachs wanting breakfast. After the six hour drive to the Virginia Courthouse, finding our way through the parking...
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...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 am choosing...
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...I mean nothing. I am not happy. I don't make people happy. I am a disappointment, a failure. Every time I try something I just fail. I don't feel this life is worth living anymore, i am getting nowhere in this life. I have no future, so what is the point in being on this planet if I have no purpose? Life is done with me and quite frankly, I am done with life too. My parents hate me,i fail to meet all their expectations I even fail to meet my own, i am a disappointment. I do nothing right every single I do is wrong. I live in a world at which I don't even live, i just exist. Would anyone notice if I was gone? Probably not… would the people in my life whom I bring down become happy once i'm gone ? i feel like I don't matter to anyone i'm hopeless, unwanted, unloved and most of all worthless. This world is full of expectations that I can never meet. They are put in this world to make people feel terrible about themselves, to encourage them to stop trying once you fail to meet them, they encourage us to fail. And I don't want to be here. In a world where I am always going to fail , where I am never going to be good enough. I am done trying. I am done with the long yet short lived...
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..._50_____________________60______________________70______________________80______________________90_____________________ Grandparent 50_____________________60______________________70_______________________80_______________________90____________________ After constructing my three time lines, I noticed some similarities and some differences between my lifeline and my family members. I think that some of the differences are due to the era that we were each brought up in and what is considered to be the norm for that time frame. Most of the life events that we all three experienced are normative events, such as getting married, having a job, moving out of our parents’ house, and having children. In addition to the normative events, there are also some nonnormative events. These include divorce, going to college later in life, and not finishing high school. A difference between the three of us is the education level. My grandmother was expected to quit school so she was able to take care of her house and her children. My mother finished high school and then got a job right away. A lot jobs did not require a college education back then. Even though I did not start college until I was in my...
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...On recent research about family history I learned a lot about how things have changed over time. Dating is a lot different now than it was many years ago, marriage is totally different, as well as many other things. I interviewed a few people from my family as well as people close to my family. It’s very interesting to find out how things have changed drastically since our grandparents were born. The things that we find normal today were looked down upon in the 50’s. But the most interesting thing was getting to know people on a more personal level. My interviewees consist of Louise, 65, Robert, 60, Mary, 44, Larry, 42, Michele, 24, and Edward, 21. The first group of people interviewed was a 44-year-old woman name Mary and 42-year-old Larry. Mary was born in 1970 and grew up in the 90’s. Larry was born in 1972 and also grew up in the same time period. The societies were totally different then than it is now. Getting married at a young age was unheard of in that era. The people that were married were at least 30-40 years old. Society wasn’t much different from what it is now. People were hooking up with each other back then just like they are now. Society is pretty much the same but the only thing that really changed is the technology we have now and the different social medias. Marriage for Mary was highly unlikely because she didn’t find anyone she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. But for Larry he always wanted to get married one day, but just didn’t know exactly when...
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...daughter Catherine approved of him. Catherine and Heathcliff spent every day playing with each other and eventually grew to love each other. When they became older, Catherine decided to marry a man named Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff. Heathcliff was so mad that he left the house, called Wuthering Heights, for three years. He returned soon after Edgar and Catherine got married. Heathcliff is still infuriated and wants to get revenge on everyone who did not treat him well. Hindley started drinking heavily after his wife died from giving birth to his son Hareton. Heathcliff gives money to Hindley to gamble with. When Hindley died, Heathcliff inherited Wuthering Heights. In order to get back at Catherine for getting married, he marries a woman, Isabella, who lives four miles away at a place called Thrushcross Grange. Soon after, Catherine gives birth to a daughter, also named Catherine, but dies giving birth. Isabella moved to London because Heathcliff did not treat her properly. While she was there, she gave birth to Heathcliff’s son, Linton. About twelve years later, Heathcliff went to London and got his son. Edgar did not let his daughter Catherine leave the house so she had no idea Wuthering Heights was close by. One day Catherine sneaks out and finds...
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...other tenses or verbs? I highlighted in pink the other tenses. Are those changes the same in your language? (past - present) I'm going to speak about my past weekend. ("going to" future) What did I do on my last weekend? Let me think… Oh, yes! I remember! My cousin George got married last Saturday, so I went to his wedding. I live in Madrid, but he got married in Toledo, so my brother picked me up and we drove to Toledo for his wedding. On Saturday, I got up very early -- at eight. I had a shower and I had breakfast (some orange juice and cookies) and I went to get the wedding present. I gave them an etching by Miquel Barceló. He is a Spanish painter and my cousin and I love him! Then I walked to the hairdresser's. I hate going to the hairdresser's. It hurts! But it was necessary!! (eek!) After that, I had a sandwich and a soft drink for lunch. Then I got dressed for the wedding. I wore a beautiful blue dress, dark blue shoes a blue handbag, an orange coat and a pair of gold earrings. My brother and I set off for Toledo at about three. We all met at the church. (I am a non-believer, but it was my cousin's wedding!) Then, my cousin and his fiancée got married! (I'll never get married! It's a promise!) I said hello to them and to our family, and I met his friends. After the wedding we went to a restaurant. We had dinner. Everything was delicious! After dinner we had cake and champagne, too! I was full! And after that we went to a disco. I met a very nice man...
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...Morganne Truesdale Instructor: Alling ENC 1101.77 June 24, 2013 Essay #1: Saying “I Do” What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you think “marriage”? Do you smell a home cooked meal waiting on the table, after a long-hard day at work? Do you picture a beautiful home with a white picket fence? Maybe you think about a gorgeous white dress, that was altered to fit you just right. Or maybe it’s not white at all because your favorite color is black, and you refuse to be cliché on what’s supposed to be the most important day of your life. Maybe you see half of everything you own being taken out from under you if this whole “marriage thing” goes south, and that’s just not a chance you’re willing to take. Maybe the thought of being committed to one person for the rest of your life frightens you, and all of a sudden that beautiful woman standing next you is looking more like a prison warden, rather than your future wife. Whatever your views or opinions on marriage may be one things for certain; no one ever walked down the aisle, said their vows, and pledged before God and everyone most precious to them expecting to fail. Marriage was not always based on the idea of two people falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of their lives together. In the 1800’s marriage was not just regarded as the joining of two people, but the joining of families, businesses, and wealth. Many women had suitors pre-arranged for them by their fathers. Although most marriages were...
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...Tanmmet Sethi Anthropology 310 27 March 2014 Kinship Kinship is defined as a family relationship. Every one of us has a kinship consisting in our families. It shows and teaches each one of us about family bonds and family relationships. To learn about my family kinship I took a humanistic approach and interviewed my mother and traced her family lineage back three generations to my great grandmother. The beginning of my kinship starts from my great grandmother, who in relation to my mom is her grandmother. My mom was not very close to her grandmother. My great grandmother’s name was Inder Kaur. She was born on May 15th, 1925 in Lahore, Pakistan. She was an only child. According to my mother, birthdays were not given any importance during that time period neither were marriage dates. My mother neither does her mother know the exact year in which my great grandma was married. Inder Kaur got married to my great grandfather, Amreek Singh and the date to me is unknown. They both were of the same religion, Sikhism, and the marriage was monogamous and arranged. Together they had seven children, four girls and three boys. The boy’s names were Manmohan Singh, Pritpal Singh, Jasbir Singh, and the girl’s names were Taranjit Kaur, Charanjit Kaur, and Rajinder Kaur. Out of those fours girls, one is known to me as my grandma, Davinder Kaur. Davinder Kaur was the eldest daughter of my great grandparents. She was born on November 30th, 1950 My great grandparents were strict and quite poor...
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...hard to escape. It's the "marriage". At the age of 17 dodong and teang got married without thinking of the risk being in an uneasy part of life. They just follow what they feel. They don't think what would happen in their future. They got a child. Teang realized how hard being a young parent. Her regret of she had done and think, what would be my life if i marry my other suitors instead of dodong? Can I have the same life as of now? She regrets so much of!! Until one day, when their son grow. He follows the footsteps of his parents. He wants to marry also at the age of 17. He told his parents what his plans. Dodong have nothing to do but explain how hard and how risky to be in "marriage "at the young age.. But like dodong before, his son also wants to pursue what he wants. The lesson we can learn is that marriage can wait the right time, if we want to be in this stage of life, we must prepare ourselves against the risk of it. I know we can all be in to it if we like too but not at the young age. This would be a lesson for youth like me. Jose Garcia villa is a great write coz aside from having nice story; he also had the point of view where we can have the knowledge of something related to what will happen to us. Major characters: 1. Dodong- main character of the story who got married at the age of 17 2.Teang - regretted marrying at an early age 3. Lucio - Teang's other suitor who got married after she did and who's childless until now. Minor Characters ...
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...My name is Sophia and I have been married for the past 9 yrs, I’m blessed with 3 kids (2 boys and a girl) and I have the most amazing hubby. I’m trying to correct the notion that all marriages are wacky, which is not true. It wouldn’t be nice if some single girls out there don’t get to know that marriages can work if you make it happen. I got married 9yrs ago to my hubby, we dated for a year and got married. My friends were like it was too soon since we barely know our selves, I was staying in Abuja while him in Lagos, I just come occasionally to visit him, so after a year, we figured it was time to move to the next level which was very amazing. We got married and I started living the life of a married woman.We loved each other so much but there were things we did not know about each other since it was long distance hence it posed a problem for us. I had very bad mouth as of that time. I do like to challenge everyone including him which he didn’t like. We argued a lot which ends up with several beatings. The first time my hubby hit me, I ran to my aunt’s place and later went back home, it happened again and again, but the whole thing was after the beatings, he comes back to say sorry and to tell me how the things I said to him really did hurt and how he’s hot tempered and I’m hot tempered and all. After a year, I told myself I had to work on myself, I stopped talking too much, prayed more often and asked God to help me with my temper, I stopped challenging him and always make...
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...Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Caroline took her name after her mother, her mother’s full name was Caroline Phoebe Bradshaw and she was born in 1818 in Guysborough, Nova Scotia. Caroline’s mother may have had siblings, but I didn’t find any information on them. Her father was Henry Clayton Archibald born in 1813 in Truro, Nova Scotia. Caroline’s father Henry had 8 siblings----. Caroline had 11 siblings and was the second youngest in her family. Caroline met Hugh Fraser who was born 1850 in Guysborough, Caroline may have gone to school with Hugh since they both lived in Guysborough, but I can’t be sure. Caroline married Hugh Fraser on the 3rd of January in 1877 when she was 23 years old. The couple was Presbyterian and had a family bible. The same year she got married Caroline also had her first-born child at...
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...completely different path? Well my name is Lindsee and I am going to tell you about how I’ve dealt with this for the past year and a half. Just to give you my relationship timeline in a nutshell: I met Brett in August of 2012. Two weeks after we met he went to boot camp and training for the Marine Corps. That was six long months of barely seeing each other or talking. We wrote many letters and talked as much as we could, which was not a lot at all. He came home in March, in June he found out he was deploying to Afghanistan some time soon, and proposed to me in July. After debating possibilities for a few days, we decided to get married before he left. We planned an entire wedding and were married two weeks after the engagement. We got to have a week and a half of married life before he had to leave. So for the next few minutes I would like to tell you how we overcame the criticism, what life is like being married to a Marine at such a young age, and what I would do differently if I could rewind time. Brett was in boot camp for 3 months, with no communication except for snail mail. After that he went to more training, and then to schooling. Six months of almost no communication outside of letters. You can believe that people were calling me insane for being so devoted to a guy I knew for two weeks before he left. I was told it wouldn’t last, he would be different when he came home, Marines are all the same, blah blah blah. After he got home and we were stronger than ever, people began...
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...I would like to tell you a quick story. This is a story about a girl who went against everything our culture defines as normal today. Historically speaking, for the past few decades, for a girl, most people would assume that life would take the following path… graduate from high school, go to college, get a job, get married, then have kids. Fair to say? (Pause) This girl graduated from high school as planned. Then she went on to college as planned… then her path took a LITTLE detour. She decided that being with her boyfriend back home was more important than college. So, after the fall semester, she left college and got an apartment with her boyfriend. They both had to work a couple of jobs to pay the bills. After a little while, they realized that maybe this wasn’t so cool, in fact, it was pretty hard. So they both moved back to their parent’s homes. This girl decided that she really did need that college education after all, so she went back to school, but this time she stayed local and still lived at home. And here is where her life took a BIG detour. See, she found out she was pregnant. Once again, she finished the fall semester and left college. Not long after, at 19 years old, she had a baby girl. Her story continues with more ups and downs… she had to rely on the help of other people to raise her daughter so she could work. Lucky for her, she had those caring people in her life. This girl was able to get a good job with health insurance so she could take care of her...
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...Prince Charming (NOT!) I met John* when I was sixteen-years-old. We dated on and off in high school and several years after high school. I actually married someone else when I was twenty-three, all the time wishing it was him. I even daydreamed about him coming to the church and standing up when the preacher said “Is there anyone here who has any reason that this couple should not wed?”! (You know the scene, a knight in shining armor on a white horse who whisks you away and you live happily ever after.) But I wanted to be married, and he didn’t stop the wedding, so I was married to another man for about a year. I finally realized that I was not, and would never be, in love with him, so we divorced. Not long after that I started dating John. We dated for about a year and then married. I should’ve known that it wasn’t going to be a great marriage. There were red flags everywhere. But with my rose-colored glasses on, I didn’t pay too much attention to them. The newlywed phase was great. We went places and did things together (like couples should). But after that first year and the first child, things went downhill. I had always worked, but now found myself a stay-at-home mom (to a beautiful baby girl!) and housewife. After a while, the walls began to close in on me. I felt trapped. We never did anything together anymore, nor as a family. John loved to fish and hunt and that took up most of his free time when he wasn’t working. Hudnall 2 So...
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