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  • The Second Sex - Introduction (simone De Beauvoir)

    The Second Sex - Introduction (simone De Beauvoir)

    A well-known writer thanks to her novels but also thanks to her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir is one of the most famous novelist and feminist of the last century. Most of her novels, among whom She Came To Stay (1943) and Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) treated the main subject of finding one's place in the world, more precisely in society. Yet, the novel which, until today, creates debates and provokes

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    Essay Length: 305 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: David
  • Argument for Gay Marriage

    Argument for Gay Marriage

    Running head: ARGUMENT FOR GAY MARRIAGE An Argument for Gay Marriage Kristina Thielen Friends University Abstract The premise of this paper is to prove that solid reasoning for denial of gay marriage is currently absent, and that legalization would provide much-needed equality to these unions. Arguments discussed include the “special rights” argument, the financial cost of legalizing same-sex marriage, the social belief that such marriages are “inherently wrong” or contradictory to America’s Judeo-Christian foundation, and

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    Essay Length: 4,114 Words / 17 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Successful Marriage

    Successful Marriage

    Marriage is defined as the legal union of a man and a woman (Webster’s Dictionary). Customs of marriage vary widely throughout the world, but it also meets the basic needs of all human beings. “ In most societies, marriage is considered the best way to ensure orderly raising of children. It allows for a division of labor within a consuming and working unit. Ideally, it offers intimacy, commitment, friendship, affection, sexual fulfillment, companionship, and an

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    Essay Length: 1,353 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Edward
  • Educating Our Future: An Analysis of Sex Education in the Classroom

    Educating Our Future: An Analysis of Sex Education in the Classroom

    In the article entitled “Educating our Future: An Analysis of Sex Education in the Classroom”, Michael J. Fucci offered his commentary on the evolution and legal ramifications of sex education programs in today’s classroom. The author began by relating a brief history of how sex education programs, that began as “hygiene” based, have evolved into a more explicit curriculum. Because, according to the author, these programs now also focus on sexuality, he provided commentary on

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    Essay Length: 577 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Max
  • Sex in Society

    Sex in Society

    However you may see it, repulsive, vulgar, natural, blameless, imperative, no one can deny that sex is part of life. And like all things concerning life it has evolved with time. Sex, once being a simple act of reproduction to our ancestors, slowly picked up extra associations such as pleasure, emotion and expression to become a complicated performance with much conflicting interpretation. In the 1950's sex was a secret well swept under the rug, separate

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    Essay Length: 1,121 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Top
  • Marriage Is like a Prison

    Marriage Is like a Prison

    Marriage Is Like A Prison Marriage is like a prison. It is a lifelong commitment that will hang on a persons shoulders forever. It can never be erased, and never be forgotten. Upon entering marriage, the crime is falling in love, the punishment is getting married, and the freedom is stripped from a person's very being. Falling in love is never considered a crime, but it is. Love is a rush of emotions that are

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    Essay Length: 349 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: regina
  • Does Sex Sell?

    Does Sex Sell?

    Consumer Behaivior Does sex really sell? Sexuality is considered to be one of the most powerful tools in advertising, it as been around for the last two decades. It has been proven that more people will look at an ad longer if it has some type of erotic behavior in the ad. There has always been this age old question. That age old question, is does sex sell. The answer to that question is it

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    Essay Length: 1,629 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Top
  • The Melting Pot: Interracial Marriages

    The Melting Pot: Interracial Marriages

    Interracial Marriages 2 The Melting Pot: Interracial Marriages To be or not to be? Once again this is the question. In the past, social scientist and society in general, categorized people involved in interracial romances as disturbed, or they labeled these relationships as acts of rebellion, or attempts to move up on the social ladder (Majete 2000, 1). Today this no longer seems to be the case. However, this can still be quite controversial. Part

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    Essay Length: 829 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Rights for Co Parents for Same Sex Couples

    Rights for Co Parents for Same Sex Couples

    Rights for Co parents for Same Sex Couples There are about one hundred thousand plus children whose parents’ legal rights have been terminated and who are waiting to be adopted, not including children sixteen year of age and older. With all these children in need of a home, adoption agencies select parents for children by race and ethnicity, gender, age, and based on the child’s special needs. Children who are waiting to be adopted just

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    Essay Length: 1,306 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Issues of Succcession/marriage/foreign Policy Were Most Important in Determining the Relationship Between Crown and Parliament During the Tudor Period

    Issues of Succcession/marriage/foreign Policy Were Most Important in Determining the Relationship Between Crown and Parliament During the Tudor Period

    Issues of succession, marriage and foreign policy were most important I determining relations between crown and parliament? How valid is this assessment During the period 1485-1603 the issues of marriage/FP/succession were certainly of great importance in determining relations between crown and Parliament particularly under the rein of Elizabeth. However it can be argued that other factors are equally as influential e.g. the Reformation under Henry VIII The issues of s/m/fp were of some influence in

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    Essay Length: 1,136 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Love and Marriage in Renaissance Literature

    Love and Marriage in Renaissance Literature

    In medieval Europe, the troubadours (poets of the southern part of France), like Guilhem IX, or Cercamon, first began to write poems about humble men falling in love with women who were admirer and adored by their lovers. Furthermore, intense love between men and women became a central subject in European literature, like between Tristan and Iseult, Lancelot and Guinevere, or Aeneas and Dido. But it was not question of marriage. Actually, marriage and love

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    Essay Length: 1,208 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Vika
  • Love and Marriage in Colonial Latin America

    Love and Marriage in Colonial Latin America

    Love and Marriage in Colonial Latin America Romance between young adults today is drastically different from that in centuries, and even the decades, before us. With the uprising of technology and advanced ways of communicating that neither our parents, aunts, uncles, nor grandparents had, intimate relationships have become cyber and impersonal more than anything else. My generation and more so the generation below me, will grow up forming bonds through AOL Instant Messenger, MySpace, and

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    Essay Length: 695 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Women: Liberated or Sex Toys?

    Women: Liberated or Sex Toys?

    Times, they aren’t a-changin’ By Danielle Godwin Women: Liberated or sex toys? Bob Dylan once wrote, ‘the times they are a-changin', I beg to differ. The 1960’s were defiantly a time of dramatic change with the introduction of the women’s liberation movement. But has all that much changed? Are all western women really liberated or are they simply being told so and believing every word, like the good little housewives men want them to be?

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    Essay Length: 1,051 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Emergency Sex

    Emergency Sex

    The statement “the more acute the situation and by extension the greater the need, the less useful the United Nations is and the more irrelevant international law becomes”, was once observed by a critic while talking about the United Nations. This essay will examine this question by drawing upon the book Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, as well as look at some of the efforts of Rafael Lempkin. The above quote, in my own

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    Essay Length: 1,354 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • Marriage

    Marriage

    Marriage is legally defined and summed up as, a contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought to exist between husband and wife. Many liberals argue that gay marriage should be legal in the United States. In the following essay I will attempt to argue why marriage between the same sexes

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    Essay Length: 1,244 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Why People Should Refrain from Premarridal Sex

    Why People Should Refrain from Premarridal Sex

    Why People Should Refrain From Premarital Sex For many years Americans have been wondering about the effects of premarital sex. Society’s mindset concerning premarital sex has become more lax; it is no longer necessary to be engaged before engaging in sexual relations. In many cases, sex is a common aspect of relationships. Some say that premarital sex is a driving force that is destroying the adolescents of America. On the other hand, many people believe

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    Essay Length: 1,354 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Prostitution - Sex for Sale

    Prostitution - Sex for Sale

    Sex for Sale To begin with a cliche, the definition of prostitution is "the act or practice of engaging in sex acts for hire." Is there anything wrong with this at first sight? It would seem that, like any other service, it is okay to sell sex in the literal sense. The main problem with this is: whether prostitution is a choice or a form of oppression. In general the legality of prostitution in some

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    Essay Length: 594 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

    Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

    Marriage in Pride and Prejudice “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” (pg1). The first sentence of the novel Pride and Prejudice highlights the importance of marriage in the world of the novel. The sentence implies that the only reason for marriage was to increase the characters social and financial position. The quote mentions nothing of love yet it

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    Essay Length: 893 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Victor
  • Sex

    Sex

    Humans have been having sex since time immemorial, and not much changed as the centuries slid by. Then in the 1960s, the Pill came out, and the sexual revolution was said to begin. But the past 25 years, which coincidentally is the period when I first became well known, have seen the most major advancements. Many more women who couldn’t have orgasms are now orgasmic. Many older people, particularly men, can have sex into their

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    Essay Length: 315 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Tommy
  • National Sex Ratios

    National Sex Ratios

    National Sex Ratios The male, female sex ratios around the world are composed of many different components. One of the major factors is the life expectancy of women verses men. Culture also plays a vital role in determining why the male, female ratio is irregular. As futuristic it may sound pollution is already affecting the sex ratios around the globe. Medical advances have also strongly influenced the ratio. These and more all affect the male,

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    Essay Length: 677 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: regina
  • Sex Education in Schools

    Sex Education in Schools

    Sex Education The talk. Each parent has their own way of teaching sex education to their child, whether it be “the birds and the bees” or the hardcore facts. Some parents choose to address the topic before it arises during recess at school, others choose to let the child come to them with questions. Either way, parents have the choice of how to go about education their child on such a delicate subject. While some

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    Essay Length: 568 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Myspace - a Place to Advertise Sex?

    Myspace - a Place to Advertise Sex?

    MySpace a Place to Advertise Sex? In the Article "MySpace Isn't for Advertisers, It's for Sex" by Pesach Lattin he states that he and parents feel all users on MySpace are all vulnerable targets to get raped, that MySpace is a "sex-finder" website that is unsafe for children and that the website is a perfect trap to catch kids at parties and they feel that classifying yourself as a gay or a lesbian is bad.

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    Essay Length: 696 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Jon
  • Gay Marriages Should Be Legalized

    Gay Marriages Should Be Legalized

    Gay Marriages should be Legalized The government says that every citizen of the United States shall receive equal rights. Then, why did they pass the Defense of Marriage Act? The Defense of Marriage Act prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages; in my opinion this act is unjust and immoral because it restricts the rights of gay and lesbian citizens. Many of the reasons offered for opposing gay marriage are based on the assumption

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    Essay Length: 1,389 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Marriage and Blending Families

    Marriage and Blending Families

    MARRIAGE AND BLENDING FAMILIES Marriages come in all shapes and sizes, couples marrying for the first time with no children, couples with his or her children, couples who are marrying for the second time or more with or without children in various stages of their lives, The marital status at the time of the marriage can represent issues as well, such as widowed or divorced. Blending families together can present a multitude of challenges.

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    Essay Length: 1,910 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Between the Sexes

    Between the Sexes

    In this piece of literature Between the Sexes, a Great Divide by Anna Quindlen she expresses her idea of how men and women are simply alike. In reference to that she also uses situation in which boys and girls are at a dance and claims that, it's not the difference but the dance that's important. This idea of the dance being important is a misconception being that the real reason behind all this is that

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    Essay Length: 295 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Kevin

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