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Mark Antony for Rome

Mark Antony for Rome

Hiding in Plain Sight Character Speech: I am Mark Antony, beloved friend of the late Julius Caesar and I am here to tell you why I should be the next leader of rome. For a while I have been Caesar’s right hand man and that opportunity has allowed me to see how things are kind of supposed to be run around here. I stayed loyal to Caesar throughout his whole reign even while conspirators were plotting against him. I have…

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Until Divorce Do Us Part

Until Divorce Do Us Part

I chose to research the topic of marriage disposability. While first researching for this project I wanted to learn about the disposability of children, but shortly after beginning the search I discovered the topic of marriage and felt as if that would be a more appropriate and more interesting topic to cover. I learned so much about marriage that I would have never even known if I didn’t write this paper. A majority of the major points are shown throughout…

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The Patterns of Divorce

The Patterns of Divorce

This article was the results of a study done at the University of California, Berkeley about the patterns of divorces in families. They wanted to see if students who had divorced parents and/or grandparents, would affect their relationships. The thesis was basically stating that marriage failure tends to run in generations and that males and females who had divorce in their families were more compatible with eachother, they were out to find if this really was true. This article had…

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Is Five Years the New Forever?

Is Five Years the New Forever?

This was a great article, it really made some great connections to the real world while getting need to know information out. The thesis of this article was very clearly stated in the first sentence, “Many young couples are bailing out of marriages that are barely beyond the honeymoon phase.” It starts of talking about Jennifer Anniston and Brad Pitts short 5 year relationship to get something to compare facts to the rest of the article. It goes through a few…

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The Origins of Modern Divorce

The Origins of Modern Divorce

This article was very fascinating because it had quite a bit of history to it, it shared traditions and beliefs from differnt cultures around the world and at different times and compares them to America. The thesis of this article states that we don’t truly know how much divorce is going on in America, that is the purpose of this article. To find out how much divorce is happening, you first have to know what it is and a little…

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Americans Marry too much

Americans Marry too much

This article was addressing the major problems that America is having with divorce. The thesis of this article is basically the title of it, Americans marry too much. The points that addressed this throughout the article were also very obvious, “We divorce, repartner, and remarry faster than people in any other country,” This article also shared a few statistics, it compared America to Sweden so you can get a better idea of what the stats really mean. “40 percent of American…

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America’s Divorce Problem

America’s Divorce Problem

This article talked about the introduction of the idea of covenant marriage versus just regular marriage. Covenant marriage is basically what marriage should be in the first place, people are required to put more work into their relationship if it starts going downhill and are supposed to take it more seriously. The thesis of this article was basically introducing the two types of marriages and saying how different groups of people have different opinions on the ideas, then in the…

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