Ravi Shah English Composition 102 sec. 9 Dr. John Aveni Paper 5 Final Draft December 8, 2011 In the Jewish community marriage is the basic building block of society; creating families which consist of men, women, and children. Two types of marriage are love marriage and arranged marriage. This paper focuses more on the principles and practices of arranged marriage in the Jewish community from the book “Bread Givers” by Anzia Yezierska. Yezierska believes Jewish women should be educated and they should be able to choose who they wish to marry.
For instance, she was expecting a check from the insurance company for the death of her husband. She already knew how she intended to spend the money. The plan was to put away some of that for her daughter Beneatha, for school; she emphasized that a bit in the story. Mama’s words were, “Some of it got to be put away for Beneatha and her schoolin’-and aint nothing going to touch that part.” She then went on to say that she was going to purchase a house not just for her, but for the entire family to live in. Then when Ruth found out that she was pregnant, Mama thought of the things that she could buy if it was a girl or boy, she even thought about the size of the yard for the grandchildren to play in.
In many cases, the wife was expected to run the house and provide child care. The husband would be the breadwinner and handle the financial decisions. Love was shown in part by performing duties for the family. As we discussed marriage has undergone many transformations that helped weaken the social norms that defines normal relationship ideas over the past few decades. Some examples of this are apparent with the increasing number of cohabiting relationships and the changes in both marriage and divorce rates during the 20th century.
However the law enables employers to decide whether employees are paid for bank holidays. Maternity Pay and Leave is another example of employees' rights being protected by law. The Law states that when a woman takes time off work to have a baby she may be eligible for Statutory Maternity Leave and Pay, as well as paid time off for antenatal care and extra support from the government. In addition to this, her employment rights are protected while she is on Statutory Maternity Leave, including any salary increases, accrual of holiday entitlement and returning to work. A woman is entitled to 52 weeks of maternity leave,
Suppose a woman marries her butler. After they are married, her husband continues to wait on her as before, and she continues to support him as before (but as a husband rather than as an employee). How does the marriage affect GDP? How should it affect GDP? Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period.
The SSA allows married workers to collect retirement benefits based on either their income or their spouse’s income, whichever is higher. While paying monthly for Social Security employers must match these payments, 7.65% each. According to the policies of SSA, a husband and wife have the “option” to receive benefits based on the highest income over each year. When both husband and wife reach the age of 67 they can now receive retirement benefits based on their individual outcome. However, this benefit can only be chosen of ones income while being married.
Doing the Iroquois kinship I learned a lot about them that I didn’t know. When it comes to kinship the women in the Iroquois determine the kinship. When they get married the groom moves into the brides longhouse. The kids they have become part of her family or clan as they call it. Louis Morgan wrote a book called Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family.
b) What responsibilities did the women have? (Read the article and summarize, in point form, some of the duties). 2. Weddings & Betrothals: a) What was a betrothal? -Marriage that is a contract b) After a betrothal was a couple considered married?
These are outlined in the marriage contract known as the Ketubah. The Ketubah outlines the rights of the woman within the marriage in the case of the hsusbands death or a divorce occurring, it also outlines basic conjugal responsibilities of the husband to his wife. The groom signs the Ketubah and it is given to the wife during the wedding celebration. The position of women in marriage is a reflection of Halakhah or Jewish Law, within the standards of a jewish community the men and women even in marriage are seen as separate regarding duties but equal in
This is not as common as the patrilineal decent groups. The horticultural societies mostly come from the matrilineal groups. Matrilocal is a post marital residence pattern in which a newly married couple reside with the bride’s natal household” (Nowak and Laird, 2010). The fathers’ clan is also important. When asked, the Navajos would introduce themselves as the mother of the clan.