Essays Tagged: "Widow"

Crime and Social Class

2 DEATH The death of a partner can cause an unstable mind in a surviving spouse and their children. Widowed people are chiefly older, so crime is a smaller more limited problem with the survivors. You ... cities, females generally moving west and males moving east. This migration, as we will call it, of widowed women overcrowding cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington cause desperate mal ...

(15 pages) 335 0 3.5 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Analysis- Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead

ord Alfred TennysonHome they brought her warrior dead is a poem all to do about the feelings that a widow is to undergo when her husband, she learns has been killed in battle. When they have brought t ... ithout a father. This poem glosses over emotions such as sadness and grief, expectation of what the widow should have to do and what the widow never did.The poet is told from a third person's point of ...

(2 pages) 19 0 2.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Employee Benefits Required by Law.

aid into SocialSecurity dies, survivor benefits can be paid to certain family members.These include widows, widowers, children, and dependent parents. Anyoneearns survivors insurance by working and pa ... rsjust before your death. When you die, Social Security survivors benefits can be paid to your: (a) Widow or widower - full benefits at age 65 or older (if born before 1938) or reduced benefits as ear ...

(13 pages) 285 0 3.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The Penalty for Good Looks in Western Australia

elaide 'Advertiser'.The Western Australian Full Court's decision to award a reduced compensation to Widow, Mrs Teresa de Sales, because of good looks is completely legal. But is it right? This law was ... when they were dependent on their husbands for food and shelter. This law stated that as beautiful widows had a higher likelihood of getting remarried and thereby have a more stable financial status ...

(2 pages) 15 0 3.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

A Widow Spider

crevice, in some lair, that is where the creepy spider will dwell. Just like that lonesome deprived widow we know, sitting solitary in her little brush house, zealous for someone to go and visit her, ... y for me. At times I didn't understand what he meant exactly, but I just listened. The story of the widow and the spider was my favourite one. He retold it to me a lot of times, then he would always e ...

(2 pages) 18 0 1.7 Oct/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Ten years fron now

oductive individual in the society as a red-cross nurse, a divorce woman with no children, and/or a widow living with my chronically ill mother.Becoming a productive member in our society is my dream. ... ten years I will end up filing a divorce document if I have ever married. So, why can't I just be a widow after all? It is very likely that I will become a widow, though.In my culture we are very supe ...

(4 pages) 17 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine