Essays on Age Gap

Kelly’s Answer:

Kelly has rightly pointed out that the child has focused on the physical appearance of her parents to describe them. She has described her mother as “pretty” and her father as having “short hair”. These are aspects that she probably likes about her parents, and therefore finds them worth mentioning. Moreover, being the first born does have its effects. Not only are first born children more pampered, but they are also given more attention by the grandparents. It is usually noticed that the first born child is very attached to his/her grandfather or grandmother. Having a motherly/fatherly feeling for ...

Introduction

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 comedy dram film written by Carol Sobieski and Fannie Flagg. The film tells the story of a friendship between two pairs of women – Ruth and Idgie during the Great Depression of early 1930s as well as that between Evelyn and Ninny in the 1980s. It happens that Ninny knew Idgie and Ruth and she tells of the stories about these two women to Evelyn who is in her middle ages (Avnet, 1991). The central issue in the film concerns the murder of Ruth’s abusive husband Frank after which numerous accusations on the ...

The common adage goes that “age is nothing but a number” and Mark Twain said that “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” Yet, even with such sayings being common in today’s society, relationships between people who have a significant age gap are still frowned upon. The younger woman married to an older man is termed as a gold digger while the older woman married to a younger man is termed as a cougar, all these labels are derogatory. This is despite the fact that age difference in a relationship doesn’t matter because the success ...

Introduction

Statutory rape is usually defined by the state law concerned. However, statutory rape is distinguished from other forms of rape in that the victim must necessarily be below the age of consent and that lack of consent is not a requisite to the crime on the common understanding that a person below a certain age lacks the capability to give an informed consent. Prior to the development of modern statutory rape laws, statutory rape was used to protect young women and children from the sexual incursion of unwanted males. At that time, women were regarded as chattels or property and as such ...

‘How do I love thee let me count the ways’ – Elizabeth Barratt browning

‘Sonnet 138’ – William Shakespeare Both these sonnets are very famous in the English-speaking world and both deal with a relationship between a man and a woman. However, Barratt Browning and Shakespeare adopt a very different tone and attitude when talking about love; use language in very different ways; manipulate the form of the sonnet in contrasting ways; and produce very different emotional effects on the reader. In short, the sonnets represent two very different attitudes to love in their content and different attitudes to the sonnet as well. The subject matter of each sonnet is vastly different. Barratt Browning’s sonnet ...