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The development of email has aided relationships because of the convenience and swiftness of communication with people abroad. Sending letters, while personal, is not instant.

Email has provided people with nearly instantaneous contact with people who may be far away. It also aids in contacting people who are just busy in their lives and don't have time to go out and grab a coffee. In Victorian eras, people had to write letters which take days to be delivered and days to get a reply to.

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When we think of a family, we expect the parents to provide everything a child needs, well its not so much like that in the victorian time and in todays time.
They are much the same if you were an orphan, today you are kinda just there and you get passed around like a toy, in victorian time you weremuch like that and had no real identity you werent given much attention. The only difference is in the victorian time you werent able to be adopted because they didnt know how to run a system like that, and today its a system that is easier.

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I really like this, you really put your point across

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I agree with what you've said. The foster care system is extremely flawed in modern times. While some kids get loving families who genuinely care about them, some get people who only care about the money that comes with taking care of a "problem child." The system needs a lot of work but it is a tremendous improvement from Victorian times.
-Brianna Owens

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Love has been a very controversial subject for many years. Only recently have people begun to realize it is acceptable to marry for love. During the Victorian Era, marriage was mainly to gain title and wealth, very little was about love.

In the Victorian era, love was in the minority compared to class, family, and wealth, where today, love is one of the most, if not, the most important part of marriage. My main point to support my argument is going to be a question. How often, nowadays, do you hear the word dowery in terms of marriage?

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Marriage is a large commitment, your picking the person that you plan to share your life with and who will be there to help you make decisions that will impact you for the rest of you life so I think it's extremely important to marry for love and to make sure that your actually in love with the person before saying I do. Most people in today's society marry for love but there are still a few that marry for other things such as wealth and power. I believe that if a person is truly in love that one's religion, family, and class should not affect much but with that being said I do believe that it can make things a lot more challenging which is probably one reason that the victorian era was so accustomed to her marriages being planned out for them. I think that love can conquer all even distance and that if you truly want to be with someone you will make it work no matter what.

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I like the way that this is written and it gets the author thinking. I would also have to agree with what you said.

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I would have to say I sure am happy with how things have changed for the better and I would agree with the things that you said.

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thank god that email was made because that started a whole lot more.

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Well put, and well articulated. I love the way you explained what saying I do really means and I completely agree with you.

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Dowries are a common practice in many Middle Eastern countries. However, something that has been carried from the concept of a dowry is the bride's family paying for the entire wedding. I'm not sure if everyone goes about that, but it is common (to my knowledge).
-Brianna Owens

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I absolutely agree with you. I believe that people should be able to have the experience of getting to know someone, falling in love, and deciding to share their life with that person by their own free will.
However, I don't entirely agree with the insinuation that arranged marriages are entirely bad. Like I said before, I do disagree with them and think that they rob people of an incredible experience, but I'd be a fool to deny that there aren't good reasons for them. Some people, as I have heard, live happily in an arranged marriage.
Some of more positive reasons for arranged marriages are: the families get along, financial security, both people have common goals and are compatible in lifestyle, etc. Arranged marriages also have an astonishingly low divorce rate, but there may be other reasons for that like shame? I have no idea.
It's a very weird, touchy subject. There are also probably over 1000 reasons to NOT have an arranged marriage.

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In the late 20th century and until now in the 21st century there has been incredible advancements in Technology. Most people would say that for the most part the impact this technology has had on society has been positive; I also believe that many people think the opposite. I would say that the advancement on communication, for example the invention and advancement of the cell phone, is a positive thing but the distraction and disconnection from the real world with this technological advancement is a negative impact.

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This definitely opened my eyes to understand how recently marriage has become more authentic and wanted for both people. I understand that during many times like the victorian era that marriage was not for love but for status and wealth. Only lately have people in modern society married for genuine love for each other.

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I had a similar idea on this topic, I believe that there is an incredible positive advancement that has come from this technology but I also believe that the more we advance our society and culture the further we move away from communication and connection between people like in the victorian era.

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Marrying for love and for different reasons have been a topic of discussion for what seems to be forever. Marriage is a milestone in your life in which you choose one person to spend the rest of your life with and you don't to marry for any other reason then for love. There are some limitations that hold back some individuals to marry for love such as same-sex couples. Recently in the past few years it has been becoming more acceptable but even in some states it is illegal which can often have conflict with an individuals feelings of mutual attraction because they want to share their life with someone but is being held back from that because of social expectations of what a "normal" couple should look like.