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Object Lessons (ISBN 9780394569659) is the first novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and journalist Anna Quindlen. First published in 1991, the book is a coming-of-age story centering on 13-year-old Maggie Scanlan, the youngest child of the powerful Scanlan clan.
Merriam Modell (19 May 1908 – 1 July 1994) [1] (born Miriam Levant in Manhattan, New York [2]) was an American writer of short stories, suspense and pulp fiction, who wrote primarily under the pen name Evelyn Piper.
Object Lessons may refer to: Object Lessons (book series), an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things; Object Lessons (novel), a 1991 novel by Anna Quindlen; Object lesson, a teaching method that consists of using a physical object or visual aid
Object Lessons is "an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things". Each of the essays (2,000 words) and the books (25,000 words) investigate a single object through a variety of approaches that often reveal something unexpected about that object.
Its object is to increase the joys of marriage, and to show how much sorrow may be avoided." [ 1 ] The preface states that it was geared toward teaching married couples how to have a happy marriage, including 'great sex' [ 2 ] – and it was thus offering a service to 'the State' by reducing the number of people affected by failed marriages.
Object lessons were important elements in teaching during the Victorian era of the mid- to late-nineteenth century. [4] Elizabeth Mayo's books Lessons on Objects and Lessons on shells, which were about object lessons and were published during the Victorian Era, were revolutionary as they were the first to explain education to infant teachers.
An issue that is a serious concern regarding marriage and which has been the object of international scrutiny is that of sexual violence within marriage. Throughout much of the history, in most cultures, sex in marriage was considered a 'right', that could be taken by force (often by a man from a woman), if 'denied'.
Christians who support religious and legal recognition of same-sex marriage may base their belief in same-sex marriage on the view that marriage, as an institution, and the structure of the family is a biblical moral imperative that should be honored by all couples, heterosexual and homosexual alike. Supporting same-sex marriage reflects their ...