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10/25 Topic-2

1.What Are Your Beliefs About Marriage?

BY KATHERINE SCHULTEN  MARCH 3, 2010 4:24 AM March 3, 2010 4:24 am

Do you want to get married someday? Why or why not? Do you think a couple should live together before they marry? How young do you think is too young to get married? How long, ideally, should you be married before having children? Read about a recent study that looked at data of men and women, ages 15 to 44, to address some of these questions.

In “Living Together First Doesn’t Make Marriage Last, Study Finds,” Sam Roberts reports on a National Center for Health Statistics study:


Couples who live together before they get married are less likely to stay married, a new study has found. But their chances improve if they were already engaged when they began living together.

The likelihood that a marriage would last for a decade or more decreased by six percentage points if the couple had cohabited first, the study found.

The study of men and women ages 15 to 44 was done by the National Center for Health Statistics using data from the National Survey of Family Growth conducted in 2002. The authors define cohabitation as people who live with a sexual partner of the opposite sex[…]

Half of couples who cohabit marry within three years, the study found. If both partners are college graduates, the chances improve that they will marry and that their marriage will last at least 10 years[…]

Couples who marry after age 26 or have a baby eight months or more after marrying are also more likely to stay married for more than a decade.


Quesions;

1.Tell us about your attitudes and beliefs about marriage.

2. What do you base these beliefs on?

3. Under what circumstances would you like to get married, assuming you want to be married at all?

2. What Makes a Great Conversation?

By NATALIE PROULX OCT. 5, 2017

Amanda de Cadenet said her first lesson in becoming an effective interviewer was the hardest: “One of the big adjustments was to learn to listen.” Credit Amy Lombard for The New York Times


What is a great conversation you have had recently with a friend, family member, teacher, classmate or stranger? Was it lighthearted, deep, funny, thought-provoking or emotional? How did you feel during or after it — satisfied, intrigued, comforted, challenged? What did the other person do well in the conversation? What did you do well?

In “How to Tell if Someone Is Lying and 8 More Conversation Tips,” Joanna Nikas writes:

The staring contest lasted 14 seconds before Amanda de Cadenet, best known for interviewing bold women with boldfaced names, broke the silence with “I can’t take it anymore!” She was delivering instruction in an interview technique: It is sometimes important to keep quiet, and even to stare down one’s interview subject, in the hope that the stare-ee will try to fill the silence with her truth.

It can be uncomfortable to be on the receiving end of that silence, as Ms. de Cadenet herself knows. She was exposed to scrutiny at an early age. As she chronicles in her new book, “It’s Messy,” she was a teenage runaway who got into drugs and was pregnant at 19, with her daughter Atlanta Noo de Cadenet Taylor, by her first husband, John Taylor of Duran Duran.

In her televised series, “The Conversation,” Ms. de Cadenet, 45, has interviewed women such as Hillary Clinton, Ivanka Trump, Issa Rae and Lady Gaga. “One of the big adjustments was to learn to listen,” she said of becoming an effective interviewer.

In our talking-head, Twitter-finger culture, learning to listen, engage and observe are valuable skills, whether you are a journalist, employer or friend.

Quesions;

1. In your opinion, what makes a great conversation?

2. What do you think you do best in a conversation? Are you a gifted storyteller, listener, observer, sharer or question-asker? What is something you think you could work on to get better at conversing with others?

3. Ms. de Cadenet says she can tell someone is lying by his or her body language. What clues do you use to find out if someone is lying to you?

4. Ms. de Cadenet advises that when you have a friend in crisis, you should “keep putting your hand out, and need nothing back.” Do you agree? How do you have conversations with friends who are going through a difficult time? What would you want them to do for you?

3. Do You Want to Be ‘Promposed’ To?

BY KATHERINE SCHULTEN  APRIL 13, 2016 5:08 AM

Have you ever seen a “promposal,” either live or online? Would you like to be either the recipient or the designer of a promposal of your own? Why or why not?


In “The Awkward Charm of the Promposal,” Amanda Hess begins by describing Daniel’s Promposal, the climax of which she calls “more compelling than any teenage drama scripted for television.” Then she writes:

Welcome to the strange allure of the “promposal,” the new coming-of-age ritual in which teenagers ask each other to dance through elaborate public displays of affection, surprise and wit. A promposal sounds like a very bad thing. The word conjures the nightmare of an adolescent dress rehearsal for a marriage proposal — one of those disquieting, viral-baiting marriage proposals where (typically) guys arrange some dastardly stunt (simulated plane crash, surprise “Today” show appearance) in a bid to shock and awe their (typically) female targets into signing over their lives on the spot. But after clicking play, play, play on one YouTube promposal after another, I’ve found that most of them are, against all odds, oddly delightful. It’s as if the over-the-top proposal trend has finally found the appropriate, low-stakes outlet.

To better understand the promposal’s draw, I enlisted an expert guide: Ana Hernández, a 19-year-old fashion design student and the proprietor of promposal.tumblr.com, an online scrapbook of notable asks. Hernández has a soft spot for punny promposals. One entry features a cooler full of Mountain Dew, with a question scrawled inside: “Will you Dew me the honor of going to prom with me?” Another shows a flier drawn with a bright green leaf and a note: “Weed be perfect at prom, right? (You see what I did there?)” In a third, a boy dons scrubs and a surgical mask and asks a “Grey’s Anatomy” obsessive: “I know I’m not McSteamy or McDreamy, but will you be my person at prom?” In one emerging genre of promposal, a boy enlists a couple of male friends to act out a surprise childbirth in the school hallway, at the end of which he pops out from between a pair of legs, wearing a diaper, and says: “I was born to go to prom with you.”

Things can get pretty elaborate, but they don’t have to. Perhaps the most popular form of promposal, Hernández told me, is to arrange for a pizza to be delivered to the target with a message lodged inside: “I know this is cheesy, but: Prom?” An instant classic.


One of the promposals mentioned in the article.

Questions;

1. What are the best promposals you’ve ever seen or heard of, whether live or online? Do you find them charming and delightful, as this writer does, or do they make you uncomfortable?

2. Would you want to be promposed to in some elaborate way? Would ever do the promposing? Why or why not?

3. What promposal ideas do you have? What dos and don’ts for success might you suggest?

4. If you hate the idea of a promposal, how do you feel about prom itself? Do you plan to go to yours?

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