RJA #7a: Evaluation of Sources

Reference article:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Arranged_marriage
An encyclopedia about arranged marriage. The partners are chosen by parents, community elders, matchmakers, or religious leaders in order to help young people to find the right person to marry. The way they find the right person differs due to different religions and cultures. But nowdays, the partners are choosing their own spouse without the help of their parents(love marriage) because of that, most of the marriages get a divorce and because of that parents think having and arranged marriage is better than love marriage. This article also gives a small brief about different marriage, such as child marriag, political marriage, and many more.

Book:
http://astore.amazon.com/planet-20/detail/1576079872
The author of this book, Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons, is George Monger. It is about wedding traditions going around the world and their customs. This book is arranged in alphabetical order. He also describes traditions for getting betrothed, meeting the relatives, running a proper stag party, performing the ceremony, cavorting at the reception, and conducting the honeymoon that could induce cold feet even in the most hot-blooded.

Periodical article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/fashion/07love.html?_r=1&tntemail1=y&pagewanted=all
First Comes marriage, this article was written by Farahad Zama and published in June, 5 2008. He tells about how he fell in love with his wife, Sameera after their marraige were arranged by his mother and Sameera Uncle. After having two kids, he thinks how different his marraige was compared to the American society and thinking how his two sons are gonig to get married since they are adapting to American life.

Website:
The title, Arranged Marriages and Dowry. Talks about Marraige life in India, and how huge it is, and because divorce are not accepted among most Indian, the parents will carefully choose for the right one for you. Some desirable traits they looked for in both male and female are: matching levels of education, matching cultures, close parental cities, matching religions, and matching vegetarians/non-vegetarians. Then it talks about the dowry system which is when the husband dies and the wife of the parents have to pay good amount of money just to see their daughter well taken care of.