Made of Honor

Made of Honor follows the typical romantic comedy plot line.  You can pretty much figure out exactly what is going to happen by watching a one minute preview.  Tom and Hannah are best friends.  Tom is a ladies man.  Hannah gets called to work in Scotland, and while she is gone Tom realizes that he is in love with her.  Hannah comes back and surprise, surprise she is engaged.  She asks Tom to be her maid of honor, and he accepts in attempts to sabotage the wedding.  In the last scene, Tom and Hannah get in a fight, but of course Tom ends up bursting through the doors of the church right as the priest is asking if anyone objects to the marriage.  Hannah runs up and kisses him, calls off the wedding, and Tom and Hannah live happily ever after.  Most romantic comedies follow this sort of plot line.  Fall in love --> get in fight ---> make up ---> live happily ever after.  I feel like I am ragging on chick flicks, but the truth is that even though I know what is going to happen before the movies starts... I LOVE watching them! And I get very angry at endings to movies like the Break Up.. where they ACTUALLY break up in the end.

sources

ttp://www.icna.org/family/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=4

http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2004050700&type=hitlist&num=0

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2010/09/29/US-marriage-rate-continues-to-decline/UPI-77271285810979/

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/17/us/rate-of-marriage-continues-decline.html

http://www.civitas.org.uk/hwu/cohabitation.php

Marriage and cohabitation By Arland Thornton, William G. Axinn, Yu Xie

issues paper

poverty --- globalization allows more countries to become industrialized which reduces poverty --- poor countries are able to receive food because of improved transportation --- education in impoverished countries is improving because of more unified standards --- more unified standards of living --- world organizations that help impoverished countries