Soraya Pashaei-Marandi ENGL 1301 July 18, 2017 Arranged Marriages Are the Way to Go In today’s society, especially in the United States, there is a stigma that comes with arranged marriages. This kind of marriage is mainly practiced in the East as it is seen as part of their culture. Arranged marriages occur when the parents of young singles intervene in their love life in order to set them up with someone they find as suitable for their child. Although many view arranged marriages as a relationship destined for failure, there are many reasons as to why having this type of marriage will lead to a happier and more successful marriage. In any marriage that occurs, a union of two people is a family affair. Therefore, the first reason as to why arranged marriages are better than non-arranged marriages is that there will be no worry with having to get the families approval of the spouse. The parents will have already approved of the spouse before the marriage and are sure that both families will get along peacefully. There will be no such thing, as some coin the term, “monster-in-law,” due to the fact that each set of parents accepts the spouse of their child as their own. Many marriages in today’s society do not work out for the sole reason of the families budding into the marriage and not being compatible with either the spouse or his/hers family. Another reason as to why many marriages do not work is because both parties believe they are in the right place in their life to get married, but once it happens, they are in fact not ready. Many disagree on important matters such as whether or not to have kids, the amount of time spent working, where to live, and which religion to follow. With arranged marriages, the young adult has to tell his or her parent that they are indeed ready to settle down and commit to a life-long marriage. The parents then talk to a suitors family and see what their child wants out of a marriage. With the parents looking for the spouse, it leaves lust out of the equation, and focuses on the practical parts of a relationship. They determine if the future spouse of their child is economically stable to take care of a family, comes from a decent family, has the same religious beliefs, and is wanting to have children. It is not until they are determined compatible that they can even be considered for marriage. Ever heard of the term, the grass is greener on the other side? This comes into play when people are not satisfied with the situation they are in and believe there is something better out there. People in the dating world tend to compare the person they currently date to their past partners and come up with faults that are not significant; of course this leads to turmoil in the relationship. Many of the people involved in arranged marriages have not dated seriously before they marry, therefore, they have no one to compare their spouse to. This is beneficial in the fact that they will believe the love they are experiencing is like nothing they have ever experienced before(because they have not). With this, the arranged marriage couples tend to fall madly in love as time goes, while the non-arranged marriage couples keep finding flaws with their spouse that could eventually lead to divorce. Although many people are weary that an arranged marriage will lead to an unhappy life, there are many reasons to believe that this would not be the case. Coming from an Iranianbackground, I, myself, have seen many arranged marriages. These couples are some of the happiest couples I have seen because they have a solid foundation and a great support system from both families. Even Aziz Ansari writes about how his arranged marriage parents are happily married after thirty-five years, “probably more so than most older white people [he] knows who had non-arranged marriages”(124). Without the turmoil of having to find the perfect person to marry yourself, while also having the advantage of the families already meshing together perfectly, I do not see why arranged marriages are not more common.Soraya Pashaei-Marandi ENGL 1301 July 20, 2017 Online Dating-The Key to A Relationship In Today’s Society With each day that passes, there is a new advancement in technology. With these advancements, comes a new way of life and means of communication. No matter where you look, there will always be someone on either their smart phone, tablet, or laptop. For this very reason, conventional dating has turned into online dating. Although online dating is fairly new within the last decade, many people have found it to be the solution to dating in today’s society. In this era, young adults spend their twenties focusing on their career paths and getting acquainted with the real world. This does not leave much time for them to get out into the dating world. This is why online dating has become the new norm. There is no longer the excuse of, ‘I cannot date because I do not have time to.’ Now dating is at the touch of your finger tips on your phone. With apps such as Tinder, Bumble, and Match.com, you can even browse your dating prospects while you are at work. With these dating apps, you talk to the people and get to know them to determine if you would like to spend the time to go on a first date with them. No time is being wasted by having to go on awful dates with people you are not even compatible with. A great aspect to online dating is that there is a wide pool of people to choose from, while with conventional dating you are only going on a date with a single person at a time to get to know them. With a great variety of people you can find exactly what you are looking for. On many online dating sites, there are questionnaires that people fill out when they make a profile. With this information, you are matched with people that are seen to have common interest with you. People are finding prospective daters that they are more compatible with, in a shorter amount of time. This is the perfect resolution to dating in today’s society because people are crunched for time and do not have time weed out the people that would be a complete waste of their time. When people date face-to-face, they tend to put up a front and are not truly themselves. They try to impress the person they are on a date with, but that leads to false identity about who they are. With online dating, people can hide behind the screen in order to let their guard down. They reveal their