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<h3>Giovanni & Lusanna-by Gene Brucker</h3>
<pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>In the story Giovanni and Lusanna , written and researched by Gene </pre><pre>Brucker, there is a woman who has taken her alleged husband to court, </pre><pre>because he has married another woman. The story is a factual account </pre><pre>of what transpired during this court case and the remainder of </pre><pre>Giovanni¹s life. There are several similarities between their world </pre><pre>and ours, but for the most part we live in a totally different </pre><pre>environment. Our standards of living have greatly improved, but more </pre><pre>than that our society has grown more tolerant toward the people who </pre><pre>deviate from everyday standards.</pre><pre><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The story starts out with Lusanna as a married woman who caught the </pre><pre>eye of a wealthy young man named Giovanni. As time wore on they </pre><pre>allegedly fell in love and enjoyed all of the pleasures of their love. </pre><pre>It was later claimed by Lusanna that Giovanni had promised to marry </pre><pre>her in the event of her husband¹s death. Her husband soon died a </pre><pre>questionable death that left open the possibility of poison. Unlike </pre><pre>today¹s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>world divorce was unheard of, and unacceptable. Giovanni then </pre><pre>refused to marry her in a public wedding because his social status </pre><pre>would be greatly hurt to marry some one in the working class of </pre><pre>Florence. This is another example of why today¹s society is so much </pre><pre>different from how it was when they lived.</pre><pre><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Another strange thing about their society is the open humiliation </pre><pre>that people were subjected to. It was said that Lusanna first husband </pre><pre>was called a ³cuckold ³ to his face. People who were said to earn </pre><pre>money in a dirty fashion often had blood or paint thrown on their </pre><pre>steps. These kinds of things are just not normal or permitted in </pre><pre>today¹s world. It is true that they do sometimes occur, but the </pre><pre>responsible party often ends up looking worse that the person they </pre><pre>were trying to hurt. </pre><pre><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Lusanna was said to have had several lovers. She was not able to </pre><pre>become pregnant due to medical problems. This pretty much left her </pre><pre>free to have unprotected sex with as many lovers as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>she wanted. It is </pre><pre>true that there are women today with this same type of free love </pre><pre>attitude, but there are serious consequences in todays world that will </pre><pre>greatly hamper such a life style. </pre><pre><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>One thing that is very similar about their time and today¹s world in </pre><pre>the fact that women will condemn each other for being guilty of </pre><pre>immoral acts. It seemed as though many of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>women in this story </pre><pre>were aganist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lusanna because of her actions. There is no question </pre><pre>that women in today¹s world act in a very similar manner. A difference </pre><pre>about women in this day in age is that they have ea great deal more </pre><pre>freedom. It was said in the book that a woman was not supposed to look </pre><pre>a man in the eye while in public. They were with out question second </pre><pre>class citizens.</pre><pre><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>In this story Giovanni ended up having his way probably because of </pre><pre>who he knew and what family he was a member of. In this world, no </pre><pre>matter when or where a person lives, the upper class will always have </pre><pre>the power. The fact is, money is power, and with the greed that is </pre><pre>naturally built into every human, money will consistently come out on </pre><pre>top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is very true that there are some similarities between this </pre><pre>time and that one, but it should be apparent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>that people of today¹s </pre><pre>world have socially evolved.</pre></div>
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Sometime with rudeness 'n' Sometime with love..... Sometime with perception 'n' Sometime with surprise... Sometime with worry 'n' Sometime with Hope... Life goes on.........
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