...Love Love Poems speak about the passion, Desire and vulnerability of being in love. When you can share your life with another, Your whole world is completely different. Falling in love may be one of the greatest feelings ever. Romantic relationships are the spice of life. They make us feel alive in a way that nothing else can. Genuine romance exists when two individuals show that they care for each other by doing small acts for each other that demonstrate love and affection. It makes us feel loved and cared for when we know that our significant other is thinking about how to give us the most pleasure. Romance is the key to keeping the sparks flying. Without it, any relationship will soon lose its shine. I know what LOVE is …!!!! I know what seeing is! As I saw you that day for the first time So I know what liking is! I know what striking is! As I stroke stone against stone So I know what the spark is! I know what rubbing is! As I rubbed heart against heart So I know what love is! I know what caring is! As I had been used to it since we met So I know what soft touch is! I know what fire is! As I had been burning along with you So I know what nectar is! I know what compassion is! As I have experienced it with you So I know what affection is! I know what addiction is! As I have been addicted to the smell of you So I know what obsession is! I know what memory is! As I have experienced the break up So...
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...Love fact #1 Love makes us crazy For one thing, love causes serotonin levels in the brain to drop, which may lead people to obsess about their lover. The levels of serotonin, a chemical produced by the body, are also low in people who have obsessive-compulsive disorder. Next, it ramps up production of the stress hormone cortisol, leading to slightly higher blood pressure and possible loss of sleep. Scientists at the University of London have found that when people look at their new lover, the neural circuits that are usually in charge of social judgment are suppressed. All in all, love kind of leaves you obsessive, stressed, and blind! Love fact #2 Broken hearts always hurt A new study suggests the psychological hurt of a break up is just as real as a physical injury. Two areas of the brain that respond to physical pain also become activated when a person is dealing with social or romantic pain, such as being dumped. The study’s authors at UCLA used an MRI to monitor brain activity in participants while they played a game simulating social rejection. The researchers believe that the pain of being rejected may have evolved as a motivating force that led humans to seek out social interaction, which is crucial for the survival of most mammals. Love fact #3 Kiss the right way Did you know there is a “right” way to kiss? People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of left, says a report published in the journal, Nature. A scientist from...
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...Love can be a painful exercise. As one of the most basic of human needs, something that each of us almost instinctively craves, it can also be something that we intensely fear. This dichotomous relationship is played out in Elizabeth McCracken's The Giant's House. For McCracken’s main character, Peggy Cort, love is indeed a painful exercise. She hides her intentions of love, and deep desire for connection, behind her daily routines and role playing out society’s expectations. Peggy’s journey is through barriers that she creates, overcoming them to find love in the most unlikely places and in the end losing the only love she has ever experienced. Peggy believes that her role in society as librarian puts her outside the social norm and makes her viewed as simply a public servant. Peggy describes the role of a librarian as “one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality. Librarians are supposed to be bitter spinsters; grudging, lonely. And above all stingy: we love our money, our silence.” (McCracken 8) Peggy feels the world sees her role in society as nothing more than a lost, bitter woman locked up among dusty books. This is a belief upon which she gauges her actions and reactions, but is not necessarily a reality. A small town librarian, Peggy hides behind her despair and seemingly incurable intolerance for humanity. She has a secret though, not unlike many people: she desires love. She wishes to be loved, to share love with a family...
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...Freaky Sleep Paralysis: Being Awake in Your Nightmares Did you ever awaken and find yourself unable to move? Perhaps you sensed a presence in your room or a pressure on your chest. I never knew that it was just a sleep paralysis until Professor Travelbee informed us about the Limb paralysis reflex. It is a common disorder that affects millions of people. Most believe it occurs as we are on the edge of REM sleep. The disorder has been connected with such hallucinogenic events such as alien abduction or an evil presence. Sleep paralysis is an inability to move or speak, occasionally accompanied by hallucinations, for up to several minutes upon awakening or just before falling asleep. I have had this about five times in my life, and I truly believe its Demons! It is the scariest thing you will ever experience in your life! The worst time that it happened was when I slept on my living room couch one night, and sometime around 4am I awoke to hearing footsteps getting closer to me. I could open my eyes, but could not move, no matter how hard I tried. Suddenly, I heard a whispering in my left ear could not make out what it was saying. I could only feel its presence, but not see it. My heart was pounding, and I struggled to get up, but could not, and then I felt it holding me down on my chest, I tried to fight it, but it was too strong. Because it was a deep, dark, cold thing, all I knew to do was start saying “I love God" over and over and was actually able to say it aloud barely...
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...to love one another. Making a good marriage takes a lot of work. Right after a couple gets married, the couple will often feel like their marriage will never have any problems. They think that they will love each other for the rest of their lives, that they will have a good marriage forever. However, as many married couples discover, having a good marriage does take a lot of work. In addition to have a good marriage couples must also have important characteristics. These characteristics such as love, communication and spending time together are like the building blocks of a good marriage. Marriage usually starts with one thing, and that thing is love. It’s because how can you marry someone if you don’t feel loved or if you don’t love that someone. Love brings couples together There are a variety of other general characteristics of a good marriage that couples shows towards each other, like respect for each other’s boundaries and privacy. You can see that it’s just the simple things that really make a marriage work. People have come to find out that communication is a key factor in maintaining good and lasting relationships, Communication should always remain open if we want our marriage to succeed. Lack of communication is one of the main reasons why many marriages end up bad. To have a good marriage couples should learn to spend quality time together and always learn to forgive one another. The more time you spend with someone, the better you know...
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...“Do sleeping freshmen ever lie?” is presumably a question many adults ask themselves from time to time. In David Lubar’s book, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, the reader experiences Scott Hudson’s personal account of freshmen year. He encounters some cliche moments, yet overall has a unique adventure. With friends changing and interest in two girls who are polar opposites sparking, Scott has one hectic year. In the analysis of this novel, one could relate to the characters, experience similar places, relate the story to a song, describe aspects of the plot, and discover a theme. To begin with, as obvious as it may be for any of us to relate to this character, I correspond most to Scott in this novel. We share the same interest in subjects and have experienced similar situations. Although I was in elementary school when it happened, and Scott was in high school, both of us experienced close friends moving away and no longer going to the same school. We’ve also both experienced the pregnancy of our mothers with younger siblings, even though we were again at a different ages. “I staggered back to the table. This was so huge, I couldn’t even grasp the full meaning. It was like trying to inhale all the air in a beach ball”(Lubar 26). This quote explained mine along with Scott’s feelings when we first found out...
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...1) Despite the fact that both of these scenes depict the same characters and illustrate the same lines, the feelings they portray to the audience differ drastically in nature. In the first clip, the love expressed between Theseus and Hippolyta is evident, and mutual. Where as in the second clip, the setting is more formal and their wedding prep seems as though it’s something Theseus wants more than Hippolyta. This was clearly noticed in the end of the second clip, when the look in Hippolyta’s eyes portrays more skepticism or fright than it does true love. Considering that I have varying ideas as to what Shakespeare’s plays, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream more specifically, “should be” visualized as, I wasn’t very surprised by the emotions displayed in either clip. From the text and previous assumptions of Shakespeare’s play writing, I expected Theseus to be overly excited to be marrying Theseus, as he was more than likely the one that initiated the wedding. The first clip was a little surprising, because I didn’t expect Hippolyta to be that in love with and engulfed in Theseus. Whereas the second clip fit closer with my expectations; I had a preconceived interpretation that a lot of the men in Shakespeare’s plays forced the women into a marriage, whether it was mutual or not. 2) This play was most likely had two contrasting interpretations during the 1960’s and the 1980’s because the overall beliefs and impressions of the decades were extremely different. Throughout the 1960’s...
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...school. I couldn’t imagine meeting someone who would want to hurt me as bad as he did, and it took me five years down the road to realize it’s time to put yourself first and open your eyes. What’s happening to you isn’t normal. He walks into class, I immediately have this attraction, and something about him intrigues me. I flirt and show him I’m interested, I’m surprised he showed interest back. I’ve never expected a guy like him to be in a long term relationship. This is where trouble begins. I’ve made enemies. Being this young, harmless and innocent I know thought having people not like at this age was a thing. Not only now have I ruined a relationship but it’s the beginning of a life I never saw myself living. It’s been a year now, everything between us is great and never felt anything more real in my life. I’ve come to find out that he’s more experienced with thing you thought were inappropriate at this age, thing’s I knew I was not exactly ready for; but the “love” I had for him was so powerful not giving myself up to him didn’t seem right at this point, “Why not give this a try, when I can already see myself with him for a while if not forever”. Sounds crazy right? Fourteen years old and I already think I’ve found my soulmate. After thing’s got intimate the “love” grows stronger; we’re both starting to become jealous, trust is being questioned, not because of me, with him. Every which way I turn I hear that he’s touching other girl’s behind my back in his classes, he...
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...He is a pre adolescent in this stage in his life so he is just now figuring out what girls (or boys) are and is very confused. He in my opinion takes strange paths to show his affections to her. For one, he says “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door”. (123) He is to the point of where he is so consumed by this unknown love for a girl he has never ever talked to. The turning point of what he thought could be a beginning of a “fairytale relationship” is when they finally talked. Yes, we all know that it was a short conversation that was very cliche, but he didn’t think so. Mangan’s sister wanted to go to Araby, but she couldn’t. But the narrator took this as an opportunity to show off to her and get her gift. He waited and waited to finally go and when he did that in my opinion is the climax of the whole story, where he lost his innocence and had to face the reality that the world isn’t church girls and boys who fall in love and get married. He arrives at Araby after a train ride. We must not forget that he was late because his uncle came home late. The bazaar was already ending and empty, but he kept going searching for something special to get Mangan’s sister. He arrives at a kiosk with a lady and two men. This part of the story is where quite frankly, his soul was crushed. The lady had the audacity to flirt and not be ladylike. He had never seen anything so...
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...reason why education is highly valued is because most Mexicans in Mexico and in the United States do not make it to a College level education. As someone who is Mexican American there is even more pressure because most of our parents migrated to the United States so that we their children can have the opportunity of education. But when we do get there our eyes our open to another world the world where we are the minority in numbers and this feeling is rare. Especially because we are a pack and the pack does not leave anyone behind but the education we receive ends up separating us from the pack. We no longer fit in our environment but we also do not fit in the Caucasian environment. It is very easily to be consumed with the concept that the only way to succeed in a professional level as a minority is to turn our back on our family. We have now experienced a new world where money is highly valued as a symbol of success. So while we were growing up and being pushed to be successful no one ever told us the difference between money and success. Perception becomes the next form of pressure because in a higher level of a professional environment money is all around but as someone who has never experienced this they can easily fall into the trap of money is everything and it makes me who I am. This perception is the struggle that the main character Johnny Ramirez endures in “Bordertown”. The first moment where the viewer...
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...Jackson Pollock: Autumn Rhythm The artist I have chosen to research is Jackson Pollock. Pollock was one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century. He created artwork during some of the hardest times in the country, the Great Depression and World War II. In this paper I will be talking about the life of Jackson Pollock and focusing on his piece of artwork called Autumn Rhythm (Number 30). Jackson Pollock was born January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of 5 brothers and his oldest brother had a major art influence on him. His family moved around a couple times before ending up in California where Pollock was enrolled at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles. During his time there, he was expelled two times before he ended up dropping out. Around age 18, he moved to New York to live with his oldest brother. While he was there he started to...
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...person who will listen and not condemn Someone on whom you can depend They will not flee when bad times are here Instead they will be there to lend an ear They will think of ways to make you smile So you can be happy for a while When times are good and happy there after They will be there to share the laughter Do not forget your friends at all For they pick you up when you fall Do not expect to just take and hold Give friendship back, it is pure gold. Remember As I walk through life, I look at all I have done. I had wandered aimlessly, And wondered what I have become. I have been through so much, It is amazing I made it through. The lessons I have learned I am shocked I pulled through. The times I wondered what life was all about. The trials experienced in life, Can make all the good come out. We try to make it day by day. Remembering what we were taught. Just remember some time to pray, It is important, We need it every day. Life can be short. Unexpected at that. We try to take its punches, Just hoping it won't break our back. Remember who you are, Who you want to become. Everything will fall into place, When the time comes. Don't forget I love you's, Every chance you get. The time may be short, There is no time to regret. Life can be exciting, As we all have found out. Eventful, even busy there is no time to be left out. Remember who you are, And who you want to become. The time can be short Don't leave things...
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...I always have a knife on me, except for when i'm in school. It protects and attacks when needed. I’ve never had to use it for anything but to cut something. The stress i carry isn't normal. Everything in life stresses me out. My extreme OCD makes everything worse. I always see and hear things that no one else does. I feel like i'm going crazy, but act like everything is normal. The cold steel knife i carry means alot to me. I always expect the worse so if something happens im ready. This relates to the crazy things that go through my head. I don't feel comfortable with someone walking behind me, so i always have my hand in my pocket holding my knife. This doesnt mean im going to use it, holding the knife just makes me feel comfortable. Everyone experiences stress throughout their life. I become stressed and anxious over a noise or something so simple like the position my pencil on the desk. Like i mentioned before, my OCD makes everything worse. My hands shake, my palms sweat, my breathing speeds up, and i can feel little needles stabbing my back. The last part may sound crazy but that's how it feels. I may joke around and have a weird grin on my face, but behind that, there is someone who feels sad and stressed. I always...
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...“A Leap of Faith” You mentioned in your speech at the wedding a couple weekends ago that in my sense of adventure you trusted me in any situation, from snowshoeing a mountain and sledding down, to standing below me while I‘m chain sawing 80ft up above you. I have to tell you how I got started and became the guy you share these crazy adventures with. Skydiving one time has changed my perspective on life to be sure. Just starting out in a new job and trying to figure out what life was about and where I was headed. I decided it was time to mix things up, do something I didn’t think I had the guts to actually do. Go jump from a perfectly good plane attached to someone I didn’t know, that is an “expert“ in the area of falling from great heights (more than once!) . I had been in a plane only two or three times sight seeing, without the urge to open the door no less. The sky is a cold, crisp aqua marine with thin wispy clouds. The walls are a cold steel grey. Rivets hold everything together. A faded tan leather seat, cracked from years speed, pitch, heading and Altitude. A small window on my right side above my head provides the only meager view on the ascent to a totally new view on life. It’s dark behind me where the Instructor waits patiently for the call to go. There’s a small poster on the sliding door that says “Humpty Dumpty was pushed” with a picture of him falling (the irony of which, will hit me in a moment). The wind is leaping in and out of the plane as we speed...
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