...Love at first sight is real if you believe The first time he saw the beautiful young woman across the crowded room, their eyes met. One week later he told her he loved her. Three months later, they were married. Does this really ever happen outside of the movies? Scientists say we are genetically wired for the possibility of love at first sight, but why it happens to some people and not others is largely a matter of timing and self-assurance. If you are lucky enough to fall in love immediately and the feeling is mutual, it still isn’t possible to know if it will last. A dinner date that starts on a love-struck note could turn sour before the check arrives, yet another “lightning just struck us” couple will go on to have a life-long relationship. Because love is hard to replicate in a lab, there is little research on when and why—and for whom—love at first sight works out. According to an annual “Singles in America” survey of more than 5,000 singles ages 21 to 70-plus, sponsored by the dating site Match.com, 59% of men and 49% of women in 2014 said they believe in love at first sight, and 41% of men and 29% of women say they have experienced it. The survey and numerous psychological studies have found men fall in love faster than women, says Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and New York City-based senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. “Men are so visual,” she says. “They see a woman who appeals to them physically...
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...harmful materials f. Safety Shower location ii. This should be used for when harmful materials are on your skin or you are on fire. g. Fire Extinguisher iii. An ABC fire extinguisher should always be in the lab to put out all types of fires. Remember that if the fire is too large to fight you should not use the fire extinguisher. In certain cases it may be safer to just fight the small fire and put it out. h. Fire Alarm iv. When a fire is too big and cannot be put out with an extinguisher and also poses a threat to other people in the building you must PULL the fire alarm to clear the building and get everyone out safely before it puts anyone in harms way. i. First Aid Box v. The location of the first aid box is very important because every second wasted could potentially turn a non-treating injury into a very serious one. The faster an injury is looked at the better chance of being able to reduce the chance...
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...approach to investigate on the topic of why men fall in love more than women. Men are more likely to falling in love if they over perceive sexual interest and physical attractiveness in women. Hence, women have become skeptical in a relationship. First hypothesis shows that men will usually fall in love with most recent partner, love more partners in their lifetime, experience more “love at first sight” and more unreturned love compared to females. The second hypothesis shows that individuals who over perceive others’ sexual interest will fall in love more frequently with chances to experience “love at first sight”. The third hypothesis states individuals who value physical attractiveness will have more partners, fall in love easily with latest attractive partner and more love at first sight experiences. The fourth hypothesis shows that individuals with a higher sexual desire will fall in love easily. The methods used were online questionnaire to both sexes with a sample size of 357. A qualitative research is used in a heterosexual community. Participants are 18-year-old and above. The dependent measures are the rating scale from 1 to 7. The specific measures used are timing of love, frequency of love, frequency of “love at first sight” and physical appearance of the latest partner. In hypothesis 1, the result shows that prediction on timing is not supported as there are no sexual differences between the falling in love time. Prediction on frequency is not supported as...
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...Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in the 15th century. In this play there are two main groups, the Capulets and Montagues.These two families have been rival families for centuries before them and play an important role in how the play displays the theme that love at first sight will not last and it’s better to love moderately. This is shown by the consequences of there rash actions, and how they were warned by many people and still did not listen because of love at first sight. When love is quick and rash it will lead to a lot of bad consequences. As in the story Romeo and Juliet fall in deep love at first sight and because they get married after a few day Romeo decides to not fight tybalt ad because of this his...
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...Love At First Sight Amber woke up late, spilt coffee on her dress, and was in a rush to make it to work on time. She was frantically running through the automatic doors when all of a sudden she collided into, Chandler, a blue eyed muscular UPS worker. Their eyes locked and she braced herself as he grabbed her arm and steadied her fall. They didn't speak but held a glance for what seemed like minutes, and then they went their separate ways. Amber walked away from that scene, heart-pounding wondering if she would ever see him again because after all it was “love at first sight.” After a first meeting, one may passionately feel as if they fell in love because the attraction is instantaneous, some may describe it as “fireworks” or “electricity” when its simply just sexual attraction. Is this attraction love at first sight? Or is it just a biological and scientific occurrence? Focusing in on the sexual attraction we see that research shows many hormones are involved in this process. Lets start at the brain, “you have motions, you also produce dopamine, a ‘feel good’ neurotransmitter that is associated with passion and addiction, and oxytocin, a hormone related to bonding” (Pincott, 4). With all of these neurotransmitters processing in the brain, it is said that ones pupils may enlarge when focusing on an object of desire (Pincott, 8). Research also shows that a person responds with their entire body when they feel desire. When one is around an object of their desire, adrenaline...
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...Shakespeare examines the theme of love. Undoubtedly, he draws upon the wealth of experience in allowing the audience to experience various types of love personified. In his play Shakespeare reveals that love is a complex emotion hovered over an evil cloud of death, is confusing when loved at first sight and is the partner of death.The theme of love in this play is illustrated through the use of cacophony, imagery and metaphor, rhyming couplet and first person. These techniques reveal to the audience how Romeo and Juliet’s love was doomed from the start. The first scene in which love is explored is in the prologue. The quote “death marked love” is portrayed through the technique of cacophony.The effect of cacophony puts a harsh and discrete sound pattern in the reader’s mind and in this case the letters are d, th, m, and rk. The imagery or metaphor stained shows that their love will end in grief and ultimately death. introducing this quote from the beginning expresses that their love was doomed from the start and wasn’t meant to be. The adjective ‘marked’ shows us...
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...Romeo and Juliet is a play about two people who think they are in love but they really aren’t. Romeo and Juliet aren’t really in love because love at first sight isn’t real,hey get married even though Juliet’s parents have plans for her to marry someone else, and they made lots of bad decisions. Romeo and Juliet fell in love in first sight. Teenagers can not fall in love in first sight because their brains are not fully developed yet and they can’t understand what real love is. They see each other at the party and fall instantly in love. Romeo was there to see a girl that he said he loved who wasn’t Juliet. Juliet was there to meet the man that her parents wanted her to marry. They hadn’t even talked to each other and Romeo said he was in...
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...The love between Claudio and Hero is a partial idealistic and realistic love, as in the love between Benedick and Beatrice is a more realistic love. Although, Claudio and Hero's relationship has contrasts and similarities with Benedick and Beatrice's relationship, at the end it is an equally happy ending for both couples. From the beginning of the play, Claudio realizes, after returning from war, that he is deeply in love with Hero. It was love at first sight, Claudio refers to Hero as “the sweetest lady” he ever “looked on” (1.1.147). The attraction Claudio has for Leonato's daughter is purely the result of first, physical beauty, and second, the desire to marry a noble and virtuous woman. These qualities are very desiring therefore...
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...Being in love is like being in a dream. Being in love is like finally finding what has everyone has been searching for. Love comes to those who wait. Love comes to those who are not expecting it. Love especially come when we fall head over heels for a person. Love comes at first sight. Love comes from dating. Love comes from marrying. There are so many different types of love and finding of love. “Romeo and Juliet is always greeted by the young with immediate sympathy, somehow expressing the essence of love, what it ought to be, a permanent possibility, a fulfillment of every renascent hope and a thing to be admired” (Bloom 273). Throughout literature, the most noteworthy way of showing how a couple in love would do anything for each other is through Romeo and Juliet. The context of the play, Romeo and Juliet is about two wealthy and noble families in the town of Verona that are not fond of each other. “Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene)” (Spark 2). There is the Montague family, where Romeo is the son. Romeo is around the age of sixteen and at this time of century this is when a boy will start searching for a wife. Even though his family is fighting against the Capulet, he doesn’t believe in it. This makes him a more susceptible character to have the ability to fall in love with out getting into other kinds of violence. He is extremely interested in love and will do whatever it takes to be with the one he loves. The girl he loves...
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...William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a famous love story of two “star crossed” lovers Romeo and Juliet. Their love brings forth a sacrifice that unites the feuding families. This play written by Shakespeare 400+ years ago remains relevant today with its countless movies and allusions in today’s works, despite being one of the oldest texts taught in schools around the world today. The story of Romeo and Juliet does not deserve its widespread recognition it has today. This late 16th century Elizabethan play does not belong in the 21st century. Much of the plot is clichéd. Including the balcony scene between the two lovers. Some of the plot remains unexpected, like Rosaline being Romeo’s first “love”, or Mercutio dying suddenly in Act 3...
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...That Guy: Hate at First Sight by Roanne Marie A. Orendain IV-Ampere It’s already been three years since I first met that guy. That guy who always love to make fun of me, that guy that always provokes me, that guy that can throws stuffs at my precious face, the one that I gave an endearment of “ATOL” (snail), in short that guy is a good-for-nothing schoolmate of mine that turns to be my first love. Yes, you read it right that guy that I hate the most turned to be my first love. I think love at first sight does not suit our story it must be hate at first sight. Our story begins with a little chat on facebook at first I thought that guy was cool, friendly and cute but those ideas are all wrong, because when our souls met at the path way after my biology subject that guy bumps me without any reason, then that guy throw a wrapper of candy at my face and he said some stuff that never meant to be told. That guy made me boil, so without any second thought I kick his front. I left him there kneeling, hurting and cussing me to death. I would not do that if he remains silent, but his mouth is unstoppable so I do that thing to make him stop from talking nonsense and make fun on my crushlife. I hate him because his so talkative and that guy hate me because I’s so impulsive and I guess our feelings are mutual we both hate each other because of what happened. Who would have known that I can make friends with that jerk? Without noticing we get closer and closer to the point that we open...
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...Love is something that means very different things to different people. For some, love can be purely romantic, or even purely sexual. For others, real love is utterly unconditional and only truly exists between family members, or between people and a deity. And for some people, love is fluid, ever changing, and everywhere, and is felt for family, friends, partners, pets, and even inanimate objects, dead artists, and fictional characters. None of these people would be right or wrong, but one thing is certain: love is the most powerful force in the entire universe. Between partners of any description, be they married or cohabiting, boyfriend and girlfriend, straight or gay, young or old, love is a relationship of mutual understanding and respect. Marriages and partnerships are often built on common ground that people find when they first meet; this can be as deep as sharing religious, philosophical or religious beliefs, or as simple as finding that you love the same film, book, or band. This kind of love is often reliant on some kind of ‘chemistry’: that strange feeling that they give you in the pit of your stomach, and the feeling that nothing in the world is more important to you than enjoying the moment you’re in together. Some people feel that they experience love at first sight, where they know from the minute they set eyes on each other that they want to to be with that person, but something built on common interests and understanding must be stronger. A parent’s love for...
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...perspective uncommon for that time period that paints a picture of what the dead see in their journey to the afterlife. “After Death” opens up with a simple setting before introducing the poems two characters, the man and the child. The child tells how she watches the man after she has died. He lingers over her body, mourning her death. The irony is that the man did not love she in life, but, instead, pitied her in death. This essay will examine two main elements that are used in “After Death” depicting the relationship missing and the child’s observation of the continuing absence of affection. First, Rossetti does not address the gender of the child, however, a feminine presence is felt with her description of the man and child’s relationship; both the physical and emotional aspects of the poem paint a father, daughter connection. The second is examining how “After Death” uses four out of the five senses to take us through the poem. The poem brings the reader on a journey beginning with smell and sight, then leans toward sound, and concludes with a cold touch. The senses show the absence of love between the man and the child, not by what he does, but by what she notices he does not. “After Death” has only two characters, a man and a child. The gender of the child is never mention, but the reader can understand that it is meant to be interpreted as a young girl, the man’s daughter. Although the poem is short, Rossetti is able to make it evident in multiple...
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...pictures, and telling stories about love. With this theme a lot of poets around the world wrote a huge amount of poems and stories. I chose to analyze a couple of Robert Browning’s poems and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s, his wife. Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, England. He was the eldest child of Sarah Wiedemann and Robert Browning, a wealthy clerk who was also a collector of books; his gigantic library was a great source of study for young Robert. Both his parents encouraged him to study and write, and he did start to write poetry at the age of twelve. In 1846 Robert Browning married fellow English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). They were devoted to each other, “for after their marriage they were never separated,” writes their son in his introduction to The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846. After they settled down in Italy and Elizabeth’s health began to get better she went on to write many highly acclaimed works. The few works Browning produced in the next fifteen years including Christmas Eve and Easter Day (1850), and Men and Women, which he dedicated to his wife Elizabeth (1855). (Merriman) I have selected two poems “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning” by Robert Browning and one poem, “How Do I Love Thee?” written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The main theme in these poems is this amazing feeling which we often like to describe as love. The poem, “Meeting at...
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...Some people believe in love at first sight. Your brain is wired to seek out the things that allow your body to feel happiness and joy. For Romeo and Juliet they were each others happiness and joy. Sneaking around and falling in love was only part of the story. The impulsiveness of Romeo and Juliet was the cause of their deaths. But the question to ask is, was their impulsiveness too epic for their love? When Romeo first saw Juliet, he knew he was in love. In the beginning of the book Romeo talks with his cousin, Mercutio about how he is still heartbroken over a girl named Rosaline. Mercutio, being the strong headed person he is, told Romeo that he should just move on from Rosaline. Romeo didn’t want to do this because throughout the book...
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