...Abstract thoughts | | * Loves to teach and be taught | * Loves reality and | | * Always looking at people's | abstract | | flaws & weaknesses | * Intelligent and clever | | * Likes to criticize | * Changing personality | | * Hardworking and productive | * Temperamental | | * Smart, neat and organized | * Quiet, shy and humble | | * Sensitive and has deep | * Low self esteem | | thoughts | * Honest and loyal | | * Knows how to make others happy| * Determined to reach | | | goals | | * Quiet unless excited or tensed| * Loves freedom | | | * Rebellious when | | * Rather reserved | restricted | | * Highly attentive | * Loves aggressiveness | | * Resistant to illnesses but | * Too sensitive and easily| | prone to colds | hurt | | * Romantic but has difficulties | * Showing anger easily | | expressing love | * Dislike unnecessary | | * Loves children |...
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...social networking sites have become a part of our day to day life. However, they affect people’s relationships and may enhance or damage their real life experience. The relationships are focused on friendships and love romantic relationships. It is interesting to analyse how virtual communities and social networks interact with people’s relationships in reality, where pros and cons exist. Social networking sites have become very popular in today’s world. It is enough to take a walk through offices and trains and observe what people do in these environments to understand the level of importance these sites present to people. It is also enough to walk through parks, cities and restaurants during the late afternoon or evening to realise the absence of what once used to be a buzzing environment populated with people making or maintaining friendships. It is quite rare to see teenage kids play, run around, make friend and love relationships. These activities seem to have descended into the virtual world where these same teenagers today spend time socialising and playing games with friends online, some even finding love online. For instance, my cousin told me that he cannot live without Ipod and Iphone that he spends his spare time to play games and text messages with friends. The good points are included in virtual communities and social networks enhance people’s friendship and love relationship because they allow users to seek and share...
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...express visually the emotional and physical explosion of erotic love”. (The WebMuseum) The human experience that this artwork relates to is love which is clearly seen in the painting the work of art depicted a man and woman embracing each other lovely with their bodies fused together showing their unity for one another as stated “Klimt’s work explores the themes of birth, life death. The woman is especially depicted by turn as emotional joy bringer, temptress and child bearer. The bodies fused together as one emphasis their unity”. (Echostains) The way this human experience is meaningful to my life is that this is the way I show my love for my wife by embracing her in a loving way which help show her how much I love her as depicted in the painting so it can prove meaningful to a lot of people’s love life. The way this work of art expresses and relates to my own and most people’s human experience because at one time or another we all at one time have been in a relationship where we will show our love for one another by embracing and caressing our mates in loving way this is how many people in love express their love of another. According to overstockArt.com a site which published a Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine’s Day 2011 listed Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” which topped the list among many others. This just shows that the painting still expresses and relates to the human experience of love even after 104 years of it being painted. I feel what this piece...
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...common thread throughout. In the book the Castle of Otranto, the protagonist Theodore is a classic prince charming. He is always willing to protect a damsel in distress and there is no shortage of those in this story. Theodore is a very passionate man and falls so deeply in love with Matilda that he is willing to risk his life in order to protect and be with her. Likewise, the man from the song “The Unquiet Grave" by Faith and the Muse is also deeply passionate about the woman he loves. Both The Castle of Otranto and “The Unquiet Grave” have elements of supernatural happenings which enhance the drama of the plot. In this essay, I will describe the similarities of the two main characters from each piece of writing being reviewed, as well as which method of coping with grief I found most satisfactory. Theodore and the young man in the song appear to have many similar personality and behaviour traits. Theodore is considered very valiant and noble by many of the characters in the book, particularly the women. An example of this adoration for Theodore comes from a statement that Bianca (Matilda’s handmade) makes to Manfred stating that “he is as comely a youth as ever trod on christian ground: we are all in love with him: there is not a soul in the castle but would be rejoiced to have him for our prince” (Walpole, 1764, p. 122). Theodore also shows immense loyalty to the women that he encounters in the story and he develops strong feelings for Matilda quickly. This is portrayed in...
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...Alayna Erhard ENC3254 Dr. Carolyn Kelley 10/17/12 Men; What’re They Good For? Joni Mitchell is a talented lyricist to say the least, and her sixth album “Court and Spark” is testimony to her whimsical way with words. The album gets personal, lending insight into the rocky roads of Mitchell’s past relationships, her insecurities with love, and, above all, the deeply rooted trust issues she has with men. The man she molds throughout the album is distant and unfaithful, shallow and overly critical; he is a man who keeps Mitchell at a distance, which in turn keeps Mitchell fleeing from the prison gates of love. In songs like “Court and Spark”, “Help Me” and “Car on a Hill” listeners encounter that typical two-timing sweet talker. Likewise, an insincere critic is evident in songs like “People’s Parties” and “Twisted”. The lyrics to these songs within the album “Court and Spark” authenticate Mitchell’s belief that men cannot be trusted in relationships. Mitchell believes men are unfaithful in relationships. The opening lines of “Court and Spark” demonstrate her cynicism, “Love came to my door with a sleeping roll and a madman’s soul.”(Mitchell, “Court and Spark.” Verse 1, Lines 1-2) Not by chance, the sleeping roll is the first thing she notices about this travelling man. A bed, unlike a sleeping roll, is something permanently fixed and symbolizes commitment. However, he can roll up the latter and leave her for someone else’s door whenever he chooses, a freedom that lacks...
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...baby are you? JANUARY BABY Pretty/handsome. Loves to dress up. Easily bored. Fussy. Seldom shows emotions. Takes time to recover when hurt. Sensitive. Down-to-Earth. Stubborn. Repost this in 5 mins and you will meet someone new in 8 days that will perfectly balance your personality. FEBRUARY BABY Abstract thoughts. Loves reality and abstract. Intelligent and clever. Changing personality. Attractive. Sexiest out of everyone. Temperamental. Quiet, shy and humble. Honest And loyal. Determined to reach goals. Loves freedom. Rebellious when restricted. Loves aggressiveness. Too sensitive and easily hurt. Gets angry really easily but does not show it. Dislikes unnecessary things. Loves making friends but rarely shows it. Horny. Daring and stubborn. Ambitious. Realizing dreams and hopes. Sharp. Loves entertainment and leisure. Romantic on the inside not outside. Superstitious and ludicrous. Spendthrift. Tries to learn to show emotions. Repost this in 5 mins and you will talk to someone new and realize that you are a perfect match. MARCH BABY Attractive personality. Sexy. Affectionate Shy and reserved. Secretive. Naturally honest, generous and sympathetic. Loves peace and serenity. Sensitive to others. Great kisser. Easily angered. Trustworthy. Appreciative and returns kindness. Hardly shows emotions. Tends to bottle up feelings. Observant and assesses others. If you repost this in the next 5 mins, you will meet your new love in 8 days. APRIL BABY Suave and compromising...
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...losing something. Oskar invents to get his mind off of things. Oskar says “Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing” (12). When Oskar’s dad died he starts inventing a lot more. Oskar also deals with his loss in ways most young children would not even think of, with self harm. Oskar says “Even though I knew I shouldn’t, I gave myself a bruise” (37) Whenever Oskar feels sad, alone, or guilty he bruises himself. He has over forty all over his body. In result of losing Anna, Thomas Sr. can never truly love or speak again. At first he loses the word Anna. Thomas Sr. says “...but I couldn’t finish the sentence, her name wouldn’t come” (16). Sometimes people can’t stand to talk about love ones lost but he literally cannot. He eventually loses all speech. Thomas Sr. does not want happiness for himself. When he is writing a letter to his son he says “I want you to be happy, more than I want happiness for myself” (135). Thomas Sr. could never love again after losing Anna. The grandfather was about to leave Grandma and never come back. “I told her “something” by...
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...Save as many as you ruin To live is to choose. We all create our lives through decisions, and sometimes, our decisions leave footprints in other people’s lives, too. Making a choice every now and then is difficult but necessary because it makes us who we are, and sometimes we make a wrong choice that can seem both irreversible and fatal to your life. If you are lucky, you will one day have the opportunity to save what you have previously ruined because of wrong choices. This is an opportunity that Gerard will not take for granted in the short story ‘Save as Many as You Ruin’, which is written by Simon Van Booy in 2007. This paper will primarily focus on the use of symbols in the story, the mood of the story and the use of contrasts throughout the story. In the story, we meet our protagonist, Gerard, who is a very handsome man from New York. Gerard lives a quite boring and regrettable life, and even though he has slept with many women in his life, his only true love is a woman named Laurel. They met at a dinner party and started falling in love with each other from the very first sight. Unfortunately, Gerard wanted more than love. “Gerard vaguely remembers the feeling of being in love with Laurel and the desire to have sex with Issy” He had an urge to have sex with plenty of women and his desire to have sex overpowered his love for Lucy. He began having an affair with a woman named Issy, and managed to keep it a secret to Laurel until Issy became pregnant, and therefore,...
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...Love is a powerful thing. In the book Cyrano de Bergerac, Roxane says she loves Christians soul more than his appearance to show that she truly loves him. Which is more important, inner or outer beauty? Inner beauty is what you make it to be, something you form as you grow, while outer beauty is what you were born to look like, your biological features. They’re both things that make up who you are, they are both attractive things to have. However, very different things, and can change a person completely. In Cyrano de Bergerac, The characters have different views of true beauty. Cyrano and Roxane both share the thought of Inner beauty being more important. Christian however, felt betrayed when Roxane said “I didn’t really love you...
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...his theories about love to how people go about their lives. I found myself agreeing with most of the things that he said and when I applied them to real life examples I found most of them to be true. Fromm first begins by saying that people think that there is not anything to be learned about love and there are a few premises on why people believe this. To start, people’s problems are not based on the question of if they are capable of loving; it is the questions of are they lovable and are people able to love them (Fromm, 1). People use different paths in order to achieve being loved. The first path is mostly used by men in which their goal is to be as successful, powerful, and as rich as their place in society would allow them. The next one is mainly used by women where they make themselves attractive by dressing and looking a certain way. Both men and women make them themselves attractive to others by learning how to interact with other people and hold conversations, be modest, and develop pleasant manners (Fromm, 2). Fromm states, “… what most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal (Fromm, 2).” Secondly, people assume that love is simple, but finding the thing to be loved is the difficult part. During the Victorian age people married for social reasons and people would fall in love after they were married. In current society it is the opposite; people search for “romantic love first and when they...
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...There’s something indescribably gorgeous about how fleeting life is. When I die, I want everyone I love to attend my funeral wearing the brightest and most colorful items in their closet. My cousin Audrey will be wearing her Pocahontas Indian princess outfit of Halloween 1995. My friend Cindy will run around in her furry bear suit and pirate hat. I want my send off to commemorate who I am by retaining every vivid ounce of energy that rushes through my body every time I laugh so hard I can’t breathe. I don’t want to be mourned; I want my end to be a celebration of the life I lived. Passion is what my life is about. As a little girl, every night I was tucked into bed and read a story. Nurtured by a daily dose of literature, I was fascinated with the idea of beautiful princesses and magical creatures and longed for my own Prince Charming to take me away to “happily ever after.” I could not understand what made one book more compelling than another, but I knew that when I read it, I felt it. I didn’t bother myself with the complexities of why I felt the way I did, but now I realize words can be beautiful: from provoking emotions to evoking memories, passionate words can float right off the page, into one’s heart and soul. Words can open people’s eyes by changing their perspective of the world as they know it. I learned about the idea of love from fairy tale romances. I’ve been a hopeless romantic ever since I can remember. When I read The Great Gatsby during the summer before...
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...environment. Most scientists, especially who are specialists in math and physics, tend to only focus on their research topics. They have the strongest abilities in reasoning, but they tend to be indifference about their personal life. There are many scientists who never care about their appearances. Some of them are thinking about their researches except when they are sleeping. Scientists are often linked with the prototype of reasoning, and they often neglect the importance of emotion. Emotion means people sometimes do things without any specific reasons, which makes people passionate in their life. In terms of love, there are many people who fall in love even if they only see their lovers once. This kind of love often lacks reasons because it is merely inspiration and intuition. Having passion to seek lovers has nothing wrong. In fact, love is often initiated with coincidence. Love is the thing that people have to own passion instead of reasoning because most people will...
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...Love is a dark and intangible feeling that often exposes it's targets to danger, pain and suffering. Love is the pillar for friendship, yet it works to weaken us, and drives us to depend on and be sensitive of others. Love is built on a foundation of trust, a thin barrier between formality and chaos. Which leaves room for a selected group of people to abuse the trust and take advantage. Some might argue that love brings humans together and promote cooperation, yet cooperation and unionism are two very short fangled areas, as they will soon be contaminated with betrayal and lies. Love is a dangerous component of life and it works to deceive and manipulate other people's trusts. At young ages, humans have a natural instinct to befriend people, but this is what weakens them and makes them vulnerable to power hungry people such as bullies. In kindergarten, we have watched countless children fall into the hands of bullies. These innocent children end up working as mindless slaves on behalf of the bully, or they get publically ridiculed and emotionally hurt. These malevolent children gained their sadistic powers by taking advantage of the innocent. Ingenuous children haven't seen the world as a whole yet, so they easily endow their love and kind hearts into the wrong investments. Their love has been abused, yet if there were no such a thing as love, nobody would get hurt. Jealousy, which buds from the tree of love, motivates people to commit irrational actions. Most causes of...
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...change in people’s morals during the 1920’s era. It also shows the how society corrupts the “American Dream” and alters it to what it should be like. He shows this in his characters like Daisy, a materialistic woman who cannot live without attention and Tom, a reluctant jerk who lets his riches and ego get the best of him. Daisy and her fiancé Tom are about to get married. While there relationship is going on, Gatsby reunites with Daisy and tries to convince her to leave Tom for him. Daisy ends up staying with Tom because he can provide the things she needs. This shows that back in the 1920’s era people did not marry for love but only for riches. It showed the rich as dominate over the poor. It also showed the altercation of what the “American Dream” should be rather than what it really was. He also shows this corruption in Gatsby as well. Gatsby’s “American Dream” was Daisy. Gatsby’s death can be used as a symbol for the death of the “American Dream”. Gatsby spends his whole life chasing after his “American Dream” he forgets about everything around him. He changes himself completely only to try and achieve this “American Dream”. When Daisy decides to stay with Tom this ends Gatsby’s “American Dream” and coincidently, Gatsby’s life. This shows how people back in the 1920’s would alter their life style in order to achieve the idea of this typical “American Dream”. No matter what the dream was, people changed their moral standards and began to marry not out of love but because...
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...Carol Ann Duffy and Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare present two people’s ideas of love, and this is reflected in their relationships in which they depict. In Hour, a man describes how every moment with his lover is precious, and how he has overcome the hindrance of time. In Sonnet 116, the poetic voice attempts to define love in its most perfect form, by telling both what it is and what it is not. In both cases, the male speakers attempt to illustrate true love. Time is referred to in both poems as contradictory to love; however both relationships conquer time. In Hour, “Time hates love, wants love poor, but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw”. Duffy personifies time and love here as being enemies. The Love described is so strong that each moment lingers; it steals time, as the world slows down around them when they are together. Love overpowers time, as it is not susceptible to it; even if it is only for a short while, and “time hates” this, as it is usually in control. There is a reference to wealth throughout the poem, linking the great value of his lover to the great value of money, wealth. You cannot do anything in this world without money, and the lovers cannot do anything in this world without each other. Therefore, time “wants love poor”. It wants to devalue their relationship to stop them from profiting in love, so time is able to remain omnipotent. However “love spins gold, gold, gold from straw”. Love is precious and can change something worthless, no relationship...
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