To Give is to Love Close your eyes. Take in a long, deep breath and listen attentively. What do you smell? What do you hear? I smell the coldness of the Christmas air that hangs like a fragrant, saccharine flower. Coldness that seems to tickle my nerves and cause me to smile. I hear the soft singing of little children parading through the streets, giving out simple joys for onlookers and passers-by. I take a walk down the street and what captivatingly caught my eye is this. A little child
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shoes from under the table and hides them behind her back”. Another one of Anne’s traits is that she is loving. Anne shows a lot of love and affection towards her father. An example of this can be seen when she expresses to her father “ I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. You’re the only one I love”(376). This quote shows Anne loving and caring side. Anne loves her father very much, unlike her feelings
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Bound to True Love Sharon Olds’ Poem “True Love” takes the reader through several levels and scenarios of expression to explain what loves means to her. She uses actual words and metaphors to explain the “love” and care she has for her husband. Olds uses the word “bound” throughout her poem to insinuate that she is trapped in the relationship with her husband. The use of the word “bound” might have a negative connotation in this poem, but the speaker gives the impression that she loves her husband
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Each day as I return from school I am greeted by my pet dog Pluto. His big brown eyes light up with joy. He barks excitedly as he takes the strap of my water bottle in his mouth and runs in to inform mother that I have come. Pluto is a brown Labrador. My father gifted him to me on my birthday. He loves to dig and bury bones in the garden. True to his breed-The Retriever, he later takes it out and eats it. He is very faithful. No outsider can enter our house. He barks so loudly that we all know there
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In the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle, Meg Murry saves the ones she loves from a dark force. Throughout Meg’s journey she fights with evil itself while trying to save her father from it’s clutches. When she is defeating the darkness she learns the importance of love. Meg has amazing courage when it comes to tackling the incredible amount of obstacles that are in her way. In the novel A Wrinkle in Time Meg shows her stubbornness, her short temper, and her protectiveness over her loved
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A coin. What falls, but does not break, and what breaks but does not fall? Night falls and day breaks. PROVERBS "Absence makes the heart grow fonder” – (this means that when you separate from someone that you love by putting distance between you that you will inevitably love them more and yearn to see them.) "All that glitters is not gold” – (this means that just because something looks good, does not necessarily mean that it is good.) "A monkey in silk is a monkey no less” – (this
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Chioma Michaelson is a superb loving mother, an excellent role-model, and an all-around provider for her family. She continues to fight and forge forward for her kids, for herself, and most of all for her family. Regardless of life's obstacles, Chioma conquers the challenge with a smile being a tireless example. Her drive is powered by and for the love of her little ones. Chioma consistently makes and provides time for her son, David. She encourages him with love and actions. He is a dedicated soccer
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continuously that he was not yet in love, but was in love with love. This statement doesn't make sense to me. I don't believe that someone can be in love with something, if he or she doesn't understand what love is. "I was not yet in love, but I was in love with love, and from the very depth of my need hated myself for not more keenly feeling the need." (pg. 35) How can Augustine hate himself if he doesn't know what loves feel like? I think a lot of Augustine's statements about love are interesting. Augustine
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great bonds of love”(p. 5 l. 121) On her way to buy printer ink Ellie ends up in a museum. In here she found a stone that reminds her of her mother, because she has given Ellie one of those. She is here feeling guilty because she realizes that she has been taking her mother for granted her sign of love. You can clearly see her anger and frustration in this sentence: “Whatever, it was still an expression of something, a distilled expression of something, of her mother, of her love, and Ellie had
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for years now, but distractions have kept her from doing this. This quotation tells the reader that Megan is ready to move on with her life, and this is what she is currently telling her mother. She wishes to leave her
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