Platonic Love

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    As You Like It

    goes on to banish Duke Senior's daughter Rosalind. Frederick's daughter, Celia (Rosalind's cousin) flees her evil father with Rosalind and they head (along with Touchstone, the clown) to the Forest of Arden. Before leaving, though, Rosalind falls in love with Orlando and he with her after he beats Charles in a wrestling match. Orlando, the younger son of Sir Rowland, had rebelled at being kept a virtual prisoner by his older brother, Oliver. Duke Frederick and Oliver had hoped that Charles would kill

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    Mermaids

    They are beautiful. They are amazing and everyone wants to see one. I LOVE MERMAIDS. There. I said it…I love mermaids. I remember being a little girl and watching The Little Mermaid with my older sister and thinking, ‘Wow. This is beautiful.’ This movie really was where it started. I think for a lot of people, it began with this movie. This movie showed mermaids in this light of being beautiful and being able to love. As a child, this is a pretty cool thing. It feeds the wonder and innocence

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    Valentine by Carolyn Duffy

    extended metaphor is about the characteristics of an onion fits the notions of love. Throughout the stanzas it uses the conventional symbols of love such as “red rose, “lover” but then creates a negative image about the words that may at first seem impossible to create a negative tone about. Carol Ann Duffy wanted to get a truthful image of love across to the readers and break away from the stereotypical view that love is always positive and that relationships are not always a good thing. One example

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    The Killing of Laura

    “The Killing of Laura” In “The Killing of Laura” Carolyn Weaver asserts that in Laura’s romance relationship with John O’Neil, Johns will is what killed Laura and defeated her will of power. In this case of murder there were two factors that led to Laura’s death, cultural and personal. Traditional male socialization provoked the killing and Laura’s attitude and insecurity towards life made her an easy target. Social attitudes facilitate domestic violence. On the twenty-fourth day of October

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    Your Future Plans

    Your future plans 1. What would you like to be in the future? Why? ( doctor, builder, street vendor, flight attendant, director, accountant, prime minister, lawyer, engineer, artist, computer programmer, secretary, bartender, interpreter, translator, 2. What job can bring more money than others? Is it honest or dishonest? 3. Do you plan your future by yourself? Would you like it if yours is arranged by others? 4. What have you done so far to pave the way for your future? 5. What

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    Ted Talk

    1. Summarize the “Ted” talk in your own words. Dr. Brown's presentation is about the paradigm shift in traditional thinking that vulnerability is a sign of weakness. Through her research she concluded that vulnerability is also the birthplace of love and creativity. People who are willing to be vulnerable, open themselves up for the possibility of living more fulfilling lives. Dr. Brown's presentation is also an account of a personal journey into self acceptance. She stated that vulnerability pushed

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    Perry Smith

    have contraband alcohol business for living, Perry’s mother began to get drunk, and other bad things started to follow. They quarreled often, and I guess peace and love have slowly evaporated from their home and family, replaced by violence. Perry was a child with sensitive and tender heart who should be taken in special care; he needed love, affection and tenderness much more than anybody else with different personalities. These violent episodes in the family, unfortunately, happened on the very important

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    Racial Discrimination

    Racial Discrimination "KAFFIR". When you see or hear this word, what runs through your mind? Do you picture a man with skin the color of the midnight sky, do you see him bending his muscular body down to the dry earth to pick cotton from thorn-ridden plants? Can you feel the heat of the sun beating down on his charred back? Perhaps you can even taste the beads of sweat swelling from his forehead and arms. Or maybe you are more inclined to visualize a dark-skinned woman with creases in her

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    Essay on Roddy Doyle´S “Sleep”

    – P.1/l.1. Sleep is their biggest difference and it is also one of the biggest things that draw Tom to Tara, the way she could sleep. He loves the way she can sleep, but in a way it is also one of the things he hates most about her: “he’d lie awake, hoping she’d wake up, praying for it, dying.” P.1/l.2-3. He both loves and hates the way she can sleep. He loves to watch her sleep, it makes him feel lucky, privileged and trusted, because she drops all of her defenses which he takes as a sign that she

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    Suprem Court Case

    feel the floor drop beneath, feel the need to swim just to breathe, feel you no longer next to me, but a fleeting memory. I didn’t row out, to find the ocean floor. You were never the mermaid I looked for. You were skin and flesh and the smell of love, that I carried beneath my tongue, while hoping G-d would bless us from

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