Composition II
Instructor Candace Peters
Love
Write your final draft analysis essay that evaluates a specific concept (such as love, competition, or fame).
Use the guidelines shown in Chapters 5 and 6 to develop your ideas and shape your essay.
You should include 3-5 outside resources in your assignment.
Love is defined as a deep tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as a rising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person; with whom one is disposed to make a pair, the emotion of sex and romance.
We need to ask ourselves why so much commercialized ads about love. There are so many books, songs, movies, poems, quotes and greeting card about love. Love is expressed as an action and experienced as a feeling. Yet, love has an essence that resists defining in any single way — it encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith, and much more.
I found this article interesting about five ways to love:
Part I: Letting Love In
Accept your past
Get rid of the list
Reconsider your priorities
Open yourself to new possibilities
Love yourself
Be vulnerable
Give it time
Part II: Loving like a Pro
Respect everyone
Take people for who they are
Focus on the positives
Embrace the negatives
Communicate clearly and often
Forgive when you’re wronged, forgive when you wrong
Constantly make yourself and those you love better people
Be a good friend
Part III: Surviving the Hardships
Talk through your problems
Eliminate jealousy
Try to see issues from all sides
Count your blessings
Learn your lessons
Be partners in life
Learn when to stop being involved
Part IV: Avoiding Pitfalls
Find their true beauty
Never, ever manipulate someone
Don’t expect perfection
Be selfish sometimes
Never stop putting in effort
Don’t bring outside problems
References: www.thefreedictionary.com www.keithtaylor/love.com www.lucashalbert.com/love