Biological Basis of Love The aim of this essay is to discuss and evaluate a more recent area of neuropsychology‚ which is the biological basis of attraction. The focus of the essay will be on how certain brain activities in regions of the brain are associated with feelings of attraction in an individual. These forms of attractions can be seen as types of love towards a potential mate and this essay will be targeted at defining what love is and the type of loves there are. The essay will then link
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For the solo novel I read The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn. I chose the book because I read Dogeaters for the group novel and I really liked Hagedorn’s style of storytelling also‚ it sounded interesting from the group presentation. The Gangster of love is a coming of age story told in the perspective of Rocky Rivera (for the most part). Other parts of the story are told from an omniscient point of view so she can give the thoughts and feelings of other characters. I notice that Hagedorn likes
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In W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Appointment in Samarra” and The Grimm Brothers’ “Godfather Death‚” The reader is exposed to two classic stories on Death‚ sharing both difference and similarities. Although the stories share the same character‚ it is through the authors’ use of language‚ plot and ending that it is evident to notice Death is not always portrayed in one specific form. In “The Appointment in Samarra‚” the author successfully manages to portray Death in a negative way by carefully
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“Love” If you had told me that I was going to fall in love with a SEAL two years ago‚ I would have laughed in your face and dismissed the thought indefinitely. But there I was in a bar in San Diego years later finding myself oddly attracted to a SEAL unlike any other‚ one that I had met in a bar and later held my hair while i lost the entirety of my stomach. Soon there after we fell in love with this sensitive serviceman. I was new to California‚ new to Long Beach‚ and struggling to form any kind
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Love is neither wise nor beautiful‚ but the desire or pursuit of wisdom and beauty. Love is expressed via propagation and reproduction‚ as in the exchange and development of ideas. Socrates in the Symposium best expresses this belief. Socrates ’ view of Love and Beauty was that one is the pursuit of the other‚ and that other is the greatest of all knowledge. Love is a driving force‚ a compulsion forward to a goal. Much as a moth is drawn to light‚ for its heat‚ people are lured to Beauty by Love
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Essays in Love is a novel about two young people‚ who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. The structure of the story isn’t unusual‚ but what lends the book its interest is the extraordinary depth with which the emotions involved in the relationship are analysed. Love comes under the philosophical microscope. An entire chapter is devoted to the nuances and subtexts of an initial date. Another chapter mulls over the question of how and when to say ‘I love you’. There’s
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LOVE OR JUST LUST Romeo and Juliet is shown as a great “love” story by Shakespeare‚ but in my opinion it is clearly set up as a story of “lust” . Romeo is madly in love with Rosaline at the beginning of the story‚ as the story progresses‚ he falls in love with Juliet at first sight. Juliet a very young girl does not know the meaning of love‚ and what it should be to fall in love‚ she subsequently falls in loves with Romeo based on his looks. Both‚ Romeo and Juliet were never meant to succeed
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with regard to the distinction between love and infatuation. Although they have a common denominator‚ they differ as well in so many ways. Apparently‚ we all know for a fact that love is a feeling and so is infatuation. They are both intense emotions that one feels for another person. But how can we really determine if we are truly in love or just simply infatuated? I would like to thank my ex boyfriends for coming into my life. Because of them‚ I was able to distinguish the difference between
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IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE Set in front of the conservative backdrop of 1960’s Hong Kong‚ Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love tells the intimate tale of two people who‚ by fate‚ seem to land themselves in each other’s company due to the common bond of the absence of their spouses. The plot of the film is by no means anything original‚ but it is deeply accentuated by the style in which the film is shot. With unconventional camera angles‚ an inconsistent musical score‚ and deep‚ luscious colors‚ In the
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1984 and Love George Orwell presents us with an interesting portrayal of love in his novel‚ 1984. In the nation of Oceania that he writes about‚ the Party tries desperately to erase love for anything but Big Brother from the lives of its members. In many ways‚ it is successful in doing so. It causes Winston ’s marriage with his wife Katharine to be frigid and cold and to end in separation. Even occasional affairs that sneak by the Party ’s watchful eyes at first‚ like Winston and Julia ’s‚ are eventually
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