George’s Community College What is love? SPH 109H Professor Richardson Shannon C. Valdiviez 05.06.2008 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 I. What is love? (Definitions) 3-4 II. Types of love emotions 5 III. Conclusion…………………………………………….6 IV. Bibliography………………………………………….7 Introduction Love has always been and interesting topic to me because it seems to have no limitations; desired by many‚ and disregarded by some. Have you ever heard the expression ‘’Love is a universal language’’? What does
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The Power of Love. What does love mean? Love is a word difficult to define‚ a word that can refer to a variety or a combination of emotions. Love is the most important thing to the survival of the human race because it allows humans to work together‚ plays a vital role in reproduction‚ is vital in our health‚ and allows us to connect with and understand the world around us. Let me first start with the four definitions of love as a noun. Love (n) denotes (1) “a feeling of warm personal attachment
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1102 22 July 2010 “Love in the Air” Analysis In Ha Jin’s story‚ “Love in the Air”‚ Kang is isolated in his work place‚ in which he shares with fellow officers. In his isolated military base‚ Kang has become socially deprived; this makes him vulnerable to falling easily in love with the female telegraph operator‚ whose voice he becomes infatuated with‚ playing it over and over in his head. Due to being isolated and his infatuation with trying to figure out who his mysterious love really is‚ he becomes
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We all need love in some shape or form and most of the time it drives us to do things we may not have done before. Love is a bond that we have with people around us and this is why it motivates us to do different things. If you look at love in a relationship form we have one person we really care for and want to be with for the rest of our life and do just about anything for‚ but that’s not the only form of love that affects us in our daily lives. We hold a different form of love for our friends
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II Essay #1‚ Winter 2013 Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ “Love is Not All” Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; 5 Love can not fill thickened lung with breath‚ Nor clean the blood‚ nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak‚ for lack of love alone It well may be that in a difficult hour‚ 10
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God’s Love What is love? Many of us toss around this word as easily as anyone. And we end up trivializing it. The word "love" is so misused and overused in our society that we hardly know what to think when someone says‚ "I love you." Let us focus on not the earthly kind of love but of a greater love ever known to mankind and that is God’s love. • What are some characteristics of God’s Love? (1) God’s Love is Unconditional In the world around us‚ people are loved on the basis of their
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Franz Kafka once said‚ “Love is a drama of contradictions.” In other words‚ love can cause joy as well as sorrow. Often in life‚ people are in love and therefore have many contradictions with those that they love. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet explains the rivalry between two households‚ the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo‚ a Montague‚ and Juliet‚ a Capulet‚ fall in love‚ but since their houses experience strong hatred toward each other‚ they must withstand difficult challenges and face
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Lee 1 Amy Lee Mr. Kenneth Christensen English Comp. II September 27‚ 2011 What is The Magic of Love The title of “Magic of Love” goes well with this poem‚ because love is magic as some people might say. The author is stating how love feels in great detail. She uses different ways to tell how love feels. The words she uses rhyme throughout the poem. She uses such rhymes as: gift‚ lift; bless‚ happiness; night‚ bright; way‚ day; kind‚ find; depart‚ hearts; and do‚ true. The mood of
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Monday Oct. 19th What is Love? According to Webster’s dictionary the word love is described as a strong‚ positive emotion of regard and affection. But in society today it seems as if we throw the word love around in such a loose manner it really has lost its meaning. Ranging from “I love Coach purses”‚ to actually telling a person “I love you” is now a common thing. Throughout this essay I’ll be taking a philosophical approach to help give a better understanding of what love is according to the speakers
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Platonic Love In the Symposium‚ which is normally dated at the beginning of the middle period‚ Plato introduces his theory of love. First thing to note is that in Plato’s theory‚ love is given and its existence is not questioned. The word love leaves the matter ambiguous as to whether we are discussing love in the normal‚ human‚ sense of the word‚ or if we are discussing desire in a much broader sense‚ but in this discussion we are only considering only love of type eros‚ love as a kind
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