The article “The Brain on Love” by Diane Ackerman was a very interesting read. The idea of “feeling felt” stood out to me because in my experience‚ there is nothing greater than having someone feel the same way about you as you do them. We spend our entire lives looking for someone who will give us these neurological pick-me-ups and try to stay clear of those who will cause us mental pain. I was also surprised to find that social rejection and physical pain affect the same area of the brain. Although
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SELF LOVE IS NOT SELFLISHNESS “You‚ yourself‚ as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection‚” said Buddha. Our self-centred lives may suggest we love our-selves rather well. Yet‚ despite pampering our-selves with the best what life has to offer we still suffer from sadness‚ anger‚ loneliness‚ incompleteness and bitterness. The attention we lavish upon ourselves disproves that we don’t love ourselves. However‚ our insatiate love longing for harmony and happiness means
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Ryan Shivers A Greater Love… Love is the strongest feeling in the world‚ this feeling of extreme care and admiration is capable of making people look over all the bad and intolerable things of this world. Love is capable of making people do stuff without any control over their physical being. When one loves another‚ the feelings can become so strong that these two might feel like they are destined to be together forever and that nothing could ever break them apart. Love is a feeling that everyone
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How do we define love? What is love? How do we define it? Is love one thing or a set of many things? Are there different types of love? Is love the same for different types of relationships? Even as far back as the ancient Greeks‚ people have struggled with the nature of love. Poets have written about love perhaps as long as poets have been writing. Psychologists may lack the eloquence of poets but through empirical research‚ we can study the nature of love systematically. We can observe people
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The Odyssey Theme Analysis: Love and Loyalty "Antinoos‚ it is impossible for me to turn out of doors the mother who bore me and brought me up." (p.25‚ Homer‚ The Odyssey) This quote is a direct example of love and loyalty between a mother and son. Telemachos loves his mother and will stand by her decision‚ he says he won’t force her to marry; he is loyal to her‚ which represents the idea of loyalty between family. Love and loyalty are major themes of The Odyssey that are constantly surfacing
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Throughout our lives we are constantly meeting new people and forming relationships that may or‚ may not develop into anything more serious than a casual exchange in conversation. Relationships will always vary in the degree of emotional closeness. Some people may have a very strong relationship where opinions and feelings are shared with each other‚ while others may chose not to share personal experiences instead‚ opting for easygoing conversations and random topics. In today’s society everyone
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“Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a sonnet about love written in iambic pentameter‚ with traditional structure and follows traditional sonnet rules. It expresses the confusion and emotion of the poet in a way to give the reader the idea that he has suffered or is suffering. It also goes from speaking broadly about love‚ to making it more specific and then finally making it personal with the last line. After the first eight lines of the poem the speaker completely flips the way the poet
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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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Death and Impermanence ENG 125 Instructor: Macy Dailey September 05‚ 2011 This paper focuses on the similarities and differences of the representation of death and the impermanence in the short story “A Father’s Story” by Andre Dubus‚ and the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson.” The reader finds two authors who are different‚ but produces a mental picture of death in the short story and poem. In “A Father’s Story” the main character in the story is the father
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Collins I Anita Collins Professor: White English 0300 7 pm 29th March 2011 Love and Happiness According to the Webster dictionary love is to share one’s life‚ and downfalls; not just ones personal property; love is an affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties; a strong feeling of attraction. Being honest about you and allowing the other person involved in the relationship to really get to know who you really are. Happiness is an agreeable feeling or condition
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