In Love on the B-Line by Adam Kraar, two lovers dispute over their relationship at a subway in Brooklyn. Kraar uses a style that is simple and commonplace, but romantic still. The characters, Robbie and Marie, are rather ordinary and are living through a situation which many real-life couples also experience. This literary piece thrives on realistic human element, making is easy for readers to relate to them and understand the emotions that Robbie and Marie feel. Love on the B-Line is a believable and easy to follow read, dotted with romantic metaphors, and concluded with an unexpected ending.…
In the essay “The Radical Idea of marrying for Love,” Stephanie Coontz voices her opinion on George Shaw theory, the expectations of love and how it has changed over time. Shaw believes that marriage is “an institution that brings together two people under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions (Coontz 378). Marriage overtime had different variations depending the time frame in which it was in, and the culture that influenced it.…
Love could always lead to various outcomes. I feel like Rokujō is the most affectionate woman in the tale. She loves Genji with her truest heart, but Genji is very fickle in love, and his capriciousness makes Rokujō’s love turns into hate involuntarily. Rokujō is supposed to have a splendor life and live without any worries. She is intelligent and brilliant, and she is supposed to be the future Empress. However, everything has been changed after her husband died, and her affair with Genji turns her life into misery and tragedy.…
Cheesy special effects? Check! Gore? Check! Kane Hodder? Check! Mutated men wearing Bigfoot costumes? Check! Bodacious Babes? Double D Check! Love in the Time of Monsters is a low budget ($500,000 is considered low budget nowadays) flick about toxic waste pollution gone awry. It's riddled with groan-inducing moments, but I gotta admit, I had a fun time with it. It very well could be that Heather Rae Young is smoking hot (the other woman in the movie aren't bad on the eyes either) and seeing her dance, to distract crazed Bigfoots, is something that I haven't seen before, but realize was missing from life for a very long time. Also, mutated squirrels ripping shirts off is a massive highlight.…
Correctional nurses are confronted daily with a struggle against a tidal wave of organizational culture convinced that we should not be caring ‘too much’ for our patients. Caring for murderers, rapists, and criminals takes true grit and a more serious definition than a superficial application of a warm positive emotional response or empathetic word. We are the ‘Tough Love’ folks on the nursing caring…
After reading the book Love Dose by Bob Goff many wonderful Ideas stuck with me. I am amazed at how many truly wonderful things happened to one man. It brings me comfort to know that there are people out there like Bob who love’s all people, no matter what. Goff loves people not just because Jesus said to, but because he wants to. That concept to me is amazing and truly meaningful. The story that stuck out to me the most was the first chapter. I promise I read the book, but even after finishing the book over a month ago the first chapter stuck with me the most.…
There are three stories that I loved in particular during this quarter. The Things They Carried, A Roman Incident, and A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings. These three stories carried a lot of emotion and excitement. They all have different plots and backgrounds, but for the most part, there are so much in common between these three stories in a psychological, socio/political, spiritual, queer, and feminist lens. Besides those examples, the one thing that connects these three the most is that the reader can find love in all of the stories.…
In the following paragraphs, I’m going to explain Boethius’s (the author’s) point in including the discourse on the nature of love right after lady philosophy educate Boethius (the prisoner) on what true fortune is. Then, I will critically compare his view of love with that of Plato.…
When mortals start to feel thing for one another they do not just automatically feel love or hate it grows. The feeling starts from a tiny seed growing with each new experience with that person.Loves’ tiny seed is affection and attraction and with each experience that strengthens the seed, the seed grows. The seed will continue to grow until the seed has grow into a flower named love. Hate seeps into people's lives causing jealousy and dislike and when hate has finally taken over one's memory that is all they can feel for someone.…
There are no prerequisites for love and belonging, we are deserving of love and belonging simply by reason of existence. This is one of the abounding stunning ideas found in Brené Brown’s work. However, this was such a foreign idea to my way of being and of relating to the world that I had no salutation node towards it nor an A-ha moment. Only after repeated readings and listening did the clouds disperse. Theoretically I recognized its truth, but at some level I felt this truth did not refer to me.…
In the article” The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love “the author gives a global interpretation of what marrying for love means to different cultures. While Americans strive to focus on the love connection before marriage, the writer of the article Stephanie Coontz points out that other countries practice the total opposite. Although marriage is an institution that brings two people together, Coontz describes this as being “under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions” and are required to feel excited about each other every day for the rest of their lives until death do them apart.…
Baumeister, R.F., Wotman, S.R., & Stillwell, A.M. (1993). Unrequited love: On heartbreak, anger, guilt, scriptlessness, and humiliation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 64(3), 377-394.…
“ Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” by Richard Wilbur is a poem about our reason for living. The reason we get up every morning and go about our day according to Wilbur is love. The title of this poem clearly is making that statement. The title however is not quite enough to portray exactly what it is that we are being called back from. When we are sleeping, our souls become part of a peaceful and pure realm. In contrast the waking world is full of stress and undesirable challenges, a world in which the soul has no desire of being part of. Using highly refined diction and structure, Wilbur portrays the contrast between the two worlds and our soul's reason for accepting the return to reality.…
Ackerman states that we are inhibited about love. She calls love the great intangible and it disorients us. The way she describes why we are so embarrassed by and try to repulse talking about love is inspired. The reason is somewhat subtle and could be considered a cliche. The reason we succumb to trying to avoid this word is because we don't want to feel the immense anguish of being vulnerable.…
The difference between two separate opinions of love could be very similar, yet could be drastically contrasting. In the story "Love in L.A.", written by Dagoberto Gilb, Jake has, what would appear to a normal person, a skewed vision of love. Out of everything in his world he could chose to love, it is his car that he loves. His car means everything to him and it seems as if nothing else matters. In the story "The Love of My Life", by T.C. Boyle, two teenagers seem to love each other so passionately that they are willing to risk the life of their own child to keep, what they consider in their eyes, a perfect life. Like Jake in “Love in L.A.” and the teenagers in “The Love of My Life”, people’s view on love can sway…