...called “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem featuring Rhianna. I choose this song because I enjoy listening to it. When the song was first released in 2010, it was one of my favourite songs to play. The song is worldly know and had won various musical awards. Both artists featured on this song are recognized world-wide, for their success and fame in the music industry. “Love the Way You Lie” is about domestic violence. Domestic violence is the abuse verbally, emotionally or physically in any type of relationship. Domestic violence is a commonly known subject and can happen to anyone, male or female. On average 30% of women who have been in a relationship has experience physical or sexual violence from their partner. The story that is carried throughout the song is of two lovers in an abusive relationship. The two lovers refuse to separate even though being in an unsafe love, hate relationship. The two, endure all types of physical and emotional abuse throughout the song, for example when Eminem says “Now you're in each other's face spewing venom in your words when you spit them” Both lovers are fighting, using all types of words to emotionally wound the other. “Love the Way You Lie” gained much of its popularity due to the underlying message about domestic violence. The song helped raise awareness about domestic abuse and violence in relationships. Themes that are found throughout the song are toxic relationships, anger, and regret. A theme of a toxic relationship is found...
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...Attraction/Love/Marriage What I find most attractive about a man is his ability to show affection. Being that I am a very affectionate person I find it extremely hard to deal with a man that doesn't express himself. Not only is expression a form of communication, it is also a portal into someone's heart, mind, and soul. It allows both parties to be vulnerable in ways that you can't be with everyone. If you don't know how someone truly feels, you might mistake them for having no feelings for you at all. A person such as myself goes off of actions more than words. I feel a person can tell you a hundred times a day that they love you but if they never express/show it, the words mean nothing. Personally I define love as a bond shared between two people, that isn't easily broken. Love is honest, acceptance, understanding, loyal, forgiving, hopeful, reliable and encouraging. I mean I really could go on forever describing my definition of love but those are just some of the most important to me. Love sticks around when everyone else doesn't. It helps to heal you when your sick and gets even stronger when the going gets tuff. Love sees no flaws. In Sternberg's triangular theory of love you have Intimacy which refers to warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship. Then there's Passion which is intense feelings (negative and positive) experienced in love relationships, including sexual desire. Last you have Commitment which involves the decision and intent to maintain a relationship in spite...
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...insights into the changing nature of relationships through personal and social contexts. ‘The Great Gatsby’ F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925, and ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, originally published 1850, both explore, through the; differentiating contexts, the changing nature of relationships. Although both these years were diverse, there was many similarities that are explored throughout both texts. During the 1850s-1925 women were subservient to men- which meant they had less power and objectified by their husbands, which is evident. Trust is an essential component in the change of a relationship as, overtime one gains more trust for the other person and the relationship therefore grows. Without...
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...Amber LeBoeuf March 5, 2011 ENG 105 Waldron Now I Remember I've been thinking about love and all it entails. More specifically, what it means to be in love. My last relationship I was recently in, that just ended, lasted for three years and while it was drawing to an end, I have to say that in the scheme of things, there were more good times than bad. My ex taught me lessons about life, love, and myself that I will take with me to the grave. From him I've learned what kind of partner I want to be. I've learned how love can change people for the better. The lesson I'm in the process of learning is how to love myself enough to let go of something that's become easy and comfortable in order to pursue my ultimate happiness. And all in all if it is meant to be, then it will find its way. This relationship taught me to be selfless. While I still have my moments of loving someone in a romantic capacity taught me the joy resulting from actions as simple as cooking his favorite meal, rubbing his back, or buying his favorite cologne. I've never felt so much pride and strength as the moment he trusted me enough to allow me access to his emotions as he cried on my shoulder after a devastating loss in our life. It made me feel good to support him in his time of need the way he had supported me in the past with my grandma. It was those moments that I learned that love isn't what can you do for me type of deal. Love is something that has to be given 110%. It's a two-way street and should...
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...Love is an attachment that can’t be broken. Relationships are a representation of love and what love embodies. In a “Rose for Emily” By William Faulkner, Emily Grierson deals with the struggles of relationships from family to friends. Emily deals with problems of separation and feeling lied to. Emily’s struggles can compare to that of Charlie Fineman of “Reign Over Me” and Carl Fredrickson of “Up”. Within all these movies we see characters deal with relationships being lost. They all relate to death but the love in each relationship Is never lost. When we see the loss of a relationship it is most often difficult to let go afterwards. Sometimes in relationships we let go and it’s a choice but when death is a factor we see that we have no choice....
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...I love you for whom you are and not what you are. So be assured that my love for you is beyond all that I sees around you, I love you then, now & forever. We fight. We make mistakes. We disagree. But it doesn't change the way I feel about you. You're all I could ever wish for. Loving you was my only choice and decision through determination, so, don't take it for granted and again, don't play with my heart. The first time I saw you, my heart recognized you. It got warmed by your flame and now it's so hot waiting for a cool message from you. I love you so much. My Momma told me the greatest thing to learn in life is to love and be loved in return. Will you teach me? Sometimes my eyes get jealous of my heart. Know why? Because you always remain close to my heart and far from my eyes. 1. We never know how this closeness has started. We will never know how it would end. But whatever happens, when our closeness is gone, I will never forget how you made me smile once in a while 2. I had been believing that there is a paradise beyond the skies. But now I realized that heaven is just right here on earth, because what would an angel like you be doing here if heaven is somewhere else? 3. We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. 4. A great love? It’s when you shed tears and still you care for him, it’s when he ignores you...
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...Lamb” the power of love is portrayed in the author “Zee Edgell’s” writing. The power of love is displayed through characters such as: the Lambs and their support for the Qualos, Beka and Toyice’s friendship, Toyice and Emilio’s relationship, Sister Gabriela support towards Beka and Miss Eila and Toyice’s relationship. To the reader, “Edgell” is suggesting that the power of love is real even thought it may be in both positive and negative aspects. The Lambs and the Qualos portrayed their love for each other with their support. “As many mourners as could fit...were Miss Eila and Toyice, fanning themselves with long-handled straw fans. Here, the reader is aware of the support the Qualos showed the Lambs in their time of mourning. “What seemed like hours later, Beka, her parents, and Miss Eila arrived at the hospital. Toyice had been taken to a ward upstairs and was receiving attention from the nurses...doctor.” “Miss Eila and Toice are like a part of my own family. Toyice helped my wife with Beka and the boys for so many years. It’s only right they should turn to us now.“Miss Eila was adamant, refusing to believe that anything....going home to the place she belonged,’ wouldn’t cure. In the end, Miss Eila had her way.” The Lambs are showing their support to the Qualos as they did when the Lambs were mourning. The Lambs are also showing their love for Toyice. The LAmbs considered the Qualos as family beause they have done so much for them by expressing their love and support. The...
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...In her New York launch of Americanah, Adichie states that she wanted to write a good love story. In your response, write about the journey the love story takes between Ifemelu and Obinze. Consider the journey that they each take separately and discuss your feelings about the end of the novel. Make sure to cite the novel to support your points. Love, can last a life time that is what some people say. The novel Americanah is a love story written by, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie stretches the love story over three continents and include many characters that assist, build and sometimes tear down the hero; Obinze and heroin Ifemelu. The novel is mainly about two people who feel in love in their teens, and were separated because of financial difficulties which they were faced with in their country. Obinze journeyed to England to seek a better future, with the intention to come back to his love ifemelu. Likewise, Ifemelu also went away. She traveled to America to further her studies on an academic scholarship. In the process of trying to make a better life they had to make choices that were not in the best interest of their relationship. They had to for a time lay dormant their feelings for each other in order to navigate the rough terrain of life. Even as they struggle to make ends meet, earn degrees, form new relationships and discover themselves they were never far from each other’s heart. They occasionally called and wrote emails to each other, even though those correspondences...
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...I would believe P!nk when she clarified the truth about love, but I kept on asking myself, what is the truth about love? Is it the way two people fall in like and then the feelings develop to love? Or is it the way they illustrate each other the affection? I don’t know because I feel like I haven’t experienced true love. Yes, I’ve had my fair share of relationships, but I think those are the kind where in we just felt like we needed someone to be with. Like we needed someone to share something with. Now I know what you’re thinking. How old are you anyway to feel and think this way? Tell you what, I’m too young to know the truth about love, but at the same time, too old to be innocent and naïve. Now this isn’t about love in general. This is about the truth. Why the truth if I can make up my own? Because to me, it is important. It may not to you, but it is to me. I don’t know what got me thinking this way. Maybe because we lie too much. We even lie to ourselves to think that what we felt, what we’re feeling, or what we’re going to feel is true love. The idyllic idea when we say love is relationships. Boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, and wives. Those kinds of relationships. What if feeling true love is by making someone happy like your mom or your dad or your brother or your sister? So many options to choose from, but we always think about the romantic relationships. Why do we think like that? I don’t even know why I think like that. Like it’s the end of the world when you’re...
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...Honey’ we as an audience see two key relationships, that of Jo and Geof and of Jo and her mother: Helen. Throughout the extract the relationships build we can see the similarities and differences between them. The maternal relationship viewed is not a classic mother-daughter, caring relationship, and the friendship from Geof to Jo is special due to the irregularity of the situation they are in. Whereas in ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’, it is a far more personal and intense relationship that we are in on with a possible homosexual relationship. There is also a more spiritual and philosophical interpretation of love through this, with Harry talking of how he feels towards Dorian Grey. ‘A taste of honey’ has several taboo loves in it’s plot line: Jo sleeping with a black sailor and having his child, Geof being homosexual and Helen choosing the love of another man over the love of her daughter. There are similar idea in this through “The Picture of Dorian Grey” whereby there is an idea of Basil having homosexual feelings for Dorian Grey indicated in calling him a “necessity”. In “A taste of Honey” love appears to be fickle to most of the characters with Helen coming back into Jo’s life so abruptly and expecting her to accept her back. We see her pat Jo’s hair as she is having a contraction, and say “all better now” as if such a small gesture on her part will make the entire situation better. We also see Helen clearly not having a maternal love within her as she tells Jo to sort...
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...In “The Song of Despair” by Pablo Neruda, the speaker talks about their lost love. The poem is about how the love between the speaker and a woman ended. It tells readers the nature of their relationship and what it has become now. Neruda uses simile and repetition throughout the poem to help express that lost love cannot always be mended. Throughout the poem, the author uses similes to describe how it feels like to lose someone you love. “You swallowed everything, like distance./Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!” (Neruda 10). In the first line, the speaker says that the woman “swallowed everything,” and then says that she is “like the sea,” because of this. The speaker continues onto say that “everything sank,” in the woman,...
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...Different between a Good and a Bad Relationship? Jennifer Ren’ay Middleton English Composition 1 Instructor: Name Date What are the Different between a Good and a Bad Relationship? How do we make it work? Sometime we look at each other as if we are about to lose our minds. But on the other hand we care so much about that one person that we can’t see the right from the wrong. How do we deal with the differences that you all have? Why do we want to always see the good and not the bad? These are question that most of us have when we think about trying to have a relationship with someone. In this paper, I will try and tell you the differences’ we have in our relationship and what when and how we can try to make it better. But remember that there’s no such thing as a perfect relationship. Loving that person if it feels right it might not be right, or it may be wrong but remember that anything that is worth having is worth fight and working hard to have. At some point and time, it happens to everyone: You wake up one day and suddenly your once-blissful relationship is shattered. The spark is gone. The love of your life wants nothing to do with you. You may have recently split up. You might be in the middle of a divorce right now. Or maybe your ex is already seeing someone new. It doesn’t matter. All you want is to have your partner willingly back with you. Life isn’t all sunshine and buttercups. But a happy relationship is a very real thing; we all deserve...
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...How do I love thee? Let me the ways. These meaningful words were spoken by Elizabeth, a prestiged English poet who lived from 1806 to 1861. Barrett fell in love with a peer of her poetry. Another famous poet Robert Browning. Together Barrett and Browning lived a very loving and eventful relationship throughout their lives together. Ultimately this adverse relationship led to the creation of some of the most beautiful poetry of the 19th century.Barrett's poetry changed significantly when she fell in love with Browning. The love letters they provided to one another provided a better personal insight into the writer's love, thoughts, feelings, and experiences than the poetry before they started sending these love letters. For instance, when...
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...Essay II In relationships people believe that arguments and misunderstandings are okay. People believe that arguments will help the relationship and later lead to eternal happiness. Sometimes we are so accustomed to someone we believe violence is okay and will soon stop. These people choose to stay in these abusive relationships because of their attachment to their significant other. In the music video, “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem featuring Rihanna, two individuals are in dysfunctional relationship. “Love the Way You Lie” shows the hardships of abusive relationships and how difficult it is for someone to leave the relationship because of the love, forgiveness, and abuse that is caught up within that relationship. In every relationship people tend to go through struggles, these struggles often lead to arguments and abuse. In the music video “Love the Way You Lie” the lyrics and the video make thoughts and emotions appear of what it would be like to be in the position the couple in the video is in. In the music video Rihanna sings, “Just gonna stand there and hear me cry/ But that’s alright/ I love the way you lie” (0:15). She shows forgiveness by making up excuses for the way her partner is treating her. Love has the ability to blind people and they don’t see what they are being put through. This makes it difficult for one to leave an abusive relationship because the love she feels for her significant other overpowers the pain she feels. Eminem sings, “Who’s that dude...
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...Author Nicholas Sparks had once said, “Every couple needs to argue every now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and valleys.” Conflict is a very vital portion to any relationship, whether it’s a commitment or even just a friendship. It shows that each individual cares for the well being of the other. It is how the couple arrives at the conclusion of each problem faced that determines if the relationship is of value or not. In works of literature, such as; “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, and “Good People” by David Foster Wallace, the reader is introduced to couples who are at a disagreement with each other. Even though these are just works of fiction, each story portrays factors that compare to the actions taken in a real modern day relationship. In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” the reader is introduced to an un-named narrator and...
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