...Osas Odigie Mr. Aube Dec 11, 2012 Characteristics Of a Good and Bad Relationship 1. There are many factors that determine if a relationship could be considered either good or bad. Moreover, a good relationship can be determined by discovering the many factors that make it so. I believe that there are two stages to a good relationship: the beginning, and the ride. It is essential in every good relationship to have a good beginning. Every relationship begins with love and one does not need to be “in love” to be in a relationship; this is misunderstood between many couples. Anyway, love is the beginning of every relationship but in order for a relationship to be considered good, that love must remain constant or increase throughout the relationship. It is important for individuals to understand that in the beginnning, mistakes are prone to happen because there is no such thing as a flawless relationship. The ride of a relationship is basically everything else; the rest of the relationship. It is obvious that one does not show love through anger or hate and therefore there are specific ways in which love can be shown and these are what allows for a good ride in a relationship. Love can be broken down into five major parts. Respect, Trust/Support, Honesty, Responsibility and Romance. Respect is of the highest importance in every relationship. Individuals must view their spouse as equal to them and not greater or lesser. Couples must listen to to one another, valuing each other's...
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...as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.” This brings me to the question of what is good and what is evil. Good versus Evil is a very subjective topic. I believe what is good and what is evil are based on my beliefs as a Christian and the scriptures of the Bible. In my opinion, good is having the acts and characteristics of God and in contrast, evil is the opposite of good or as Einstein stated: “evil is the absence of God.” To begin with, good is a characteristic of God. For instance, the Holy Bible describes God as love (John 4:8), great, powerful, glorified, victorious and majestic (1Chronicles 29:11 ); all of these can be synonymous with good. In the epistle to the Romans, chapter 8 explained that those who love God will have all things work together for good according to God’s purpose. When a person obtains the same characteristics and acts of God, they become endeavored with noble and righteous characteristics that are based on the unmerited favor of God’s grace. An example of this is the story of Joseph in Genesis. Joseph was greatly loved by his father and was given a coat of many colors as a gift of love. His brothers became envious of Joseph’s special treatment from their father. Joseph’s brothers sold Joseph as a slave. During his time in slavery, God blessed Joseph with ability to interpret the dreams of Pharaoh. The Pharaoh was pleased with the dream interpretations and promoted Joseph from slave to being second most powerful...
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...Attachment Style and Relationships Laurie Henry Psy/220 November 10, 2013 Charlene Sears-Tolbert Attachment Style and Relationships Part 1 According to the Robert Sternberg triangular theory of love the three dimensions passion, intimacy and commitment all play essential roles in forming relationships. Passion mean strong emotion, excitement, and physiological arousal, often tied to sexual desire and attraction Baumgardner & Crothers (2009). These emotions can become overpowering and create feelings of love, joy anger and hatred. Intimacy involves closeness it is a special friendship, having a feeling of connection and trust. Commitment is the conscious decision to stay in a relationship for the long haul. Committed relationships are more serious because it involves a shared decision to invest in the relationship. Relationships are a major complexity in our lives. Forming these relationships and maintaining them have a great deal to do with our early attachment styles. Depending on how secure or insecure an individual is can determine their ability to give or accept certain components that build relationships. Early life disruptions to our process of attachment with parents will have major consequences for how we as adults will then deal with attachment as adults. This may show up as diminished capacity to modulate arousal of stimulus from internal or external sources, impairment in developing healthy relationships, and the ability to cope with stress (Siegel...
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...Essay on Love and Friendship: What is True Love? Love, friendship, sympathy and likeness – these feelings are the brightest moments of our life. They become the source of joy and positive energy but can become the reason of big problems and disillusionment at the same time. It’s important to know the notions of these feelings and their characteristics to avoid possible mistakes. Very often lack of knowledge in this field can lead to misunderstandings and finally to poor or even tragic consequences. Sometimes people mix love and friendship or love and passion or sexual attraction. All these feelings are important and reflect different aspect of our life but not all of them are enough to create a family. For non-professional it’s hard to give appraisal of such notions as love and friendship. Professionals also don’t share common opinion on this subject. Bruce King in his book Human Sexuality Today compares love and friendship finding differences and similarities. Both feelings – love and friendship closely correlate and interact, as they possess a lot of common characteristics. First of all love and friendship is relationship, which requires time, effort and many other characteristics, which form mutual relationship. Both, love and friendship assume emotional involvement, care, respect and devotion. Both feelings undergo transformations with the flow of time and go through different stages. You can have several friends but situations of being in loving relationships with several...
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...Everyone needs good friends that can hold uphold good characteristics and Christian values. The characteristics of a good friend are honesty, love, service, loyalty, and receiving. •Honesty - Will you tell me the truth? The best gift that someone can give me is honest affirmation (don’t patronize me) and honest correction. (For more on this idea read this post). Not everyone has the “right” to speak into my life this way. This right is earned by the demonstration of the second characteristic… •Love – Will you love me when I’m at the top of my game? Will you love me when I’m in a slump? Love that transcends the “seasons” of life is the “stuff” that genuine friendship is made of! Some people call this “unconditional love.” •Service - Will you help me? Friends help one another. These last few weeks we’ve been blessed by our friends who have helped with meals, prep for the yard sale, words of encouragement, babysitting, etc. To all of you, we are grateful to have friends like you. Thank you for your help. •Loyalty - Will you “stick it out” with me? Will you defend me when I’m being attacked? Will you stick up for me when I’m not there? A friend is someone who would not have to change the conversation when you walk up. •Receiving - Will you receive from me? A friendship is only as strong as the neediest friend. If you’re always helping me but I do not help you, in time you will grow weary of me! BUT when you help me, and allow me to help you we strengthen one another and the relationship...
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...Everyone needs good friends that can hold uphold good characteristics and Christian values. The characteristics of a good friend are honesty, love, service, loyalty, and receiving. •Honesty - Will you tell me the truth? The best gift that someone can give me is honest affirmation (don’t patronize me) and honest correction. (For more on this idea read this post). Not everyone has the “right” to speak into my life this way. This right is earned by the demonstration of the second characteristic… •Love – Will you love me when I’m at the top of my game? Will you love me when I’m in a slump? Love that transcends the “seasons” of life is the “stuff” that genuine friendship is made of! Some people call this “unconditional love.” •Service - Will you help me? Friends help one another. These last few weeks we’ve been blessed by our friends who have helped with meals, prep for the yard sale, words of encouragement, babysitting, etc. To all of you, we are grateful to have friends like you. Thank you for your help. •Loyalty - Will you “stick it out” with me? Will you defend me when I’m being attacked? Will you stick up for me when I’m not there? A friend is someone who would not have to change the conversation when you walk up. •Receiving - Will you receive from me? A friendship is only as strong as the neediest friend. If you’re always helping me but I do not help you, in time you will grow weary of me! BUT when you help me, and allow me to help you we strengthen one another and the...
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...starts to possess the characteristics of humans by observing others and learning from books. Throughout the story, the monster starts to develop natural characteristics that attribute to human nature such as curiosity, love, and jealousy. At the start of the story, curiosity is what drives Victor to learn about life and the creation of the monster. The monster develops this basic instinct of human nature as well by wanting to know more about his surroundings. He sees the world but wants to understand it because he is driven by his unknowing of what lies ahead. The monster’s curiosity led him to learn how to speak and realize what he truly was. He describes it as “I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but only sorrow increased with knowledge” (Shelley 85). By wanting gain knowledge he realizes that once he’s attained it, it’s not what it seems and sometimes it’s better to be left clueless. He still stays and watches the Delacey’s because he is interested in the way they live and sees their love for eachother. Which he starts to wonder about as well. The monster sees how the family shows their love for eachother and realizes he is alone and unwanted because of who he is. Since the moment he was created, he faces isolation, rejection from the Delacey’s and others, as well as condemnation from society and Victor. Despite his situation, the monster yearns for the feeling universally known to humans: love. Ultimately the...
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...Valerie Smith Ms. Rose Kulich English 111.0016 8 September 2015 Dogs, human-like characteristics Dogs are cute, loving and playful just like little children. They seek attention and require lots of love and patience. They are like little time clocks, they know just when to wait by the door for their owner for a hug or to go potty. They are very territorial and sometimes over-protective. Dogs, like humans, exhibit emotions, often suffer from similar medical conditions or ailments and love unconditionally. One major characteristic of dogs’ human like behavior is that they exhibit emotions. For example, Barkley is a huge Bernese mountain dog. He weighs 140 pounds but is afraid of anything that walks. Although he loves the outdoors, he spends most of the summer indoors because of the heat and because he is terrified of thunderstorms. He literally cries and trembles during a storm. His owner has to reassure him that it is going to be okay. If they are watching television then Barkley is there by her foot only because he is too big for her to hold. He also sleeps in the same bedroom as his owner. Duncan is a very friendly Beagle who is also terrified of storms. His fear is so severe that his owner has to medicate him during a severe thunderstorm. Duncan is a mommy’s dog and always wants his way. He throws a fit if he is unable to ride in the front seat when they go on trips. Duncan throws tantrums often. Believe it or not, Maria Rosa is the smallest and the meanest of all...
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...PSYC Path To A Good Marriage Marriage is known as the oldest institution that binds two people together to an everlasting relationship. Marriage is sacred and one of the greatest commandments is to love one another. Making a good marriage takes a lot of work. Right after a couple gets married, the couple will often feel like their marriage will never have any problems. They think that they will love each other for the rest of their lives, that they will have a good marriage forever. However, as many married couples discover, having a good marriage does take a lot of work. In addition to have a good marriage couples must also have important characteristics. These characteristics such as love, communication and spending time together are like the building blocks of a good marriage. Marriage usually starts with one thing, and that thing is love. It’s because how can you marry someone if you don’t feel loved or if you don’t love that someone. Love brings couples together There are a variety of other general characteristics of a good marriage that couples shows towards each other, like respect for each other’s boundaries and privacy. You can see that it’s just the simple things that really make a marriage work. People have come to find out that communication is a key factor in maintaining good and lasting relationships, Communication should always remain open if we want our marriage to succeed. Lack of communication is one of the main reasons why many...
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...Lynn Sigrid Mae Vea Southwest Airlines Employee Testimonials Southwest airlines’ employees love their work so much and because they treat each co-workers as family. They might have demographic characteristics but they understand each other, help each other. It is about the employees’ characteristics with each other that make the southwest airlines a workplace you wish to be. Every employees value each other because they know that without each other whatever level they are they can’t actually move through. They can’t have a safe trip if one’s didn’t help for the better of it. For them it is not just a job but it is a work where you can grow. Characteristics of the Four Generations in the Workplace There are four generations in the workplace the 1st is the traditionalist, traditionalists have strong core values for discipline and respecting the authority, they are also a good money saver. In the workplace they are giving command and wants to be in control, for them work is an obligation so there is no good news; Satisfaction is when the job is well done. The 2nd is the baby boomers known for being optimistic and the “buy now pay later” person. They think of work as an exciting adventure and they love working in teams; the rewards for them is having a nice job title. The 3rd is the Generation X they live through the first cellphones and when the internet was first launched, they conservative in dealing with money. In the workplace they are “work life balance” work is challenge...
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...Qualities of an Epic Story in The Notebook What is an epic? An epic, by definition, is the telling of an epic hero’s story through the vast journey and sacrifices he makes. The Notebook would be considered an epic for many reasons. Some may disagree and say it’s just a love story that contains no characteristics, and no proof of being an epic. But in this paper the characteristics of an epic will be explored through facts and examples from the text and from today’s present life and culture. The epic hero, Noah Hamilton in Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook states, “I am no one special, just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me. And my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived (The Notebook).” Some examples of the characteristics in The Notebook that proves this is an epic would include vast settings, the story begins in medias res, the characters have epic digressions and that the hero embodies the values of the culture. Because of how the story starts, media res would be considered the first characteristic of an epic that can be noticed in The Notebook. Our story begins at a nursing home in the south where Allie is being looked after due to her dementia. The nurse is in her room, attempting to have Allie come out and go outside for a little while until a mysterious man shows up. Now, we don’t know who this man is that has just entered her room, and we’re not...
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... | What are the characteristics of the Supreme Being? The Supreme Being according to Hebrew scripture is called Yahweh. Yahweh is the “sky storm god” (Leeming, 1990, p. 130). The Hebrew Supreme being is strong, he can “shut up the sea with doors”, “put wisdom in the inward part”, “give understanding to the heart” (Leeming, 1990, p. 131). Yahweh has the ability to part the light, change seasons, and changes the weather. How did the Supreme Being create humanity? According to Hebrew myth the Supreme Being created humanity from the ground, in his image, from the breath of Yahweh, and no other creature is created with his likeness (Bergant, & Karris, 1992, p. 41). Great Mother Myth |Myth: gaia |Religion or culture of origin: Greco-Roman | What are the characteristics of the Great Mother? The Great Mother is the source of life. Out of her body came the necessary nourishment and she has the ability to give birth to things that already seemed dead. How did the Great Mother protect or look after humanity? The Great mother provides nourishment for humanity. She was the guardian of the dead and the agent of birth and rebirth. Dying God Myth |Myth: Narcissus |Religion or culture of origin: Greco-Roman | How did the god die? Narcissus died by starvation. He was so in love with his own reflection that he...
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...Wroth’s voice arises out of a culture that did not want to hear what she had to say because of her gender. She was a female in a male’s world. Regardless of this predicament, Lady Mary Wroth wrote and had published The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, Love’s Victory and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. Her sonnet series, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, was the first English compilation of poetry to be written by a woman. In the male dominated world of Petrarchan love sonnets, Lady Mary Wroth creates a place for herself by manipulating the Petrarchan tradition of a male speaker and replacing it with the voice of a female, with both female and male characteristics. This produces poetry that flips the Pertrarchan tradition inside out, because by defying the rules of society, Lady Mary Wroth brings attention to herself and gives insight into autonomy and the tension between genders during the Early Modern period. Lady Mary Wroth existed in England at a time when women were expected to be silent and obedient. In fact, in “Lady Mary Wroth and Women’s Love Poetry”, Naomi Miller mentions that “letters that document the Court Furor indicate that Wroths’s gender, her choice of genres, and her social position outside the inner circle of power rendered her authorship unacceptable” (196). Wroth’s family was extremely literary, her father was a poet and she was the niece of Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney, both of who wrote. Her father’s poems were only stumbled upon of late, and it is uncertain whether...
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...created man, he made them in the likeliness of God.” (NIV) He may not have made us to be exactly like him but to have the characteristics of God. Townes makes a statement that “God created the first man in His image, therefore all people are accountable to their Creator.”(2007)With the image of God in mind we received the ability to love, have compassion, be faithful, have integrity, be trustworthy, and obtain wisdom. These tools or characteristics are needed to fulfill our lives in all areas. In the field of psychology it is important to have and understand these qualities or characteristics. Someone who holds a title in the Psychology field has the responsibility of another person’s wellbeing. Psychology is an enlightening and life changing career field which provides numerous chances to not only live a professional life that will be pleasing to God, but it is a field that can show God’s persistent love. A Psychologist is a trained professional who has taken on the task of helping others learn Introduction From the very beginning, God created us in His image (Genesis 1: 26-28). With God being love, this explains the reason behind our very essence being love as well (1 John 4: 8). As an encouraging and life-changing career field, psychology has given rise to numerous opportunities in which one can live a life that honor God while demonstrating the enduring love that God has towards believers and non-believers. Psychologists are organized professionals whose focus is to heal human...
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...How to Be a People Helper is a book by Dr. Gary R. Collins, it is based on the belief that people helping must be built on the Bible, God’s Words, and must be consistent with the Great Commission in which Jesus commanded his followers to make disciples of all nations. This edition has been revised, and changes were added in counseling techniques, approaches to training, research findings, and types of problems. There are many books on counseling; however, How to Be a People Helper has continued to be the basis for people helping training programs in a number of churches, colleges, and Christian organizations. This book is translated into several foreign languages and it is written to help people become skilled Christian people helper who serves Christ by helping others. Dr. Gary R. Collins is a Clinical Psychologist and is the President of the American Association of Christian Counselors and the editor of Christian Counseling Today. He refers to Christians who wants to learn counseling skills as people helper or lay-counselor. He admits that lay-counseling may be even more useful than professional counseling. He states that while professional psychological help is vital in dangerous life-threatening situations, lay-counseling is the matter of everyday life and therefore, is compulsory as the means of keeping people in a healthy psychological state in their daily routine. He believes that psychological help should not be a mere treatment with the help of test and medication...
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