...OF FRIENDSHIP. ‘And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle'. (1 Samuel 8:-1-4) Each friend represent a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born yet there are rules guiding and guarding friendship. Ignorant of these rules can lead to a wrong choice of friend and jeopardize the future of the people involved. Life is all about rules and we must not forget that the best way to useless the law is to obey it to the letter. I will however expose you to some of the penitent rules guiding friendship. A GOOD FRIEND IS FAITHFUL Fair weather friends are numerous, and the book of Proverbs in the Bible clarifies this as stated in (Pro. 14:20; 19:4, 6, 7). Nevertheless, a true friend is a person who is still there even when the going gets tough. The best time to know those who are your real friends is when you are going through hard times in life. Despite the challenges Jesus faced, Peter, though he denied Jesus in between, was there with him. True friends are faithful. I...
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...My Friend We make friends through different phases in our life. Although true friendships can begin very quickly, they do take time to build into lasting and valuable relationships. I met a true friend in my workplace. We spend lot of great time together and our friendship had endured through many years. My friend is a rare person to be with because he is funny, friendly, and faithful. First of all, one of my friend’s exceptional traits is being funny. My friend has a very good sense of humor and always has a way of saying something funny about anything. For instance, when we were together in a church service and we have this pastor who was more than 6-foot tall and weighs about 400 pounds. He asked me what would people say if he enters a room for the first time. In a low voice, he told me: “Oh, my God!’ Also, my friend is keeping a list of jokes he learned in a pocket notebook. So whatever the occasion and whatever the topic, my friend always have the joke of the moment. Once, we were discussing with a friend about rounding off numbers. He told us about a farmer who counted 196 cows in the pasture but when he rounded them off to his yard, he had 200. My friend also has the ability to mimic in a fun way the personality of many known people. For example, he can mimic the dancing steps of Michael Jackson, the facial expressions of Jim Carrey, how Donald Trump talks, and many others. In addition to being funny, my friend is also very friendly. It’s amazing to note...
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...assault are three to five times more likely to suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, be abused again, be dependent on drugs and alcohol, or commit delinquent acts compared with adolescents who were not victimized, according to a nationally representative sample. In addition, girls who witnessed violence are nearly twice as likely as boys to experience posttraumatic stress disorder later in life. . Nonlove This love consists only of intimacy component. Among individuals who experience this kind of love interwoven physical and emotional closeness. However, this kind of love usually only happens in the friendship. Both sides feel there is a close relationship is warm, but not accompanied with deep emotion (passion) and long-term commitment. You certainly do not mind if a friend should continue their studies or changed jobs to another city, right? In love this friendship no attachment that forces each party to always be together. 2. Infatuation Often called love love at first sight. This love is likened to come from the eye and then down to the heart. When he saw the object of love, passion to always arise together. Though maybe you do not actually have the closeness that exists with the object of love. Passion is the only component of love that exist in these types of love relationships. There is no emotional closeness that exists and also there is no commitment. That is why, infatuition easily arise and are also easily lost. 3. Empty Love In this affair there are only...
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...What can friendship teach someone? Can a good friendship affect someone’s behaviors and the path they take in life? In Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha, friendships teach Siddhartha the essential elements of life. As he searches for enlightenment, he meets friends along the way that teach him loyalty, love, business, and contentment. Through his writing, Hermann Hesse shows that friendships teach Siddhartha the things he needs to know to reach enlightenment when he learns loyalty through his friendship with Govinda and learns to love through his relationship with Kamala. In the novel, Siddhartha is taught the qualities of loyalty through his friendship with Govinda. Govinda’s loyalty is proven when Siddhartha says, “You have always been my...
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...According to Dr.L. Hoffman "The name Ruth means a sight worth seeing, beauty and friendship. She was beautiful in the inside. Ruth got all of the ugliness, bitter, anger hurt and grief out of her life. This made her soul beautiful in the eyes of God. She changed her character." It's also means friendship or a female friend, like the in Reuel- Reuel- friend of God.,( Women of Bible) Beauty- a combination of qualities, such as shape, colours, or form that pleased the eye aesthetic senses, especially the sight Friendship Friend Ruth was a gentile woman born in the country of Moab, which is located East of the Dead Sea. Scholars say that " Moab only refers to a person in Gen 19:30-38, everywhere else the name refers to a people. The Land According to researchers Moab was bounded by the Arabian Desert on...
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...Friendship Friendships are the gift to the man kind. The relations which we get in this world are blood related. But the only relationship which does not related to blood is friendship. Friendship has many forms and shapes. It is like water. If we pour the water into a jug it takes the shape of jug. if you pour the same water into a bowl it takes the shape of bowl. Same way friendships will take a different shapes and sizes according to our heart. Friendship gives pleasure to human beings. Where there is friendship then there will not be any sorrow. When you see a child laughing you will forget your sorrows for a second, same way when you are with a friend you forget your sorrows. Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. The lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not verily that which he worships; and in the golden hour of friendship, we are surprised with shades of suspicion and unbelief. We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we have ascribed this divine inhabitation. In strictness, the soul does not respect men as it respects itself. In strict science all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this Elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their essence is not less beautiful than their...
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...While Trevor Nunn’s film adaptation of Twelfth Night is faithful to Shakespeare’s play, there are differences that slightly alter the audience’s perception of the story. Nunn chooses to downplay some aspects of the play while playing up others. The relationships between the characters seems to be the emphasis of the story. He adds in new material to supplement the plot while emphasizing minute points to make a bigger impact on modern audiences. The prologue is entirely new to the story. In Shakespeare’s play, the action starts with Orsino’s dilemma with Olivia and then moves on to the aftermath of the shipwreck. Nunn’s film begins with a prologue to showcase the close relationship between Viola and Sebastian. There is an emphasis on how close these two characters are, making it a point to say that they are alone in the world together. This sets up the emotional reunion between Viola and Sebastian at the end. Their reunion is the most emotional scene in the play and including a prologue in which it is explained how close the twins are helps to create an even more powerful scene....
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...By living with ethics, I hope to inspire my peers around me to make the right decisions and still live life to the fullest. Ethics are an essential part of the foundation on which a civilized society is built, so I make sure to emphasize them in my life. The biggest aspects of my ethics include being loyal, having faith in Christ, and respecting everyone around me. Loyalty is a strong feeling of support or allegiance. I strongly believe that if you commit to someone or something that you should be faithful to your commitment. As a teenager, I face many situations with my friendships where I am put in the position to turn on my friends when they aren’t looking, but I always do the strong thing and walk away. If you are a loyal person, you are almost sure to have friendships with others because people will see you as a trusted peer and they will gravitate towards you. The ethic of loyalty is sometimes overlooked or underestimated, but I believe that someone’s ability to stay faithful...
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...that a committed spouse is not necessarily a faithful spouse. We men, in particular, succumb to the idea that I can have my Nalu but Mercy too. Nalu is the stable spouse with whom I raise my kids, attend church and grow gray hair with. Mercy represents the workplace "friendship" or sexual fling; she's the spice to my stable marriage. In my mind I am committed to both, but in practice am faithful to neither. But commitment is worth a lot more than my initial pessimistic view. Commitment can be equated to training for a race. Training doesn't guarantee winning, but it brings a host of benefits. The more deeply people are committed to their spouse and marriage, the more likely they are to: sacrifice for the sake of their marriage, feel satisfied with their relationship, feel less trapped in their marriage, enjoy longer-lasting marriages, not scan the horizon for alternative partners, etc. A committed partner is a great source of energy! Couples who are committed tend to share their thoughts more deeply. They go beyond discussing the Man Utd current slump in form, that's a discussion one can have with anyone. They describe what they are thinking, feeling, dreaming, and scheming. Couples who believe that their spouses should be able to mind-read, believe me, struggle relationally. It's frustrating having to guess what your friend is up to! Assumptions lead to accusations! But you may ask, why are spouses finding it hard to be faithful? It's may be because of lack of deeper understanding...
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...from a relationship or acts of kindness and friendship. All of these types of loyalty are shown in The Odyssey, but the one that stands out the most is between Odysseus and Penelope. Throughout the stories they both long to be together, even when tempted to be unfaithful. In The Odyssey, Homer reveals the theme of loyalty using character’s actions and emotions; this becomes clear when Odysseus is determined to get home to his family. First of all, for twenty years Odysseus is away from his wife, Penelope, but throughout that time he is dedicated to her. When he is tempted with a beautiful woman, all he wants is to go home, “Though you wanted her forever,...
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...his king Hygelac, to his entertainer Hrothgar, to his own loyal men, such as Wiglaf, and to his people. In contrast, Hassan from the “Kite Runner” shows loyalty for his friend Amir. It is in Hassan’s letter, years after their separation, that puts Amir on the way to redemption. And so, Hassan saves Amir twice, previously as a boy and later in the future, even after his own death. In both The Kite Runner and Beowulf, the authors express loyalty from friendship and from commitment....
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...Title of the textThe Billet | Author/DirectorGraeme Lay | Text TypeShort Story | Question1- Choose an idea in the text you have read and evaluate in detail how it is presented. Support your evaluation with specific example (quotations) Answer= Friendship ‘’Fifteen year old Stephan Lowe watched and listens as the Billet were allocated ‘’. Every year Stephan wished he could a Billet home and not once he did. Stephan knows his parents won’t have any objection on him bringing a Billet home. Stephan was really on taking a Billet home fortunately he fails every time, but this time he was lucky, he had to replace Billy Ihaia’s Billet. The reason why Stephan always gets rejected taking a Billet home is because billets are maori and Stephan is pakeha, but this time Stephan is taking Billy’s Ihaia’s Billet home. The main idea of this text is ‘’Friendship’’ , the reason why friendship because Stephan had a new friend whom his taking home to introducing to his parents even though he’s a maori and he will be un-aware of the rules and regulation which is followed at Stephan’s house. QUESTION 2- How do you relate to a character/event/idea/setting in this text? Give your personal opinion of this character and reflect on why you think this: ANSWER=Entering a new environment and learning about the way of lifr Stephan leaves in, it was hard for terry to cope because he was concerned about what Stephan’s parents might think about him but Stephan and his parents were really welcoming towards...
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...What is friendship? Friendship is a relationship between one person and other, that he/she likes. He/she treat them special and better than other that he/she does not like. of Friendship helps people connect each other. It can bring people the joy of sha ing secrets and shoving problem when they can not talk to another person. Friendship can fall into three kinds: true friendship, deceitful friendship, and self-conceited friendship. First of all, true friendship is the real meaning of caring for a person whom you call your best friend. They are sympathetic with you when you have troubles in your life. They also bring happy to you and help you to become a perfect person. . You can sh re your experience with them. In our life no one is perfect, so you need learn a lot of different ideals from others. If you know to listen their ideas, you are more useful in the big society. True friendship come to you with a trustful heart. They do not care about your background family, education, and so on. For instance, when I first came to the US, I did not have any relative or friends. I was homesick and really wanted to come back to Vietnam. At that time, Hoang, who is my new neighbor came over to y house and helped my family a lot things such as helping us fill out some kinds of forms, giving a ride when my family needed to go to a hospital for health examinations, and vice versa. Since that time, he became my best friend. I could share with him a out my concerns like how to deal with...
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...IV Part 1, Shakespeare truly embodies the conflicts of friendships, which he does so in the relationship of Hal and Falstaff. Henry IV Part 1 by Shakespeare is a story about the king of England at the time, Henry IV, but mainly focuses on his son Hal, and his relationships all of his friends, but Falstaff in particular. Hal and Falstaff have a complex friendship, because it is hard to decipher if there is true loyalty, emotion, and lovingness between the two, but Falstaff seems to be truly invested and on the other hand Hal looks like he is in this relationship just for his own comedic benefit. Hal shows Falstaff little love throughout the play even when he thinks Falstaff is dead. During Act 1 Scene 2, when Falstaff wakes up in the bar asking Hal the time of day, instead of...
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...to Khaloud’s and Perry’s daughters birthday. Perry soon finds out that Khaloud has not been faithful to her. Moushira and Ali are married, Amr is married to Farah, and Sameh and Inass are dating. Moushira and Ali have an arguement after she tells Ali that he does not fulfill her sexually. Perry’s and Amr’s drama begins with Perry suspecting him of infidelity and that her family’s wealth has paved the road for him. Amr has a strong sense of jealousy when it comes to Ali who is Farrah’s ex-boyfriend. Inass gives Sameh a choice to marry her or for them to become separated. Sameh is confused on what he should do because he claims that they are both very different. In this film, old friends are reunited and the true feelings are revealed between all of the couples. In the opening credits of the film, it clearly shows pictures of all the friends back in the days starting with the begining of their friendship and of the present day. It shows all of them laughing and enjoying the time that they are having together. As the film progresses, during or after marriage and moving on, they find themselves missing the past and what they used to have. They compare their past to their days of un-excitement and unhappy marriage. For example, in Sameh and Inass’s case “taken” disposition. After all the couples come upfront with their lovers, heated fights breaks out between all of them and the friendship is rekindled by the men who are leaving town, in which they have done often before. Also, Perry...
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