...grandchild, My concept of love when I was about your age was like a “fantasy”. Reading books, poetry, and watching movies and television shows, I thought love just fell into place and had that happy ending. Now that I am older, I have experience and a more understanding of what love is. Love is not always about romance. Yea, you desire and feel attraction to that person but it is more than that. Later in life when you have a family, there will be different types of ways you can love them. There is also responsibility that comes with that. Love is not always a happy feeling or ending either. Love for the wrong reasons can hurt you just as much as it can make you happy. Love is expectations, the desire to learn and make sacrifices for that person, and understand the different ways love can affect and harm you. I am sure you know the book about Cinderella and the magic slipper. Where the Prince spent a night at the ball with the young pretty girl that was transformed by a fairy. Cinderella had to be back before midnight, if not than she would return back to an ugly maid for her step sisters. She ran as quickly as she can to get back and the slipper that she was wearing fell off. The Prince had every girl in that village try on that slipper so he can one day meet her again. When he finally found her she wasn’t the same pretty girl that night at the ball but an ugly maid. The Prince didn’t care because the connection they had that night made him love her for......
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...Midnight ain't no time for laughing When you say goodbye Zayn: It makes your lips So kissable And your kiss Unmissable Your fingertips So touchable And your eyes Harry: Irresistible Niall: I've tried to ask myself Should I see someone else? I wish I knew the answer Harry: But I know If I go now If I leave Then I'm on my own tonight I'll never know the answer Liam: Midnight doesn't last forever Dark turns to light Heartache flips my world around Im falling Down, down, down thats why Zayn: I find your lips So kissable And your kiss Unmissable Your fingertips So touchable And your eyes Harry: Irresistible All: Irresistible (Irresistible) Irresistible (Irresistible) Irresistible (Irresistible) Irresistible Harry: Its in your lips And in your kiss Its in your touch And your fingertips And its in all the things and other things That make you who you are And your eyes Irresistible All: It makes your lips (Ohh) So kissable (Ohh) And your kiss (Ohh) Unmissable (Ohh) Your fingertips (Ohh) So touchable (Ohh) And your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes (Ohh) Irresistible Little White Lies If this room was burning I wouldn't even notice 'Cause you've been taking up my mind With your little white lies, little white lies You say it's getting late It's getting late And you don't know if you can stay If you can stay But you, you don't tell the truth No you, you like playing games Your hands......
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...most prevalent areas of psychological ignorance about yourself, about others and more particularly, about relationship. People think they know what love is and they really don’t know. And their misunderstanding about love creates jealousy. By `love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly, some possessiveness without understanding a simple fact of life: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him. Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open. But the thing has been going on a wrong path for centuries it has become ingrained in us so much that we cannot separate love from jealousy. They have become almost one energy. For example, you feel jealous if your lover goes to another woman. You are disturbed by it now, but I would like to tell you that if you don't feel jealous you will be in much more trouble then you will think you don't love him, because if you loved him you should have felt jealous. Physically, it can strain your body trying to fill in the jealously, such as getting hurt trying to get over it. Mentally, your mind can become obsessed on it and in the end never be able to recover. And emotionally or spiritually this can leave devastating effects on both your state of being and the being of others around you. Therefore, jealousy is not great emotion. Also Children compete with one another in their attention-drawing behavior from near and dear ones......
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...who achieve the most. Assignment: Is it better to care deeply about something or to remain emotionally detached? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Caring deeply about something makes you want to achieve more in life. I believe that if you want something in life you have to care deeply in order to achieve it. Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India was a fighter for independence, he believed that peace and love can overcome any struggles in life. My own experience is extremely related to this topic, I always have to care about something before I start working one it to get it, weather it is with school, test, exams or anything else. Not everyone get everything they want in life like getting accepted to your dream college to getting that job you want or an A on that test you have to get in order to pass. Everyone have to work hard and care deeply to prosper those little things in life that never comes easily. Mahatma Gandhi, as we all know who he is always said that violence is never the answer to anything, love and care can achieve anything in this world, if we just care deeply about someone or something, there will be no obstacles to stop us from getting that. He was the man of his words who fought for the independence and freedom of India and it was not an easy job but he believe...
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...aging a. Do you think you are getting old? Ans: At 68 years, I am getting old. But I don’t think I am really old. Look at me, I can still do things for myself, if I am given the chance. But they don’t allow me because they think I am old. b. What age do you think you will consider yourself as being old? Ans: (She smiled and looked at researcher calmly) I don’t know what age I think I will consider myself old. But when I feel it, I will know. May be I will say when I am 80 years old or more, then I will take myself to be old. Age is in the heart. c. What make(s) you feel you are getting old? Ans: What makes me feel I am getting old? (She paused for a while). I think when I can no longer feel anything or see the need to live again. I think I will say when I can’t do anything for myself, like clean my own back, then, I am really getting old. Until then, I am not that old. d. How do you feel when you are treated as being old? Ans: I don’t like to be treated as being old. I am not an old woman. When these children try to make feel like one, I tell them I am still current. (Touching her hair) She said, I still make my hair. I like to look good. So when I get treated like an old woman, I don’t like it. But they all treat me like one. My children feel that I am old and need to be here, in a nursing home. It is only one or two of the staff here who treat me the way I want. Others think and act as if I am old. No way. I am not old. 3. Aging experiences a. Do you...
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...Marriage is a necessity. In ancient times, getting married and having children are an inevitable job. At that time, there was not much love in the marriage, and the relationship was purely a constraint. Nowadays, a majority of people thinks marriage is a symbol of love. They look forward to living together for a long time, so they choose to form a family. But from where I stand, getting married is not a good choice. First of all, one of the most important aims of marriage is having children. But now with the rising divorce rate, more and more choose not to get married, they think marriage is a form of cohabitation, and without marriage they still can have children., If it is found that living together is unpleasant. It is also very easy to separate. In the second place, marriage will restrict a person’s freedom. You will find that your spouse is your first priority. Think about it: after you get married, you need to report where and what you are doing. What’s more, you may disconnect with your friends of you opposite sex because it will cause some misunderstanding. Last but not least, love is a mystery and getting married will ruin it. Marriage, by definition, contact two people as a family, You neither want nor need your love defined in business or legal terms. The beauty of love is that it’s undefined to begin with and always full of change and expectation. On the other hand, there’re still many people who look forward to entering into marriage. These kind of people......
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...Are early marriages more likely to end in divorce? You must be thinking why a young female like me would be writing about marriages and divorce? Well let me begin by telling you that I think young adults that get married young are doing a terrible thing because they are doing it all for the wrong reasons. I personally think that there are a lot of social problems with this generation such as young females getting raped then having to get an abortion because they are mentally and physically unable to look after a child that would remind the young females that they have been raped. There are many other social problems such as teenagers getting married due to family breakdown, religious reasons and different tradition in families. Many young adults nowadays would want to get married at young age because they believe they are in love. Then again I don’t believe that it is possible to be in love at such young age as we still have our whole future ahead of us to find love and to commit to each other. I have been asking myself why teenagers leave home at such young ages to get married. And I have found out that most teenagers hate living by rules and because we live with our parents we would have to live by their rules. I have seen most teenagers lie to their parents saying that they were going to stay at a friend’s house but instead have gone to see their boyfriend. But what these young females don’t understand is that their parents are trying to help them as they have been in...
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...because she writes awesome stuffs but also because she loves Hello Kitty as much as I do! Exam week was pretty much no sleep and reading a great story during the break was all I needed. I was really lucky to be given an advanced copy that came with cute, hot pink and lime green M&Ms but assignments and life got in the way and ruined the excitement. However, nothing could stop me during the holidays, I literally read my three weeks away. A million thanks to the amazing publicists at Harper for sending...
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...When Friendship Turns to Love I didn't want to depart my home town, which I've been settling ever since the day I was born. Neither do I want to leave my school, relatives, and most importantly my best friend Samuel. Sam and I had been best friends since elementary school. I still recall the day when we first met; it was the first day of grade 1 and we were in the same class. Unintentionally I collided with his head trying to reach for my pencil that had been knocked out on the floor. Fortunately I didn’t know that he was trying to reach for it too. From that time on we got close, share lunch, talk and became best friends. We’d hang around together as often as I’d hang around with my family. He’s like my brother; a brother who I could lean to when I have problems, a brother who’s always there for me when I’m in trouble, a brother who loved me for me… at least as a sister. What he didn’t know is that I am deeply in love with him ever since the day we first met; which saddens me the most, assuming that he only thinks of me as his sister. In sixth grade, in spite of this, things changed. We had been together for 5 implausible years, but this year is diverse. I was moving. Moving far away from him, it’s like a new world I’m getting myself into. My deep profoundness love for him is still there and I don’t want to leave him. We agreed to call each other at least twice a week, send letters and emails if we have time, and stay in touch with each other. Except that, it wouldn’t be......
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...Enthymeme: Trying to prove a point * Argumentative Statement #1) Love and desire can complicate and blur the lines between each other. #2) In Sonnet 129 it contrasts the natural ‘lust’ of sexual desire with the excesses of lust perpetrated in the name of the ‘spirit’. (Spirit meaning sexual energy for the poem) #3 ) Love and desire are so much related to each other yet very much different. #4) love and desire are very much different because the can complicate and blur the lines between each other. A- Define what love and desire is B- Explain how they are different C- Explain/describe how they can complicate and blur the lines between each other Conclusion- what can we take away from this? What are the poems trying to get us to understand? Love in my opinion is a variety of things. Love is when you’re in it for the long term. Love is when you sacrifice, commit, understand your spouse, and ultimately have trust in one another. Can we all agree that love doesn’t come easy? True love takes patient, and work. In sonnet 130, the poem expresses Shakespeare’s love in many ways. He talks about his mistress’s appearance and what is wrong with her looks. Reason being, the poem is about the female beauty and our expectations and stereotyping about how one should look. Essentially, the idea of beauty of doesn’t depend on a fantasy. Desire can be intense because, it can be a craving......
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...thought of as a union between two people that love each other and want to be happy for the rest of their lives. When in actuality marriage is “the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband and wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law” happiness’s relative and has nothing to do with having a long lasting marriage. It would be nice if all marriages could be happy long lasting affairs, but they aren’t. A lasting marriage depends on 5 things. The first is the significance the couple gives marriage, the second is love, the third is respect, the fourth is compatibility ,and the fifth is division of power and fear of being alone or losing security. Dissent on this topic and the qualities I have pointed out is normal but through my experience and different relationships I have seen these are the things that make a long lasting marriage. To have a lasting marriage the couple needs to feel that marriage is something sacred they also have to stop thinking of marriage as a temporary relationship status. Marriage is a contract between two people to unite assets; in some cultures marriage is for life and in others marriage will only last for as long as it is beneficial to both parties concerned. The seriousness of a marriage depends on how the married value the term, or status the term marriage brings them. The modern notion is that a marriage is for happiness and it should only last until you are discontent with the......
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...message of love to a lengthy explanation of feelings. Letters may move through the widest range of emotions - devotion, disappointment, grief and indignation, self-confidence, ambition, impatience and resignation. It is personal and that means of, affecting, or belonging to a particular person rather than to anyone else. Why? If this letter is personal then why do I have to broadcast this letter that is meant to you? I am just a lady who mockingly says to everyone that I don’t want to break promises. Also, as much as I could, I want to stand up for what I have said and what I believe in. Sadly, I do not do that as much. I am a lady who knows how to figure out problems in the world beside mine and that’s ironic. It has been a roller coaster year and I hope you will forgive me for being too indecisive. I opened myself up to love. To love a person who reflects me, who exhibited the ideal man criterion every woman craved for when they were young but I ended up being taken for granted and I was hurt badly. From then on, I closed myself up again. I protected myself because I refuse to be hurt again even if it means I have to be the one doing the hurting. I became the most selfish person. I have been entering and leaving the room just like I’m jumping up and down. It is fast but you know what? It is tiring too. We are like a car on travel. We move forward and then reach a certain point then we would stop the engine. We will start it again. Afterwards, I’ll ask you to turn......
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...love jones A Videotape Analysis Paper New Line Cinema’s romantic comedy love jones by Theodore Witcher examines the battle of the sexes by asking (1) whether the third time is, indeed, a charm and (2) can your soulmate of the opposite sex be found, and if so, can the faith, and love between you move mountains? Struggling photographer Nina Mosley (Nia Long) and struggling writer Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) have a lot in common, but they aren’t exactly prime candidates for a serious affair. The consummate ladies man, Darius’ silky smooth presentation promises more sell than substance. And Nina’s recently jilted heart isn’t looking for anymore of love’s kind of trouble. love jones begins with Nina and her good girlfriend Josie Nichols (Lisa Nicole Carson) packing up what’s left of Nina’s disappointing relationship. Fearful that the scars left from this failed romance may be too deep for her to heal, Josie takes her to a night-time poetry-slam at the Sanctuary, where she encounters Darius for the first time. The Sanctuary is the local haven where poetry is the prime draw, and a favorite night spot for Darius and his friends Savon Garrison (Isaiah Washington), Eddie Coles (Leonard Roberts), Sheila Downes (Bernadette Clark, and Hollywood (Bill Bellamy). “The romance dies between couples,” we overhear Darius telling his friends from his intellectual set, “because they’ve (people) given up on the possibility of it.” In an awkward introduction at the bar, Nina......
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...Hierarchy Theory Humans are driven based on our motivation needs by nature and what we are looking to obtain through our desire of want. It can be a basic need that we are all programmed to strive for; like food and water, or maybe something we have to work a little harder at like our overall self-esteem and personal goals. In order to become the best versions of ourselves and to gain a state of self-fulfillment we must look at all of our desires and the steps to making this a reality. “Maslow’s hierarchy theory helps us better our understanding of how to achieve our more sophisticated, higher-ordered needs through certain primary needs that should be satisfied first” (Feldmen 249). I personally believe that everyone is good-natured at heart but if any of their needs are not meet then we can expect to see people struggle, which can be dangerous to them and the ones they are around. Babies for instance, are innocent and good natured as long as their Physiological Needs and Safety Needs are met. These are Maslow’s first two steps in order to achieve Self-Actualization (Which we will discuss later in this essay.) So, as long as they are taken care of properly, feed, changed and so on, they will thrive from the very beginning with only the basics necessary at that time. But not do only babies needs these simple principles, we all do. Getting enough sleep, having a secure environment and also being fed a proper diet are all important things to take into consideration when......
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...Journalism You know the old saying “money cannot buy you happiness,” but what is happiness? Happiness has a different definition for everyone. Happiness can be found in a multitude of places. Happiness is an emotion that can be caused by objects or memories or just being with the people we love. Some people think happiness is not caused by overcoming obstacles in their lives or experiencing moments of great joy. Moments like graduating high school or college, getting a job they are good at or getting a promotion, or being married to the ones they love. Other think happiness is found in objects of money that they have or want. Everyone experiences happiness in one way or another in their lives. Some people find happiness in the simplest things. You could also find happiness in the people around you. Others find happiness in overcoming difficult times of their lives. Many people try to achieve happiness, happiness is and emotion of enjoyment, but what is enjoyment? According to Mrs. Decker, a high school counselor at AACS, “Happiness is being comfortable with yourself and content with your live.” Being comfortable with one self means that one loves the way they are and they care about themselves. Being content with one’s live means that one cares about their life and they learn from their mistakes. It also means they make decisions that fit who they are. Many people feel this way. Mr. McAneney, a high school counselor said, “Happiness is being content about who......
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