Platonic Love

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    Pride and Prejudice

    novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Throughout Austen’s writing she draws her readers in with the interesting characters. Austen makes her readers fall in love with the characters. She makes the characters seem as if they dislike or feel awkward towards each other, but in then end fall in love. Austen captures her reader’s attentions with her vivid writing. You can clearly see a mental picture between the characters conversations. Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

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    The Things They Carried

    up, creating a burden on each soldier’s back. Carrying at least fifty pounds of equipment on their backs, the soldiers were obviously physically burdened. The soldiers in this story were also burdened emotionally. The narrator says, "Grief, terror, love and

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    Love?

    “Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited, it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances. Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth. It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.” -1st Corinthians 13:4-7 What is love? A person tends to have likes, preference and desires of his or her heart that differs him or her from other human

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    Song of Songs

    be included in the canon on the Bible. This book is a collection of songs and love poetry between two lovers. This book can be considered as an allegory of human sexuality, or divine love. However, there is no direct mention of the Divine Presence anywhere within the book. Even the Jewish Rabbis with the most understanding of biblical concepts regarding sexuality have trouble agreeing that a book of seemingly secular love poetry should be included in the sacred canon.(Davidson) When Aqiba said the

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    Friendship[

    is lucky enough Friendship makes life thrilling. It makes life sweet and pleasant experience. Friendship is indeed, an asset in life. It can lead us to success or to doom. It all depends on how we choose our friends. True friendship is a feeling of love, sharing and caring. It is a feeling that someone understands and appreciates you as you are, without any exaggeration, flattery and pretensions It gives a feeling that you are ‘wanted’ and that you are ‘someone’ and not a faceless being in the crowd

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    Media Analysis Paper on Haptics

    Unspoken Love A Far Off Place by Laurens Van Der Post is an incredible story of adventure and surviving against all odds set in the 1970s. It centers on Francois, a fourteen year old boy, growing up in the interior of Africa on his farm with only his mother since his father passed away the year before. Nonnie, a young Portuguese girl, was friends with Francois whom she met the year before for a few weeks before having to go off to boarding school while her family’s house was being built close by

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    The Romantic Heart in the Modern Age of Literature

    masterpieces from Ancient to modern times. Shakespeare wrote of love, anger and revenge and Jonathan Swift wrote of what is behind the curtain of love. As you read on you will encounter three literary works and see the part that emotion plays into them and how these pieces are influenced by the many authors who came before them. Jonathan Swift’s poem entitled, The Lady’s Dressing Room tells the story of Strephon, who takes a peek into his love, Celia’s, dressing room. Strephon is appalled by what he finds

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    The Little Mermaid and Its Moral

    Little Mermaid”, the love between the little mermaid and the prince can reflect the author’s love to someone who was going to get married at that time. In the story , little mermaid asked for the Sea Witch for exchanging her beautiful voice for her two legs to dance with the prince . From this scene, the author wants to highlight the love’s sacrifice and how love is so important to change one’s values and beliefs . The author utilizes little mermaid’s impossible yet touching love with the prince

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    Julius Caesar

    Consequences. The scene that we based ours on was when Ismene and Antigone were arguing over the burial of Poleynices. Prologue: Pg. 968-972 Lines: 1-84 Chorus: Words pierce feelings, like bullets pierce flesh, Drowning in hate, thirsting for love, The burning love of a father is smothered by the ignorance of the youth, Is the unknown bliss? Or knowing you are the one at fault? Choragus: A chilly night, sparked by conflict sets the scene for this

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    Mad Girl's Love Song - Sylvia Plath

    Mad Girl’s Love Song Mad Girl’s Love Song is written in 1951, by Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. She was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts and she died on February 11, 1963 in London, England. Mad Girl’s Love Song is a poem, Sylvia Plath wrote while she was a student at Smith College. The poem has a theme of suicide as an escape. There are many places where the theme of suicide appears in the poem. The poem is about a girl who

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