For this week reading I enjoy reading "Loving Across the Boundary" by Ann Filemyr, her story was very interesting, I like how she felt so connected to her partner's family even though they weren't related by blood, they also raised differently and they are from a different race. I also enjoy seeing how she reacted to the way her love ones experience racism, she always felt frustrated and always wanted to do the right thing for her partner son, it's not even her biological son and she always try to protect him and give him the opportunity to have the same rights just like her. She made a very interesting point when she was talking about her "white friend's" she said "I trusted white women less and less as friends because they could not be
Robert Nozick’s Love’s Bond is a clear summary of components, goals, challenges, and limitations of romantic love. Nozick gives a description of love as having your wellbeing linked with that of someone and something you love. I agree with ideas that Nozick has explained concerning the definition of love, but individuals have their meaning of love. Every individual has a remarkable thing that will bring happiness and contentment in their lives. While sometimes it is hard to practice unconditional love, couples should love unconditionally because it is a true love that is more than infatuation and overcomes minor character flaw.
The warm fuzzy feelings, the constant daydreams of “what ifs” and the smiles that come after everything they say. Crushes tend to make your day better just by appearing in your everyday life, but they are called crushes for a reason. The sudden anguish you feel when you realize they don’t feel the same way about you is demoralizing. In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s short story “Lessons of Love,” she tells of the time where she met her first love who used the way she felt against her. Her momentary infatuation is one type of character used in the story to leave anticipating readers hoping for something to happen all the while epitomizing how your own fear can trick you into seeing things differently from what they really are. Judith Cofer also uses herself to portray the ordinary character who may or may not share characteristics with yourself as a reader, and an immigrant from Poland to represent envy and one’s insecurities. These characters describe the mindset of young Judith and many other people throughout the world.
The article, “Measurement of Romantic Love” written by Zick Rubin, expresses the initial research aimed at presenting and validating the social-psychological construct of romantic love. The author assumed that love should be measured independently from liking. In this research, the romantic love was also conceptualized to three elements: affiliative and depend need, an orientation of exclusiveness and absorption, and finally a predisposition to help.
By comparing “A Little Taste Outside of Love” (2007) by Mickalene Thomas (1971-Present) and “A Black Woman” (1775) by an unknown French painter this paper will demonstrate that although blacks were once degraded through the sexualization of their bodies in art, their nudity is now used to convey empowerment in contemporary art.
In Aldrous Huxley’s A Brave New World, pleasure is the main driving force in life. The government uses tools such as the wonder drug soma and the endorphins naturally released during and after sexual intercourse to keep the minds of their well-tended flock off of matters that might concern them if they had not previously been conditioned to resort to a vice the moment that they begin to conceive an ill thought. Lenina 's adulation of John, the Savage, is perhaps one of the more obvious triggers of soma usage within the novel. Lenina does not understand John 's concept of love, and attempts to show her affection in the only way she knows how, and that is by having sex with him. She thinks this is a normal act, but for him, it is sanctity. John believes that one should only express their passion through sex if they are married as is the custom on the reservation. This leads John to call Lenina many obscene names and to send her into the tender arms of soma instead. She merely wishes him to reciprocate her advances, which she would take as meaning that he was happy to be with her. She simply wants the both of them to be joyous in their carnal revelry but “Happiness is a hard master – particularly other people 's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn 't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth” (Huxley 227, Brave New World). John and Lenina are very different people however, as Lenina tells Bernard “I don 't understand … why you don 't take
For my honors assignment, I chose the TED talk “The secret to desire in a long-term relationship” by couple’s therapist Esther Perel. As I read down the list through my options for the assignment write up, this one caught my attention right away. I feel as though this article specifically lured me in because I could relate to it the most, taking that I have been in a long-term relationship for seven years. I felt that choosing to write about this TED talk would be beneficial to me in hearing what Esther Perel had to say on the topic that may affect someone just like me, and to also connect to all that we have learned in FSHD 237 this semester.
Romeo and Juliet. England, 1597. Hong Lou Meng (I know, you have no clue what this is). China, 1791. Gatsby. America, 1925. What are they doing together? Has Ziyang gone crazy? Yeah, they’re all works of literature, but, as can be seen, they span centuries and continents. On the surface, they share no similarities whatsoever. However, within the pages lies a different tory. all of these novels feature the notorious theme of forbidden love, and affection-driven characters that would do anything to be together. This makes The Great Gatsby a very universal novel, despite its comparatively contemporary setting. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby completely reflects the universal, timeless archetype of the tragic hero who works infinitely hard to achieve their dream in love, only to die in pursuit of that dream.
Everyone at some point of their lifetime have experienced love, whether they are aware of it or not, whether they have loved someone, or were the ones loved. Love is defined as “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person.” However, I realized that there is no one universal definition of love, everyone has its own definitions and ideas of what love really means. Love is unconditional, meaning that is timeless, without any conditions, everlasting. Humans tend to love the ones we are surrounded by, we love our family members, our true friends, and in some cases our significant other. It is a feeling shared between a young girl listening to her grandfather’s old stories. It may even be the strict rules a parent enforces,
A person really only falls in love once. Following someone so blindly, not another care in the world but that special someone. Spinning and spinning, falling toward the only thing in focus, everything else blurred by the spin. The security of that clear image can do no wrong. Falling, whether in slow motion or at high speed, until finding oneself swept into a perpetual fall, hopelessly in love with whoever the heart picks, not remembering how one had gotten there, and to not care, because all that is known is bliss.
Poets and philosophers for centuries have been trying to answer the question, what is love? Love has an infinite number of definitions, which vary from one person to another. Love cannot be measured by any physical means. One may never know what true love is until love it- self has been experienced. What is love? A four letter word that causes a person to behave in a way that is out of character. What is love? A first kiss, childhood crushes on a teacher or friend’s mom. What is love? A choice that people make by putting their partner’s wishes, desires and needs above everything else. What is love? The act of forgiveness, the infatuation with someone, the communication between two people. What is love? A friendship that turned into a lifelong commitment, that special someone who has vowed to spend the rest of their lives to honor and protect, to love each other “till death do you part.” When in love nothing else in the world matters. According to the online Encarta Dictionary love is the passionate feeling of romantic and sexual desire and longing for somebody. Poets and philosophers may never know what love really is, and we may never truly understand the question what is love.
What I liked most about this book was the reality it revealed. It showed how brutal and cruel the society was. This book made me realize that racism is deeply embedded in the life and history of the nation, and it still exists in today’s society.
Love is defined in the dictionary as an intense feeling of deep affection. However, love is an emotion that cannot be simply defined. The reason is because there are many different kinds of love such as love for a parent or sibling, love toward a friend, love exchanged between romantic partners, love had for a specific hobby or activity, and love for a child. Other words that have been used to describe love are as follows – euphoria, joy, depression, restlessness, anger, and fear. To further differentiate between the different varieties of love, we must look at the components of love. Eros is the physical, sexual component of love. Agape is loves spiritual and altruistic component. Philos is the love of deep and enduring friendships. If all
Hate, a passionate dislike for something or someone, has taken part of every war in the world, whether it is a political or civil one. Macklemore, the rapper of the song “Same Love”, uses powerful lyrics and imagery in many of his songs. It is in “Same Love” that he raps about a social issue that the world has been dealing with since, some could argue, the beginning of time. In the song “Same Love” he uses his rap to speak to everyone who can make a change in this world. “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis bring awareness to the unjust issue of homophobia by giving people the information they need to obtain a voice and stand up for humans who have had their rights stolen.
Love, even though is construed as being a positive aspect of life, it has one negative aspect: vulnerability. Being vulnerable in love can lead to potential pain and risk. According to Merriam-Webster, being vulnerable is defined as “capable of being physically or emotionally wounded”. For example, let’s look at a woman named Janet. Janet has been romantically involved with three guys, and all three guys have cheated on her throughout their entire relationship. Janet now feels so angry and feels like she can’t be loved or love again after all that she has been through. Janet has not been very lucky when it comes to love. Janet believes she has established a pattern with the men she dates. She believes she only attracts the cheating kind of guys. Let’s fast forward a couple of months, Janet is still in the same emotional stage. Janet one day comes across a guy named Jim, who shows a romantic interest her. Jim knows all that she has been through in her past relationships. He promises her that he will not be like the last few guys. He will be faithful and truthfully love her. Her is Janet being promised something she has always desired to feel: true love. Janet decided to take a risk. She decides to risk being cheated on, heartbroken,
A human, a primate species that walks the face of the Earth, is defined by the complex emotions that they produce, otherwise unachievable by other species. Human emotions are still a mystery to most people, by seeing how quickly we are able to change to one emotion to another. The fact we are even able to be able to have all of these emotions is remarkable. As researchers dig deeper they find out unique or emotions are and many other things that are able to categorize us as humans.