Short Essay About Love

My Explication: I know that you think what you are saying is right, 210 But what we often think, is wrong, Purpose is only held back by our memory, Of an excited beginning, but short lifespan, Like how unripe fruit will still stay on a tree, But when it ripens, it falls. 215 It is important that we forget To pay ourselves our debt. What we do while we have passion When the passion ends, we lose our purpose. Action can be caused by the strong emotions of grief and joy 220…

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Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love, from person to person, infatuation is a careless commitment to satisfy ones all consuming lust. The song “XO” is told from Beyoncé’s perspective of her relationship with her husband Jay-Z. Romantic relationships often start out as obsessed love and become romantic love as intimacy matures over time. Without progressing into intimacy or commitment, infatuation in love may vanish unexpectedly. Verse one begins by saying “Your love is bright as ever. Even in…

Leeann’s Guide to Short-Term Missions was a very interesting book and I learned a lot about short-term missions from it. I liked how they used their personal stories in order to help get the point they were making across and because of this I was able to follow along well and was able to apply my personal experience with short-term missions because I was able to better understand the points they were making. Chapter one of Mack and Leeann’s Guide to Short-Term Missions talks about how…

Joyce Carol Oates is an admired writer famous for her amazing novels, short stories, and more. Born on June 16, 1938 in the small rural town of Lockport, New York, she began writing as a young child. She grew up in the country and started her education in a small one-room school house where books and writing sources were very limited. Early on as a child Oates quickly developed a love for writing and literature. Her first inspiration was the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, a gift from…

Reading the definitions of love and infatuation, I concluded that the feelings that Romeo and Juliet felt toward each other were purely infatuation. Romeo and Juliet is a story about “love” and what two people are willing to sacrifice for it. Shakespeare says the play was about love but after reading the definitions of each, infatuation is way closer to what Romeo and Juliet actually feel towards each other. The definition of infatuation is an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for…

In her autobiography Zora Neale Hurston said it best “Love, I find is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.” (p.249) Sometimes people get blinded by the materialistic view of the world and get distracted from their love. That was the case in Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six- Bits”. In “The Gilded Six-Bits” Missie May and Joe have a seemingly perfect Marriage. A new man with the name of “Mister Otis D. Slemmons,…

Love in Carver. Carver doesn't talk about Love. He doesn't mention love. The word love comes up only twice in Will you please be quiet, please? just as a vocative. It's not used at all in A small, good thing. Does Carver talk about love? What links these people? What brought them together in the first place? And, what's love from his point of view? In the beginning of Will you please be quiet, please?, Carver says that Ralph's father told him that life was a 'very serious matter'. Ralph,…

“Love each other or die” (Albom 163). If the people in this world were to love each other, the world would be a much better place. The world is filled with hate and anger. If hate and anger were replaced by love and compassion, the lives of the people in this world would be enhanced. Lessons of life and death are both taught by the book Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, and Shel Silverstein’s short story The Giving Tree. Both works of literature give perspectives on life in different ways.…

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is fleeting, mad and marvelous. All of the characters have different views on love. Some believe it is worth giving everything for and others believe it is worthless. The characters spend a night in a forest where they go through a roller coaster of emotions. The mischievous Oberon and Puck are the culprits for causing this roller coaster for the other characters. Lysander is a character that will do anything for love because it can go by so quickly.…