Agape

“I am well aware that this surgery is very experimental but you can be assured that my residents wouldn’t recommend it if it wasn’t the safest option” The Chief explained softly. The ever present pitter patter of Seattle rain was descending on Seattle General Hospital as he uttered the last words. “So let me get this straight, you’re going to let a robot-” Mila began before being cut off. At the young age of 16, brain surgery shouldn’t be one of her problems. “Not any robot, a robot that was…

perfectly upright, shows quite little effort, and has a somewhat blasé expression on her face. Meanwhile, blood spurts from Holofernes’ neck like a B-rate horror film. He makes virtually no attempt to struggle or defend himself, but rather stares agape at the ceiling, looking staged and rigid. Overall, the attempt to make…

to see the door to my room opening with its familiar creak. My heart dropped as the door revealed the intruder. "Hey, Bud, I was wondering if y-," it was my dad. As he bared witness to the monstrosity before him, he stopped, standing there mouth agape. Tears swelled in his eyes. He dropped to his knees in disbelief, unleashing a scream that made my blood curdle. My dad dialed 9-1-1 on his cell phone; his hand trembling and his voice barely coherent as he tried explaining the situation he…

They put on a kind of thick jacket, which fastened me to the chair. . . . My chest was so tightened that I couldn’t breathe properly. Plus, the air circulation was worse than the first trip. . . . I was literally suffocating inside the bag around my head. . . . They stuffed the air between my clothes and me with ice cubes from my neck to my ankles, and whenever the ice melted they put in new hard ice cubes. Moreover, every once in a while, one of the guards smashed me, most of the time in the…

power expressed in different kinds of love. The essay tries to explain what problems and troubles that one can get into as a result of love. The author has expounded different kinds of love presented in the midsummer night 's dream by Shakespeare are agape love which is referred to be that love in relation with God, and it is very rare for it to occur between two people, simply it’s the…

“Neerav please read the next paragraph out loud.” I feel my heart pounding and legs shaking while my sweaty palms struggle to grip the delicate pages before me. I stand up and begin reading out loud quietly, hoping no one can hear the unintelligible chaos that blurts from my mouth. The entire classroom feels muted while my voice sounds deafening, as if to emphasize every stammered syllable falling from my mouth. The forty eyes in the room then multiply by the hundreds, and increase by every…

love is a difficult concept to define. How do you avoid confusing it with lust or desire? How can one truly define what love is? One may choose to look back at the words used by the Greeks in their definition of what love is, such as eros, philia, agape. Love does not only lie in one 's self but with others as well. That is to say that our love is directed towards others, whether it be through and through the notion of self love We can break love into three components, Passion underlining…

When running into someone for the first time, people often inquire “who are you?” On the surface this question appears simple enough; you give your name, maybe a fact about why you are there, and the question seems to be satisfied. However, if you turn that question inward and ask “who am I?” you discover that what appeared to be a shallow puddle of a question is actually a great well of complexity. When asking the questions “who am I?” and “who am I as a reader?” I find that the answer to both…

Reiss’s wheel theory of love Wheel Theory of Love describes the four stages of love that certain relationships look for or that is lacking in some areas. With each person having a different upbringing their definition or thoughts of love would be different. Depending on how they were raised one person in the relationship would know how to feel at ease in a relationship if they came from a household where they had both of their parents. They would get the love they need from both the mother and…

rhythm of their speeches. Their voices like slaves freed from their chains and running away into the wilderness, confused but free, hurt but cured, as they moaned their hard and warranted tears. Their eyes shut yet open, and their mouths heavy yet agape. They feared what I would do to them. Their fear seemed real, but I didn’t have much regard for their biased opinions anyway. The Lion was the first to come up to this conclusion in speech, this fear they all shared, sitting in the decorative…