Importance of Platonic love Essay

professing that he had “worshipped [Dorian] with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend […] never [having had] loved a woman.” Basil's idolatry of Dorian has the quality of unrequited love, as his praises and jealousy connect to feelings that are more than platonic, but are still…

The Renaissance was a period of revolutionary change, therefore literature, art, and architecture all flourished. When the medieval era shifted into early modernity, this new era adopted new political and social reforms, and these new ideals ran through Renaissance writings. There are notable examples that affected this transition to modernity such as Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier and Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. These pieces of revolutionary writings are prominently…

Assignment Two: Young Adult Development Introduction What would you do if you found yourself at the losing end of a business deal? If everything you worked so hard for unraveled right before your very eyes. Would you pack up everything you knew and move thousands of miles away or would you press forward? Guy Pehrrson did not have to imagine this scenario because at the young age of eighteen he watched as his precious crop of flax came crashing down. The decision was made, Pehrrson would…

Lupe is a 65-year-old Mexican-American mother of three children. She reported that she grew up in a traditional Mexican household with an authoritative father. She reported that she has five other siblings, was able to graduate high school, and got married at the age of 20. After 15 years of marriage she divorced her husband and did not remarry until the age of 55. After working at various places throughout her life, Lupe retired early to be with her husband. Juan is a 39-year-old Mexican…