It Must Have Been Love

simple to love, that the comfort of attraction lends itself to everyone and that the subtleties of interest are selfsame, by instinct at least; even so, it’s said that we’re conditioned to love, but to me, it’s not that we’re conditioned to it as much as we’re in the condition of its capability, simply being human—to love’s as natural as life itself, as typical as sight or sound, as native as a thought of rationality. Trouble, then, comes about when love we know true doesn’t quite liken the love…

Mrs. Peeden English 9 3 March 2015 Humans Suck Humanity is coming to an end. Katharine Hepburn “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It 's never your fault. But it 's always your fault, because if you want change you 're the one who has got to change.” Elders are abused by kids and the ones they love. Education is failing, and the economy is collapsing. The police are corrupt. Politicians lie, and presidents…

or forfeited by an individual in any manner (30). Human dignity states that every person is worthy and must be free from slavery and other acts that are appropriate to human nature (Webster Dictionary). Humans have dignity not because of what they have accomplished in their past, but because God created the person in his image with dignity (29). Through this view, humans are made to experience love and not to live in isolation. This social concept is a key component of the Catholic view of a…

does not necessarily have a good impact on those who are…

Mencken suggests, “To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual antithesis- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young women for a goddess” (Evans 404:3). Teenage girls commonly misinterpret romance. Contemporary teenagers’ invest their hearts into finding Prince Charming because the media manipulates them to do so. Since the media sets these false expectations, it is nearly impossible for teenagers to find healthy relationships. Teenagers’ have to face…

play, and the implications of his rapid redemption at the end of the play, that his betrayals were all the result of a temporary delusion. If Proteus’ actions were shaped by external forces – specifically the irresistible and transformative power of love – then perhaps he would be less culpable for his shifting loyalties and therefore as easily redeemable as the ending would imply. But both William Carroll in “Ovid, Rape, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona” and William Scott in “Proteus in Spenser…

point in their life when they must decide whether rage and hate should cause them to take revenge or love one’s enemies. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel fights a battle between anger and hate towards his Nazi captors, and in doing this Eli develops the idea that wherever hate is, anger in there also. Night depicts that both hate and anger lead to each other, and everyone must choose to either act upon these feelings or one choose to wait and let it be. In opening, it must be stated that both…

nominee for the Easton Chapter National Honor Society. The standards that must be proven to be nominated by this prestigious society are an example of the hard work and dedication I have exemplified in school. Throughout my years of schooling, I have tried my hardest to get good grades, while also demonstrating the characteristics that make up the National Honor Society; they are leadership, service, and character. While I have exhibited all three throughout my educational career, I feel that…

Love songs give us insight into the broader nature of love. Each song painting a particular picture about what it’s like to be in love or what it’s like to try to understand love,through the language of touch and time. Feeling the norms that underlie romantic love is like stepping onto a dance floor where love’s reality is socially defined and found amid the noise and haste. As the insider develops an individually sentimental rhythm of love as a dance, the lack of intersubjectivity leaves the…

Have you ever played a joke on you friends? Or tried to prank them into believing something that wasn’t necessarily true? Well in William Shakespeare's, Much Ado About Nothing, these things happen all the time. In this story, there are numerous events where deception play a key role in the plot and moves the story into different directions. Some of the deception is harmless and other times it is very malicious. Shakespeare uses themes to teach a lesson to the reader that being honest to yourself…