Love Conquers All

Exploring Father/Son Relationships Imagine yourself standing next to your son, the only other inhabitant of the land with a pulse for miles around. The dismal earth is covered with gray ash, the air thick with the particles. Envision yourself scouring for food to diminish the boy’s hunger in every corner of every ashy room, coming across nothing but bones and more ash. Now, picture yourself and your son in the small, religious community of Gilead, Iowa. The townspeople are caring and…

his actions, and he goes to jail surrounded by secrecy. Othello is more than just a tragedy, it is play that has timeless themes, experiences, and behaviors that can still relate to todays world. We can see through out the play the theme of love and hate. Love and hate are both…

It is never too late to fall in love for the first time in your life. I could not help myself ,but think of the Facts of Life theme song after seeing the new romantic comedy/drama movie Saving Face. Saving Face is a 2004 movie directed by, Alice Wu, is about an American theatrical release featuring an Asian American lesbian couple. One character that stands out in the story is, Vivian Shing, (Lynn Chen) because, Vivian Shing, is a typical boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl,…

In this passage, Jesus tells his followers to love each other, just as Jesus had loved them. Thus, both the old and new commandment mentioned in 1 John 2:7-8 focus on this love for others. To place this commandment in its historical context, let us examine the likely audience of 1 John. The speaker of this passage was an elder in an early Johannine Christian community…

Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. Throughout her novel, Walls proves that even though her childhood was full of neglect, she still loves her parents unconditionally. Unconditional love is another theme that ties in with forgiveness throughout the story. Even though she desperately wants to get away from her parents and leave behind her catastrophic life, Walls still loves and forgives her parents. I can relate to her struggle of deciding which factor is more important in life: family and loyalty…

passes away from ovarian cancer. This takes a huge toll on the husband, and the kids. The husband starts making "business trips" to the city, the oldest, Kiwi, leaves the park and moves into the city to work and support his sisters. Ossie falls in love with a ghost and runs away, and Ava the too trusting of people 13 year old, runs off with a man of bad intentions in a quest to save her sister. The story has a definite underlying teaching about the positives and negatives of isolation, and you…

In our current era, unrequited love is still a greatly utilised theme in many books, such as “Dear John.” Nicholas Sparks writes, “I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” This quote very much relates to the characters in the play, “Twelfth Night” written by William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy with unrequited love being one of the main focal…

Pride and Prejudice It is no secret that Jane Austen was an appreciator of nature, considering it is a frequent theme included in many of her works. Austen’s heroines generally admire and love nature, and often take long strolls to appreciate the charming landscape they reside in. However, although her descriptions of the picturesque countryside are elegant and pleasing, they are intended to serve as more than just a backdrop for her characters to develop their storylines. Austen additionally…

there like a great heaven-bird on a motionless sea is poised her winged ardour of creative joy on the still deep of the eternal’s peace. Our earth starts from mud and ends in sky. When the transformation comes, “all is new – felt in God” (10.3.452). When unity is one, then strife is lost. All this is nothing but the vindication of the victorious power of poetry. Such poetry’s progression is through the constant see-saw of negation and affirmation. Its path is paved through the dialectics of…

1. A good love story encompasses more than just romantic love. Love is present in every corner of our lives, whether romantic, familial, friendship, etc. A good love story can bring out strong emotions that represent the struggles and success of life. It shows the journey that we have and the relationships we make in our lives with different people. Pride and Prejudice exemplifies different versions of love that is not centralized on romantic love between a man and a woman. Even…