Platonic love

ABC airs two women kissing on a “family show” causes an uproar for family morals! Sounds like a headline for a great newspaper article, but the backlash for this episode has caused a lot of angry parents questioning the “morals” of showing an openly gay couple kissing as well as the LGBT community arguing that they were “misrepresented” on the show. Sunday April 17th, 2016 ABC aired the fifth seasons of the popular TV show Once Upon A Time’s episode “Ruby Slippers”. The show’s creators had…

they had a much lower status in their society, which restricted their capacity and achievement for a long time. Here I am going to compare and contrast two examples of traditional and contemporary Chinese literature Six Records of a Floating Life and Love in a Fallen City and discuss how the social status…

the young age of 17, Henrietta got married to a man named John who was 20 years her senior. This means the wedding took place in the month of November in the year 1952. Even though he was a number of years older, she did not care. They were truly in love because she lit up every time we would talk about him. He was from Indonesia, but was living in the Netherlands (due to the Dutch rule in Indonesia). He was twenty years older than her but that did not seem to bother her discourage her family…

restorative kinds of love. Their characters and movement can be fully described only as mixtures of the loves that drive and goad and of the love that calls and summons.” (Hoffman 503) Their actions and their tales should be thought about in context, who they are, their age, their professions and their interactions with each other. One assumes they all have their own maistrie.…

What is the definition of a good friend? Are Austin and Saul good friends? What about them makes them good friends? Friendship is known to be a mutual affection between two or more people. The relationship between individuals is usually built on common interests. Many people have different ideas on how friendship works and what it takes to be a good friend. Everyone sees it differently. In fact, there is no particular criterion for an efficient friendship. On the other hand, looking at the…

Romantic love is seen in which someone is in search for a heroic figure that is passionate and adventurous which is an Escape from normal life to an extraordinary, passionate fulfilled life. Romantic love involves…

plays both the dominant and submissive which in the case is the empowered and overpowered. She can be defined as a woman who is loving, caring, and self-willed. However, her power gets taken away from her from people who judge her and those who she loves dearly. Sometimes her being overpowered highly outweighs her being empowered. Janie was forced into her first marriage, received everything as far as materials but struggles to truly find herself because he was controlling. But her third and…

decision. She had traveled 4,821 miles from her home in Farmington, Utah to Poole, England all for love. At least a hope of love. Steve McGill knew the moment he saw Cathy at the Heathrow airport in London she was the woman for him. He had known it for months through letters, tapes, pictures, and phone calls. He asked her to come stay with him for one week all for love. At least a hope of love. That love would go undeveloped if Cathy and Steve had not decided to go the extra thousand miles and…

Self-knowledge or “understanding of oneself, one 's character, abilities or, motives” is seen in Shakespeare’s King Lear (dictionary.com). Both King Lear and Gloucester place their trust in the wrong child, and it ultimately leads to their downfall. Both Cordelia who is the daughter of King Lear, and Kent who is a nobleman under Gloucester remain true to themselves and retain self-knowledge. Cordelia and Kent continuously speak the truth and fight to remain honest and loyal even though it bodes…

I remember each of them as if they were yesterday, the polar plunge Jack, Flynn, and I did barely a week after I made the list. Being the first week of March in the Midwest we froze our assess off. I immediately regretted showing Jack my list at that point. He saw polar plunge and immediately signed us up for the senior plunge. I swear, who ever thought jumping into a lake in freezing temperatures was absolutely positively insane, and the fact that we have kept this tradition for so many years…