Romance novels

Humans have always looked for the answer to finding happiness in life. For the majority of people, they believe that love will bring them this sense of happiness. In Barbara Fredrickson’s, “Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become,” she talks about how we see love in the wrong way and that we should start looking at love the way the body sees it. This change in perception of the definition of love allows people to have a better chance of…

How to Show Love How is love shown? How do you know how much one loves the other? Is it through words, money, or gifts? In the short stories “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry and “Bluffing” by Gail Helgason they show that love is not about what you say, it is about what you do. Words can be used without the user being responsible to its meanings, so it cannot be used to measure one’s love for another. Only your actions can show how much one means to you. For love, one is willing to give up the…

Throughout the Arabian Nights, friendship is discussed in a multitude of tales and addressed in a multitude of ways. Two of the tales that focus on the concept of friendship are The Story of Sindbad the Sailor and Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman. In these tales, the friendships that form between the main characters serve to introduce the characters’ similarities and emphasise their differences, as well as address the larger ideas of what true friendship means and the differing…

As discussed in the Symposium, individuals have different interpretations of erotic love. Aristophanes and Alcibiades define erotic love as longing for another being which an individual is drawn to. Both these men yearn for love in the idea of another figure in their life. Alcibiades yearned for the Socrates, whereas Aristophanes yearned to find his “matching half” (Plato, pg. 19). Both want to achieve a sense of completeness in their lives, because of these yearning faults are seen in their…

There two stories being compared are ‘Very Special shoes’ and ‘By the River’. Although both of these stories touch on the impact of love on a person, they aren’t very similar. One story focuses on the love between a mother and child, and the other touches on the heavy effects love can affect a person. This essay will seek to prove that while these two stories surround the subject of love, they couldn’t be any different in terms of plot, character and theme. Both the stories that are being…

Imagine a world that does not allow you to be who you are. Imagine not being able to do something you love because of the way you are, because of your sexual preference, cultural preference or ideas. What if acceptance never existed? People have a passion for being accepted in their lives. Without it, they feel like they are simply nothing. William J. Brennan, Bill Brummel, and Etgar Keret made short stories and/-or films to portray this kind of world. The idea of accepting people based upon…

The Forgiven Lost In more than one way humans are the same. This time the similarity is love. Everyone experiences that one love that was special, but also in the same moment to hard to bare to stay in love with that special someone. My special someone was my Freshman year, in highschool girlfriend Savanna Duffey.Ending my first female relationship with a her taught me many lessons, and caused me to make many mistakes. Savanna was the first experience with gay love, and my last. Meeting…

When I first read each of these poem I notice a very interesting difference between the two. While both of the poems are about relationships the major difference between the two are the specific type of relationship they each portray. In Your Hands by Gevorg Emin the relationship Gevorg portrays is a very loving and passionate one between the two people. While in The Clothespin by Rhonda Bower the feeling we get about the relationship is that the two people don’t really love each other and force…

The new definition of Love, introduced by Barbara Fredrickson, in “Love 2.0,” not only presents the scientific analyzes of the brain’s response to positive connections, but also a unique perspective of what love actually is. The unfamiliar standpoint about how love is “forever renewable” (108) and how “[it is] not unconditional” (108) refines how love is interpreted and perceived. Fredrickson presents an ongoing juxtaposition from both ends of love and strongly states that “love is a single act…

Helen’s Profound statement is a perfect description of how necessary the comfort of friendship is to a person. The darkness in her statement represents the hardships one may face in their lifetime. Friendship brings solace to struggling people, giving them a direct pathway to another person's heart. The warmth of a friend can light up a person's life no matter how dark they perceive it to be. When someone is alone they have no one to share the light with, making it unappreciated. It would be…