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In six pages this paper examines the Greek concept of eros or love as it is portrayed in these works by Plato and Hippolytus with ...
is especially difficult to define when you are trying to do so for a person who has never experienced it. The dictionary definiti...
In three pages this paper seeks to define the elusive concept of love, which throughout the course of history has meant and repres...
offered by A Wrinkle in Time is that the power of love can overcome just about any of lifes obstacles. When one confronts the dar...
In seven pages the chess symbolism presented in the description of the game in lines 618 to 678 are considered particularly as the...
being wholly inferior. Others claim love is for the weak of both mind and spirit, the weak-willed who cannot live their lives alo...
the pot-bellied stove; everything else was either burned to the ground or damaged beyond repair from smoke and/or water. It was o...
Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...
It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...
24). Soon, his youth was gone and in his devastation over this unrequited love, Narcissus plunged a dagger deep within his aching...
a temporary reprieve. She gave him one year and one day to determine what a woman desires. If he was able to successfully answer...
close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
without peer (Spivack and Lynne 95). Lancelot was originally introduced to readers in French poet Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or...
famine as being the direct manifestation of her conflict with Oberon) and the madness itself is generated by the very human desire...
tennis match indicating no score goes back to 1742, and comes from the idea of "playing for love, i.e., for nothing" (Harper). The...
the life of their romantic relationship" (p. 235). But in this critical early phase of any relationship, people are often so enam...
Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...
have attempted to fine tune a definition speaks to the vast comprehensiveness of one of mans most basic of emotions. Love enlists...
of self love being a worthwhile state of being. The modern church teaches that we are not deserving of anything good, and that se...
This paper examines the concept of self-esteem and falling in love, and correlates the two. A proposed study is evaluated and spec...
faith development. Stage 2 is related to children from three/four to seven/eight when they experience intuitive-projective faith. ...
group, which itself was a well-regarded and well-educated order (Harris, 2001). As an advocate for a strong papacy, he commanded a...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
One author notes how "often couples in love do not see stark differences that are obvious to others in their personality. Love oft...
to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...
old age. There is a symbolic reality to the novel that is always filled with a sense of illness and decay, which are all intricate...
This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...
Death is usually an awkward topic and one many people avoid even when facing the impending death of a loved one. Some believe that...
This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....