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Marriage Rights, Medical Benefits, and Gay Marriage

It is becoming more and more apparent that the bonds of love go just as deep as heterosexual bonds; in fact, homosexual couples ar...

Arranged Marriage's Psychological and Physical Perils

have a voice in the ultimate selection of their marriage partner nor the time or circumstances that surround the marriage. It is ...

Comparing Love And Lust

have attempted to fine tune a definition speaks to the vast comprehensiveness of one of mans most basic of emotions. Love enlists...

Browning & Bradsteet/Love Poetry

Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...

Life and the Search for Meaning

full potential in relationship to this peace and joy within themselves Powell, 1995; 3). In Mans Search for Meaning by Vikt...

Does Romeo Really Love Juliet?

the little black book" - for good; they dont keep copies on the laptop or stashed somewhere else ("Recognizing the Signs"). They g...

Frederick Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

The Wife of Bath and the Love Poems of Sappho and Catullus

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

Francisco de Quevedo/Sonnet 478

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

Diotima's Ideas on the Fairness of Love

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

Poems on Sexuality, Blog Posts and Responses

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....

Services for the Dying

Death is usually an awkward topic and one many people avoid even when facing the impending death of a loved one. Some believe that...

Parallels in the Early Church and Contemporary Society

This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...

The Four Stages of Christian Love

group, which itself was a well-regarded and well-educated order (Harris, 2001). As an advocate for a strong papacy, he commanded a...

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/Eliot

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

Dimensions of Love

as the emotions of like, and physical attraction (Sternberg; Barnes, 1989). Where the decision or commitment component is involves...

The Extremes of Love and Hate as an 'All or Nothing' Proposition

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

Love in internet relationships

online than in real life; the fact that they can start and end interactions whenever they choose also increases their confidence a...

Love as Sickness: Marquez

One author notes how "often couples in love do not see stark differences that are obvious to others in their personality. Love oft...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Story of First Love

to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...

Anthropology: Love

Through love, all these opposites were overturned. In acts of love, the humble became proud, the servant became master, the renoun...

Love in the Time of Cholera

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...

Love in “No Exit”

cousins wife and when he was killed by a tram, Inez took her in (Sartre). But Inez tortured Florence by constantly reminding her o...

Love in Toni Morrison's Sula, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and William Shakespeare's Othello

In six pages this essay considers how heroines love in each of these works which also discusses the social reflections of their ap...

Analysis of 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and 'Tenth Tale' by Giovanni Boccaccio

Virginity is fine but wives are not condemned; the Apostle said that my husband would be my debtor, and I have power over his body...

'The Pardoner's Tale' in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

In five pages the Pardoner and his characteristics are examined. There are no other sources listed....

Roles of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale' and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

This paper contrasts and compares the women's roles in these two stories featured in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in 5...

Notion of Love or Precis in Plato's Arguments Presented in Phaedrus and Symposium

who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...

Love According to Andrew Marvell and John Donne

In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...

Self Sacrifice in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

In an essay consisting of five pages John Proctor's self sacrifice and the inspiration it represents in love's power to withstand ...