... that the Creator took the world in all of it's chaos and disorder and established order and put an end to the chaos. He also believed that God made humans intelligent so they would be the fairest and best creations. Plato also believed that the animals and humans of the world are just minor portions of it just as the Earth is ... was a specific bond and not a just a feeling any longer. He believed that love was an emotion that the mind itself could create, control, or erase. Plato viewed love as an emotion that made the mind powerless to it's hold. He stated that the emotion is complete...

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... heterosexual romantic love and even consider this asexual affection something other than love, as it bears no children. Plato would respond that intellectual association leads to the creation of timeless ideas, and is therefore a greater love than the physical love which creates children. Plato explores and defends his view of love in the Symposium, specifically in the dialogue between Socrates and Diotima (Symposium ... Diotima's assumption, supported by Socrates, is that "everyone wants good things to be his own forever." (205a) There is a need to refine this broad definition which wo...

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What are some of the ways that love can help humans to achieve happiness and fulfillment? There are many ways in which love can help humans to achieve happiness and fulfillment. In Plato's discussion on love, he explains to us that love offers us a pathway from chaos (25-31 Plato, Aristophanes), the romantic companionship that it offers can lead people out of loneliness. Love ... , however, "Happiness doesn't come from imitating God. Instead, happiness comes from getting into the right relationship with God" (Graham). Lastly, Plato talked about the obstacle of one trying to overcome the force...

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... the driving forces in love. The woman proposes that the main motive behind the sacrifice may be that it is a way to gain immortality. By dying for another they would be considered a hero.. This may have been a valid reasoning during Plato's era because virtue and honor were seen as great characteristics of men. People were judged daily on these credentials and thus ... conclusion that love is the everlasting possession of good things. Yet in the reasoning that comes about from this idea I found a few faults in what Plato depicts Socrates to have said. After Socrates came to his conclusi...

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... in this whittling that the course of the conversation changes – which also reflects the change in gender (male speaker, to female speaker). By having the text flow in this way, it becomes clear that Plato intended for Diotima and her speech to stand out. Moreover, the vernacular of Diotima's speech is oracular and her tone of voice sounds almost prophetic. This parallels ... majority of whom were female (i.e., Pythia, oracle of Apollo at Delphi, and Dione, oracle of Zeus at Epirus). Additionally, Plato's inclusion of a female character was a perfect way to introduce opposition to the...

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... the division the two parts of man, each desiring his other half and dying from hunger and self-neglect because they did not do anything apart, to love as a need. Since when one of the halves died and the other survived, the survivor sought another mate, man or woman. The anecdote ... not that of the lover's intercourse, but of something else which the soul of either evidently desired and could not explain. The reason Aristophanes gave to this need was that human nature was originally one and we were all a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love ... Gods. Love is t...

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... tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction"(IV, i, 39-41). Othello then confronts Desdermona with these lies, "If you bethink yourself of any crime unreconcil's as yet to haven and grace solicit for it straight" (IV, ii, 26-28), and Desdermona is unaware ... two such different people?"(224). Kathryn feels used and she feels hate towards Jack and his overseas mistress. When Kathryn confronts the mistress she is astounded to discover a variety of things about Jack that she had never known, "Jack had been married in a Catholic church. Th...

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... unanswered. Shakespeare uses the line "Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle- after Romeo's banishment from Verona. Juliet feels that fate caused his banishment to happen and that she couldn't do anything about it. Fickle means when you believe anything, when something is changeable and inconstant. Juliet says all men ... their death bury their parents strife- When Romeo and Juliet first meet it is at the Capulet party. If Mercutio had not encouraged Romeo to go to the Capulet dance, the couple would never had met and their deaths would have been averted. At the start neither one o...

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... friendship is faithfully inseparable and lasts forever. From the peak beginning of the novel, Jess Aarons is found trying to make friends by competition of racing. He's trying to show off his running talent, but to his surprise a girl beats him at his own game: "The icy mud sent little thrills of pain up ... so they ran splashing in the mud- (Paterson,p. marvelously18). Leslie, the champion of Jess" little races embarrasses him in front of people he was trying to please. Although she does make him look bad, little Jess sees something in her that no one else sees - the beginning of a tru...

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... Romeo and Juliet are prevented from being married by their parents. The same, in some respect, is true with Hermia and Lysander. Both sets of lovers plan to run away to get married. This is when the trouble begins. In Romeo and Juliet's case, the consequence is much more severe then that of Hermia and Lysander. Romeo ... and Juliet have a love much like that of Hermia and Lysander in that each of the lovers will do anything to be with the other. For example, Hermia tells her father and the Duke that she would rather die or be a nun for the rest of her life ... than be without Lysander. ...

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... by showing examples throughout the book. No book gives the exactness of a foreigner in a war like this book does. Hemingway wrote this book "...long enough after the events for them to present themselves..." The characters are not tormented by the "dissonance between personal satisfaction and the suffering one shares with others...", but as soon as we see the intimate relationship between ... the lovers we see that it is an "...idealized realationship..." A Farewell to Arms is a Romeo and Juliet. Catherine and Henry fall in love after she gets pregnant with his child and the romance blo...

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... , and his love would only grow, never fade. He would admire her eyes for one hundred years; admire her breasts for two hundred years, and thirty thousand to admire the rest of her body; lastly, he would see her heart. In other words, in lines 1-20 the speaker pronounces his love for her, both physically ... along with her beauty and his love for her. He says that a grave is a nice quiet place, but lovers do not embrace there. The last part of "To His Coy Mistress,"" lines 33-46, is a resolution, a plan for the lovers. Now that the speaker has told his lady how much he loves her and how t...

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... people who have same gender and they fall in love together. Therefore, they also have the right to get married like normal people. They are human like the others. They have the right to love and to be loved. Allowing gays get married means allowing two men or two women live together like normal couples ... this work. However, it is against moral belief. They cannot physical have children. Biologically, they are the same gender, so there is no hope for them to get real happiness from hearing baby's cry. With some feudal country, they will become guilty people with their forefarthers like:...

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... the neighborhood. Among other instances, I witnessed his parents sitting on their front stoop and glaring at a Mexican man as he taught his daughter to ride a bicycle, and on other occasions retreating to their house if Mexican neighbors convened to chat or attempted conversation with them. My friend and I rode the school bus together, and on one occasion when he boarded the bus angrily ... and I asked him what was wrong, he went on to tell me about his parents. He said they had been complaining again about the "Mexicans destroying the neighborhood." He could not understand why his pare...

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... a lot of people that I associate myself with that have good reputations. The thing about reputations is it takes so much time and effort to build one, but only one minute to completely destroy the reputation that you have built. For example, I have my best friend and my mother. When I was in the first grade ... lot of amazing friendships that could last her a life time and one of them is with me. For example, in high school, something embarrassing happened to one of her friends during class. Instead of telling everyone and going around talking about it, she got up and helped her and the...

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... (8 and 24). These are all major things, so the speaker is trying to present the vastness of the idea to his mistress; to change the coyness ideal of his mistress before it overwhelms her and she ends up alone. He also tries to portray to the mistress that there is no time, and there will be major consequences, and ... the youthful hue/ Sits on thy skin like morning dew", he is telling the mistress that there is no better time than now to lose your virginity, and there will be consequences to lose it at a later time in life. This man argues that if life was eternal then it would be approp...

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... when she refused his marriage proposal and insulted him. She reaches Pemberly shortly after having read Darcy's letter with the understanding that Darcy was not to arrive at his estate until the next day. Two things happen when she reaches Pemberly: she falls in love with the estate and Darcy arrives ... uselessly fine; with less of splendor, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings" (202). At this point in the novel, Elizabeth begins to fall in love with Darcy and has second thoughts about refusing Darcy's marriage proposal. Elizabeth's arrival at Pemberly is a pivotal and ...

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... so great as the death we will observe today: the death of our Prince Hamlet. Hamlet was a dear friend to me and to many others as well. He was willing to help those in need and always had an ear to listen. Hamlet was a noble man as well that would fight for his beliefs and for what he knew ... . He suffered through many trials and tribulations in his short life. He had to experience the death of his father not too long ago. It was quite a difficult thing for him to deal with, as it would be to any man. His father's death caused him to go through some recent personal problems for a short ...

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... out after high school that they have a passion for each other. However, it is too late for Newt, now enlisted in the army. He comes back to city he grew up in after hearing that his high school friend , Kate, who he was secretly in love with, is getting married. Once meeting Kate ... , Newt quickly tells her how he feels about her. Kate then discovers a love for Newt, but is reluctant to reveal it at such a vital time in her life. I felt this story was well written and displayed the dialogue and emotions of both Catherine and Newt ... that she just couldn't love him. Also, if Newt really...

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... light of the moon. She was 16 and he was 15. In the days and months that followed, a friendship bloomed and flourished. They looked forward to spending time together, talking and laughing for hours. on end. Neither ever realizing how much they cared for each other in friendship. Until one day, ... life, . Each making their own successes and mistakes. ("each" doesn't match with "their" and to use his/her would be inappropriate here) Almost a decade went by without notice and they found themselves together again. "Good to see you, friend!" they said as they smiled at each other in the ligh...

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... theme is when Romeo and Juliet are described as, 'a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'. This line also has contemporary relevance to today as it still may occur in practice or in language. The prologue gives a brief summary of the whole play and includes an oxymoron: ... him alone, we can see this as the speaker in Wyatt's sonnet being portrayed as more of an experienced lover, having his pain being kept to himself whereas Romeo & Juliet's love is portraying themselves as more amateur lovers, having their families battle out the anger rather than bottling it up ... ;O bra...

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... Among the main themes is racism. Othello, the title character, was a Moorish general serving the Venetian government. Being a black, he was subjected to so many different forms of discrimination and hatred by others around him. Iago who was his ensign was probably the worst racist in the play " ... , her husband Othello grew more and more suspicious of the relationship between Desdemona and Cassio. While Iago played an important role in convincing Othello to think that Desdemona and cassio were having an affair, essentially it is Othello's own demons that made him that way. What's obviou...

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... just as life. In the bible, the disciples wrote poems of love, thankfulness, joy, sorrow, and every emotion to God through scripture. Not only did they write poems to God but also to one another. Song of Solomon is one of many books of the bible, but it deals solely with a woman ... for each other through poetry. Poems also come in many forms, the obvious love poem, poems of despair, envy, thankfulness, paranoia, and any emotion known to man. When all of these emotions are wrapped up in sentence be it together or apart it is defiantly a beautiful thing. Shakespeare begins the poem with ...

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... . It was undeniable that Medea's thoughts and mental stability was not what they had been before Jason's departure. She even proposed that death would be a release, " what use to I have for life?" Jason broke her heart and offended her. It was known that a foreign man had more status than that of a woman, much less a foreign woman. ... home because of the things she had done and had done for him. She would not be safe and how did he propose to her that she would believe anything he said to her after he broke her trust and her heart. She asked, "Why is there no mark engraved on men's bodi...

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... items from magazines or spends it on her nails and hair. When she is not begging Al for money she is begging him for sex or to treat her like the neighbor, Jefferson, treats his wife, Marcie. She wants compassion and sweet talk, two things Al would never think about giving ... are not how much money they make. The majority of trashy people are low income simply because they have no socially acceptable skills, or the determination to get them a high paying job. Peg and Al's love life and life style are two main things in their existence that are very different ... from what is considere...

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