However, some children are using gadgets including cell phones and tablets in order to talk to their loved ones through social media, instead of having a conversation with them in person. ... However, the result is that children tend to spend more and more time looking at social media and playing with electronic gadgets and less time building personal relationships with loved ones and companionship with friends. ... Social media also creates lack of privacy within families. ... Social media contains many useful features, but in family relationships, there should be caution used in family relat...

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But why do we love? ... Eros, is the sexual, intimate and passionate love between two individuals, Agape, is the love of God for a man, or the love of a man for God, Philia is the love between friends, and Storge, the love and affection between a parent and his/her children. ... Love is such a challenge for us because we believe there is nothing new to learn about love. ... Furthermore, we separate from each other because we believe that love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of "falling" in love and the permanent state of being in love or "standing" in l...

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Although the discussions of how the family melodrama differs from the family sitcom is focused on interaction with others, it has become increasingly clear that both formats have varied their family oriented structure to the interaction between coworkers and partnerships. ... It definitely brings about the majority of clashing characters such as a family, and still gives the characters a freedom that an immediate family doesn't. ... In the end it is clear everybody has a profound sense of respect and love for one another. ... This was a huge issue in the episode I was discussing earlier, ...

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Those friends and family members know that there is no other alternative to say I need your help, can you lend me some money. ... Few and far in between are the friends and family members that I can trust to confide in with my thoughts of antagonism, happiness, and gratification; however, those individuals who I choose to disclose my inter most significant point of view must always bear in mind the trust of friendship bestowed upon them; has helped me out a lot to be able to talk to my loved ones who in return will me their trust and succor to bond a relationship of values; Some might say bett...

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Despite the differences in time, familial love is still presented in a similar way. ... She starts to live through her children and at the end of "Death in the Family," Lawrence describes how she "now clung to Paul"." ... Therefore arguing that Williams presents love, in this case familial, to be destructive. ... This could be because it arguably more realistic as she is parting with her only family. ... Paul's love for his mother and Gertrude's love for him are fairly unspoken yet mutual. ...

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One could assume that because it is her aunt she would be treated better as she really is true family, but this is not the case. ... Jane, as a child, reflects that, 'It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group'. ... The fact that Jane takes comfort in the company of a stranger shows the lack of trust and feelings she has for her family. ... For example when the Pastor accuses Jeannette of not loving Go...

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For some, receiving unconditional love from another is truly a blessing, for love's ferocity can detach even the most high strung people from life's complexities. ... The community's equation of humans to animals in the face of love shows love's transformative influence on a person, that is explored in this novel. ... Through this cause and effect dynamic, one can see how the rejection of Hagar's love and her abandonment by the one she loves inevitably causes her demise and love's transformation. ... It is concluded that although Milkman never loved her, her fam...

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Family is important that we support and care for each other in every trouble and conflict (Whitbourne). ... The parents' sincere care and love form trust. ... This Tiger parenting described in the book is a stereotype of Asian families. ... Finding solution through communication would create a loving family environment. ... The relationship is bound with unconditional love and care. ...

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He deliberately conjured the storm to lure Ferdinand onto the island in order for Miranda and Ferdinand to meet and fall in love. ... Do you love me?" depicts their discovery of love for each other. ... However, through the governing and orchestration of Miranda's discovery, it has enabled Miranda to pursue her love for Ferdinand and escape the traditional cultural norms of the 17th century by proposing to Ferdinand first due to her lack of understanding of the marital values during the 17th century. ... However, this has empowered her to shape a future relationship with Isamu, Lord...

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Immediate and extended family further influence each of these factors. ... This statement is appealing to any family, but certainly is an ideal. ... She has always struggled with bad luck and was unable to find love, foregoing her family's dream of her marrying a Greek man and making lots of Greek babies. ... The Portokalis family is a perfect example of the idealization of "family time". Toula's family believes that they are enhancing their overall wellbeing by spending copious amount of time together while Ian's family is the exact opposite (Daly 2001:284). ...

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Also, I try and tell myself that religion would not be a factor in finding a partner because I know I can love someone who does not believe what I believe, however, I have found that in the past I have been bothered by girlfriends saying things that I can't help but be offended by concerning religion. ... Next, when considering my social and family upbringings, it is apparent that they played little or no role in the development of my challenge areas but instead reinforced my strengths. ... My family has no history of violence besides that fighting of my brother and me growing up as you...

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Her mother plays the central role in her family and thus has a powerful impact on Ruth. ... One of the first things Ruth mentions about her mother is her love for everything exotic. ... This guilt and responsibility limits Ruth's ability to accomplish all that she wants to and to branch away from her family. ... Our families affect us all; we all have adopted traits, both good and bad, from those to whom we are closest. For Ruth Reichl, her mother is the driving force in her family and the central figure in much of her life. ...

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Americans have helped without knowing whom their actually helping but they still make gestures of friendship and love all because we want to help someone; just as Huck found himself when he ran cross Jim and found that he had been sold by Miss Watson; but, he has ran away instead. ... The two do have the same interests in which they both want to run away for one reason or another, Huck needs to run because he has faked his own death and now must really not be heard from again; Jim, on the other hand ran away from his owner Miss Watson after he found out that he had been sold to New Orleans an...

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Throughout the film Weber compares the poor College professor's family with the sufficiently wealthy "foreign-born" shoemaker and his family next door (Slide 35). At the beginning of the film there is a scene which depicts Mr Olsen (the shoemaker) coming home with a new car for his family. ... (Kaplan 135) Mrs Griggs is explained to the audience as "Well born and fiercely loyal to her family, was ill equipped for the endless struggle with poverty". ... If Mrs Griggs was to break out of the home and go to work her and her family might not have to suffer so, however the patriarchal insi...

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In most cases an orphan has lived a very hard and isolated life, they are rejected from the intended everlasting community of family, and it affects them for the rest of their lives. ... Growing up in a less privileged area in Baltimore, when Dina had to go to the grocery store she would go out of her way to prevent judgment, she even says, "I hated those cashiers, and I hated them seeing me with food stamps, so I took the bus and shopped elsewhere." (132) In addition to growing up in a lower income family, Dina was forced to guard herself, because she "was an honor roll student" (118). ... D...

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Additionally, the traditions and norms perpetuated through families and societies are a major factor in formulating an individual's belief system, which will continuously be carried out throughout their life. ... If a child is brought up with love, affection and security he or she tends to build up positive beliefs. ... These relationships can range from friends, family, and even intimacy. ...

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"It is almost a truism to state that consideration of the woman-man relationship "as a sexual relationship, a core family relationship, a strongly enforced ideological goal and expectation "brings us near the heart of the sociology of gender" "(Chodorow pg. 67). ... Men are expected to be strong and masculine, so to fulfill this requirement, they often build friendships based upon common factors such as sports, drinking, or even their love of women. ...

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