Romantic Love Society has conditioned the population to believe that marriage is an event that is synonymous with romantic love. ... Romantic love possesses strength greater than many other emotions. ... Can an emotion really die if it has the strength that love possesses? ... Also, some families originate from relationships that haven't involved marriage. There are relationships that are surviving today on love and trust alone. ...

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Years and years ago, families used to be networks of togetherness and love. ... Minimal time is spent together, family dinners are virtually nonexistent, and the bond and love of years ago just doesn't seem to be there. ... As I mentioned before, the family of today is much different than the family of 50 years ago. It is much more hardened, and much more deprived of love and affection. ... Burns is suggesting in this quote that it is fine and wonderful to have a huge family that loves you very dearly, but it is only wonderful if that family is far enough away that you don't have to ...

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Years and years ago, families used to be networks of togetherness and love. ... Minimal time is spent together, family dinners are virtually nonexistent, and the bond and love of years ago just doesn't seem to be there. ... As I mentioned before, the family of today is much different than the family of 50 years ago. It is much more hardened, and much more deprived of love and affection. ... Burns is suggesting in this quote that it is fine and wonderful to have a huge family that loves you very dearly, but it is only wonderful if that family is far enough away that you don't have to ...

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When you love someone your body language shows that you love the person. ... Everything has faded except their love for each other. ... Commitment is a big part of love. ... Take for instance the love of your parents. ... Loving a friend, loving your family, loving your girlfriend are all feelings that are acquired over time. ...

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Functions Of The Family The ever changing family has responsibilities and duties to fill, to become a physical and emotionally stable family. ... The economic function is when the family provides the necessary goods that are needed to survive. In the past, to provided for the family the head of the family would farm and fish to acquire the goods needed. ... Everyone needs to feel and be loved. It is one of the unwritten necessities needed to have a healthy family. ...

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Where's the Love? ... The father seems to be a quiet man who is dedicated to his work and family. Even on Sundays, a day that he could rest, the father rises and begins a fire to warm the house for the rest of the family. ... Every time Abner and his family arrive at a new sight of employment, the scenario is basically the same. ... Everyone has his own way of showing love. ...

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Throughout my twenty years of Naval service, I was separated from my family extensively with fourteen of the years onboard various ships. ... The only family that deployed sailors have for 180 days are the immediate members of their division and the rest of the crew. ... Finally, we needed to know our families would be adequately provided for while we were away which included various family support resources, housing, medical care, commissaries and exchanges so we didn't need to worry about our families while we were deployed. ... Most importantly, email communication provided us with...

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The crazy thing is she's not only addicted to it, she also thinks the television walls in her home are her family. For example when Montag was talking about how books are "people", Mildred quoted, ""Now," said Mildred, "my 'family' is people. ... Along happiness, love is another key emotion of life, but in 451 it is merely expressed as a fake feeling. The world has no love between families, no love for other people; no love towards themselves that they don't even appreciate their own lives! ... The lack of love truly messes the life of a human...

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Because of love, man and woman come together and become a family £ » however after a long time being a couple, sometimes, the true love has faded and the husband or wife has the feeling named love with another person. ... And the third situation is that the family member loves and already has actual infidelity with another person. ... Furthermore, honesty plays a significant role in a family. Every family member has the right to know what happened. ... No matter what reason it is, the married people should balance their families and their affections when they face the family cri...

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My mom is always telling me that people will never understand what unconditional love is, until you have your own experiences. That's when you understand why love its unconditional. ... My boyfriend and I were moving to a new house where we were going to start a new life as a family. ... We sat down and started talking about how happy we were as a family. ... I believe what my mom has been telling me, people will not understand what unconditional love is, until they live their own experiences. ...

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" Soldiers go into war with a mindset that they are going to protect their country and their loved ones. ... Cross carries love letters and two pictures from a young lady, Martha, who he wishes loved him, theses personal memorabilia keeps the soldiers going when the war gets tough or they are scared. ... Each stage is characterized both by a time frame and specific emotional challenges, which must be dealt with and mastered by each of the Family members. Failure to adequately negotiate these challenges can lead to significant strife - both for Family members and the deployed Soldier"...

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Peyton is brought into the story as a family man who is wrongly being executed by the Federal Army. ... From the beginning of the short story emotions of courage, family, and love seem to connect Farquhar to the everyday man. ... The ideal of courage for one's country and faith and commitment in one's family are what ties the realistic aspect of Farquhar to the reader. One critic expressed it in this manner: Bierce portrays Farquhar as a sympathetic character who we can identify with "a man who takes care of his family and home. His attempt to burn down the bridge may be seen a...

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With that said, showing love, attention, and affection to children during difficult times, especially times with financial imbalance within the family, can help prevent potential emotional development problems. ... This includes the amount of love they receive from their parents, the noise levels that are in the household, whether or not they are being challenged intellectually, and if the financial state that the family is in is healthy, or the opposite. ...

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In every short story the element of narrative structure is extremely significant, no more so then in "The Altar of the Family" by Michael Wilding and "A Blow, A Kiss" by Tim Winton. ... In "The Altar of the Family", Michael Wilding influences the reader to sympathize with the main character. ... "Altar of the Family" is about a young boy, David and his simple wish to gain acceptance and honour from his distant and critical father. Since David attends a boarding school, he only comes home to his family for the holidays. ... The moment of realisation is significant in "The Altar of the Famil...

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Love has the power to heal; however the experiences of the Tull family in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' demonstrate the destruction and pain that individuals can also encounter as a result of this force. ... Pearl was very conscious of the way her family was viewed by others and throughout her life strived to create the appearance of a happy family' (pg 9). ... Though love's destruction spread throughout the whole Tull family, Jenny, the youngest and only daughter grew strong enough to challenge its force. ... She had longed for the secret that ...

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Examples of this are Paul's love for Rosie, Keller and Paul's love for each other and their love and passion for music. ... After his family dies he dismisses his love of the Romantics and seeks refuge in the technical safety of Mozart and Bach "as if seeking some kind of ultimate discipline, some perfect control to set against the treacheries of emotion" (pg 50). ... In failing to protect his family from the Nazi threat because of his arrogance, Keller destroys a source of great love (his family) and destroys his love for great music also. Once he denies his love of passionate ...

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I have realised that in order to change you need love and support from friends and family and that sometimes people need to change who they are in order to obtain their dreams/ goals. ... Without love there would be no humour and laughter in Sally's family and Sally wouldn't be able to change in the ways that she did. ... The only reason this final change occurred was because her family and new friends showed her love and support as well as understanding and encouragement. ... Not only did Captain Sarah have the love of her family but she also had the love of her friends to help de...

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The poem's main point is that love can be expressed in doing deeds instead of being expressed emotionally. ... The person realizes they did not "know of love's austere and lonely offices."" ... The father got up early even on "Sundays- to make sure his family was comfortable. He was not too demonstrative of his love. ... But, in maturing and finding a job and possibly having a family to care for, the speaker realizes that their father was a hard worker and did sacrifice for his family. ...

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I was led to this topic primarily through my family's personal experiences, when my youngest sister was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. ... I wanted to discover more about how one can provide help and comfort to sick and dying children and their families. It is immediately apparent that the social woker's role is a crucial one - providing information and comfort to families and children as they attempt to make sense of a new and frightening world. ... Stevenson (1995) argues that art therapy allows children to informally express their emotions, without having to talk about them ...

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Literary Response: It is a modern poem written by a married woman, and every single word in the poem reveals her deep emotion inside about her husband and her family. ... Judith explains in her True Love that her love is real because, among other reasons, she tolerates watching the Green Bay Packers. ... In other words, it was all true love. ... Shakespeare has said, "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." From a different aspect, Judith sees her true love within her family. ...

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The 16-year-old brother falls in love with the pregnant teenager, and hope springs anew in the unfortunate Whittaker family. ... The novel ends with a surprise gift to that family. ... The lives of the family members are so changed by Annie's death that none of them feel they can coexist as a family without her. ... Although she and Tommy are in love, she will not marry him, because she says they are too young. ... He, in turn, presents Maribeth to his family, and the whole family is renewed by her gift to them of her newborn child. ...

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Each author also writes about how the death affected them and their family. ... (Trips from There to Here, Page 60) Marjorie showed love for Karen and wanted to keep her safe from the drugs and help her stay away from them by playing with her. Zoë never writes about how she loved or cared for her sister. ... Both writers wrote how they had to learn how to stay away from Karen for the better of the family. ... Zoë hated Karen while Marjorie loved her but could not compete against her drug addiction. ...

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She also feels that "Everyone she loves dies - her love consumes"(Fred Mensch, Barbara Nixon, Greg Nixon, p.2-3). ... Kip, born in a family of tradition and values, also had two brothers. The family customs dictated that the first son to join the army, while the second would become a doctor and the third, a businessman. ... An old tradition in his family"(p.201). ... Hana lives a life in which "People fall in love with her" (p.301) and Kip lives with his family in India finally without being destroyed by the war. ...

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(Briggs 1970: 69) The first statement shows that anger does exist in most Eskimo familys. Inuttiaq on the other hand says he has too much love for Saarak. The Utku feel that too much love is not a good thing. It is looked down upon because if a child is loved, "too much," then if they become ill or get married and move in with another family it will make the parents sad, and people would rather be happy than sad. ... One Utku family that caused problems in the camp was that of Nilak. ...

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The men are fathers, brothers, and sons who are off fighting for their families and fighting for the freedom that their family currently has. ... They write of their love for their wife and children, or girlfriend. ... Almost every letter is concerned mainly with the family. ... This intense feeling of need and love for the wives and girlfriends brings about survival. Any man will do anything in his power to survive long enough to see the true love of his life. ...

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