In our post-industrial society there has become a greater importance for personal authenticity, but to understand this struggle for personal authenticity we must look at the current cultural climate we live in. ... From this current cultural climate we see the struggle for personal authenticity and this personal authenticity requires the integration of life and death. ... In our society we have focused more on the "I" then the "other". ... So in this our modern time we have focused more on having than being and this growing focus on having, which has created a sort of neurosis called "the t...

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I have been working at my current job for 4 years and have been twice promoted. ... I try to stay calm in whatever I am doing and focus all my energy in completing my tasks. ... In personal relationships and work, I have realized that I get too much involved in things that do not require all my focus and energy. ... I also need to focus my energy on things that are truly important to me and my family and not waste my time on issues that don't have enough relevance. ...

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Rob's subsequent depression and self-analysis is the focus of the film; getting the girl back becomes secondary. ... It is only through understanding Rob's past, that we can understand his current angst. ... In his struggle to understand his current break up, Rob becomes obsessed with his past relationships, and decides to go out with them all again and ask them what went wrong. ...

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Mel even spoke with an attitude toward Terri showing pain in their current relationship and never really showed or expressed their love. ... The emotion of pain seemed to cloud their mind, leaving the discussion mainly focused around the pain and jealously, not love nor happiness....

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The lady in the courtly love relationship was typically older, married and of higher social status than the knight, and she was the focus of the young, unmarried knights' desire. ... Her current husband, Bath is fighting for a place among the great European exporters of cloth in order to help his Wife, the seamstress. ...

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Hence, instead of summarizing I will instead focus my essay on the elaboration of what I feel are the three main influences on the depiction of sexual intercourse in the narrative. ... Contrary to current belief that men are the more lustful with an "energizer bunny" sex drive, it is apparent that during the time of Boccaccio females were believed to be more lustful and susceptible to sexual desire. ... On one end lust constitutes love and leads to sex and maybe marriage depending on whether or not they"re already currently married or not. ... Therefore, Boccaccio's personal beliefs mu...

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Some purposes include enhancing and making the tales more appealing for the listeners and viewers of the current generation. ... The main focus of the character of Aladdin in the two versions was to win the heart of the princess and marry the princess as soon as Aladdin saw the princess. ...

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Morrie discusses many different topics presented to him by former student, Mitch; although, Morrie is currently suffering and on the road to death, he is not afraid to talk about the most freighting of topics faced in life. ... Throughout the years to follow the Holocaust, many people have different reactions to works of literature focusing on the Holocuast and the loss of basic feelings such as that of love and happiness. ...

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Some fear the current taking over them and drifting them to a lost and lonely world without it. ... The focus of the story revolves around Odysseus trying to return to his wife on Ithaca. ... Penelope and Odysseus face many obstacles and they aren't focused on dwelling in the experiences without each other. ...

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Satori, a Zen concept occurs when attention rests in the current moment, when the body is alert, sensitive, relaxed, and the emotions are open and free. ... Ideas of future events and thoughts on past events are what we anticipate and reflect upon, though they are not ever the here and now, which is always the most important minute to focus on. ... This leads us to focus on the greater issues in life, the here and the now and the happiness of the present. ...

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We have to focus on facilitators and barriers both. ... So many older people feel isolated and neglected by society especially after retirement, and they are living alone or in long term care facilities because they are not modern compare to current generations. ... They have to remain up to date with current affairs and technologies. ... Old age people have to focus on the health literacy to remain latest for the health and health care services for good lifestyles until the death. ...

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Furthermore, Freud viewed love as the co-existence of "two currents" tenderness/affection and sensuality. Happy love is a fusion of these two currents. ... The in love focus comes when the cozy feeling are used as a barometer to determine a level of commitment in a relationship. ...

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Although accepted now more than in past generations, same sex relationships are not yet fully accepted as being equal to heterosexual relationships. Abdellatif Kechiche, the director of Blue is the Warmest Color, uses film techniques that work together to create the most realistic scenes possible in...

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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. ... Her big trials and tribulations involve her current feelings and circumstances surrounding these boys and Felicity's reaction and action when it comes to conflict. ... It focuses on the issues that everybody can relate to - attraction, lust, ideally the opposite sex, which then brings up love. ...

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Jessica is currently working at a cable providing company, in addition to being a nursing student. ... Although there was narrative explaining the very numerous trials and tribulations they have overcome during the past few years, for the purpose of this paper I focused on: levels of commitment, family and boundaries, marital maintenance, sexual communication, and intimacy expressions they posses in the present. ...

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It can be argued that love is the most important aspect of one's life. When a person is brought into the world, it is by the means of love. A person is raised in love and hopes one day to fall in love. Everyday thousands of songs of love play on the radio, and everyday movies about love are projected onto the silver screen. It is said that love is all around us. ...

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Many relationships today are so focused in contacting each other through technology that they lose the idea of such a connection. For example, in David Mark Simpson's article, "What Is Carved in Stone," he explains the differences in his long distance relationships with his ex-girlfriend, Sarah, and now current girlfriend, Patti while in the military. ...

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The long black cars used, and also the number seemingly endless current of cars from the bottom of the shot highlights the funeral procession theme. ... The butler from Xanadu, Raymond, is seen and his black suit stands out from the crowd as the camera pans left in deep focus of the festivities making the viewer aware of the space. ...

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The Wife of Bath has been married five times and is currently searching for another man to marry on the trip. ... Augustine's relation to his mistress focuses on the problem of restless loves, while showing that Augustine had the desire to love and the desire to be loved. ...

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Recent research has focused on the use of affect or emotion as heuristics that have a strong influence on a variety of decision making contexts (Damasio, 1994; Finucane, Peters, & Slovic, 2003; Loewenstein, Weber, Hsee, & Welch, 2001; Mellers, 2000), where the emotion we most closely associate with the context of choosing a mate is the emotion of love. ... Rather than attempting to do so, the current paper pretends, by summarizing, and reviewing previous researches, raised over several decades, identify the variables that have been linked to Falling in Love and its mediating variables, and ope...

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On the aspects of intelligence, knowledge of current events, morality, and adjustment, the similar attitude group rated the stranger higher than the dissimilar group. ... This study focuses on supporting the ideas that Byrne first hypothe...

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Relationships with the opposite sex are complex, and very unique. In this paper I hope to cover the main areas of this complex subject. I will address the stages of dating, the four types of chemistry between dating partners, unhealthy chemistry in women, various types of bad relationships, commitment, engagement and marriage. I will begin with the most natural start of male/female relationships, dating. John Gray PH.D., author of Mars &Venus on a Date, has established five(5) stages of dating. ...

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Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the constant violence beat back the warring factions, Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future. Romeo, the son of Montague, runs into his cousin Benvolio, who had earlie...

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