How a person looks is very important in the early stages of a relationship. It is amazing that beauty is such an impactful factor of every person's life. ... It is said that there is a halo effect where people assume that because a person is beautiful in their eyes, that person must be trustworthy, sociable, sensitive, and interesting. ... " It works the same when a person is asked on a date. ... It is critical to be aware of attraction in life; beauty may be covering up a truly horrible person....

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When you can be yourself with that person and there not be any uncomfortable moments then that relationship is more likely to last. ... But what people do not understand is that that is the movies and not real life, a relationship is more than just intimacy and infatuation with another, it is being able to spend time with the other person and be who you really are with that person. If you can not have an intelligent conversation with that person and be able to express your opinion without starting an argument, then it will not work out in the long run. ... If you are now thinking whether or n...

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From this current cultural climate we see the struggle for personal authenticity and this personal authenticity requires the integration of life and death. ... These labels compartmentalize us into a less than whole person. ... Virtuous behaviour requires time and effort and in our culture we have shifted from "a good deed is it's own reward" to "what do I get in return"; with this ideological shift we see the growing struggle between a virtuous life and the convenient life. ... When we face the homeless person in the street, who asks us to spare change, we feel uncomfortable, mak...

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In both books, we are given lessons about how others interpret life and how it can be different for anyone. ... Reading Tuesdays with Morrie, the reader gains knowledge about Morrie's perspective of life, and how we shape our lives by doing the simplest of things. ... Questioning the strength of those who had suffered and pondering the fact of what each person's happiness was from and if they had lost something. ... Love, a passionate affection, is something people experience if their lives can is harder to explain than life in general. ... In conclusion, Morrie's general reacti...

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I chose this theory because of all the options its seems to have the most relation to my day to day life. ... When we find and individual we intent to develop a relationship with it is important that we evaluate that person. ... A stranger who is known to have attitudes and beliefs similar to those of the person is better liked than a stranger with attitudes dissimilar to those of the person. A stranger who is known to have attitudes similar to those of the person is judged to be more intelligent, better informed, more moral, and better adjusted than a stranger with attitudes dissimilar to ...

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Acceptance of others, their appearance, their beliefs, and their behaviors, bestows upon a person inner tranquility. ... In the poem the narrator reveals that he possesses inner peace when he remains unwilling to fight and views everybody equally; he resembles a person that lives peacefully with others, because he holds peace within himself. ... Youth has been accurately defined as life that has thus far been untouched by tragedy. Before the fight, the child embraces many youthful characteristics; after, many life lessons of love and hatred. ... Initially, he trusted life and the emotions ...

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In order to endure and live a life of longevity, pain is a sensation that is often avoided as much as possible and viewed to be a repercussion for humanity. It can be understood in relation to the limited life span of the body because pleasure is something that yearns to be optimized. It is, of course, possible to experience optimal pleasure and little pain with an Epicurean outlook on life. ... For instance, a person may wish to drink, but only to certain amount because drinking to excess will induce pain. On the contrary, a person may be more inclined to finish a race to achieve a level of s...

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Growing up during the time of an uprising war in Sri Lanka, Arjie finds himself on an unexpected and memorable journey towards discovering his inner person. ... Arjie has dreamt of weddings and read about love all of his life, but after seeing what happens to Radha Aunty and the kindling being lit for the war on the rise, he finds that he is affected personally, and his views begin to change about love. ... For any person, becoming who they are takes years, and it is not an easy thing to undertake, especially for any homosexual person. ... This interest, which takes up most of his childhood, ...

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People would rather be in the presence of someone that they like than some person that they dislike because people favor to be in an atmosphere where hate does not present itself. ... In addition, I reminded he reason why he wanted to attend college, to succeed in life and to open his own automobile business. ... Long gave me the support to go on with my life by saying things such as "Does your father want you to live your life miserably and hurting yourself by not eating and crying." He helped me to wake up from the black hole that I had made of depression because he said things to encoura...

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In arrange marriages, who we marry frequently have characteristics similar to us in race, religion, class, background and age, meaning they might not be all that different from the person that your mother would have picked for you."" ... Willoughby, an assistant professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University, attributes the stability of relationships to the fact that "arranged marriages start cold, heat up and boil over as the couple grows. ... When a premium is placed on passionate love, its easy to lose objectivity, leading to unrealistic expectations of marriage and of...

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The young people who are at the beginning of life should learn how to concentrate to a goal in order to be successful in the world today. ... In addition, you should abandon the habit that looking at every person who is around you when walking, for example. ... A young person who can change habits more easily than adults should aware of their own actions and unnecessary body movements. ...

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Having almost no life of her own to be occupied with, Mrs Malaprop continues to live her life entangled and constantly interfering in her niece's, leading her to be described as "the old harridan." Much of the play happens to revolve around Lydia's constantly eventful love life, of which Mrs Malaprop is always involved. ... Despite her infuriating behaviour, we are engaged to feel sympathy for the middle-aged widow who's love life is non-existent to such a degree that she is forced to seek solace possessing an unhealthy interference in her niece's romantic situation. We...

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It is clear, as seen in Theodore and Samantha's relationship, that relationships these days are no longer between just two, but three: person, person, and screen. ... Without the physical sight of the person you're dating, it's harder to be able to truthfully obtain and actualize the feelings you may desire to have for them. ... Although it is hard not to revolve your life around technology in our present-day society, Ways of Seeing and Her both illustrate the consequences of allowing it to take over every aspect of your life. ...

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Attraction is not only a means of self preservation and eventual perpetuation, it is a complicated flux of emotions and thought processes that governs human behavior, it is what drives humans to make connections and aide one another throughout the twisting road of life. Although it is not known what precisely triggers attraction, it is established that each person has their own criteria for the quintessential friend and companion. What a person looks for in a friend, a boyfriend, a girlfriend, a husband, a wife is as different and varied as a person's genetic code. ... What a person des...

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These implications are used by Marvell in "To His Coy Mistress" to effectively create an interesting theory on life and how it should be lived. ... When the beautiful person is compared to a summer's day, they are explained as being highly superior, as "summer's lease hath too short a date". In this same manner, it is said that the "eternal summer" of the person adored shall not fade. ... Not only will her beauty be gone with time, but also her life and "worms shall try That long-preserved virginity"(re-establishing the intentions of his speech; to try her virginity before the ...

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Jennifer wasn"t much of a people person she was always by her self in the library, or in meetings for clubs, she was in to all that clubs and stuffs and after school she either was at St. ... Why" she started to giggle, "What would a person like you be doing in a hospital after school?" ... Your changing " and I told him " I don"t care what you think life's to short to care what others think of you" and from that moment I knew Jennifer changed my ways of life , at lunch I sat by Jennifer telling her how I only have 2 more days left of community service and she asked me " what do you have ...

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In romantic relationships, falling in loveis mainly a Western concept of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards a person to one of love. ... He believes that people fall in love when they are ready to change, or to start a new life. ... The new couple realizes their dreams, aspirations, and unexpressed potential through one another, and develops a shared life project and common view of the world. Individuals in the nascent state put one another through tests, which if successful eventually give way to a solid love relationship, and the forming of new identities and life structures formed ...

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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. In contrast, in the face of repudiation of that love, it can become a weapon, with the ability to transform a person. ... 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. ... Hagar's devotion to Milkman transforms her into a self-destructive character and detaches her from all other pursuits in her life. ... Ha...

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Even though the audience is sympathetic for the hero Odysseus, the obligation of the author is to reveal that Calypso's solitary life deserves empathy as well. Calypso's emotions in her relationship with Odysseus are not mutual, and she remains forever in mental anguish alone, even amongst the company of others, because she maintains the lone mentality for the rest of her life. ... Calypso seems to be smothering Odysseus with love that only result to his realization of life beyond an island of isolation. ... Odysseus says that Nausicaa has "no lack of good sense ... such as you would...

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A true friend can really be defined as a person who cares about another, someone who is willing to make a sacrifice in order to help someone else in a time of need. A friend essentially becomes a necessity rather than a luxury in ones life, and in short friendship involves a concern and involvement in the interests of another person. ...

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While escaping his prior occupations, Victor sought to form a life which was so planned and perfected, that his emotional life quickly began to emancipate. ... Only visions of peace entered his mind, and such a change so greatly thrashed his life, keeping him from the genuine experiences in life. ... Frankenstein stated,"The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feeling of human nature" (35). ... Abusing one's gift of knowledge further extracts the excellence within, often taking away the material aspects in life. ... A person must not seek to impress others b...

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Thus, because Minnie not only looks past Liu's ethnicity and accepts him as a person, but holds Liu in a similar esteem to her father, Minnie's statement further elevates Liu's masculinity. ... One can argue that "worth- symbolically refers to Minnie's worth as a person because her embroidery represents her own creation, a symbol of her identity. Therefore, Liu's statement reveals that he has a great deal of respect for Minnie as a person. ... Liu embodies masculinity while James does not because Liu is relatively new to American society, and thus lives life accordi...

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Its one thing to get married and divorce someone as you find that you"ve rushed things too quickly and don"t truly love a person, even though it might be wrong. ... For one to have a good and normal life one needs balance, and being socially inept skews this balance and would make life one long arduous uphill battle. ...

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As in all quite strong, deep, and close romantic relationships, tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. ... Romantic films serve as great escapes and fantasies for viewers, especially if the two people finally overcome their difficulties, declare their love, and experience life "happily ever after", implied by a reunion and final kiss. ... They part and have no other choice than to lead a life "chosen" for them. ... The film was aimed at young women (aged 17-25), who want to find a person...

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Victor's true desire to give life is motivated by the yearning to regain his mother, yet his Creature becomes instead a mirror of his unconscious mind. ... It appeared to me sacrilege to so soon to leave the repose, akin to death, of the house of mourning, and rush into the thick of life"(50). ... Victor feels as though everything in his life has been destroyed and that leaving home is just another step in the wrong direction. ... In Ingolstadt, Victor continues to isolate himself, begins a manic pursuit to gain knowledge only in areas that he can relate to his desire to renew life....

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