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. ... The other type is "potentially a romantic relationship, where feelings of sexual attraction may become greater"" (Pg.482). ... In a study that was done in the Netherlands, a lack of day-to-day interaction between men and women may reduce understanding of the other sex and may complicate personal communication between men and women in friendships and romantic relationships (Pg. 101). ... Compared to men, wo...

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For some reason, the movie was incomplete if they didn't fall in love, even though he emotionally harassed Claire the entire time. This shows the pressure that females undergo where they feel the need to be romantically involved with someone else, no matter how bad that other person is to them. As long as they fall in love in the end, everything is just fine. ...

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To conquer this neurosis and growing lack of being we need love. In this modern world there has become a growing struggle between love and fastidiousness, love is a state of being and that requires scarf rice, for a little part of us dies to achieve being love. Love comes with commitment and is not something that can be given, like a gift, but rather love has too be achieved then ascribed. A loving relationship, whether be romantic love, parental love, or other kinds of love requires effort and time because time and effort is something that our society regards as too much an experience of deat...

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In comparing the films The Blot by Lois Weber and The Wild Party By Dorothy Arzner both films challenge the established discourses that privilege the male and help develop the patriarchal feminine discourse. Through the close study of these two films I found similar narrative lines such as transport...

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Instead, Ellen's childhood values and attitudes related more to a sense of closeness to her family, "the three of them living at such close quarters you could hear one another's coughs, groans, dreams almost", a connection with nature, "She was drawn to nature as she would have not been in different circumstances; she depended upon it for sustenance", and a strong belief in romantic virtues such as dreams and hope, "she depended on legend for hope. It was Ellen Gluyas's hope that she might eventually be sent a god [in a hopeful dream of hers] she took her escort as a lover, an...

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Not a romantic, Charlotte recognises the opportunity for "a comfortable home" with Collins and uses her power of manipulation to "show more affection than she feels" (123, 23). ... Bingley and Jane's eventual union is an exception to Charlotte's contention that "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance," as the couple fell in love before they wedded (24). ...

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