" (Unknown) What is a "best friend?" ... A best friend is a title held for the few and privileged. ... Not just anyone can be called your best friend. ... The true definition of a best friend is someone that knows you inside out and would go to the ends of the earth for you. ... And although best friends may grow apart and not talk to each other as much, it is safe to say that true best friends are the ones you have for life. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Arnold Friend, however, is not a real life character. ... There are many clues in the story that hint that Arnold Friend is not a friend at all, but is in fact a demon who has come to take Connie away. ... When Arnold Friend shows up at Connie's house, it becomes obvious that Arnold Friend is in fact not a friend at all. ... It is true that Connie has a curious fascination with sex as do most young adults, but it is not this that forces her to go with Arnold Friend. ... Some people interpret that Connie was just having a nightmare, but if it were true that Connie were only dreaming,...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Jimmy has to make some difficult decisions while in his tour, and most of them come to his attention after his friend Ted Lavender is killed. ... Before his friend's death, Jimmy had constructed a bulwark to separate him from the rest of the troop. ... He did not think about Martha day in and day out because she was his only true love of the world; he merely needed something to occupy his mind with. ... Kiowa, for example, had to learn how to deal with balancing his true emotions with the weight of being a Christian. ...

• Word Count: 841
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Indeed, the use of technology is beneficial when communicating with others; however, relying on such a source for committed relationships can cause many people to lose the romanticism and serendipitous nature of true love. ... " She then spoke about the conversation with her friend Steven and his relationship with his "hook up buddy," so to speak. ... Her friend Steven is describing exactly what relationships are like today. ... From my personal experience, I only recently realized that my over usage of text messaging and social networking only was my downfall to my, what I cou...

• Word Count: 1468
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Stephan Cope's Yoga and the Quest of the True Self resonated something within. ... Reading this book was like having a talk with a good friend. ... "Oh, for heaven's sake...every mature human being must have more than one church," Cope's friend said. ... This statement is so true. ... Yoga and the Quest for the True Self showed me that I am not alone in what I am feeling. ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It has been said that finding your true identity or true self may be difficult. ... Finding your true identity can bring the best out of you. ... For example, one busy afternoon my best friend Kendra, texted me while I was at work. ... In my mind I said no, but how could I possibly say no and so I said yes and worked until midnight and cancelled my friend Kendra. ... Finally, finding your true identity or true self may be difficult, but although really important. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Is Richards more than a concerned friend? ... Was this to ensure himself it was true? ... Mallard love Bently like a brother, or even a child, maybe as simply as a dear friend? ... I feel that she may not have realized this if it were not for someone else opening her eyes to her true feelings. ... Is Richards more than a concerned friend? ...

• Word Count: 914
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Smith stated, "That's exactly what my friend Lori expected when she slept with her friend/roommate Marty one night. ... This can be a big problem, especially if the friendship was very close and true before the sex came into the equation. ... From a personal experience, it began with a friend who went through this same friend with benefits experience. ... My friend got jealous and asked him about it. ... My friend ended up heartbroken and lonely. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There are several clues within the text that show quite obviously that Hamlet's madness was not true madness. ... Seeing Ophelia dead was a reality shock to Hamlet, and his true feelings were brought out. The things he told Ophelia about not loving her were not true, he actually "loved Ophelia" (V i 285). ... The main clue that proves that he was not insane is the fact that he never did this in front of his best friend, Horatio. ... If Hamlet was seriously mad, his best friend probably would have done something or tried to get him help. ...

• Word Count: 644
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Hoping.... Wishing.... I love LEI!... Yes, I know a lot of girls do love him too, but i don't mean the actor Vic Zhuo, but rather Hua Tze Lei--the character. There's just so many things about him that makes my heart feel for and with him. I love the way he chooses to be silent, speaking only...

• Word Count: 437
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

If he has indeed travelled back in time then these experiences match his subconscious and it is a true escape from the life he lives. ... The horrific dangers are highlighted in no better way than where Magnus, the creator of the drug and university friend of Richard, takes some of the drug and due to his drug-induced state walks in front of a fast moving train. ... The powers that the drug has as seen by Richard are shown clearly as he identifies his friend's body but feels no emotion, as his friend isn't the body "Magnus himself wasn't there. ... To a point where all the tiny,...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Jimmy has to make some difficult decisions while in his tour, and most of them come to his attention after his friend Ted Lavender is killed. ... Before his friend's death, Jimmy had constructed a bulwark to separate him from the rest of the troop. ... He did not think about Martha day in and day out because she was his only true love of the world; he merely needed something to occupy his mind with. ... Kiowa, for example, who had to learn how to deal with balancing his true emotions with the weight of being a Christian. ...

• Word Count: 897
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Hector is heroic in his departure for war but fears what will happen to his wife and son if his predicted fate holds true, this is his humanistic side. ... After Athena disguises herself to look like hectors friend, he decides to stop running, and fight instead, because he thinks his friend can help him fight Achilles. Once Achilles catches up, the friend disappears. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At Lowood, Jane met Helen Burns, a girl who becomes Jane's friend and first confidante. ... Their relationship begins to flourish and for the first time, Jane experiences true love. ... Her husband and son finally form the family she has wanted for years and her marriage at last brings Jane true happiness. ... From Lowood School, where Jane learns simplicity and patience, to Ferndean, where all of her dreams came true, her inner self expands. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Talk to a friend, parent, or a professional about what you are doing to yourself, maybe you even know why you do it, and ask them to help you. ... So I know it's hard to simply go and tell someone but you can at least start with a close friend or someone you can trust that won't go telling everyone about your situation. ... That's not true. ... That was true to some extent. ... I hardly EVER tell anyone (even my best friend who I am quite close with) how I am feeling, what the real me is like. ...

• Word Count: 1420
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

When the man with whom he's sharing a room, Layfayette, tries to be his friend, Dr. ... "Sit down or lie down, friend; you make me nervous." (pg. 39 l. 87) He also says, "Really, friend..." ... By this repeating word, "friend", Layafayette is reinforcing his desire to develop a relationship. ... Magoon's friend and uses very forward and unrealistic techniques to express this. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Because the men are such complete manifestations of their racial stereotypes, Hwang writes their language in such a way that it traps them into being defined as nothing else, almost as if the expectation of being a certain thing prohibits them from understanding where true identity comes from. ... In this play, six playwrights have met late one night to get drunk and bury their dead friend, Ding, also a playwright, and wrapped in a sheet on the stage floor throughout the piece. ... Even in this group of playwrights - the intellectual "cream of the crop- - no one is ever able to get close to ...

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His journey brings him to an attacked lion, whom he saves and makes a friend of. ... The encounter between these two most noble knights serves to give the reader a picture of true friendship between men of the Middle Ages. ... In offering victory to his friend, Yvain stands to lose his honor, as well as that of the damsel he hoped to defend. The very thing he claimed he had to seek out of love for his wife, he is willing to give up out of love for his friend. ... It is not a decision based in either logic or emotions that brings Laudine back to Yvain, but only the clever scheme of her trusted ...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

A friend could be a person's last branch for help, but they should be the first. ... Making a friend is like picking a family member. ... Even getting just one friend can have drastic affects on ones life. More often that not, a friend is someone anyone would go to with a problem, especially non-adults. ... A close friend has the ability to drastically cushion the fall of stress, and bring it to safer levels in one's life. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This idea of 'love at first sight' is more of an infatuation than a true lasting feeling. ... Loving a friend, loving your family, loving your girlfriend are all feelings that are acquired over time. ...

• Word Count: 485
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• Grade Level: High School

One major theme that Knowles uses is friendship, a friend is someone that you have personal regard for, and in this novel the two characters that experience the bond of friendship are Gene and Finny. ... For example, one true test to see if their bond would last was when Finny was pushed out of the tree by Gene and broke his leg. ...

• Word Count: 515
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• Grade Level: High School

One major theme that Knowles uses is friendship, a friend is someone that you have personal regard for, and in this novel the two characters that experience the bond of friendship are Gene and Finny. ... For example, one true test to see if their bond would last was when Finny was pushed out of the tree by Gene and broke his leg. ...

• Word Count: 515
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• Grade Level: High School

One major theme that Knowles uses is friendship, a friend is someone that you have personal regard for, and in this novel the two characters that experience the bond of friendship are Gene and Finny. ... For example, one true test to see if their bond would last was when Finny was pushed out of the tree by Gene and broke his leg. ...

• Word Count: 515
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• Grade Level: High School

One major theme that Knowles uses is friendship, a friend is someone that you have personal regard for, and in this novel the two characters that experience the bond of friendship are Gene and Finny. ... For example, one true test to see if their bond would last was when Finny was pushed out of the tree by Gene and broke his leg. ...

• Word Count: 515
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Pip dismiss Joe, his most important friend, exchanging for money and a good place. ... His years of dream  dream which he had been cherished since he was humiliated by Estella  came true. ... But love for only her appearance is not true love. ... On the grounds of these points, Id like to claim that Pips love for Estella is not true love at all. ... @I think he must not know what normal and true love is like because his parents died when he was very little and Joe and his sister were abnormal couple. ...

• Word Count: 1079
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School