Love, By Laura Kipnis

We live in a society that has increasingly stomped on love, depicting it as cruel, superficial and full of complications. Nowadays it is easy for people to claim that they are in love, even when their actions say otherwise, and it is just as easy to claim that they are not when they really are. Real love is difficult to find and keeping it alive is even harder, especially when one must overcome their own anxieties and uncertainties. This is the main theme present in Russell Banks’ short story “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story,” as well as in “The Fireman’s Wife,” written by Richard Bausch. These narratives, although similar in some aspects, are completely different types of love stories.

Through this examination of the differences between past and present, wrong and right, and North and South, by Ray West Jr., the different viewpoints and conflicts that appear throughout “A Rose for Emily” are deeply analyzed. West’s critical assessment divides the characters based on who represents the old ways and who represents the changing times. However, the story shows the South’s fervent desire to keep their lifestyle the same. Emily attempted to hold her love for Homer like the South attempted to hold its love for gentile days before the Civil War. West’s asserts that Emily’s fall from grace symbolizes the South’s fall. The deterioration of Emily and the South during reconstruction parallels the slow deterioration of Emily’s house.

Laura Kipnis’s “Against Love”, and Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” ,brings up the issue of what is the definition of love and is love what we think it is. Love has changed in comparison to what it once was, and we now loosely use the term, but what does it truly mean, and why do we buy in to it. Kipnis’s essay develops the idea that this “mature love” is when someone can love and be loved, and she takes the position that this does not happen. Although Kipnis believes mature love is neither a realistic expectation nor a good thing to have, I claim that the idea of mature love is not bogus, because even though it is rare to find, and may even take a few tries, I believe it is possible for people to have this mature love. Unlike Kipnis too, I believe mature love can take on different forms, and doesn’t have to just be so black and white like Kipnis explains it as.

After reading Briana O’hara’s report, “New Course Takes Students Out of The Classroom and Into Nature” I noticed some mistakes she made when incorporating quotes from Heidi Sprouse, author of Adirondack Sundown. The paragraph before her first quote details a cabin on top of Kane Mountain and how Sprouse wishes to use it as a setting for her next book. “Sprouse said she plans to use that cabin as the setting for her next book.The cabin was once used as a ranger station for the forest ranger who would climb the fire tower to check for fires” (O’hara). However, When introducing her first quote:

My name is Jessica Thomas and I was born and raised in Oklahoma City. My parents were born in India but as soon as they got married they moved to America with their siblings. I grew up in a Christian home so my faith in God has always been a big part of my life because it has always been a big part of my families lives. About two years ago my cousin Jency lent me her book called Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. This book touched me in a very profound way. It is a novel about a little girl who was sold into prostitution by her uncle but was bought by a very good hearted Christian man when she was an adult. Once he bought her he married her because that is what God told him to do. He loved her unconditionally and tries to show her the love

Born on January 26, 1958, in Toledo, Ohio, Anita Baker made her album debut in 1983 with The Songstress before releasing several years later her megahit Rapture, featuring the single "Sweet Love." With a lush, soaring voice, Baker has remained a revered force in contemporary soul music for decades with tunes like "Just Because," "Talk to Me" and "Body and Soul," picking up multiple Grammy Awards along the

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Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen, a novel about a true friendship between two teenage girls, Halley and Scarlett, who have gone through many of ups and downs in their life but their friendship never breaks. The major essential question is that a true friendship can survive all conflicts. The book is written from Halley’s point of view, while this is the first time Scarlett has desperately needed Halley. Some of the major conflicts are when Scarlett's boyfriend Michael dies in a car crash the summer before junior year, when Scarlett finds out that she is pregnant with Michael's baby, and when Scarlett wants to keep the baby her only supporter is Halley.

In the short story, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (1981), we find that there is no singular definitive meaning of love, because love is perceived differently by the different characters. We also see that love may have stages and throughout all its complexities, people still hold onto their present love. In this story, we see the four characters, Mel and his wife Terri, Nick whom is the narrator and his wife Laura, all struggle to define what love truly is, while seated around a table drinking Gin. We will begin the analysis of love by looking at Terri’s meaning of love and then Mel’s, Laura and Nick’s love and then finally ending with the love of the old man, in the story that Mel shares with the group. This

I am reading You Know You Love Me by Cecily con Ziegaesar and I am on page 227. This book is the second book of the Gossip Girl series. In this book Blair’s mother gets married to Cyrus Rose. Blair is not very happy about it either because, the wedding ends up being on her birthday. (Which happeneds to be Thanksgiving day) Serena, Dan and Nate end up going on a college visit to Brown. That same weekend Blair goes on a college visit to Yale with her new step brother Aaron. In this paper I will be predicting and evaluating.

Books are powerful. They have one of the greatest powers in the world. Books have the power to influence people and stick with people years after the last time they’ve read the book. One book that has stuck with me for years is Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.

Love: roses, chocolates, and big red hearts. Love: kisses, hugs and skipping beats. Love: agape, phila, eros. Love, but what is love? Love is an idea that is ingrained in the minds of little girls from an early age. Meet the man of your dreams, experience the phenomenon of unexplainable feelings that strike your heart, mind, and soul, and then get married and live in jubilant bliss until death do us part; but is that truly love? What about the other side? The other side of the story, the untold side; love is a science. Like any other science, love has its variables, constants, experiments, and hypotheses. In the equation of love, women feel they have to be the variable, they have to change. Since all guys are the same, or they never change, women have to change in order to obtain the guy that they want. Amy Dunne from Gone Girl seeks to address this exigence in her “Cool Girl Monologue”. Through the effective use of pathos and candid and genuine examples, she conveys to that women real love does not include a woman changing to fit this stereotype. Amy’s point about the “cool girl” has such a high level of relatability that the psychotic nature of her previous actions are overpowered by the relevancy of her message. Her audience accepts her message and deems her as credible because the experience has been real for them.

While living in the era of “Happily Ever After,” one hardly expects anyone to dislike love, much less make such an adamant argument against it as Kipnis does in her article, “Against Love.” And because of how unpopular this idea is, her argument is a very risky one; it is challenging to keep the attention of an audience that is against a writer’s statement alone. Instead of listening to the writer’s evidence, the audience focuses on how much they disagree. But Kipnis is able to defend her argument and convince the reader with several rhetorical devices, because she recognizes this risk. I contend that Kipnis effectively uses

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While stuck in traffic on a Los Angeles highway ("Another Day of Sun"), Mia Dolan, an aspiring actress, has a moment of road rage with Sebastian Wilder, a struggling jazz pianist. After a bad day at work, her subsequent audition goes poorly when the casting director takes a call in the middle of an emotional scene. That night, Mia's roommates take her to a lavish party in the Hollywood Hills, where Mia hopes for a breakthrough ("Someone in the Crowd"). She walks home after her car is towed.