Miya Tokumitsu

Ever since the beginning of time, love has played an enormous role among humans. Everyone feels a need to love and to be loved. Some attempt to fill this yearning with activities and possessions that will not satisfy – with activities in which they should not participate and possessions they should not own. In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker encounters an emotion some would call love but fits better under the designation of lust for a woman. In contrast, the speaker of Robert Herrick’s poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” urges virgins to marry, to make a lasting commitment in which love plays a

Love is one of the most indescribable concepts that exist in one’s life experiences. Some argue that love is one of the most important things to have in life, which can shape and mold one’s interpretation of the world. Others may claim that love is an illusion, which serves as a distraction preventing individuals from being enlightened. The interpretation of love could be ambiguous, but the important thing is that love is very powerful and can severely affect an individual’s behavior, expectations in life, and sole responsibilities. Many writers have written about the power of love. Some of these works include, “The Love Suicides at Amijima”, “Death Constant Beyond Love”, and “Gilgamesh”. The most distinctive and comprehensive story involving

It doesn't matter what lies behind or before us, what matters is what lies within us. Self love is to believe in ourselves that we are valuable which  indirectly builds up from the independence and freedom we get from our family, culture and believe. The text shows Independence and self love which includes the following texts. The memoir “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls represents the struggles  the way  she overcome them in various self independent ways. The song “I ” by Kendrick Lumar represents the affection and self love towards oneself  and “The Other Family” by Himani Bennerji shows the complexity of a daughter who is struggling to achieve her own self love and independence. Firstly, childhood struggles and difficulties can be overcome if one loves them and they are passionate to achieve their goals and dreams. Secondly, our experience of the family can help to shape our independence and to halt our progress as we are reliable on them. Finally, accepting ourselves and investing in self love makes us capable to achieve something in life. By examining the impact of  struggles, family and acceptance, this essay will demonstrate that finding self love regardless of family status influence our perspectives on ourselves and what we are capable of achieving.

In the article "In the Name of Love" by Miya Tokumitsu, it is argued that the popular expression “do what you love” has negative effects. Throughout the article, she claims that following this principle leads to self-centered people, denigration of other forms of labor, and exploitation of workers.

Marie Lu, a prominent teen author, has incepted many titles that have been consummated from her exceptional takes on 7 key Concepts of Style. They are the most noticeable in the excerpts “The Rose Society” and “The Young Elites”. Some examples of the 7 Key Concepts of Style are sentenced length and variation, detail and figurative language, sound devices, dialogue, tone, and irony. Marie Lu, the author, has excelled in the Key Concepts of Style with use of irony and detail/figurative language.

Steve Jobs focuses his speech on how one can be successful by doing what makes an individual happy even if it contradicts the intended

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.

Draft thesis: The ideas of appearance vs reality, development of maturity and love are ideas explored through techniques,

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” (Miriam-Webster 253). This quote has been used for centuries as both persuasion in favor of loving and also as comfort in times of heartbreak and loss. However, is this statement completely true, or does it offer false hope to anguishing lovers? In fact, are the rules and costs of loving and being loved so great that in fact it is actually better to never have loved at all? When pondering these questions, one must first consider the rules of loving and being loved to determine the physical, emotional, and psychological costs they entail. In order to do so, one could use Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Courtly Love as a guideline for the rules of love.

Have you ever had to make sacrifice for a loved one, or even work a job you do not like? Gordon Marino’s, “A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love” includes different quotes and examples leading up to that question by explaining in the context with the use of rhetorical devices. Dr. Marino is a very highly educated philosopher who earned his Ph.D. at University of Chicago, M.A. university of Pennsylvania, and B.A. Columbia University. He typically publishes to the New York Times, for his writing mostly appeals to all people because so many can relate to this article. Marino effectively argues that sometimes individuals must sacrifice their passions to provide for their loved ones using rhetorical devices, hypophora, anecdote, rhetorical questions, and distincto’s to create an effective argument.

Diane Ackerman’s purpose for writing her essay “Love’s Vocabulary” is to inform the reader not to underestimate love since love is the great intangible and cannot be defined, but can be felt. The neutral and positive connotation of words such as “monotone” and “delirium” suggest Ackerman’s passionate tone about how love cannot be the same constant emotion that is felt everyday, but a powerful feeling that has many meanings since love is an emotion that is older than humanity itself. Ackerman’s use of figurative language, particularly metaphor and personification, reveal that Ackerman is trying to inform the reader that love is to intangible to be defined in a single word that is often used, which can also connect to her irritating attitude

Being the daughter of undocumented parents is a huge label I had to accept. Low-income, criminal, deportation, and uneducated always followed the label of undocumented immigrant. It was never positive words like hardworking, opportunists, or dedicated in which I saw my parents. Em and J were one of the lucky ones and they managed to become legal. Even with that new legal status the hardships and consequences of once being undocumented still follow them to this day.

Diane Ackerman’s purpose for writing her essay “Love’s Vocabulary” is to persuade the readers that love is an unique emotion that we use in such an unorganized manner. This is demonstrated through the connotations of words such as “sloppy”, and “delirium”. The connotative meaning of the word sloppy as used in line 41 indicates that people use the word love to describe how they feel in many different occasions that the word has lost its meaning and the value it makes someone feel when said to them. Furthermore, the connotative meaning of the word delirium as used in line 38 suggests to the reader that love is an exciting and passionate emotion that has be seen and shown throughout history. Her use of figurative language, particularly metaphors

Jobs found an effective way of balancing his use of Ethos, Pathos and Logos to control the delivery and receipt of his message. His tone is informal, he speaks in the first person singular to his audience (I) himself and (you) his audience to the components of (we) as equals. He constructed a persuasive rhetorical stance with the use of Ethos: The persona of the rhetor is larger than life, a world renowned an innovative genius in his field. A very credible and appropriate choice to excite college graduates. Isn't this an uncertain goal college graduates aspire to achieve? Yet from the onset of the speech, the rhetor engaged his audience with his use of pathos to soften the larger than life figure addressing them. First with his use of pathos announcing the title of the speech they would hear.‘You’ve Got to Find What You Love’ suggesting to his audience, this is not about me. It is about me only to the extent of aiding you on your journey to achieve your success. I am here for you today.

While people are often able to identify when they feel the emotion love, love itself seems to defy definition.  In her polemic “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist as traditional expressions of love such as marriage, monogamy, and mutuality.  However, in her argument, she defines love incorrectly by equating love to expressions of love. This definition lacks a component essential to understanding the abstract concept of love: emotion. Recognizing love as emotion helps us realize that, contrary to Kipnis’ argument love by nature transcends all expressions of love. Love is subjective and exists in any and all forms. In her argument that love cannot survive as conventional expressions of love, Kipnis ignores the nature of love as emotion in favor of equating love to different expressions of love. Love is a force which exists above expressions of love; a true understanding of love can only come from an assessment of how individuals, not societies, respond to the emotion.