Universal Love By Stephen T. Asma

Both “The Right of Love” by Gene Lees and “The Canonization” by John Donne represent a form of forbidden love due to ethnicity and religion where both parties are fighting for the acceptance of their relationship. Donne, although catholic, falls in love with a non-catholic woman which is looked down upon by others. In his poem he states, “we in us find th’ eagle and the dove”,the two birds represent two polar opposite symbols, the eagle represent strength and courage, while a dove represents love and peace. Although a relationship between catholics and non-catholics were forbidden, they found a common ground in their love for each other. Differences can strengthen the love between two individuals, which is also shown in “The Right of Love”,

Love is a basic need in every living thing. The ability to be social and interact with the living things around you is very important. Some would say that the root of some mental illness’ is from the lack of love, or too much love. In the book by Gary Chapman, “The 5 Love Languages” he talks about the importance of love and how we all communicate love in different ways, as well as how much of an impact these different languages have on every day life.

bell hooks in “Love as the Practice of Freedom” explains thoroughly as to how love is the form to be liberated. Without any love society is blind and continues to practice systems of domination without being aware. However the community should look out for one another not just when a problem impacts an individual. Everyone must be aware of the systems of domination- imperialism,sexism,racism, and classism to create change. When radical love is comprehended it allows the destruction of oppression,exploitation and there is liberation

Love can be categorized as romantic love, family love, friendship love. Yet, divine love is always indispensable. However, do these religions really promote how to love? In All about love, hook seems to disagree that religion is used effectively to promote how to love in the world. But is this the truth? Are religions as hooks says, “corrupts and violates religion principles”? In this essay, I will discuss how religions play a role in creating and practicing the spiritual love, then I will examine oppositely and comment on how hooks criticize organized religions in promoting other cultures. Lastly, I will examine how spiritual practice and religion beliefs work together to enhance our spiritual life.

The ability to love is possibly one of the most recurring aspects of humanity. Everyday people fall in and out of love with each other 's personalities, opinions and lifestyle choices. In his novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a dystopian, loveless society. The technology, newspeak, and doublethink force conformity on Oceania, the setting of the book. The lack of diversity in people creates a world, where there isn’t any reason to love anyone else. Family relationships that were formerly built with love, support, and loyalty are ripped away and replaced with distrust, anxiety and hostility. Sexual relationships no longer have love or pleasure, which makes them mean virtually nothing, except the hope of

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

“To love we must know each other,” and when we examine ourselves and other, we find more similarities than differences (Dorothy Day). In this community of humans, the love I see show me glimpses of the love God has for us. “It was human love that helped me [Dorothy Day] to understand divine love. Human love… gives us a glimpse of the love of God for man…. [and] we learn to understand the love of God for His creatures (Dorothy Day).”

Entering the fifth section of her book, If you love this Planet, Helen Caldicott gives a brief synopsis of an experience she encountered with the initial release of the plastics industry. There was a slight differentiation in the style we lived years ago as she describes how much simpler times were and how complex provision has become. In this section titled, “Toxic Pollution”, her focus is plastic. Introduced to her in 1972 during her residency, plastic took over and quickly became a part of everyday life, replacing conventional tools and devices. From this small instance in her lifetime, she remembered most of how her environment was changing and now she sees the results from the millions of items implemented. Helen Caldicott is the character Public Health professionals identify as one individual that forms the target population. In the field of public health, the focus is to prevent disease, prolong life and promoting healthy lifestyles through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, legislations, communities and most importantly individuals.

The youth of today are a completely different breed than what they once were. Along with lower self-esteem and false impressions of love, they face immense pressures from today’s societal norms and expectations. Known as the millennial generation, these soon-to-be adults are expected to be the saviors of today’s America but are also criticized for wanting everything handed to them on a silver spoon. “The Love of My Life” by T.C. Boyle turns a fictional short story into a dark reality as two teenage lovers accidentally become pregnant and lose their “love” along with their own sense of morality. Boyle uses this short story as a platform for modern teenage love, infatuation, and neonaticide that allows a glimpse into the reality of today’s culture,

When a person loves another, they prioritize the need of others to make them happy, despite giving up their own needs to fulfill another’s. On the Subject

When the poem begins by listing the many things that love isn’t, the negative statements have the effect of arguing love isn’t the necessity of life. The poem doesn’t compare to the occasional stance that love empowers an individual. Straightforwardly, Edna St. Vincent Millay concludes love can’t feed, save, or protect a person.

Why is it we all express love in different ways? How does one's love differ from another's? In Raymond Carver’s short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” both of these questions are inevitably asked, it's up to the reader to interpret them. Two Albuquerque couples gather in a evening sun lit room discussing their experiences with love, and each other. As the sun fades into the horizon and the room reflects its lack of light the mood seems to dim as well. The vast types of love talked about differ in many ways, love that is mature to mad, and contemporary to counterfeit, but all seem to share one common trait, passion.

Will you love me again? The beating of a drum hasn’t matched my heartbeat in a long while. This love has slowly faded. I wish I could say it was still present in my heart, because this love tasted so great. It wasn’t the kind of love you could just ignore. It was brought to me in a wave of bliss, but, that bliss turned to bitterness. I couldn’t really find the source of that love. It came to me in subtle doses. However, now, it is absent. Love is distributed amongst the billions; the people paired up vary in race, religion and categories dividing the masses. These categories precisely capture what I wanted to base my next two reaction papers off of.

Finding the Love of Your Life was written by Neil Clark Warren, PH.D., and in this book he explains his ten basic principles of finding the right mate to spend your life with. He teaches people how to understand the two different types of love: passionate love and companionate love. He states that many do not get past the passionate love portion which is why many people go from relationship to relationship when the passion wears off.

In Carl Wilson’s story, “Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste has dependably disdained Céline from the earliest starting point. Be that as it may, while most analysts would leave Céline there and backtrack to spouting over lost tapes of live forms of early takes of "Dylan's unwritten B-sides", Wilson feels a sharp pain. To discover, Wilson sets out on what he believes as " an experiment in taste” encountering solid months of Céline’s submersion with a true objective to get to the base of his "guilty pleasure." Wilson's genuine desire is not Céline but rather the prickly philosophical issue on which her notoriety has been skewered: "the nature of taste itself." The principle question Wilson wants to analyze is what propels aesthetic