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    Love Love is difficult to define, difficult to measure, and difficult to understand. Love is what great writers write about, great singers sing about, and great philosophers ponder. Love is a powerful emotion, for which there is no wrong definition, for it suits each and every person differently. Whether love is between family, friends, or lovers, it is an overwhelming emotion that can be experienced in many different ways. People experience love for the first time by being part of a family.

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    other view of evil is seen through the character of Sula and through her actions, which conflict with traditional society. The friendship of Sula and Nel is how the author conveys her message about evil in the relationship. In the relationship the two different conceptions of evil mix and create an essentially neutral mixture. By looking at Nel's and Sula's friendship and the two different views of evil that they

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    contributions into understanding how children interpret “friendship”. Bigelow and La Gaipa carried out one of the first studies from what was a very under researched area. Bill Corsaro, a key figure in childhood studies, was particularly successful in gaining access into young children's worlds which has helped shape a further picture of this somewhat intriguing definition. Brace and Byford (2012) One similarity is that they both aimed to study friendships in children and to also provide a persuasive explanation

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    not asking you to place the friendship before your principles, and a good influence. However, these characteristics that Alex stated are very true and helpful but I would like to share three of my own definition of the qualities of a true friend which are loyalty, trustworthy and someone who’s supportive.

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    What does it mean to be friends? According to google, it is “a bond of mutual affection”, but that’s a pretty lousy definition. Being friends is much more than that, a friend is someone with whom you can show your true colors, someone that you call when you’re in trouble, someone that you hang out with and crack jokes. As we stand on the edge of the 4th technological revolution (digital revolution), which is “blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres” (weforum.org)

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    Introduction Workplace friendship enhances mutual trust and commitment among employees, an employee can share his or her interests and values with others via workplace friendship. From the organizational perspective, workplace friendships are associated with several important outcomes, such as job performance, productivity, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and reducing an employee’s intension to leave. From an individual’s perspective, workplace friendship is beneficial and is able to

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    others are just made of affection and belongingness with another people. Friendship is also one of those relationships. It does not matter it is a blood relation, but this bond is made of true feelings between them. Sometimes even precious friendships are broken for many reasons, few times there are misunderstandings about the meaning of friendship. Also, it is broken other times for some genuine reasons and breakup the friendship. The famous author Albert Camus quoted "Don 't walk behind me; I may not

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    has presented friendship more realistically than “Damon and Pythias”. The reason I believe this is because “Damon and Pythias” is a Greek legend. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term “legend” is defined as “A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated.”(oxforddictionaries.com). This definition suggests that the story is not authenticated, which means it may contain false and made up contents. This is contrary to the definition of reality. Therefore

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    gay community movement, Anthropologists began to question the definition of Kinship. According to Schneider, kinship is defined by “blood” and “genealogy”. Dr. Weston uses the study to determine the extent of “blood” relatives and to see the definition of “family” in the gay community of San Francisco. Dr. Weston illustrates the issues associated with ideologies that attributed to kinship of “non-biological” relationships (friendships). Weston states several questions throughout the document such

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    Phineas would fall again, which ultimately leads to his death. Both stories are about friendship and betrayal between two close individuals. Gene and Phineas as well as Brutus and Julius were best friends for a long time. Then both Gene and Brutus betrayed the other, either leading or contributing to the others death.Through Julius Caesar and A Separate Peace, both authors illustrate the fact that friendships are affected by conflicts, eventually leading to betrayal. These two stories emphasize

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