It Must Have Been Love

Have you ever felt the feeling of butterflies in your stomach or heard the phrase “my heart skipped a beat for you”? As children, we grew up learning from our elders and experiencing new beginnings in life. Much of our knowledge has been brought upon by what we see and hear, rather of what we know. Many important decisions we make in our life has to do with what our feelings show us. Love is an important matter in our life because it motivates us in different ways. Love can be shown through emotions

compelled to believe love is the answer to everything in life, but in order for a person to live it is necessary to abandon it. Some people believe love will save them when they need to be saved the most but it will not. That is just a false idea that has been placed in their mind because they hear all of these great stories of love and romance. People seem to forget that they cannot live off of simply love because it will not provide life’s basic needs. The theme of the sonnet “Love is Not All” is that

components, aside from her unrequited love of Prince Hamlet and her spying on him on behalf of her father and brother, that allows her to be such a central character is her madness, which leads up to her death. Not everyone agrees on the subject of Ophelia’s madness, especially if it was real or feigned and if it’s actual cause. In my opinion, Ophelia was driven to genuine madness out of grief and confusion. Ophelia’s biggest downfall was the fact that she fell in love

a public declaration of love and commitment. This declaration is made in front of friends and family in a church ceremony. This can help because you have all your family and friends to help you through the hard times. They can also remind you of your vows and help you revisit the meaning of them. Saying the vows is a key part of the service and this can remind you of the love and happiness you once had for each other and revive it. Marriage vows, in the form of "To have and to hold from

garnering love without the loss of autonomy. “. . .if others don’t love me, I would rather die than live -- I cannot bare to be solitary and hated, Helen. Look here; to gain some real affection from. . .whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken. . .’” (Brontë 82). Explanation: Jane Eyre, for all of her life prior to Lowood Academy, was disliked by her superiors and hated by those who should be considered her comrades. Finding comfort and love in Helen

wed for love, money, and convenience. The themes of gender and class, show the lack of power of women leaving men in control of their destiny. Unlike Elizabeth and Darcy’s affectionate relationship, many characters in the story marry for convenience. Austen uses extreme examples to show marriage for women in the 1800’s. The first line of Pride and Prejudice the author shows this by stating, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want

relationships and convert it into how they think, act, and relate with their partner. Religious officials use different sources of spiritual guidance to teach what, spiritually, keeps a couple in genuine contentment. Together, these three approaches, have created an ultimate guideline to a successful relationship with one’s significant other. What is the PAIR Project? Some psychologists use a very detailed and strategic process to study romantic relationships from courtship to marriage. They use this

Philia as described above is the love of friendship. This initially is seen as a selfless act, because being a friend and a good friend requires a lot of hard work and involves the lover to get to know the beloved. Following the Philia framework the lover chooses who they become friends with. Choosing one person over others to treat well, is self-centered. This is because the lover is choosing who the deem worthy of their friendship (Cowley 20). They are picking which person they want to get to know

that love is a form of reconnection with another. Love, simply stated, is seeing a reflection of your own existence within someone else. I realize that that may sound somewhat inconstruable, but if compassion is a very basic and universal form of love, which I believe it is, then it is clear that we get love through finding some sort of commonality with each other. Of course, by this very definition, I do not agree with Aristophanes that love is found with only one individual that we have been literally

LIVING THE LIFE OF INCOGNITA – Candice Van der Merwe What is it like being a teenager today in a modern society? For many past generations, living life as teen has been recognized as years of experimenting and getting up to mischief. With Facebook, Instagram as well as Snapchat dominating our current world. Many of us in no doubt can all come to an understanding that comparing the old times to today’s generations are completely different worlds. Being a teenager can be exceptionally strenuous. There’s