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Reaction Paper Amy C. Steinbugler the author of Beyond Loving, examines interracial intimacy in the beginning of the twenty-first century and it has continued to developed new ideologies. Segregation, slavery, court cases, black lives matter and many other historical movements occurred decades ago and people were not allowed to form a relationship outside of their race, because of biracial which was looked upon as wrong. It became a phase of racial denials in which interracial relationships are seen as symbols of racial progress. This book examines the racial dynamics of everyday life of lesbian, gay heterosexual of black and white couples. Overall, this book analyzes cotemporary interracial through “racework”.
In his article “Baseball or Soccer?”, David Brooks writes that people tend to imitate the actions of the peers they reside with, however we are now thinking more individually by being more involved with social networks. David Brooks starts by mentioning the comparison of baseball and soccer, stating that baseball is a team sport, but made up of more individual attributes. While soccer is more of an intrinsic individual sport with the help of your teammates. He quotes, “People with vast acquaintances have more jobs than people with fewer but deeper friendships.” We are playing soccer not baseball.
The cultural metaphors can consider as a cultural system or use of language that shared within people with the same culture and values. Moreover, the use of a certain metaphor in a culture can be not understandable and doesn’t make sense for another culture due to the difference in values and beliefs. The metaphorical meanings in different cultures motivate and state
We as people of decision should in fact be held responsible for our actions because although the quote "The crazy things I'd do for love" is used as a statement of expression, we all have our own mind. Whether or not one has been taught right from wrong, everyone has their own perspective of love but the law is the top priority so even if you feel it's right or wrong to take extreme measures, the law decides for you. The example given in the third paragraph of Diane Ackerman's "Love's Vocabulary" where she states that in some countries, outrageous crimes are excused if it was an act of passion. This statement is disagreeable because of the fact that an act of passion does not excuse murder nor does it excuse any other extreme crime such as
To begin with, In “loves vocabulary” Diane Ackeman uses figurative language to describe her ideas (on love) such as the bad side of love , and the power of love. The bad side of love is a paradox and also personification because the way Diane Ackeman uses the bad side of love is to prove a contradictory statement , an emotion of how love feels. Power of love ( a figurative language) she also uses is a metaphor because, she’s making love sound a certain way but it’s also not literal it’s just an way of explaining love in her meaning.
The last book I read was tilled ‘Unfailing Love’, authored by Danny Dick. Just like Other books he has written, it is centered on love, lust, betrayal and sticking together against all odds. Darrell an auto mechanic working in a remote, quiet town in Nebraska, had given up on love after losing the love of his life, Lily Thompson, in an unexplainable accident. Her body was never found, everyone except Darrell had this conviction she was dead. Ten years later, a patient in the Clarkson hospital, New Jersey, recovered mysteriously; medical practitioners were amazed and could only call recovering from a 10 year coma nothing short of a miracle.
The self-help book I chose to read was The 5 Love Languages, written by Gary Chapman. Published in 1995 by Northfield publishing in Chicago. This book is helpful to me and can be helpful to many more people. It gives outlooks about one personality and is helping couples in their relationship. It gives us the idea of what we want our partner to do and what we need to do for our partner.
Every work of art expresses an idea or opinion for the viewer to interpret, and many topics have different views. The two pieces that have been discussed, The Kiss and Gnaw, both communicate different perspectives of love. The Kiss conveys love as being deeply emotional, filled with passion, sensuality, and intimacy, while the Gnaw shows love as society has made it, materialistic. It shows our cultural views on beauty, self-image, and the use of substitutes for love and affection. These are two different views on love, by two different artists, made at two different times, for two different reasons, but both communicate, express an opinion, and are viewed and interpreted by hundreds of people to this
No story would be complete without drama, and Gibson compares the longevity of love to the icicle as both slowly melt over time and cannot be held forever. Ice melting can sometimes symbolize the renewal of spring or something beautiful. But by using her melting love “where it hurts the most,” Gibson alludes to her attempts of grasping what’s left of her relationship to relieve the pain of her past. And we see this as the poem continues, as Gibson is literally haunted by her past.
According to James G. Southworth, Professor of Poetry at University of Toledo, “Theodore Roethke is an intensely introspective poet (Southworth 326).” Most of his poems are difficult for readers to understand, but his poems help us to think deeply and gain knowledge about life. “The Waking” is an example of Roethke’s thoughtful work. He uses metaphors to express his feeling of human life. Metaphors are tools that help us to compare one thing in terms of another without using like or as.
In the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver, a group of friends are sitting around discussing their thoughts on what they think love is. Overall what the reader can see is that none of them can exactly define it because love is always changing. One day a person might be madly in love and the next day the feeling could be gone. The story begins with four friends sitting around a table drinking gin.
“The beautiful thing about the collaborative work of art is that it will not paint or draw or sculpt itself. This version of love allows us to decide what it looks like,” states Mandy Len Catron at a TEDx event in January of 2016 where she discusses the reality of love. Mandy Len Catron, a writer and English teacher from Vancouver, Canada, has been working on The Love Story Project for many years and is now writing a book describing the dangers of love stories. In her speech, she infers that love is “unpredictable, frustrating, and emotionally demanding,” that it “creates both love and pain,” and that “each experience of love is different” (Catron). A love between romantic couples is a passionate and intense roller coaster ride that can make
In this essay, the idea of pattern recognition is the base concept, an idea discussed in the book “Riveted”. Pattern recognition refers to a cognitive process; which is a higher mental process such as perception, memory, language, problem solving, and abstract thinking. It connects information from a stimulus with information recovered from memory. Commonly, the recognized patterns can be those observed in facial features, units of music, and components of language. Pattern recognition is an inherent and inborn ability of animals (humans).
The short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver is about four friends- Laura, Mel, Nick, and Terri, gathering on a table and having a conversation. As they start to drink, the subject abruptly comes to “love.” Then, the main topic of their conversation becomes to find the definition of love, in other word to define what exactly love means. However, at the end, they cannot find out the definition of love even though they talk on the subject for a day long. Raymond Carver in “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” illustrates the difficulty of defining love by using symbols such as heart, gin, and the sunlight.
The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan, a non-traditional style of novel, follows a dictionary setup while recounting parts of the narrator’s relationship with his girlfriend. There is a point in the book, tucked away somewhere in the middle of the story, where the author seems to dismiss the entire novel. Levithan strikes a perfect balance between the universal and the personal. He claims that trying to write about love is a futile exercise, similar to describing life using dictionary definitions. Yet the novel continues.
