Essays on Love

Heterosexual courtships practices are representative cultural situations that make romantic interests conform to predefined standards (Lamont). They signify particular definitions about relationships to the society since they are culturally communicative. They are mostly gendered as they represent prevalent beliefs about the inherent variations between men and women. Cultural stereotypes fuel...

The Family and Theoretical Perspectives The family is a common aspect that holds people together. However, in most situations, people tend to take for granted the existing relations among persons of a family. Most of the interactions in a family are hinged on various theoretical perspectives among them including functionalist, symbolic...

Colorism: An Issue in the Entertainment Industry Colorism or shadeism has become a common topic of debate and concern in the entertainment industry. The origin of the bias that is based on skin color often starts at birth or when people are younger. People tend to associate and compare...

Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": An Exploration of Modernist Poems Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is termed as a pioneer of the Modernist poems, owing to its awakening of the literary world to an entirely new world. The poem is centered on the...

How does a person judge as of whether another person is beautiful or not the first time they meet? Through the physical appearance, is the most probable answer one may find. By a large number of people, beauty is solely defined by an individual outside look. However, another group might...

Parents play a very critical role in the development of the children to maturity. Children associate their parents with knowledge, protection, and guidance at all times. However, as the children grow up, it becomes impossible to live under in the same house due to family and work obligations in different...

Two years ago, I was in a relationship with a person from a different town. We started as friends and later on decided to date. There were concerns about the distance between us and if the relationship would work out. However, we ignored the fear and continued the relationship despite...

Marriage as a Tradition Marriage is one of the hallmarks of life. Under normal circumstances, when a person attains a certain age, he or she is supposed to get married. Considerably, with this perception marriage has turned out to be a tradition rather than a decision of two people that love...

Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” is a story that explores the theme of paternal love in the most intriguing manner. The story is introduced by Alfieri, a first-person narrator, who feels disturbed by his community's discomfort with the society’s law (Epstein, 112). The peripheral narrator plays a vital...

Hi mum, thanks for permitting me to attend my friend's birthday at their home. He was celebrating his seventh birthday. The party was amazing. Indeed, there were a variety of foods and drinks. Also, his friends from the neighborhood were at the party. It was fun, and how I wish...

I vividly remember the day I met Genard at first sight; it was the day that I got so paranoid for reasons not well realized at the time. Conversations began, and as time passed by, I started to have the beautiful heartfelt feelings that runs down my soul. He was...

Love: A Virtue of Human Compassion and Affection Love is a feeling, which can be described as a strong emotion and personal affection for someone else. Moreover, it is the virtue signifying human compassion, empathy, and sympathy, as well as the selfless, loyal and generous concern for another good. Based on...