Monday, October 8, 2012

Post-Symposium Abstracts

As a response to/ comment on this post, please share your abstract here.

Your abstract should be 75 to 100 words in length.  Summarize your take on Love thoroughly yet concisely.


21 comments:

  1. Love is a great scale; I believe this is true in many ways. To me love is the brightest and darkest emotion a person can have. In my life love has brought me the most joy. It’s lifted me above the rest, made me happier then anything else. But its also sunk me down faster then anything. Especially love that is not returned. . She loves another, what makes my love more important then her’s? I have no answers to these questions. I wish I did.

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  2. Love always has two sides. Love is complicate and yet simple, danger and yet harmless, rare and yet ordinary, last forever and yet disappear in blink of eyes. Love can be anything or nothing because Love need its carrier. It forms its unique shape as how our mind and soul contain and express it. Love can embrace tiny good or little evil. Love need to be practiced and learned. Human is only specie on earth that can full explore the love.

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  3. Do you believe in love or do you think that love exists? This question has been asked by many people around the world. In my opinion, love is sacrifice, compassion and kindness. However, to many people, love does not exist; for instance, in several countries many people are not given the opportunity to choose whom they are going to marry. In other words, it is not said to be love in those countries because people do not choose their partners by love. Instead they choose by money, or their parents choose for them.

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  4. Love can be best described by St. Thomas Aquinas, as “to will the good of another.” Love is the feeling we as Christians perceive as receiving from God, and also that we strive to show to others out of love for Him. It is non sexual, or lustful, rather a friendly wish and desire of felicity towards another. It manifests as forgiveness, of ourselves, and of others, and as acceptance. Love is unconditional, and unselfish. It is receiving joy and happiness from the joy and happiness of others.

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  5. “Love is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. “ Love is unpredictable, yet almost always rewarding. It can be sweet, when it hits that sweet tooth and makes you want more. Or it can be bitter, when taking a bite of “chocolate” makes you spit and sputter in disgust. Both involve hope - the hope that when you open that box, and you take out that bite of mystery, it will make that spine tingle in delight.

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  6. Love can basically be everywhere and everything, from giving birth to your wedding night. Love could be hatred and pain in the mind of a girl as she thinks about her first love, the love she could never forget. Love is pain as you give up your love up for an individual to be happy. Love comes in many shapes and sizes could be described in various manners but love is only love. In Plato’s Symposium, love was described in emotions or categories of many such as hate and pain, also to drive one insane, to humor, adventure, horrify, romance, or to be tragic. In all, love is want; wanting love is all love could be.

    -Nikita Uzoh

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  7. Abdul Alabdelkareem
    10/08
    ENGL1031


    Love has been with humans since ancient centuries, the days of the Roman Empire and the pharaoh’s era. Words cannot be described in words nor fully understand it. All we know that it’s a strange feeling that makes humans want look for it and keep them going through everyday life by feeling loved, cared about. Love is great, intangible feeling that often exposes us to happiness and satisfaction. Love does not have borders or restrictions; many people from different cultural and religious background meet each other and feel deeply in love. Writers often describe love as a language by it self and a wonder world full of passion and happiness.

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  8. Bich Nguyen

    What is Love?

    Love is feeling and affections towards a thing or person. Like many things in life, love has its’ pros and cons. Sometime love can be the most amazing and wonderfulness feeling. But there could be times when being in love can lead to feeling confuse, vulnerable, and lost. Love can also be very deceiving, a person may show and give love towards another, but who know what ones really feel inside. In the end, love isn’t perfect and will always have its imperfection that will affect everyone differently.

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  9. Love is like a drug that is addicting from your first high. Once you’ve been hurt by love, you try your hardest not to fall in love again. Love will make you sacrifice and do things and feel ways that you have never felt or done before. It will make you turn over a new leaf just for the person that you love. It makes you happy, but will also make you go absolutely insane. I wish I knew why, but in the end, if I did, love would be less exciting.

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  10. Shannon Ben
    8 October 2012
    Professor Novella-Brooks
    English 310

    Abstract on Love


    Love comes in different meanings and it can be differentiated in many forms.
    The values on love I have chosen were; the love between a soul mate, a friendship,
    But, mostly important a family member, who can be stated as all love, but which
    Type and kind? Each love can be persuasive, but that is the part I also talk about and that is life; due to it all no matter what and how you try to avoid it EVERYTHING is the value of life and it should be cherished.

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  11. Love is an emotion of affection and personal attachment to another being. When it comes to love it is more than a physical attraction; I feel love represents all aspects of human kindness, compassion, patience and affection. To love is to be unselfish to care for another with the upmost respect. Love is used so freely to date and has become a word with little meaning and importance due to the frequent misuse. Love is an unexplainable feeling. I believe you need to experience true love to understand and perceive the literal definition of the word, love can be very blind you can think that you are in love and not even understand what it feels like, to be loved and to love somebody. You must love ones self before you can attempt to love another.

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  12. Everyone wants to explore love. Love is the greatest feeling in the world. Through the feeling of love we can feel other feelings such as happiness. People, who say love hurts and makes us weak, never felt it or the love is what gives you the power, protects you, makes happy, and never, never hurts. That is what it seems to people when you ask them about love randomly, but what scientists say is more interesting. It is totally different from the Plato symposium and ordinary human mindset. Scientists say love activates in our brain and lasts for three or four years. Do you agree with it?

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  13. Abstract On Love

    Love simply represents beauty. To love, to feel loved and love itself is beauty. Love is a feeling that creates a different way of thinking and reasoning. Love lets you perceive the world differently and it distracts you from the evil that lives in each one of us. To love is beauty because it lets us forgive and gives us satisfaction. To feel loved is beauty because it makes us feel important and provides with a reason to live. Love itself is beauty because it is a universal feeling, it is pure, and is also what everyone seeks.

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  14. In today’s society, love is the most sacred and honored feeling known to man. Many see it as if it was an actual living creature. In my opinion, I feel the same way Love is sacred and should be honored by everyone. Without love, many things would not be what they are today, crimes would be committed, and no one would understand how another person feels about themselves and about others

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  15. What is love to you? Do you think that everybody has falling in love already? In my opinion love is a feeling nicer that exist and impulsion us in doing what we even not imagine that we are able to do, also it’s the feeling that make us give our own life in exchange for the person we love. On the other hands, there are many people who never fall in love because they think this feeling can hurt too much when this feeling is not reciprocal.

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  16. There are many of ways Love can accure. Theres a psychological view, spiritual, and chemical release in the brain that people mistake for love. Speaking spiritually love is God and God is love so that make love out to be pure kindness and just. when speaking on the view of love being a chemical release within your own brain, people do misperceive love and believe that because they feel a certain way about somebody then that means they love them, so not true. Then there's this psychological view of love that occur when u make yourself believe you love. When in all actuality there might just be a one way love in that situation.

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  17. Love is one of those feelings that you can't find enough words to describe. Love can be very beautiful. Love is when you want nothing but the best for the other person. when you look pass every flaw and they just seem so perfect in your eyes. Love can mean sacrificing yourself to see another smile. Love can be a purpose of living.

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  18. Love in general, is a relation that brings the respect of each other. That what
    people understand when they are saying the word “love”.And what I want to tell you is
    that if one and a half year ago I could write this amount of pages, and still would of tell
    you even a half of what I will try to tell, but now… Now I can’t write even a page about it,
    and probably it is happening because I love right now and only now I started to feel real
    love. It is not the way how you feel, it is the way how you live and think about almost everything. That what love is about for me.

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  19. Love is when we forget about ourselves and do everything with the well-being of other ones in our mind. It is when we are willing to give up our selfishness to concern more about others who desire to love and need to be loved. In other words, love is not about us, but about the cares that one takes to one another. Oftentimes, we might see people are going on a long journey to seek for what they called love. Sadly, these people do not realize that it has always been just right next to them. Simply, we may perhaps think of love as our eyelashes in front of our eyes. Yet, they have always been there, but not too many of us could have seen them, yet, as always. However, if we could not see it on our own then is it not even greater to have other seen it instead. Just let everyone see our eyelashes – our love. You see ours as we see yours. You show your love to us as we do the same. In conclusion, love is well-defined as to be unselfish to care for others without any reasons, to give the most to others who least deserve it. That is the ultimate level of love. If one reaches to that level, surely he is born to love and to be loved. By then, he is able to see his own eyelashes without using a mirror. That is a miracle of love!

    “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evils but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails!”
    Bible, 1 Corinthian 13:4-7

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  21. Olzhas Alexandrov

    An Abstract about Love

    Love might be not only a physical aspect but also mental. Love is not passion or desire. Love exists in everybody. However, somebody may thoroughly try to hide it. In my opinion, love might appear not only to a beloved person of the opposite sex but also to parents and relatives. Love is eternal; it is always manifested constructively, through creating, so that a person really in love keeps on giving. Love does not spend energy on approving of itself every minute; this is a self-sufficient phenomenon. Thus, love is a sense of our life.

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